Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-05-17
SOUTHERN RAGE.

The excessive scurrility and violent
abuse indulged in by the Southern press
in commenting upon the state Of affairs
at the North can only arise from a feel
ing of intense mortifcatiop and disap-
pointment at the marvelaus unanimity
and terrible warlike preparations in the
free States. Maddened b passion and
blinded by rage in view Of ie certain
defeat which awaits them, iihcrn eii-
tors have thrown all rescsa for dccen.
cy or truth to the winds, and FIJI their
columns with the foulest billinssgate-
That we have not overstated thegase viii
be seen by the following extrae from
the Mobile Egening Neacs
We are ready for acdon-the! are
getting ready to prepare to act. lhey
may raise plenty of men-men who re-
fer enlisting to starvation, scurvy fellows
from the black slums Of cities, whor
Fallstaff could not have marched through
Coventry with but these recruits arc
not soldiers, least of all the soldiers ia
meet the hotblooded, thoroughbred, im-
petuous men of the South, Trencier
soldiers who enlisted to war on theirra-
tions, not on men, they are--such as
marched through Baldmore-squaid.
wretched, ragged and half naked, as he
newspapers Of that city report them
Fellows who do not know the breach of
a musket from its muzzle, and had rah-
er filch handkerchief than fight an IN
emy in a manly combat. White slaves,
peddling wretches, small change knaves
and yagrants, the dregs and of-scourilgs
of the populace-these are the levied
. forces whom Lincoln suddenly arrays
as candidates for the honor of being
slaughtered by gentlemen such as Mobile
sent to battle yesterday. Let them come
South, and we will put our negroes to the
dirty work of killing them. But they
will not come South. Not a wretch of
them will live on this side of the border
longer than it viii take u5 to reach the
ground and drive them over.
Mobile is sending forth 10 wage this
war of independence, the noblest and
bravest Of her sons. His expensive, ex-
ravagant to put such material against
the riff-roG of mercenaries whom the
abolition power has called out to war up
on US. We could almost hope that a
better class Of men would fall into the
northern ranks, that our gentlemen might
find foemen worthy OF their steel, whom
il would be more difficult to conquer, and
whose conquering would be more honor
able. For the present, however, we need
not expect to find any foe worth fighting
with the exception of a few regiments,
for the North is now getting ready, and
will likely be whipped before it ready"
These public sewers of Southern
wrath and yituperation are pouring q
food of abuse upon everything northern.
The Charleston Courier thus speaks Of.
the ancient allies of the South:
Where are Caleb Gushing, and May
or Wood, and Edward Everett, and
Dickinson, and host of others who at,
fected admiration and love for their
Southern brothers? The mask has
dropped from the faces of them all their
lying tongues once more utter truth
They despair Of bringing Us back by
mild persuasive arts, and they proclaim
their duplicity and treachery in the ears
Of the world, seemingly all unconscious
of the infamy.
Us they always hated it was our
gold they loved. Their ledgers, not.
their Bibles, taught them to love the
Southerner. And it is to gss back our
gold that they threaten us with fire and
sword"