Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-08-23

The End which the south Sceks-Tho
Yankees are EKumbugs-ScOtt the vile
Old vVretch-Kanlkees Unfit FOR Empire
A southern High toned Arlstooracy.
From the Richmond whig.
The RULING RAoK.-We are too close
pressed and to much influenced by thog great
events which are passing, to indulge much
in pbilosophizing, But the rout and dis
persion, at the great pitched battle near
Manassas, bring into bold relief the great
fact, that the Yankees are humbugs, and
that the sOhite people of the slaveholding
States arc the true masters-the real rulers
of this continent. Under every disadvant-
age on our side, the preparations for that
combat were made. The Northern States
had seized upon all the common property
of the partnership, they monopolized the
whole navy and army and all the material,
with the entire machinery of government
in full operation; and bosted that they had
an inexhaustable supply of men and money
to wage an interminable war. For months,
with all these advantages, they have been
diligently engaged in organizing their for
ces.
Under the direction of the most vaunted
military character of the age--not of their
creation though-for they never produced
genius capable of anything beyond ar.
ranging a hotel or working a steam engine
or directing some mechanical continuance
they expended millions of money and drilled
armies of 100000 and equipped them in a
style unheard of in the annals of war. They
met the rude and poor equipped VolunteerS
of the Southern States drawn from their
peaceful vocations for the first time, to the
theater of war, and they are routed and
slain by the thousand, and driven like chafl
before high wind. Though guided by
the highest military talent (of Virginia
short-grass growth) they have nothing to
rely upon but their numbers, and that, in
the fight proves an element of weakness.
The fact is, the Yankees are very little
better than the Chinese. They lay the
same stress on the jingle of their dollars
that the Celestials do on the noise of theil
gongs Originally endowed with no single
amiable trait, they have cultivated the arts
of money-getting and cheating, until gain
has become their God, and they imagine it
to be omnipotant. With money in their
pockets, won from generous and chivalrous
race--and multitudnous as Norway rats
they are swollen with conceit and faucied
that they were fit for empire. And YET
they do not possess one gentlemanly at
tribute, nor a single talent that quali6e:
them for war. OF the very first element
they are destitute. They don't even know
how to ride horse-a talent only to be
acquired in youth, amid gentle avocations
And as TO arms, ninety nine out of hun.
dred never shot gun, and we have it on
very good authority that Old Scott lost all
patience in attempting TO teach them how
to load gun. The vile old wretchl He
reaps Just reward for his treason and his
talents misapplied.
The breakdown of the Yankees, their
utter unftness for empire, forces dominion
upon us of the south. We are compelled
to take the sceptre, and it is our duty to
prepare ourselves to our destnies. We
must elevate our race, every man of it
breed them up to arms, to command-tc
empire. The art military should consti
tute leading part of every white man,
education. The right of voting should bc
a high privilege to be enjoyed by those on
ly who are worthy to exercise it. In {
word, the whole white population of tn,
South should be brought into high toned
aristocracy, duly impressed with sense o.
its own functions, and its obligations t.
freedom and civilization.
How grandilloquently they talk. Wher
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Old Scott gets through with them, thel
may have something more to say.