The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-05-22
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place in Congress, that very spirit which
dehes its laws, has been pandered TO, by
their parasite creatures-selfstyled lead
ers. Such is the depraved condition of
their society, that its only hope is in the
power OF Government, whose authority
they have contemptuously disreaarded.
Those wealthy few, from whom alone
that Government can now look for sup.
port, are familiar with its corruption and
inefficiency. They neither honor nor trust
1t. Let us dwell no longer on this sad
picture. Their own people have placed
at the head of that Government, those 10
whom the rich traders, aud stock jobbers,
and paper money men of all sorts, were
opposed ; and neither the people, Dor the
Government, are their friends. From
these elements are we to look for that
vigorous concentration, aud self.sacrfice,
which war requiresl
SO much for the money resources of
this boasted, boastful Union. The unhap.
py traitors at Washington, and the pam.
psred idolators Of mammon, to whom
they look for succor, have already laid
these things to heart; and understand the
disease now preying on their vitals, better
than we can, who only observes the out.
ward symptoms.
We have heard Of the hordes of North
ern and North western fanaticism which
may be poured over the South. Suppos-
ing that spirit to be as fearful as our pol.
lliclans OF the stump, and in Congress,
have been, for years, alarming us about.
Do we not know what all history has
taught: that fanaticlsm must be first con-
troiled, and mastered, at home, before it
can he formidable abroadi It's nature is
disorgan'zing. It's course is through in.
testlne discord, to anarchy from anarchy
to despoiism {; and from despotsm to for.
eign war. This State sovereiguties must
be overturned, and their boundaries oblit.
Grated, before Mr.. Lincoln can WELD the
power of their people. His visionary and
false theory of the Union must be pain.
ful reality, before he can execute his sin.
ister threats. There must be wears of
terrific strife among them, before such a
consummation; and greater men than
any one, who has been insignificant
enough, to secure the electoral votes for
the Presidency, in many years past, must
act in that fearful drama.
The great Northwest, about which 40
much rhetoric has been expended, is ocf
cupied by strangers to one another. Thew
have fled from the recruiting service Of
Europe. They have been, and are vet
too busy, in clearing land, building log
cabins, pressing cider and cheese, raising
corn and wheat, and making flour and
bacon, and numerous little progeny of
German and Irish American boys and
girls, to be very eager about eulistiug as
soldiers, or campaigning in the sultry
South. Puritanical fanaticism, OF trem-
bliog and pragmatc mammon, may buv
steel pixies, and preach sympathy for a
few rutfians like John Brown; but
whence will the men come, to handle
those weapons, or rescue the desperate 7
The poor discharged laborers in New
York, and Boston, and Philadelphia,
and throughout the manufacturing towns
of New England, will prefer to take what
is near at hand, from the rich thew hate.
than to be their hireling Hesslans even
II wealth should not have refused to pour
its treasure into the military chest of Mr..
Lincoln.
Has the Northern rustic or CITY pau.
per any real sympathy for the Southern
negros Have not their friends been
among our people Do they not know
that the black man and woman is their
enemy And do they not abhor, and
persecute those few unfortunate colored
people, who have. by adverse wind. and
tides, been drifted among them I Should
such folly as an invasion be attempted,
they aud their leaders will learn another
lesson about the Southern negro which
will be remembered "a long as the hor-
rors of Indian warfare. The nepros will
be our pioneers, our scouts, our spes.--
Dark nights, aud swamps, aud distances.
are nothing to their instructive sagacity,
their practced feet, and hardy nurture.
what do they know or care for false
philanthropy (! They depend on their
master, and will be as treacherous to his
enemies. as they are faithful to him. Mr.
Lincoln is welcome TO all he can make
out OF the money, or the people OF the
crumbling Union.
lie, and his deluded followers, may in.
dulge the hope, that he has the re.
nowned arm? and navy who has won
glory under the ancient flag, which the
false Union took from the hands of
Washington, only to dishopor. Yes, there
IS his last dependence. The Government
which, in all its waste and proflieacy,
has ever been niggard'y mean 10 the off,
GERS and men under its fag--straining,
to the last point Of endurance, the seuti.
ment OF honor, upon which the links Of
military organization hang--now bassly
turns 10 them with its flatteriuQ delu,
sions. They must not desert their post.
They are not lawyers, or moral phiIoso-
pliers, fofsoo.h ] They are only guided
by obedience TO orders, and honor | Does
honor demand from them implicit ODE.
dience to their commander.iu. chief
though he personifes the silest of the
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