The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-08-31
THE RULING RACE.

from the Richmond Wing, July %.
We are too closely and too much inhu-
enced by the great events which are passing,
to indulge much in philosophizing. But
the rout and dispersion. at the great pitched
battle near Manassas, bring into bold relief
the great fact that the Yankees are hum
bugs, and that the sOkite people of the slave
holding States are the true masters-the
real rulers of this continent. Under every
disadvantage on our side. the preparations
for that combat were made. The Northern
States had seized upon all the common
property of the partnership, they monopo-
lized the whole navy and army, and all the
material, with the entire machinery of the
Government in full operation; and boosted
that they had an inexhaustible supply of
men and money to wage an intermlnabe
war. For months, with ali these advanta-
ges, they have been diligently engaged in
organizing their forces.
Under the direction of the most Wanted
military character of the age-not of their
creation, though-for they have never pro-
duced genius capable of anything beyond
arranging a hotel, or working steam en-
CINE, OF directing some base mechanical
contrivances-they expended millions of
money and drilled armies of 800, 900, and
equipped them in a style unheard of in the
annals of war. They met the rude and
poorly equipped counters 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 thou
sand, and driven like chaff before high
wind. Though guided by the highest mill
itary talent Of Virginia, short grass
growth-they have nothing to rely upon
| 1T Il, haf in ha HICTht
proves an element Of weakness.
The fact is. the Yankees are very little
better than Chinese. They lay the same
stress on the jingle of their dollars that the
Celestials do on the noise of their gongs.
Originally endowed with no single amiable
trait, they have cultivated the arts of mon
ey-getting and cheating, until gain has be-
come their God. and they imagine it to be
omnipotent. With money in their pockets.
won from generous and chivalrous race
and multitudinous as Norway rats. they are
swollen with conceit, and fancied that they
were fit for empire. And yet they do not
possess one gentlemanly attribute, nor a
single talent that qualified them for war.
OF the very first elements, they are desti-
tute They don't even know how to ride a
horse-a talent only to be acquired in youth
and gentle avocations. And as to arms,
ninety nine out of hundred never shot a
gun, and we have it on very good authority
that Old Scott lost all patience in attempt
ing to teach them how to load gun. The
vile old wretch He reaps just reward
for his treason and his talents misapplied.
The breakdown of the Yankees, their
utter unfitness for empire, forces dominion
upon as of the South. We are compelled
to take the scepter. and it is our duty to
prepare ourselves to WELD it with dignity
and effect. We must adapt ourselves to oul
destinies. We must elevate our race. eve
nv man of it-breed them up to arms, tc
command--to empire. The art military
should constitute leading part of every
white mans education. The right of vot.
ing should be high privilege to be enjoy
ed by those only who are worthy to exer
else it. In word, the whole white popu
) lation of the South should be brought into
heightened aristocracy, duly impressed
with a sense of its superiority to Yankee
trickery; and of its own functions. and it,
obligations to freedom and civilization.