Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-09-05

The following article originally published in
the Richmond Wing, is now going the rounds
of the Southern press.-We copy it from the
Eastern Clarion, published at Paulding, Missi-
sippi; n,,,,,,r,uapAop
We are TOO close and too much Influenced
by the great events, which are passing, to in
dulee much in philosophizing. But the rent
and dispersion, at the great pitched battle near
Manassas, bring into bold relief the great fact,
tb%the Yankees are humbugs, and that the
uhite people of the slave-holding States are the
true master-the real rulers of the continent.
Under every disadvantage on our side, the pre-.
parations for that combat were made. The
Northern States had seized upon all the COM
mon property of the partnership, they monop-
olized the whole navy and army and all the ma
terial with the entire machinery of Government
in full operation and boosted that they had an
inexhaustible supply of men and money to wage
an nterminable war. For months, with all
these advantages, they have been diligently en-
gagged 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 produced genius capable of
anything beyond arranging hotel, or working
steam engine, or directing some base mechan-
ical contrivance-they expended millions OF
money and drilled armies Of 100000, and equip
ped them in a style unheard of in the annals OF
war. They met the rude and poorly equipped
volunteers of the Southern States, drawn from
their peaceful vocaions for tn, first time, to the
theatre of war and they are routed and slain
by the thousand, and driven like chaff before a
high wind. Though guided by the highest mil
itary talent--of Virginia, short-grass growth
they have nothing to rely upon but their num-
bers, and that in the fight, 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 eultiyat-
ed the arts of money getting and cheating, UNI
til gain has become their God, and they mag
inc it to be omnipotent. With money in their
pockets, won from generous and chivalrous
race-and multitudinous as Norway rates. they
are swollen with concet, and fancied that they
were fit for empire. And yet they do not pos
sess one gentemanly attribute, nor single tai
ent that qualified them for war. OF the very
first elements. they are destitute. They don't
even know how to ride horse-a talent only
to be acquired in youth and gentle avocations.
And as TO arms, ninety-nne out of a hundred
never shot gun, and we have it on very good
authority, that Old Scott lost all patience in at
tempting to teach them how to load gun
The vile old wretch He reaps a just reward
for his treason, and his talents misapplied.
The breakdown of the Yankees, their utter
unfitness for empire, forces dominion upon Us
of the South. We are compelled to take thu
sceptre, ard it is our duty to prepare ourselves
to WELD it with dignity and effect We mus
adapt ourselvds 60 our destinies We must ell
eyate our race every man of it-breed them VI
to command-to empire. The art militor.
should constitute leading part of every white
mans education. The whole white population
of the South should be wrought into high
toned aristocracy, duly impressed with sense o
its superiority to Yankee trickery; and Of it
obligations to freedom and civilization.