Gazette and sentinel., 1861-05-11
The War of the BarbariaRS.

III the acts already committed py thc peO-
pie Of the North, during the present war, are
an index to what We may expect from them in
future, and if they intend to carry into exc
cution the half Of their threats, then the war
now waging, will more resemble the warfare
Of savages in the dark ages than that OF en-
lighted nations in the nineteenth century.
Before Maj. Anderson left Fort Moultrie for
Fort Sumpter, be set his gun carriages on fire
and DESTROYED them. When the U. 5. Off.
GERS abandoned the Navy Yard at Norioil,
they attempted to destroy the public property
valued at millions of dollars. The arsenal
at I~larper's Ferry was blown up. The guns
Of Fort Pckens are pointing on the Pensacola
Navy Yard and it is said that mines are laid
under the magnificent public buildings at
Washington, in order to blow them up, should
the Federal troops be compelled to evacuate
that city. All those acts are purely the result
of barbsrism, as the North will be the princi-
pal loser by the destruction of the public
property. AT some future day, when a set
Element shall be made, the South will, of
course, pay for the property it may take
possession OF, but that which has been de-
Stroyed 10y people of the North, will not be
taken into consideration. They alone will
lose the value Of it. The destruction of the
City OF Washington would, in an economical
point Of view, be an act OF the greatest folly,
to say nothing OF its vandalism. II, in a dlvi
sion, the Capital, being on Southern ground,
should fall to the South, we might be compel
led TO pay a high price for what we do not
want, as it is too near the border to be the
seat Of government Of the Confederate States;
whereas its destruction would take just so
much more ont of the pocket Of the United
States. The North seems to have SO com.
p~letely degeneratcd into Savages, that they
have even ceased to be gu ded By the Almighty
dollar, which they have ever SO devotedly
worShipped.
The New York Tribune, whose editor has
more than once paSslyely submitted to a can
ing by Southern men, has taken upon Itself
the task Of Iutusiug courage into the heart,
of the Northern soldiers, ard planning the
approaching campaign. That paper has
markell out a gigantic scale of murder, arson,
and plumber, in its work Of preserving the
Union. Two armies, numbering each two hun
dred thousand men, are to march OF the South.
subdue the 'rrbeiS," burn all the towns Oh
thu way, particularly Baltimore, kill all the
people, and di'jde tie property GD,oug hem-
selreS, as a reward fer their services. 1t
thinks that the beautiful plantations Of the
South would be an appropriate reward for the
brave soldiers of the North, who shall dis
tinguiSh themselve rs in a war for the Union"
In the meantime no quarter is to be given to
privateers-they are not to be treated as pris
oners Of war, but as pirates, who are to be
hung as soon as they are taken.
We might treat all this as the mere rawlings
OF a mailman, did We not know that The edi-
tor of the Tribune is Mr.. Linovln's principal
adviser, and that he has led the President to
Itn tue OulSC uiCu Has OIuuSul dDoub II
present state Of affairs. Besides the Tribune
is a fair exponent Of the %fanatical disposition
Of the Northern Barbarians. If they do not
carry into execution the schemes they have
concocted, it will not be for want of the WiU.
1t were well fO- the South to know at once
that it is in danger of being over run by a
horde Of barbarians, worse than the GothS,
the Huns and the Vandals, which poured up.
on the civilized nations Of antiquity. What
they say they mean to do if they can. They
will spare neither life nor property in their
march, and if successful, the South, as q ma
ton, will be blOtted out, its people reduced
to a worse degree than slavery, and their pro,
perry distributed among their oarbarous con-
querors. Let our soldiers, as they march to
meet the invaders. think of these things, and
let them fight as if for their lives, their homes,
and their affairs. Let every man die in his
tracks before he turns his back upon the saw
age foe. Let the barbarians End their "hos-
pitable graves" on the other side Of the Poto-
mac, and never pollute our soil with their hi
dious carcases.
t- The Northern people accuse the South
of trying to destroy their liberty. They ought