The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-21
/ Char,ains Prospect.


shiloh was ono from an Illinois soldier by the name
AZ n,nne,iv addressed to his wife, his dear Sue"
!. Ia aff,e,ionaely calls her. in which he tells her
far,s,. and that after the over he expects he
and hls hear sae,e. win be sapremely happy in
their ..wect Southern home" The women Of that
r-gion, he says, can be employed to perform the do
me site duties of Mrs Donue.ys household aaa the
men to plough and plant corn, while lyon and ],
dear Sue. cxclaims Mr. Donneliy, rapturomsy,
will be AZ happy as kings All. hopeful Don
nelly lie has sat his ".weet Southern home"
gttie sooner than he expected, The men who were
70 plough his land and plant his corn have per
formed their duty, trust 10 his entire sa'isfac'
siqr. They have plonghed mp his little farm, and
planted him IN. Like thousands of other Yankees
who came in quest Of Southern farms he has secured
n small home 81 cad. where one will ever distress
him fos rent and taxes. His dear Sue" can have
the consolation of rejecting that she is the widow
Of a Southern landed proprietor
II Is not difficult TO comprehend the ceilings which
prompt sach cbulli.oas those OF the iamenied
Donne!lv In his les, letter IL the adorable Susan.
IL il not uncommon boast among the Yankees that
they not oaly intend 10 occupy the southern farms.
but tina, the Southern men shall do the work. and,
whsle "the Northern mairon presides in the man
sion, the Southern lady shall bend over the wash
lug tub" We not TO enumerate The difficult.
ties which would enlbar RAGS the execution of this
project They would be undoubtedly Of some
what serious character The Yankee men t.nd
women who would endeavor 10 play master and
mistress over Southern white family would soon
be gathered to their fathers. The hypocritical
xrre.shes who profess To be overwhelmed with
grief n. African slavery. and then propose make
white people their slaves, would soon be disposed
of with steel and strychnlne But menace of this
kind threat 10 degrade the .plen and women CT
the South to such q condition, could only proceed
from natures which are in themselves inherently
sery;le and bratxA II develops in the most unms-
taxable manner the ranking envy and Jealousy
which have IA much TO do as any other cause with
this strocious war We 10 not desire TO involve in
snch charge the whole Northern people. We are
well aware that there still exists in that section
some remnant al the social worth and excellence OF
former DAYS But the great mass of the population
,s simply the peasansry of the Old World trans
ported TO the shores OF the new, and fighting out
ina. quarrel with thes betters in this hemisphere
which they had begun and carried on unsuccess
fully ia another Like q bull, who has only 10 be
shown n red rag to excite his combGivencss, tais
Old World peasan;ry, no matter whether II has
lived in America two centuries or two years, has
only TO be shown something that is conservative,
venerable and dsniiied. TO make war st cnce upon
Il. This was tie proisPtiug motive OF the anil
rem. disturbances In New York, and it lies 1T the
foundation Of tie whole fierce ontcry against SID
very II IA tie so.rows OK tie slave, but tie
comfort and dignity Of lis master, which stir to
rte vers bottcn, tisar philanthropiea! bile. They
c4n find no parallel in Southern soeie,y to their
own condition. except tha. OF III, negro ind haRc
line L1chrgua. The master reminds them of the
ferdsi lords TO whom their forefathers once paid
homage, ind whose dominion they We're oniy able
to escape BY Aging, like fugitive slaves. 30 America
The idea Of gentlemen and ladies IN country
where thsy. had expected 10 find either. fills
them with horror and rage. and hence they deter
nice to exterIninhte them or what has always been
a favcrite scheme of revenge by Interiors towards
their superiora, of degrading them, making them
exchange places with their subordinaies. and be
transformed into Servants OF servants and slaves
of the devil"
But the degradation OF people, fortunately, ia
Al achievement beyond any power to effect but
,heir own. 4 race Of men may be beaen in bat
tie their arns may be taken away; their country
sutjugased their political, civil and religious
rights sacrificed, but they never he degraded
except by their own hands. Even the French Rev:
oation-,hat leve!ing, Irresistible tornadc-faiied
"a humble the arsiocTaey which it hated with such
malignant hate. The lineai descendants of houses
noble before the Crusaders chased the scafld
BY bowling mob. let loose upon them by the fierce
tyrarts of Che Convention, but maintained 10 the
last their eTuanimity and sef-respect The de-
nloniaea exutaiion of The bloodhounis in Witness
ing the uncertainty Of human greatness as exhibit
I'd In the DEATH eonics OF their superors liz station
,1eysr disturbed the composure Of the diving men
Even those Of them whose friyolity and ,icen
.iousness first evoked the STORM of popular fury are
said TO haye been the first display the most chyal
Fic courage in the terrible face of the guillorine
Beautiful women too in all the pride OF their love
illness, met the inhnman stare of the mob rndis-
raayed. Nor were these traits" saws one who de.
serites these scenes. without their fruits. This
noble spirit-thiS triumphant victory of the we'll
born and the great-was continual insult to the
populare, who ia emselyes defyauded of half
their promised vengeance, and they learned tina,
they might kill bnt they could asc1 hnmiliate them.
In vain they dipped their hands in their red life.
blood and holding up their dripping fingers, asked,
How did il differ from that of the Canailier Their
,
INSTANCES Il herosrn, from gray hairs and tender
womaphood, that would have shamed I've proudest
deeds Of their newborn chivalry."
Il viii prove as impossible for Black Republicans
in America, as for Red Republicans in Europe to de-
grade those whom nature and Providence have made
their superiors They may kill, but they cannot
hnmiliate those Southrons wl6m they y envy and
slate. We orr no admirers of European royalty or
ovictne t,,,,at IaSs o.Ir
Of an Ignorant mob OF all tyrants save us from
King Demos. And whatever may think OF Eu
sopean social Institutions one thing is certain, aris
s0crncy. in some form other, always has existed
sind aiways will exist till the end of time The as
ser:ien Of the Declaration Of American Indepen-
ience that "all men born free and equal is, in
It's Northern aeeeptation, the most stupendous and
.udaeous fiction that was ever uttered by human
lips. Men are neither born equal nor can they be
made 80 by. any process which philosophers or
statesmen have yet discovered. Society must have
leaders, men who guide il In intelligence, refine
mont humanity, and civilization, 1t will relapse
suto barsarism 1t Is not necessary that these lead
err should be hereditary, but leaders there must be-
The South has always recognized the fact 1t Is IT,
self nation OF gentlemen, aud so long as the North
sFn MASSES were guided politically by Southern
statesmen ana socially by heir Van Renssapars
Citations, aud Lyingtons OF their better DAYS the
country prospered, and they were themselves a
happy and orderly race. Bnt the coachman IL of I
The box, and the horses have taken the rei,,s In /
their own keeping Hatred and vengeance ay.;us,
,nek hstters more in,ansethan that OF the French
Revelation has seized npou the Yankee ,nob With
81 exfaii splitter and boaiman at their head, they
are threatening not only to oYsrrun the fair terrific
rlss Of the South, bu; TO convert the masters and
m niserssses Into their seryants L., tht not lay
ssssng JUNCTION 10 their souls. They may
0eeesoy our csuAtyy ibsy NAV extsrm,,a,.-e,.