Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-30
ALsssou from History.

The Mobile Register quotes from the chapter In
Williams Life of Cesar which refers to the Social war
passage whieh ipty holds up as q mirror for the
Yankees" The Social a contest into which the
Italian States allied with Rome, were forced by the over
bearing conduct of the latter and which resulted in their
being crusbed OUT pretty much after the style in which
Lincoln and Seward fOndy imagine that we shall be-
This was prelude 20 the first Civil War which finally
brought about by the command of the Mithridatc wal
that had been given syA the victor in the previous
struggle being taken away from him and given to Marus
The immediate sequel of this proceeding is thus mar,
rated
Svas rststep was to visit the army then in the vi
cnty Of No 70 appeal to the soldiers to invoke their
protection call upon them to march with him to Rome
and deliver the city from the hWless bands which dom
neered over both Senate and people, These soldiers
were principally that portion of the legons which had
served under him in the Social War; They answered his
appeal by conserving acchmAtions; and Rome soon
heard perhaps without establishment that her own con
sui az the head OF an army of citizens. was marching
with hostile standards against her sacred walls. What
better hopes ccd have been formed, respecting men
who had been employed these legiOn had lately been
The Social War had brutazed their feelings men
customed 10 destroy their kinsmen the Mars, Pelg,
Frentan Hirpni &C. would feel no scruples in dire'-
inc their arms against their eowcitiZens should the
would naturally expect greater advantages from the lib
eraty of their General than from the gratitude OF their
country.
What followed this proceeding of Sylas, the Register
saws, Is known to every schooLboy: .E
"LonE years Of havoc urged their destined course, .
And through the kipdred sqaSdrons moved their way.
And while human nature Is the same, what different
results can be expected from similar state Of aast
The psFaeliSm between the situation of Rome after the
Social War and the situation that awaits the Yankee ma
zion when ia few short mOnths the present fratrcidsl
contest shall have ceased is striking require COM
ment The Roman Regions could not have been more
brutahzed IN their feelings By the 10 which they
had been the actors throughout the fair fields of Umbra
Apulia ana Campans than the mingled bOrdes of IAN
KEGS Hoosers Dutch and Irish have already become by
the scenes they daily ennctng in Virginia Carolina
Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri
Already SyIas With less genius than the Roman, but,
WhOse deeds in the South have proved them equal MON
sers of wickedness swsrmng in the North and the
return OF the Yankee army viii supply them with hum
red of thousands Of tools Ct for any deeds Of Arocy
Pandemonium, after the returnOf Satan from his eIpe.
tiOn to Eden almost paradise to what the United
States will sO6u become when those who, have the
Wind shall begin TO reap the whirwnd We eOngrAth-
late 20 our brethren Of the North upon the harvest
which is now rpeuing The Outrages which our county
aRd people have suffered will be terribly avenged; and
where where will that nation of robbers swndlers liars
aud murierers look for sympathy in their hour OF
lamity