Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-07-02
WILL THEY RELISH IT?

The Louisville Courier, formerly the organ
of the Breckinridge Democracy of Kentucky
which at the be ginning of the war wars remov-
ed TO Bowling Green and then to Nashville,
seems to have ssblowed out' when the rebels
evacuated the latter place. Whilst published
in the last named city, it's editor promulgated
the following philosophy of the Rebellion:
ssThis has been called fratricidal war by
some, by others an irrepressible conflict be-
tween Freedom and Slavery. We respectful
ly take issue with the authors of both of these
ideas. We are not the brothers of the Yam
KEGS, and the Slavery question is merely the
pretext, not the cause of the war. The true
rrepressible conflict lies fundamentally in the
hereditary hostility, The sacred animosty, the
eternal antagonism, between the two races
engaged.
ssThe Norman cavalier cannot brook the
vulgar familiarity of the Saxon Yankee, while
the latter is continually devisng some plan
TO bring down his aristocratic neighbor to his
own detested level. Thus was the contest
waged in the old United States. SO long as
Dickinson dough faces were to be bought, and
Cochran towards to be frightened, SO long was
the Union tolerabe to Southern men but
when, owing to divisions in our ranks, the
Yankee hireings placed one of their own
spawn over US, political connection became
unendurable, and separation nece ssary to pre-
serve our self-respect.
'sAs our Norman knsmen in England, al
ways minority, have ruled their Saxon coun-
trymen in political vassalage up to the pres
ent day, so have we, the sslave oIigarchs gov
erned the Yankees till within a twelvemonth
We framed the Constitution, for seventy
years monided the policy of the Government,
and placed our own men or Northern men
with Southern principles in power.
son the 9th of November, 1860, the Pur-
tans emaacIpated themselves, and are now in
violent insurrection against their former own
ers. This insane holiday freak will not last
long, however, for dastards in fight, and in
capable of self government, they will inevIta-
bly, again fall under the control of the superior
race. few more Bull Run thrashings will
bring them once more under the yoke as
docile the most loyal of our Ethiopian
schattels.' -
Here is set forth cause for the present re-
bellion, by Southern ssDemocrat.' He says
the ''Slave Oigarchs'' could tolerate the Yam
kees'' so long they could buy aDickinson
doughfaces,'' or frighten Cochran towards, -
but when these northern sshirelings'' began to
think for themselves and threw off the yoke
of 'spolitcal vassalage" and placed some of
their own spawn" over the Southern sscaval-
ier,'' then the ssconnecton became unendur-
abe'' and 'sseparation became necessary to
preserve self-respecs; - and that ''the slavery
question is merely the pretext, not the cause
OF the war;" and only used to frighten
these sscowards'' and ssdastards'' into submits
sion to the ssowncrs" who had bought them
These ''poli'ical hirelings" and s.vassas, -
however, not being able to control the masses
in the election of 1860 to the entire satisfac-
tion of their Southern masters, are now
threatened with ga few more thrashings'' like
that of Bulls Run, which, it is asserted, sswill
bring them once more under the yoke as do
cile'' as the most faithful of their ethiopian
chattels'' in the South.
Surely, this is not very fattering portrait
of a northern ssdough-face,'' yet, perhaps, a
correct one. However as this Southern
democratic" artist seems tn be so perfectly
acquainted with his subject we shall not nm
dertake to criticise his picture-preferring to
leave the reader to judge of its merits and
truthfulness as presented by this 'sdear broth
er'' of the South.