New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-14
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One of our conservative " Journals has
letter from citizen Of Norfolk yOuchrd for as
a." reliable" TO his friend in this city, which
open. as follows
- W yse qus'sa r,EcIs ,S' t .,'s , o. IL
Ter. a. fsW words A. csf W. ~ -'} NtNs t' 10 ~
"a a. ~ own kn,ysle'rs and observsiiou g
~ ro.. ell our sbicbcd.ed are 10 tie army
10y h. S,st az. Nv AZ Richmond Tho old mon women
"a 9lin the Tesiieut population o. hoiioA now
,rofd he. httle Union feeling there was among - .,
b tr YOU len dissf prsed, and judging nom what
have sai -sv"hcfr h Fif;ihi' % n' "l''s
tsfs eFri pope more thoionsLy uulra anu
,ir 81 to b. ih.n he psop Of ,ha siie are now Ihe
into union With the No III sssn This Is strong an
49, No 80 Of sny r-tpec.aby ia or city has ye,
To W tlai h'c t.Aen Nc os'- ,r Se ~ si' & %
bj the loD 'rcrrs here i'r l"sa .no'n you ns5
n.4t 10 EDys Corner wide Wa,ef sii.st VA naifu1
o. tLe Union Committee TO receive o'"'a on Ms ATE 'i'
90 ihia city,
There is considerable truth mixed with the
rreyaen, ialsehood Of this letter-truth which
thorough. going Uuionists may well lay to
Leart. II is not true that 4" the White race
must be extor1,inated before Virginia can De
restored 10 the Union. because the Whites 81
one,hird of that state haye never been any
thing else than Unionist, and haze never been
under the yoke Of Secession. IL Is not true
that the able-bodied Whites even Of tide-watcr,
Slaverv.cul.ed Virginia, have generally yOlun-
teersd 10 enlist in the Rebel armies for II
thew had. jeff Davis would not have been
compelled to issue three several DEGREES OF
General Couscripton, whereby /. All White
Male, between y and 80 we're drafted INTO
liz service; >. Those who had served out their
/ Gll term Of ooe year were compelled 70 fight
on indefinitely; and 3. All Whites and Ma.Fi-
/ to,s between 20 and 81 were ordered TO Ak
up sheir mgskets, those who bad already hired
and PAL accepted substitutes included. Meas
urcs SO tyrannica and odious as these would
never have been resorted to had the great
,oas, o. tbs ablc.bodied Whites voluntarily en-
/ listed
/ BIT. while the above does not fairly exhibit
the suirit Of the Southern Whites, il d1eS that
of the slayeholding caste and It's paras 'es. To
this caste the success or failure OF tho Rebel
lion i, I'LL affair OF life aud death. lt has thus
far used the Poor Whites OF the South As the
| blind instruments of its will tncducated,
reading nothing, aod hearing only what the
aristocracy wish them to believe, tho Poor
/ Whites, mainly living on the edges OF the great
plantations and paying no rent for their corn
patches unless in hunting runaway negroes,
have been content 10 vote, to shout, to fight,
AZ their f.u1al lords directed. As class, they
have had fighting enough, aud would quit the
Confederate service tomorrow If they had a
chance. But the savehoding caste is animated
by the spirit above indicated, and will never
more be loyal citizens Of the Union, which they
will associate with thor own humiliatng over
throw. Individual exceptions doubtless exist
but, AS class, tho men who love and bye by
Slavery bate tbe,Unon with implacabs venom,
ind will hate it til they die.
To leave them in their present exalted socia
p0sition-Owneri OF tho laborers, while teuda
chiefs and landlords OF the Poor Whites OF ia,
South-s TO leave the embcrs of tho Rebellion
still hot, aud only waiting opportunity to burs
into fresh condagration. 1t is to saye owe
tho wound in which poisoned arrow stil
rankles, and pronounce it cured. They vii
not bo conc ated-they regard mildness a
timidty or weskness-thcy must cease 20 be