Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-07-23
What the Traitors Seek to Accom-.
plish.

We commend to the careful attention
of our readers the following extract from
the ". !. Eve. Post:
De Boao's Revieac has been for many years
the organ of the aristocrats of the South,
and its pages are a repertory of their pOlit-
ical and social plans. From this, the best
evidence, we can see that their single aim
is to establish on this continent power
ful aristocracy, in which only the few veal
thy slaveowners shall be permitted to have
any share III the government; in which the
right to vote shall be taken from the poor
man by property qualifications, as it is now
in South Carolina, and as they sought to
have it last year in Virginia; in which the
rich few shall control not only the slaves
they own but the poor whites whom they
despise; while titles, honors, and offices
are monopolized by them.
What says De BoaC'S Revie1r, the organ
of the would-be nobility of the South!
THE real civilization of a country IS in
its aristocracy. The masses are moulded
into soldiers and artisans by intellect, Just
as matter and the elements of nature are
made into telegraphs and steam engines.
The poor, who labor all day, are too tired
at night to study books. If you make
them learned they soon forget all that Is
not necessary in the common transactions
of life"
And again:
''To make an aristocrat in the future,
sce must sacrifice thousand pallpersi Yet
we would by all means make make
them prominent, too, by laws of entail and
primogeniture."
And again;
Nobody feels degraded by paying re-
spect and admiration to nobleman."
Nobody? In England, q good many
people would feel degraded by paying ''re-
spect and admiration" TO some nobiemen.
Not long ago they had nobleman in the
work house there. But we quote further
from De Boa0, the oracle of the southern
aristocrats: . Z,
-ssf ho right to govern resides IN very
small minority; the duty to obey is inhe~
rent in the great mass of mankind"
The magnificent sentence should have
been inscribed over the poll-booths at the
last election in rebel Virginia, when tho
poor whites of that State were asked to
surrender to their wealthy neighbors the
reigns of government. 1t should have
been added, by way of explanation, "'the
mass of mankind" means poor white men
and slaves.
Again it is said in DE- Bo,c, "all govern
ment begins with usurpation and is con-
tinued by force" Certainly the govern
ment of JEFF. Davis had just this begin
ing and continuance.
And again; IAN aristocracy is patriar-
chal, parental, and representative. The
feudal barons of England were next to the
fathers the most perfect representative
government. The king and barons repre-
sented every ybody'-how? the reader may
ask, but the answer is made in the same
sentence" because everybody belonged to
Them" Precisely-and in this way the
proud ''feudal barons of the South" would
like TO represent their poorer white neigh
bors-Cy owning them. The poor whites
may despise the slaves, but the largo
slaye-owners despise the poor whites, be-
cause, like slaves, they must work; and
they hate them and the mudsills of the
North because they have votes to give or
withhold.
They have grown impatient with the
rule of the people, little as that has for
many years restrained them. recent
number of De Boac's Revie,c speaks out
plainly, and fully confirms the statements
of Professor Cairnes:
''The real contest of to-day is not sim
ply between the North and South but to
determine whether for ages to come our
government shall partake more of the
form of monarchies or of more liberal
form of liberal goyernments)."
They dislike foreigners, because
There is nothing TO which the South
entertains so great dislike as of universal
suffrage. Wherever foreigners settle to-
gether in large numbe-s, there universal
suffrage will exist"
The South p'-that means about one
hundred and eighty thousand of our thir-
ty millions. Nor do they like the nom
slaveholders-the poor whites. We still
quote from De BOac:
A non-slaveholding community in the
midst of the South will ever be disaffected
and treacherous. Witness st. Louis, Lou
isville, Northwestern Virginia and Eastern
Tennessee. We must exclude such COM
munities in future at any cost"
Foreigner" says this writer, to ex-
plain the dislike of ''the South" to that
part of our population, understand and
admire the leyeling democracy Of the
North, but cannot appreciate the sriSto-
cratic feeling of a privileged class so uni
verSal at the South"
Truly they cannot appreciate" it
they suffered enough from the tyranny of
a privileged class in the homse they left
TO seek here country free TO all honest
effort, and were intelligence and success
in life are omen tn all