The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-19
SubjGgaiisn.

SObjUEaifsn.
The Yankee nation, elevated by the recent
victories of its hreling armies, is entirely Ger
tain Of the speedy and thorough subjugation
Of the South. IL laughs to scorn any idea of
any other possibility, and exults in delicious
day dreams of the degradation to which its
enemy will be reduced. 1t giories in the
consciousness Of its brute strength, and TO-
tends to exercise i, in the spirit of a brute.
All the enormous se4f-complaOsncy and self.
couceit which for while were hunbled bv
r. Nsttse OF hiaunssas have renewed their
.nciSst oAaiiasion, AID iney iancy$ themselves
the masters of the Universe, and the predes-
tined conquerors of all mankind. Bat the
work OF sutjugation is as distant now as
ever-more distant, more impracticabie than
1t WAS before the shadow OF disaster had been
cast upon our fay Ii our early victories had
been followed up. and blow struck which
would have paralyzed the North and com
PEELED peace, it wonld have been temporary
paralysis, and peace which would have sub
jugated the South more completely than che
IA ever likely to be by the hands of her enc
mics. The inevitable consequence of speedy
peace would have been the restoration of the
told commercial and manufacturing depend.
ncy of the South upon the North, with no
her results of her nominal independence
~ IN temporary exemption from abolition
legislation. and the heavy expense Of a
Pparate Government with none of those
arces of wealth to support it which COM
erce, manufactures, and trade supply Such
addition, call it by what name we may,
Id be essentially, subjugation; and if the
6rth had taken counsel of wisdom instead
pride, malignity, and revenge, it would in
he fret instance never have permitted the
Z to be waged, or, when it had begun, have
tght 1t to termination as speedily as
tssible.
When We say that the euhj1gation Of the
p.h ia now more remote than it would have
en after an early peace, we have no refer
20 t. that email minority which, in the
nth, as well as every community, is willing to
lrchase peace at any price. There are tories in
be South as there We're tories in the Reyolu.
sion. whose only sympathies are with the en-
piles OF their country, who lament its
icsories and rejoice over its defeats The
fbjugation of these is not the question, for of
the tyrants who threaten to Cypress us,
ey, In the event Of an opportunity, would
tho moet reveugeful and inexorable The
ries In the Revolution committed atrocities
hich far surpassed the most cruel oppres
70 Of the British invaders, and we are pre-
red to expect from Southern tories-happily
. 70 many in number nor 80 capable of mis-
ief as their iilustrious predecessors-th OK
bition Of similar spirit. There il another
ID more numerous class who may be suhiu-
gated, because they are already snbjugated by
leir apprehensions of the evils and calami-
De which are incident to y state of war
hilst generally hcnest and patriotic, they
X upon national honor rs an abstraction,
70 10 weighed against personal comfort
Iecurity and material gain. Dying for
US country they consider very pretty
p0etical sentiment, much to be admired in
novels aud tragedies; but, like many other po-
etical sentiments, nonsensical and Quixotic
when reduced to practice. Self indulgence
y the rule of life with many men who are
patriotic, honest, virtuous, and moral as long
- the exercise Of those qualities costs them
no sacrifice. But Of any higher life than the
life Of the flesh they have not the faintess
conception, nor can they imagine any greater
evil than the loss of money, the deprivation of
physical comforts, and, above all, the loss of
life. No one will deny that the subjugation
Of this class 10 practicable, even with
noisty Of the immense forces which Lincoln
has brought into the field.
Bot such ID not the spirit of the great ma
tority Of the Southern people. They are
dsvotsdly attached 10 their country, to its in
stitations, to its habits and modes of life, and
they have an innate and inaesdicsbls antago-
nism 70 the political and ssolal system Of the
Invading race, to their character and habits,
and their very modes Of speech, which the
present cruel war has iutsnsi6sd into such
passionate and profound dstests,ion that sooner
ihaa acknowledge the Yankees - masters
they would rather zee the whole Southern
country sink n the bottom Of the ocean. Az
. whsls, the South II proud, sensitive 70 the
lsst degree 70 stain upon her honor, and hold.
iae AeaaA n ipfsriov evil 70 degradation. sush
msp nsy b oysrrun, may b sxtsSninatsd,
bat thsy eaaao4 b sutjuestsd. They will r..
dst ~ long - sssistsnss II possible, and, II
conquered. they viii not stay sonquarsd.--
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