The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1862-06-05
From the Richmond Examiner.
Is II Western COnlcdelucy
Threatened1

Is II Western ConfcdeIucy
Threatenedr
| The argument employed by the Federal
press and government to stimulate the
North 70 the conquest of the South is the
very significant one, that If the Southern
seeded States be permitted to set them
selves up into a, ,Contederacy separate from
the Union the Western States of. Ohio.
IL diana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, and
perhaps others, might, seeing the advan-
tage of q severance from the Yankee East
and North, follow the South in a second
rebellion, and this and the political convul.
sion carry away another mighty fragment
from the Union rock to be followed. per.
haps by others in the middle and border
States. TO prevent the crumbling away
by piece meal of the very base of the
government at Washington, whose key
stones are Yankeedom and Abolitionism,
the staggering fools at its head will sacri-
fee any and everything; and rather than
see the South viDdicated would pull down
the temple of liberty itself and bury the
indwelling goddess and the nation in cae
| tomb.
The West has more to gain. aud the
Fast all to lose, 10y secession. New Eng
land, withou. the cotton of the South aud
the grain OF the Vest; would settle down
into fure Yankee nation of school teach
ers, clock beddlcrs and shoemakers. The
West. with the Mississippi open to its
teemins products to the scapol,s of the
South, would soon outstyip the East and
leave her with only all that nature ever
tynv vn L. l1tA....,,,,h n
h:eci OF negr1 sic rlers aud abolitionist
We'll may the Fast, thcn trerubie at the
approach OF the consummation OF this rev.
oi"tlcn Its success 10 her is political and
commercial ruin, as we'll as the North
Thus, while yet she has the force OF the
West, the Federal Goycrnment will exert
Itself TO Its utmost To overcome the stronu
child OF the South that is throtting her
10 exhibit to the world aud example or
the effects OF sec esion. the marks of desc.
iatlon and death Will track the armies Of
Invasion. People are u learn what
terrible thing it is to ass rt their own
Liberties, and how earnestly tyrant will
wrcstie with one adversary before he goss
down TO bt forever H'o9" The de ision o"all
who formerly, while they feared his power,
knew not his weakness Pho Sou,h is
li'e subject of that example
The detcstat:ol tJr the "Iaak aa." We
believe, is a. fall aul heartfelt at the West
IS in the Sourh, only ,ha, The tleci OF tls
! people oftl.e latter section has steamed
thst hatrcI eternal am made it lasting ns
the skies. For the rsaSon Cf this litter
atsS the government declined to place ANY
ot he " estern regiments usjcr General
! Mctlellans comu,and in Virginia or. in
the coast expeditions, the Nauk &c element
! is strongest among the soldiers, but order
cd them all 10 the army of General Hal
! !ceh. where the cnly fighting material of
| the fedeiai army is Ia BE- fouri 10
/ Washington, several months ago. vpon
t the occas"p 81 q review hy General
Mcclellan Of 75,0e3 troops, re-
| mert cf Ohio troops. regiment l.om
: Connecticut, an account of their close aS.
! Sociation with them on the fieli. which en-
! ded in the Ohio regiment being orders
OF the review ground Ly General McClel.
ian. The dislike between the soldiers Of
| The East aud West has shown itself very
significantly in the Federal army since tee
evident object Of the war has become one
Of emancipation
OAr twenty five officers trcm the cxpe.
dition to PORT Royal, South Carolina. arri-
we'd in Baltimore after the capture cf that
point, having surrendered their commits
SONS in DISCUS; at the fraternznc of tho
soldiers and negroes. They declared that
they would willingly enter the army again,
out it would be to fight the abclitionists,
and not the South.
Revelations ere generally inaugurated
for the overtprniSg oferror and corruption.
1t is said that revolutions never 10 back
wards" that they always progress, from
stage to stage, through tho ages. When
this revolution is accomplished in the South
against the North, We believe another is
inevitable in the Nos.l, against herself
ana within herself. The seeds of that rev
o!ut'on are being sown by the blood OF the
present one. Its termination is certain.
Aboitionism is either to become the one
idea Of the North or it is to go out in the
light of history and common sense.