Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-10-22
min, ,A,0 ia, v;rrla,a vas wanted ~"eagsrly, earnestly,

aouh, then that V;rrinia vas wanted "esgerly, earnestly, |
,cd In a bu-sy.s TIE rsbbls srmies tina. rushed over
hsr border a. AIexsadia, a. Winchester, 9. Wheeling,
at Point Pleasant, e. Fortress Monroe, and the others
that tried to do the same thing from KsuiucEy aad
North C~srOiuh Astsssed how intensely the Yankee Ms
tloa wanted virgbiA. Many long months have passed.
aud this consuming desire remains ungratined. b'tneL
aud Manassas, and Chickshoniny, and Galley rVer' ano
Port R,pabRe, AID twenty other stricken lids tell the
rs,soa vhv. The arms that mads these fields glorious
are sdl in the hands Of men brave enough aad steu'
enough to give an sqiL renown - others.
Yauksesom may vsnt Virginia, but until her gallant
slater S'at.s havs fallen away from her side. and un'il
abe herself has forgotten what shs Is aud has been, that
van, viii never be supplied. Let them take Richmond,
II they cav, AID Destroy not only Ito toblcco warehouses
ou: leave 70. one stone upon another of SniS edih'ss,
T,rqiais viii yet be is unsubdusd and IS utcorqu:rAts
q the winds Of the forest or the waves Of the ocean
Fate OF ths sseIsn and Runaway Negroes.
what is to become OF the poor, ignorant and helpless
negroes, who either runaway or are stolen IRON Their
comfortable homes In the South, and sen. up North BY
the Yankee invading army, il, says the Savannah Re-
p~uB!ieGn, . prcblsn hard Of solution. When they get
there, they fad themselves among strangers and enc
mlee, ratner hAu ltieu0S, u WI " uVneA eS P"''
leSs even Of working for q support. oaly the other day
the association Of slaughter and packing house men in
Chicago passed the following preamble and resolutions
at one Of .bsiF meetings:
whereas, L. has come to the knowledge Of the meeting
that i, Is the intention Of one or more o. the leaiing
packers Of this town TO bring ntg,o labor into competi-
toa with that Of white men, for the purpose OF reducing
the wages of the latter to the lowest possible standard
R.SOl,sd That We, the packing house men OF the
town of South Chicago, pledge ourselves no; to work
far any packer, under any consideration, who vii, In any
nsnner, brig negro labor into competition with our l-
boz; and further, =,
Resolved, That il any member of this society should
20 far oemsan himself as to work in 3 packing house
where negro labor is employed, hs name shall be stricken
from the roll Of members of this society, and suc1 person
shall hencsiorth cease to erjoy the coafee-cs Of or de-
rive Auy ben,h: from this society.
So much for the treatment the poor deluded negroes
receive from their pretended frends At home, to which
nay be added the tckrO sledgsd fact tina: in the very
capital of the Yankee nation large numbers have died
from hunger aad inAttention in Sickness.
Bat there is another branch to the negro's destiny in
the hands Of these abolition hypocri4s. Bing unwil.
ling that they should remain At the North as freemen
and equals, they are shipping them BY thousands to for
siga countries, When, after a horrible passage at sea
in crowded ships, in which many Of them die,
the remainder are put cus on strange and iohcs-
pIlab!s shores, without friends, and far from
home, and told to shift foe themselvsL Thus
doomed to drag QUIT miserable ~eIs.snos, what will be
their Grgui.h when they think BY day and dream smidsi
the horrors Of the night. Of tie kind masters, III, friend,
" nsighbors, and tbs comfortable homes thsy LEFT be-
hiud them uadsr the fatal delu,io1 of obtaining their
r,edoni Liberty they fad thsir ruin, the premises Of
fisnds but the tricks Of a h:s-;lsss enemy. What re.ri.
button Is so severe tia. the Almighty will not visit II
upln the CrG,l Wsstchss Who thus deceive and seduce to
their destruction = weak minded aud urSlEpecing race
Tiue will prove, even - tie satisfaction Of thu ne
gsoes-a m,lIlchOly satiTscEon to mrny-thA; he has
on. one hu, frisSd-.hs South, n mItr, whoa he hiss
served Ei.h reasonable kbar, aud in return for which be
has been vsichCd over, fed, clothed, ard cared TO-, in
Sickness and In heath. 10 good times and 10 hard tmes,
and through al the vloisEitudes Of life. The nan who
iadreaibin u sever this allegiance, uadE whatever pre-.
MISS Of future good, is = hypocSite and an enemy.