The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-06-06
What the Southern crs Think of 1t.

What the southerncr crs Think Of 1t.
The following is from the Louise
vile Bowling Green-Nashville Cou-
rier, the leading Western secession
paper:
This has been called a fratricidal
war by some, by others an irrcpres.
sible conflict between Freedom and
Slavery. We respectfully take is.
sue with the authors Of both these
ideas. We are not the brothers Of
the Yankees, and the Slavery ques-
ton is merely the pretext, no. the
cause ofthe war. The true irrepress,
ible conflict lies fundamentally in
the hereditary hostility, the sacred
animosity, the eternal antagonism
between the two races engaged.
The Norman cavalier cannot
brook the vulgar familiarity Of the
Saxon Yankee, whilst the latter is
continually devising some plan to
bring down his aristocratic neighbor
to his own detested level. Thus
was the contest waged in the old
United States. So long as Dickin.
son doughfaces were to be bought,
and Cochrane cowards to be fright
ened, 30 long as the Union tolerable
to Southern men; but when, owing
to divisions of our ranks, the Yam
kee hirel,ngs placed one oftheir o,cn
spaocn ocer as, political connection
became unend,vdbIe, and separation
necessary 10 preserve our self respect.
As our Norman kinsmen in Eng
land, always minority, have ruled
their Saxon countrymen in political
vassalage up to the present day, so
have we. the "slave oligarchs" gov.
erned tie Yankees, till within q
twelve month. We framed the Con.
stitution, for seventy years moulded
the policy Of the Government, and
placed our own men, or Northern
men with Southern principles" in
power.
On the 9th OF November, 1860,
the Puritans emancipated them
selves, and are now in violent insur
rection against their former owners.
This insane holiday freak will not
last long, however, for dastards in
fight, and incapable of sell Govern
ment, they will inevitably again full
under the control Of the superior
race. A few more Bull Run thrash
ings will bring them once more IN.
der the yoke as docile ss the most
loyal of our Ethiopian "chattels."
The Southern rebels believe all
this talk of superiority, even yet,
and they have good reason. AS the
writer says, they always have ruled
us, and with a rod of iron. In fact
Tor the last thirty years, the Govern.
ment has been administered solely
for their benefit. Pennsylvania Dc.
manded a tariff on iron--it was re.
fused because it would injure the
South. Louisiana emanded q tar,
if on sugar-it was granted and ev-
cry farmer and mechanic in the
Northern States paid the tax for
their benefit. At their bidding the
Fugitive Slave law was enacted-.the
Missouri Restriction broken down.
our rivers and harbors left unim.
proved--in short Slavery WAS the
Government. The Courier is right
in it's idea of the real cause OF tho
war. II is struggle as to whether
an aristocracy, built upon slave la
bor, shall be the Government, or
whether free mechanics and farmers
shall have an equal voice in it.
This struggle dil not commence with
Fort Sumpter. The aristocrscy an.
neXed Texas TO give them q major.
isy in the Senate--they tore down
tie Missouri Restriction, that they
might control the states that were to
be carved ont of The territories, and
failing to keep up with free labor in
the political struggle for supremacy,
they took up arms, expecting on the
battle field to regain tho power they
had lost at the ballot box.
We commend the above elegant
extracts to such of our democratic
readers who have yet sympathy for
our misguided Southern brethren.