Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-08-07


New orlean, and at the Chesapeake, and the South
would commaBl the Mississippi Valley and whip Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois into her Southern Confederaey
At the mouth Of the Ohio would be togate Tor the
entire products Of tins wide and fertile country while
rail road bridges would be burned and the tracks
OF every quarter would be snapped like spiders web
by the hurricane of civil And while the strife
between England and France is impending for the mas
terry of both and land the armed millions Of Europe
would look with breathless anxiety, while our once
happy land and peaceful land (but for the abotonst
and the negro) would be the scene of civil war, the
most deadly of all wars-knfe TO knife face 10 face,
steel TO STEEL brother against brother, father against
son, mother against child, and this fair land would
bleed every PORE Better far that the whole African
race should be annihated and all the silly white race
destroyed, and our Union and liberties perpeusted
If the that has been wickedy and wlfully
pursued by the fanatics of the North continued the
result will be have portrayed it, and your waliing
for your fallen country will come too late Palefsced
poverty and dsmay will stare you in the face at every
corner Your manufactures will cease and your sar'
ing thousands will fly a productive and less Ia
natca land for bread. But should the South be unable
to make alliance with either England or France,
think you she will tamey submit TO Northern insult
and doIninationi No, never She will command the
commerce Of the Mississippi river and lis tributaries.
and should the North after years OF boodshed be sue
cessu in the contest IT will cost the North more than
the price of all the negroes twice told to possess the
land and the life of every white man that has soul
The South for thousand miles holds the outlets OF the
Father of Waters, and will dye them and its swamps
with the blood of thousands, both Of the soil and
its enemies. While there is Lucier match TO burn
your bridges, a stone log TO obsruct your com
merce the vengeance OF the foe at midnight will be
upon YOU In turn, you do mich 10 desolate and
destroy; but you cannot dam up the Mississippi nor dip
il dry. Swamp foxes will be upon you at every bayou,
and the alligators will be your enemies.
Pause, then, sir, and lift the veil Of the future,
which is Just before you, and stay the fanatcal hand
now lifted to strike. If you do not, like Macbeth
your sleep will be murdered and the sleep Of thou
sands You shall wash the stain of the blood Of
your relatives from your hands the hands Of your
wife, or the hands Of your sister, Harriet Beecher
| Stowe. Call around you Senator Seward, Wendell
Phillips Joshua Giddings and Fred. Douglas and visit
your first victim in a luLatic asylum-Gerr Smith, OF
New York. Call prayer meeting and pray Old
Brown and his coniederates out of purgatoy perhaps
from hell, where all of you should have gone before
Ask God TO forgive you for your wckedness wash your
filthy garments, thy way and sin no longer against
your conscience and your country's consttution-No
longer lie against nature and common and make
negroes your equals, while you will not give your
in marriage and negro husbands for your daughters.
Your knowledge Of natural history can hut convince
you of the rhulness of the best authorities, that
there is identity Of origin, equality IN mental OF
physical organization, and that the negro has been
what he is for four thousand years, and will be the
same for four thousand years 10 come. The white
has scarcely proved the problem Of sef.goyernment;
/ the negro never has and never can.
II your honor engaged, and your conscience smites
you, and YOU find that the records Of your country i'm
| pcate both Old aud New England in the introduction
of this unhaowed traffic, who stole them from Africa
and sold them into bondage in the South and you wish
TO pay the purchase money back, with the interest Oh
the debit and do not wish 10 steal and sell them again.
| we would ask, where is the money 10 pay for them
| Where the seven hundred millions to buy them Where
the three hundred millions TO transport them: Where
the money to sustain them free people PAY first
the interest upon your railroad debt Of eight hundred
| millions before YOU borrow to buy negroes.
One Of these two propositions must be pursued either
TO eXtermnate the white and give the soil 10 he
rIa.a nd tEa Of nt
| which is mpracticable But while you teach them 10
murder the white man, and violate the white woman,
you will never teach them the religion Of Jesus Christ,
with all your babbling preachers The boast of the
people Of the North that they can oyorrun the South
| is bravado In every mountain pass they will meet
| a Jackson, Taylor, or LconidaS and a Marion 10
every swamp. The "Swamp Fox" Of the Pedee and
SanIee OF Carolina was never conquered, but eaied
| the armies of the then most powerful nation on the
globe. They will say TO you, come thrust IN your
Northern SICKLE and yGuE harvest shall he death, you
shall meet oemeR worthy of your STEEL To the last Oh
| their blood and their breath.
My dear SIR, mistake the position OF the North
4 and yourself-neilher your moral suasion your
Sharpe's rifle subdue terrify the people of the
SOuth--you look through a medium that magnihes
yourselves, while IL dimnIshes Others. Allow me to
draw the picture. The great mass OF mankind who
appear upon the stage of human life to be born
but 10 eat TO drink TO propagate their species, and 10
| die. Both lord and yassal nohlemah and peasant,
king and subject, though widely separated in life sleep
/
youth and inexpsrence Is over, they loter earth
burst like bubbles the Of matter, dirt like
butterflies from sweet 10 sweet, from flower To flower
then disappear forever. If born 10 position occupy
office they viewed 10 their elevation, because Of
| their wickedness aud crime and odious they
are conspicuous But some claim OWNER right made
under higher r, sent Rabbi teachers from God, to
dictate the will of Heaven, who abide neither the laws
of men the constitution Of their country whose
puritanical cant and hypocrisy make them odlous 10
every sensible and honest mind
They may be ministers, indeed, but not ministers Of
the religion OF Christ, but oi divine vengeance, who
sometimes destroy not only themselves bal The people
whom they preach To This latter class, Mr. Beecher
allow to say, think you belong Your slender virtue,
mixed up with arrogance, impudence and crime,
that the most acute analysis could not discover one
grain of honesty IN the Composition; and If God =
grace can save the sinner. the selfish bypOcre, the
winged messenger Of Mercy would never light on
| 50 a thing you. Again, we have men Who
seem to be created for higher purpose-sent on ia
pOTtant business, sent 10 desOate and destroy, 10
create, TO build up and sustain, not living for
| themselves, you do, but foe The whole human
whose lives the ornaments which sdorn the age in
| which they live, II they appear either in public
private life the places they occupy radiant with the
glory of their acts who stars aud in the
pathway of life, TO cheer, 10 guide aud 10 Not
few have adorned your profession, sir; some have
adorned mine. But the most marked and distinguished
men of the past age Washington, Jefferson MAJ T.
son, Patrick Henry Calhoun, Clay and Webster, most
| of whom we're born in that State which you would
dosolate, and under institutions which you profess TO
despise Such men are the holy fathers of the church
to which belong and if sent 10 hell for the
sin Of slavery allow me the privilege Of choice to go
with them rather than to the heaven Of the canting
hypocres whose every act is TO anathemaZe all but
his dogmas, and propagate and faisehOod IN
every step he takes in life. Such men, under the garb
of religion, in every age of the world and under every
form Of faith have despoed the farest hopes Of the hu
man Such men claim TO be guided by "higher
tc" than the Constitution Of this country, would dash
pieces the fair fabric of cOunry's liberty, and lay
their wnhalIowed polluted hands even the stones OF
the very temple of liberty they had grown cold from
| the hands Of Washington and Jefferson. Such
I you, sir, would see the waves Of human passion in
storm sweep the ruins Of the lighthouse Of the
world reared upon times thousand miles Of coast by
the toll Of millions of the just the yiruous, and the
wse whose base lie the brains and skulls of the f1