Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-04-15
VOL. 9.--N0. 80.

Gaul. Subject alike to the laws OF health and
hanger, all must eat, and all may either be
famished or disarmed. To subjngate a nation
1T is not necessary to conquer every citizen.
Exhaust its finances, depete its commissariat,
capture its Military chest, or cut off its re-
sources, and you have It as complete at your
mercy as ifyou held every inhabtant by the
neck. War is a game OF science, not mere
but history is full of instances where the
brave have been Obliged to lay down theis
artis- Among the readiest instincts of the
human mind, is that which enables man TO
make sudden choice OF evils; and when We
have seen patriots yield occasionally TO des-
pots yoke, 1t is an insult to honorable history
TO assume that mere traitors are superior In
fortitude and virtue.
We repeat that the masses of the Northern
people now understand ma inly the nature of
this war but there is stiIl phase of il which
they have hardly taken into contemp latiou.
They fully comprehend that the South PAM
pered by undue wealth and prevented by
degrading social institution, have conspired
to seize their section and expel free labor
from its borders; but they do not comprehend
that the audacioGs traitors actually mediate
the enslavement of the poorewhte race in
their midst, and in the progress of their wick
ed empire to absorb and ultimately servilize
the North.
That this declaration may not seem extreme,
we quote from the speech of Mr.. L. W. Spratt,
one oi the Sonth Carolina leaders, made as
:ate as March, 1861. Mr.. Spratt, in advocating
the re opening of the African slave trade BY
the Con federacy, incidently remarked that
the real contest which had been inaugurated
by their cannon, Was between the two forms
OF society established in the North and South;
':the one embodying the principle that equal
ify is the right OF man." which, says Mr..
Spratt, exists at the North and expands into
Democracy; the other embodying the prIu-
cipie that is not the right of man, but the
right Of equals only; sand this" says Mr.
Spratt proudly, sis the form existing ct the
South which has taken the shape of social
sristocracy." ssThere are already too many
whites at the South,'' continued he, sspsrticu-
farly in the border States-in Virginia half q
million too many, for there should be but ss
many whites as slaves to keep the social aris.
tocracy at its proper equilibrium" Having
delivered himself OF this philosophy, Mr..
Spratt then devolopes the entire of the afro.
cIous plot Of himself and would be brother
mobiles. In very much the same language a.
that OF McDuffie, the ftotege OF that arch
aristocrat Calhoun, who thirty years ago de-
clared that call labor was dangerous, Mr..
Spratt proclaims that s.the surplus whites OF
the South are dangerous eiement,'' and in
Inmates that as soon as the Confederacy shall
have achieved its independence OF the orth,
a second revolution will bs necessity to put
them down.
at appears" says he, "thst our contest Is
not ended with dissolution of the Uhion.
Slavery, like the Thracian horse returning
from the held of victory still bears master on
his back and having achieved one revelation
to escape the Democracy of the orth il must
achieve another to escape ii at tine South. :
Slavery cannot share Government with De-.
it cannot bear a. brand upon it
thence another revolution
Here we have the whole scope of the South.
ern aristocratic scheme, and that they would
have the power to effect their object after In
dependence. there cannot be a particle Of
doubt isH
TLis alarming programme is fully compre-
hended by the intelligent Unionists Of the
South, and is likewise extending itself among
those ignorant masses whom the iron despot-
ism of JEFF. Davis has reaped by the conscrip.
lion. The battles which the freemen OF Ala
oama have inaugurated In her mountains, the
sxaE~ "a "a.
nutterings of discomfort against the tyranny
'f Richmond which bsve already found
Toice in Georgia, and ssthe unsettled condf.i
ion Of the popular mind in the Old North
State," are proofs that the latent mauho cd Or
he masses of the South is being touched
Their struggles, however, with the despotisul
lnder which they have already sunk, would
be a hopeless one indeed, but for help from
Is. Let us strike at them, therefore. not "A
enemies whom We hate, but as brothers whom
We love and whose misfortuneS we depiore.f
1et us strike at them to free them; and a. We
i've the blow, let it bs doubled ~ the con-
ciousness that We deal in the interest of ali
as well as to remain free ourselves.
Wondrous Age! when native charms no
'nger fill fair women with alarms, when paint,
roses adorn the salIow face, and iron rib
on gives her every grace when piles OF gold
er sire's i'll gotten gains, are full atonement
'r want of brains when soi,d graces WELD .
lunted dart, while musk and moonlight win
le lovers heart.