Washington telegraph. [volume] (Washington, Ark.) 1839-1871, 1863-05-27

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a condition of vassalage, compelled to obey the
commands of superiors. The old Romans APP
Piled 1t to those nations whom they conquered
and reduced to slavery. 1t has passed out of
the usage. of modern civilization-that of Ire
land, several centuries ago being, perhaps, the
last instance amongst Christian people. The
modern habit has been to accord to conquered
nations the benefit of their own laws, and the
protection of their property. 1t has been ma
tural and proper to calculate upon that in all
speculations concerning the result of wars.
But we can no longer take this for granted.
The United States people, demoralized by NAM
mon, have lost the common decency of nations.
| If any one still doubts the intention of the
| Federal Government to su6jugate Southern
people, without any distinction between those
whom it is pleased to designate ''rebels'' and
''loyalists," we can but express surprise at the
tenacity with which the minds of some honest
men cling to pre-conceived opinions 1t is
| nevertheless important that, with all our power
we continue to impress all such with the fact.
| since it is not in human nature to struggle to
| 'iO o'AAOSe NhAioI li0 lHiuu CUuCelNeS tne nope
| of any alternative tolerable to human dignity.
We do not have in view the secret friends of
| the North-traitors scattered here and there
| IN every city and populous town of the South.
They have their reward in the success of our
| foe
But We intend class whose feelings are
wholly with us, whose interests are all in the
| SouGh-whose patriotism is pure, and whose
| fate is inseparable from ours These, from the
| beginning, have been awed by their ideas of
| the vastncss of Northern wealth and physical
power. Without the aid of foreign man to in
| tervene, or of Almighty God to confuse the
| councils of our foe, they have seen no issue to
the contest but Northern triumph. They have
| beheld only twenty millions on one side, with
| fleets at their command, and the vast resources
of the world within their reach; and upon the
other eight millions of men without money,
manufactures, or commerce. When Cutler
announced to Southern men at New Orleans.
'.We are twenty millions, you are eight-it is
a mere question of time" they have bowed to
it as to irresistible logic.
We have entered into the feelings of such
men so far as to recognize their patriotism,
and pity the depth of their gloom. We knew
they were very miserable, aud out of the wells
of a more sanguine spirit have proffered them
to drink more cheering waters. Whilst appre
ciating the kindness, they have waived aside
the cup of hope and sunk deeper into the
slough of despond-a condition as fatal to earn
est patriotic effort to Christian energy and
| fortitude. They do their duty to the South:
| but it is as somnambulists walk and work
keeping the true paths, and doing the deeds of
waking reason, but all unconscious whittier
they go, or what may be the end of their labor.
Some, It is true, have walked. The events
of the past two years have revealed to them the
| truth that numbers are not power-that North
ern wealth was mostly a sham and deluson-
| that Southen enervation was myth, and that
Southern resources exceed what appeared ex-
traTagant calculations. They have seen it and
reioiced. They do now for their cause in hope
full enthusia SIN and persevering energy, all that
they have heretofore acted in the stolid indif-
ference with which the followers of Mohamed
| y
q nd irresistible fate.
Some, but not all. Others in the darkn ess Of
their gloom, have followed Jacks with "a Ian
term through bogs innumerable. They looked
for the help of man. They even crowned Cotton
king, and trusted in him. They set up To-
bacco as prince, and adulated both with such
jargon as would he laughable, did We not COM
passionate the intense anxiety in which they
reasoned that if these things be net so, the
South is lost. England and France have not
come to answer to their hopes. Cotton has
been found not king. His sceptre was the tin
sci one Of the theatre, and that has departed
from him. We have all, indeed, been some
what false to the truest pride in that arrogant
pretension upon the power of cotton. 1t was
not worthy of us, and we have been justly re-
baked by the nations of the earth. The spirit
of liberty is king, and that alone. 1t reigns
amidst the glaciers of Switzerland as well as
amidst the cotton fields of the South The
spirit of freemen, who would walk the earth
erect, with no power to intervene between the
crowns of their heads and their Father which
is in heaven. All such are kings, and IN the
presence of that spirit, cotton with all its trade
interests, is but king after the order OF
Jonathan, unworthy of Southern worship.
True it is that cotton has not brought any por-
ton of Europe to our feet to do US homage
snd will not.
Next followed the trust in Northern dissen-
sions. 1t was another of the broken REEDS
Valianding CHAM became the priest and prophet
of all whose faith in the dark and gloomy
superstition of Northern omnipOtence rendered
: them predestinarians of Southern fate, but Tor
the hope afforded through him. Fortunately
for that hope, which might have led many
into destruction, was soon dispelled. The
tyranny of the administration has become
triumphant over the North. We have escaped
The danger of all the demoralizing Influences
which would have crept amongst US during a
cessation of hostilities, and negotiations with
pretended friends
We may now conceive how dangerous it is
for those of fellow-citizens, baffled in hope,
of foreign aid or Northern discussions, who
still believe in the superior power of the North,
to entertain the hope or presentiment that there
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