The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-03-04
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A Rebel Editor On Yankees.


i,el, is, no doubt, u soothing balm for such
Northern recreauts, MS sympathize with the
rebels in arms. The rebel froths and fuams
like pentyup oatanount;
The custom Of denouncing Yankees is be-
coming common. Under the soft influence
of "a serenade, President Davis likens them
to hvenas Governor Letcher, in his mild
way. insists that they are heaven-defying
hell-deserving race, and pleasantly consigns
their Chief Magistrate, Abe Lincoln, to a
doom more fearful than that of Devergoil
Is it to be wondered that Mr.. Lincoln has
had a trouble on his mind ever since the
fearful doom was pronounced upon him (;
that he is getting gray and finds it difficult
to tell dirty anecdote every ten minutes
during the day?
The practice of villifying the Yankees
has gotten into the newspapers. Editors
spend most of their time in concocting dia-
tribes against contemplate race, whose
only defect is proneness to all that is foul
and everything that is evil. Why should a
peor,f so deRpicahle be aspersed? Even
this new spaper, careful as il iHneyer to say
"A word lat would disturb the most placid
tea party, ho. been known to speak disre-
spectiully q. race which the civilized
world. with one consent, acknowledges to
he" its last vilcst conduct One would
suppose that creatures SO abounding in the
stenches of moral decomposition would
never be alluded to IN deCeut society. But
somehow the habit of expectorating upon
the vermin that swarm in the Northern
dunghll, has gotten the better of gentle
natures, and time drags heavily on the
Southerner, who refuses to indulge himself
some twenty times Il day i'll yolley of dire
full anathemas against the Yankees.
Rejecting persons tell us that this is al
together wrong. We should restrain our
selves, and be scrupulouSly polite when
speaking of these abOminable villains.
We should recolect that these internal
scOundrels are human beings. and bear i'll
mind the fact that they Lever lose an OPP
portuIity of heapng the most uugracious
abuse upon ourselves. Nor should it be
forgotten that they have attained an almost
inconceivahle perfection and dcNterity in
lying, SO that if it were possible for us to
match them in billingsgate, we would still
be at their mercy in the trifling matter of
falsehood. We are told by our philo.
sophie friends that it would serve to cool
the intensity of our hatred to remember
that they are hourly committing every crime
known to man, and some with which even
the tiends are not familiar that a thrill of de-
light should pass through us, when we re.
call the pleasing circumstance that upward
of a million of these incarnate demons
are hired by the year for the sole purpose
of numbering us, burning our houses, kill
ing our cattle, stealing our slaves, destroy
inc our crops and driving our wives and
helpless children into the waste-howling
wilderness, i'll mid winter; that a genial
glow of the purest love should pervade our
hearts at the thought that they candidly
avow their purpose to eXterminate us, to
kill every one OF us, men, women and chill
dren, to take our possessions by violence
in word to annihilate US, to destroy us
from the face of the earth, so that our names
shall be no more heard among men.
There is another view which should ell
courage lis in the purpose henceforth to
cherish an affectiOnate regard for the ac-
cursed beings at war with lis. To the well
regulated mind the beastly practice of
beasts excite no diSagreeable emotion and
it is said that the scientific intellect finds IA
world of enjoyment in the contemplation of
the disgusting utility of the lowest order
of creatures. Surely the feat of the vulture
upon carrion is not reprehensible, and Oc-
casions in the behOlder no special wonder.
and never any animOsity against the bird
for gratifying his somewhat peculiar tastes.
So tho tiger that laps blood, and the beetle
that gOrges eXcrement, are but Yankees of
the animal Kingdom accommodating the
wants of nature and it were folly TO impute
to them improper motives in partaking of
their CHASTITY and sickening repasts. 1t fol-
lows that our feelings toward the people
OF the North, the scarabul and Vipers of
humanity, should be characterized neither
by rage nor by nausea but by 4 fixed, cheer.
tul, christian determination TO interpose snf-
hcient obstacles between them and our
selves ; to curb their inordinate and bloody
lusts by such adequate means as natural
wit suggests and, as a general thing, to
kill them wherever we find them, without
idle questions as to whether they are rep
tiles or vermin. A certain calmness of
mind is requisite to their successful slaugh-
ter, The commissions of passion are out of
Place when one is merely scalding chinches.
The foregoing reflections are suggested
naturally enough by the accounts in Yankee
newspapers of Buffers triumphal progress
ion from New York to Washington and
back again to Boston. A great hue and cry
has been raised at the South because the
spawn of Northern cities saw fit to PROSTATE
themselves before this new Haynau, this
modern VeTres, returned from his conquest.
this beast emerging from his cave filled
with dead mems bones. Why this outcry?
Wherefore assai the brute clotted with
gore, or the chimpanzees that danced and
chartered at his coming, and beslobbered
him with praise? What had this hog-hyena