The mountain Democrat., 1863-06-13

WueTe tHe ueTOine Is IOunu working mel
brothers shroud, and she is told, by way
of support and consolation, that t.she mus
rely upon her strength of mind to bear uI
against her misery, the convulsive, agon
lied reply is, "Ah, there. Itis-there is
a busy devil at my heart that whispers
tho it is madness to listen to it, that it is
that very strength on which prided nv.
self that has murdered my brother"
And, gentlemen, tell you, and beg you
to mediate on what say, that it is this
{ 'Sca Of strength and miIiGMS power in o
government which was never meant tc
have any, except by State concession
against foreign enemies, which has broken
this government down or changed it intc
the military centralized despotism which
it threatens to lie. Our only chance o
rescue is in the mode have ventured tc
suggest State action by Conventions
within the forms of the Constitution, and
in the interval, at least, provisional peace
But if neither national Convention for
what is Jeff, nor recognition of what is
gone from US, nor even pause, be tolera.
ble-what then remains? War-perse-
vering and protracted war, with success
at any cost and sacrifice, and conquest and
subiugation
Nay, not only suhjugation, but EXTERN.
ination-and, in saying this, do not
speak without evidence, and | adduce ii
for no other reason than to ask you to
brand with deep deteStation the men and
the organs which furnish it. In one Of
the papers Of this city you will find a card
of the negro Frederick Douglass, calling
for black volunteers in Philadelphia, to be
used in promoting servile insurrection in
the South and in sermon or discourse
by New England itinerant Clergyman
who * now rather pet in the social and
feminine and semi-feminine circles Of this
afflicted city, find passage which |
will simply read, leaving you to make the
comment which its devilish atrocity de-
mandS
"This war is no longer a war in defence OF
the Union, the Constitution. and the enforce
mcnt Of the laws; II Is a war to be carried on
no longer with the aim Of re.establishing the
Cuion and the Constitution with all their old
. 0mpiomlSes. God means not to let rs of
/ with any halfway work. lam now convinced,
and consider it the most humane, the most
economical, and the most statcsmanlike policy
now 10 take the most radical ground possible.
to assume that this is a war for the subjugation
or the determination Of all persons who wish
to maintain the slave power, q war TO get rid
of slavery and of Shareholders, whether il be
constitutional or not"
And within a few days, at the loyal
league, in Chestnut street, another itine-
rant preacher said, amid applause:
! 1--WE know they speak the truth when they
say that Tie negro s,ays everything in his reach
when he rises in insurrection. We all have
lra'lIed the insurrrcton of St. Domingo, and
it would b. terrible TO have a ST. Domingo
massacre re-enacted upou our soil. But the
President has declared tLiS IL military neceSSi-
", and if blood must flow We must not dread
, the consequence. Blood must How iu this war.
" But 80 impressed am | with the greatness
. Of the interest "nS ged in this rebellion and its
>uprre>sInn, 80 satisfied of the nconcev able
Importance Ot the struggle that opens up before
us III the dispersion at this rebellion, that,
speak 1t meaningly, and as a Christian, delIbe-
, rLtcly and cal.Hly. that would see every wo-
man and chld IN the South perish rather than
that the southern Confectionery should succeed
in attaining the objects Of its leaders" Ap-
plau>e. -".....
Now, Of this, | can only say that won
der any Philadelphia gentleman, after ap-
piauding such a speech as this, could go
home and look at one Of his own sleeping
children without shudder. Negro ruff
fans with their bloody pixies standing
over the cradles of Southern babes, is not
pleasant thing to think of.
The fruit Of this teaching is to be found
in an Administration organ Of few days
ago, which | also read:
THE orgaus of conservatism seem to have
all been Knocked into virtuous indignation by
my announcement that Gen. Hunter was about
, fighting insurrectiUn with insurrectioa, by
sending powerful expedition into the interior
Of one Of the States comprised in his depart
uent, in order 10 induce the slave population
10 rise in arms against their oppressors. Well,
what de- their hypocrtical pleas, in the name Of
a bogus humanity, amount to. The deed is
done. That silly and sauguinary hoax' hes,
before this, proved TO the rebels dire reali v.
Colonies Hgginson and Montgomery, at he
head Of 900 well-armed, drilled and Gis:ip.
lined blacks. and with muskets enough to arm
several thousand more, after landing 1T Fer
n"ndina. ascended the ST. Mary's RIVER GU
Monday last, and, have reason to believe, are
at this time far from the coast, upon Georgia
soil Whine away, then. spurious hamanita-
rians. at the accomplished fact, instead Of de.
nylng the existence Of the purpose"
And the next news we hear may be the
wall Of violated women and atfrightcd
children shrieking in terror, as Higginson
and his Sepoys, conveyed by the gunboats,
pursue their career Of outrage up the st.
Mary's, and the Leagues will applaud.
Conquest and subjugation are grand
words-magic phrases let US for a
moment look at them a little closely-not
rhetorically, but practically with COM
mon sense interpration. We have some
analogics to guide US, We know what is
done with the small patches of territory
we already have, and we have right to
infer, when the great conquest is consum-
mated, that what is doing at st. Louis.
and Nashville, and New Orleans, and Port
Royal, and Norfolk. is to be done through
the whole Of that vast region extending
from our anxious pickcts on the Kappa
hammock to the tranquil anchorage Of the
gunboats at Hilton Head. There is to be
great military tenure with negro reg
iments, supported by regular troops"
keeping the peace, collecting the crops
and the taxes, and experimenting the
elections-the negroes having the rights
Of freemen, to vote and to be voted for
Negro overseers are to administer discip.
line on plantations, and negro women are
to have the white women of the South
gentle mattons and pure virgins do
their mental work. This is no fancy
sketch. have heard of the wish being
expressed and the penalty suggested in
this city. This is another of the realities
don't like to look at. And all this un-,
der the unchecked control of the Govern
ment at Washington-Mr Lincoln and
his Cabinet doing and experimenting all
this by virtue of the war power. The
power Of the East India Company was