Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-07-03
TWO PRESIDENTS.

of two very distinctly foreign nations, are nov
threatened, the former by hordes fplunderins
Yankee thieves, the latter by our hold Con
federates Zach city holds the elected Presi
dent of it, pic, freely chosen as its standard
bcarer.ty, representative, on the cvcof TIT
wonderful .le between two opposing ant
incompatil valuations, now shaking this
continent. hink Abraham Lincoln faith
fully perso. nat almighty Yankee nation
and venturca pay ourselves the compli
ment Of indicating President Davis Us the tru,
representative AID mirror of Confederate char
aetcr. five pciut attention to the contrast al
this moment, it is not by any means for the
purpose ofiudulg;ng in abuse ofour enemies and
gloriication c: ourselves; still less to exalt
the Confederac character in the eyes OF for
eign natiorfs--aa object for which we care
little, and VIII u at any rate is to be attained
by quite on, means than newspaper arti-
cles No, il T. the purpose of habituatins
our own yr,ie TO contemplate continually
the wide. anc ever widening and deepening
gulf which sewers us from the people who in
habit that Northern land a sautary course
OF reflection, we think, because it stamps
upon them and all their ways character
essentially, cternally foreign and alien, and
thus helps to make the idea of any possible
political association with them utterly repug-
nant and loathsome to US and our children
children, unto the ninth and tenth genera
ton.
The moment the unnatural bond which so
long united these States to nation OF Yankees
was once snapped, how widely the two peoples
sprung a*uni:r! How instantancously they
each ASSUME ,Eeir proper form and type
carrying ~ G:.ch side even to kind of exag
geration, DIS ocialS always in the action ofevcry
powerful spring, whether it be made Of steel or Of
the fibre Of human hearts. That which has
been unna.urally bound down in one direction
flies too far in the other and the cquipoise is
only attained by oscillation. Thus we see
those Yankee populations lately repreSsel and
kept down by alliance with the conservative
South, whose governing genius and grave
pride of character depressed their noble rage;
and chilled the genial current of their souls
rushing now into the most riotous extremes
of their native instincts, and rcvclling and wal
lowing thcrcin-proud of their shameleSsness,
displaying like sanity relics, their stolen goods,
glorying in their lies and unexamplcd hrag
galocio. and frauds unknown before Their
religions-and they had lots of thcm-havc
become viler and more sanSuinary than any
fetichisu, of Africa and they give glory TO
their obscene god with Bully for you! Re
moved from under the wholesome cCnstraint
of their former allies they have become
wildly exci.able, extravagantly boastful, I'M
naturally tickle. They worship their Butler
rs dengod: hut cry out to hang their Mil
Toy (auothcr Butler as telon. All notions
IF right and wrong arc confoundcl; the guild
ing star Of duty has set the pillars of the
universe seem 10 reel around them as on the
eve of the pcluge, or Last Day. Amidst al
this singular scene Of Yankee orgies and saturna-
1ia their chief magistrate stands bewildered
Ignorant and brutal by nature and by non.
education, i..cuoable of any vigorous effort
Of will, a. ring to no lofty thought
or purpose, Equal even to any very deep.
scheme of fran &c floats helplessly amidst the
turmoil, unde. rHding nothing of what is
going on arour :.im; least of all understand
ing how it fall mt that he, Abraham, is now
the Head ndlype God help him } of the
Yankee nation IL such q perilous and fatal
time. \ Chief Magistrate, indeed, who has
fallen upon ey;i days. What can he do bet
ter than fill himself. to the depth Of half
yard, with Hin - whiskey, and so wait for
the end? rc h; lees army marching into
Washington WOE bring deliverancc.
Such is slight sketch of one Of the two
nations which have thus flown violently asun-
der, and of it. President. The othcr-we
would not bcasi--has, under the action of the
same spring, started almost rs far to the. oppo
site side Whatsoever of Yankee faint was in
us we are carefully celebrating This people
Is more conservative and sedatc than ever
Their character has assumed grave
calmncss, which is altogether satur-
nine, and even stern. They do not boast
nor bully: do not exalt a man into dcmigod
one day and ban and blast him the next with
torrents of public execration. They seek out
no new principles in morals and politics, but
hold all the faster by the old. Under sol
emn sense Of dependence upon Providence in
struggle for lifcor death, honor or dishonor,
they have become more reliSously disposed,
insomuch that those pray now who never
prayed before, and those who always prayed,
now pray the more In proportion us that
other people has rushed forward in the dark,
into new theories of life, of "liberty" and
headlong pursuit of happiness" running
over one another in the mad race wherein the
weaker goes to the wall, and the devil takes
the hindmost-in the very same proportion
this people seems to have pruned down and
repressed all tendency to wild theorizing, and
to have taken its stand more firmly than ever
upon the good old principles of duty, of gov
ernmert. of subordination, and disciplined
society. wherein the weak shall be entitled
to protection from the strong, land the dearest
right and magma charrta of the foolish will be
right to be guided by the wise.
Here also the Chief magistrate typi6es and
represents his people; and, as always hap
pens in grand revolutions, where strong man
is happily at the head, he not only represents
the Confederate genius. but so impresses his
own character upon it as to intensity that
genius and more fully develop and confirm
it. A trained soldier and man of honor: &c
customed to command and to obey, (which
last is also no mean training,) penetrated
thoroughly with the spirit of the South;
skilled in public affairs; moderate and almost