Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-09-02
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dianapOs Indiana, at Whcht the following mobile letter
las the Yankee newspapers style ip was read and
great applause Ii is from of the chief Generals in
Grants army who s an influential politician in the
Northwest. Let the reader note it carefully;
NOUN VERKoS, August 49, 1868.
Gentlemen: regret that my short leave Of absence
from the army and severe illness in my family prevent
me from accepting your invitation to address the De-
mocracy the 10Th inst
shoulI like to speak to The people of the State and
present TO them the opinions aud feelings OIL thelr KIN
bred and friends in the army in which serve With
those who facing our enemies, where disease and
death are around them there is but little or no division
of opinion and they look with wonder and establishment
at the reported differences at home.
The Army of the Southwest is determined upon the
suBjugation Of Rebedom, in the highest aud strongest
sense OF the word No halfway, sinpeIag patch work
will satisfy hem and the party that attempts Il lOiH Be
srspt into hopeless minority, Like all the other e0nb
nations Of parties that haze formerly opposed The '"Grs o.
oar country.
"Tbe Constitution as it was cannot be restored in
the Rebel States until the people OF those States shall
flq provs their lore for the Government aud dseOtsd
loyalty Unul this happens the mailman must wear hs
straight Jacket little reelection will convince the
most sympathetic that this must be Suppose the
Union restored the Constitution guarantees the right Of
trial by ury in the district where the offence COM
United but broad indeed OuJ be the farce where Re
bel should be presented or treason aud tried by Rebel
jury.
The Constitution provides that the writ Of hGLeds
corpus shall remain nviolate yet need not tell you
that Rebel Judge would release the prisoner, though
charged with the blacklist crimes Of murder and rea.
son. Tue Constitution prOclams liberty OF speech and
liberty of the press This with Rebels would include
the right to deuOunce the government and keep up ali
und,ing. hatred o. section against the other, until
another revolution would Inevitably iolloy No. these
sacred rights cannot nov be conferred upon the mad
men of the South. They given by our fathers 70
-. ~ WWlnf haav
ed those who have so snamefuly attempted TO
destroy the institutions under which live. 4 long
day Of probation must aGdit their re'ada,isstOR
woed IN regard to property of Rebels. In my Opn
ion they have forfeited all and their wealth should be
40 used as TO prevent repetition OF their crime Their
personal property should be used in dersyDg the expen
ses Vi the revelation. Their slaves released and berA
ted aud their lands far As practicable divided among
our soldiers who have nOby sustained the GOvereUent
IN the hour Of its sOrest trial have spoken thus fceSy
of the policy that think should be pursued for these
the questions upon when tue people Will soon De
called upon 10 act.
II YOU stand in the loyal States firm and determined
To carry out this policy tie days of therebelon are
lily numbered, but il you temPorze and divide, the
var has scarcely commenced, aud anarchy and blood
shed wall cover unhappy land. conjure every one
who loves liberty to forget parry, and stand BY ouI
country in this dark hour OF is trial Your property,
your lives and the happiness Of your family depend upon
it know not whether these views will meet the ap-
probation Of any party, but cannot refrain from giving
them open expression In my opinion, nineteenth oil
the army will heartily in the views have pre-
scented. Yours truly,
ALvES P. HovET.
This then is What awaits US if we fal to secure
subjugatiOn in the strongest of
that wOrd"-nO rights privileges under the constitu-
tiOn-uo trial by jury-no hAbsAs Corpus-no freedom
of speech or of the pressa personal property to be
ssze and appropriated to pay the cos. Of our su6u-
gaton-al slaves .et ree-an lands divided among the
eOuluerors. This is the programme. Aud these, we
must admit, are the necessary incidents and logical
sequences Of our defeat II is by absolute subugatiOn
only that We could be held in subsection, if
thrown, and subugatOn cannot DE effected without en-
poying the means set forth by this ruculent but saga
C,ous aud outspoken Yankee General.
Will the reader pause u moment to consider what
would be the condition Of our people when this pro-
gramme had been executed The vison of our lands
among the eOnquerOrs implies that they are to reside
among HOldingall the property, having the bene-
6t Of constitutions and laws of their making, con-
shutting society Of their own, governed by its own
public opinon-what would be our state, without pro.
pery without the protection Of law or public opinion,
without arms or the means Of defence, without social
status -beggars drudg slaves, despised cued, spit
upO by cOnquerOrs and masters without daring to
raise finger in res sAnce; our women nsulted, out
ragged degraded; children born to heritage Of in
fanny, and reared amid the tokens Of inieriOrty and
trained to the habit of submisson-what man is there
with heart in his bosom whose blood does not boil at
the thought of such possibility And who is there
entitled 10 the name of who would not die thousand
deaths sooner than that these things should bes They
are to be prevented only by the 6Ied determination of
Our people to be ALL and do all and suffer all and give
all, tina, may be needed to secure success.
But this Yankee General is not the ouly man Who
has the sagacy foreses and the rahkness to aVo~
what our situation will be if We are conquered. Lin
coin biGeelf is of the same opinion. The jackson
Mississppian has Information Of Trustworthy charae-
ter 81 inervieW lately bald wSh that worthy hy
delegation from Kentucky, of which it says: