Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-03-16

profitable employment for the precarious and poorly
paid condition of private in the army Surely, 1T is
moor consolation TO the Germans and Irish of the North
west to know that in requtal for the ensavement of
nipety.nne hundredhs OF their number, Lincoln will
graciousy bestow titles upon few of their fortunate
fellow countrymen such as Rosecrans, Segel and Carl
schurz. This most unequal and unjust distribution of
hyors ought to inspire them with resentment and
resistance.
But it is to the soldier in the field that the Northwest
must look for deivence. If he will but say the word,
they become free people in day, If he submits like
sheep to be led to the SHAMELESS and to be buchered
for the sake of the negrO-happer, feer, and better
fed than hmSelf-then the Northwest is lost True the
soldier is lave and can be made to fight against his
will but not if he is adroit cautious and willing TO bide
his time. company or a regiment may mutiny and
throw down their arms, but they will be compelled to
take them up again. or be fred into by abolition bri;
gades. But if they are smart they will know how and
when and where TO strike they will succeed and re-
turn rejoicing to their homes Two years of soldier life
in the sterile and thinly settled SOuthtwo years Of
hard work andpOO pay-Of digging such as no negro
ever dd-of endurance of every PcivatiOn and every
disease of the camp and the hospital Ought to have
taught the soldier of the Northwest lesson. If there
must be wars and he must fight, why should he not join
the Coufederaes and turn bis eyes to the feast Of fat
things in the big cities and innumerable towns and vii
lagos in the Easlg There he would find something to
repay him for his toll while in the povertysircken aud
exhausted South, let him fight forever he will find his
reward only in the liberation of millions Of lazy
groes who will eat all the little food the government
allows him. and be sent back to bis own State to engage
in the easy and paying occupations he had teen forced
to abandon This is literally everything the soldier Of
the Northwest has to hope for while fighting against The
South VIII he give his hearts blood for such cause,
when by single word he can command the peace, en-
JOY the free navigation of the Mississippi and find an
ever-ready market for his products?
Thus it will be perceived that the SOuthern.born ct
zens OF the Northwest the foreign-born WELL and
above all the soldiers in the field are quite much in
terestcd in putting down the Yankees and in overthrow
ing the despOtisn of Lincoln as the SOutherners are
The thoughts to which have given expression are by
no means new; they must have occurred to every re-
fecng mind north of the Ohio. We do not know that
this article will reach those for whom it was intend
ed. LiucOlns spies Omnipresent, and his Censor
Of the press delights to exclude rebel newspapers from
the West fully much to keep the Copperhead"
papers from the camps. But should our suggestions
ever reach their destination we have sentence to add
viz: When people think alike aud have common in
teyes to maintain only the bases; pusilanimty
cuse such people for becoming the common victims
Of race so dastardy as the Yankees The South holds
out her hand. Is the Northwest afraid to take it: