Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-11-20
rHECOEsTIFUTION-sTATE RIGHTS.
RICHMOND WHIG.
FRIpAY LOOMING. N0v. 90. 1883.
Missouri


red with him in his last expedition and for time
held prisouer BY the United States Government, but
released because Of circumstances attend
ing his capture, having ventured to express in pub
hed letter the opinion that in the Anal breaking up of
the hulk Of the Union and the reformation of minor
unions the State of Missouri will take position with the
Northwestern States in confederacy separate from the
more Southern States the Mobile Register gives express
sion to what we are less the feelings Of
large majority of the people of Missouri than the unan
nous desire Of the other States and people of Conede
raoy in an eloquent dissent We copy its article with
all the greater pleasure for the glowing tribute pays
to the courage and devotion Of the kssouriAns aud
their heroic leader;
Missouri is to-day by the records Of the Confederate
Government truly and leg Ny member OF the Con-
tederate Union as Is the State OF Georgia. Her sons
have poured out their precious blood many battle
fields as the sons OF Alabama Georgia, or Carolina
majority Of her people are as intensely Southern as
those of South Iarolina They have stood 4 test Of
patriotism which oher people have been called
upon to endure. The AssOuraa who goes out to bate
covenants to give his house to the flames and his family
70 persecution and impr sonment The Georgian who
goes to battle leaves his home and loved pro-
tecled under friendly shelter There is county
the map of Missouri in which the blood of MissouraIs
Gas not flowed ia defence Of our The most go-
co rQ6 OF SOQLneEQ LQOo6 QeQ5 where
the inyncbIe Of Missouri have borne our banner
in the face Of the foe. The arrival Of Gen. Price and
his immortal band on the fed Of Corinth may be sad
to have saved the Confed racy Gen. Beauregsrd had
previously, ~ 600 men fit for duy; Gen. Buell. had l00
OOO and but for the Missouri army Haeck would have
moved over this valley and met Butler atNeW Orleans.
For Que wtoe year these devoted had without sup
port, held so 600 Federal troops in Missouri and pre-
vented their marching the Southwest before some
preparation had been made to resist the invasion.
The late Albert Sydney Johnston sad the capture of
Lexington by Gen. Price, and the diversion Of Fremons
army saved for one year the Valley of the Mississippi
When, after year Of marching fighting and mastery
strategy, Gen. Price forced retreat South, for
rant Of the operation Of the Con ederats army under
Nc CLLoeh heh had been stationary for eight mo'nhs
the northern border Of ArkatSaS; when the Federal
forces were thus relieved OF the presence Of P.ces
army-that resistess march Of the anaconda began
,or Henry and Donel5on fell; Bowling Green was
abandoned; Nashville was clptured; Island 10 aud
Asp plis passed under Yankee domination New o.
ans fell; Kentucky, Missouri Arkan 'As Louisiana arc
Tennessee became in part or in whole, Federal prey;
and the fate OF the Uoniedsracy nembled in the bal
ance Price and his glorious veterans appeared at Co
rnth fresh from the bloody field Of EkAorn and saved
what remained
Missouri separated from her sister Southern States
BY ArkansaA Whiel fingered long in the old Union,
could no. until she manaelsd by foreign egons;
out from the day the hrst gun was fired TO this day her
unccnquerable people have he'd the sword and to-day
they fight and bleed soil rendered doubly sacred to
freedom by the sublime devotion of that heroic populs
ton. Under all the peculiar disadvantages of the case
more than 40 600 Mssouran5 have shoudered muskets
and laid all upon the altar Of sacrifice, and those who
remain remain the fortunes of the Confederacy
There never was q day when Missouri could rot have
made peace with the foe and all her people could have
to-day calmly enjoyed the luIures of that fat land.
But the true people Of the Sate-oomprsiug, be-
heVe large msjoty-presrred the loss Of property,
persecution, Imprisonment bonds hunger, chains fire.
sword assassination, death with the South, TO which
they belong by blood, and sentiment and habit and in
sttutons. Excepting about 20 600 voters, composed
OF eastern traders aud the German refugees Of ls4s,
inhdel Red Republicans, the people Of Missouri num-
bering 100000 voters, have reason to believe,
the faith Of their fathers those Of any State
Of the Confederacy.
Whea Gen. Price was forced at last to retreat from
the soil OF his great State, for rant Of support which
support was always accessible, had the order from
Richmond been given Federal messenger was sent to
make oYertures for truce in favor Of Missouri apart
from the South. It proposed that every Missouri
an should return his home; that complete amnesty
should be granted that every Federal soldier should
DO withdrawn from the State that ample funds should
be placed in Gen. Prices hands to indemnify every Mis-
sour soldier tor anything he lad lost and that peace
and home and security should reward return to for
mer relations That great Roman soul scoIned the
bride thus offered and moved with his immortal bands
fields OF carnage in the far South believing,
struck blows TO recover hs lost home
Is il such people Col Aston dooms, with q stroke
of his pen, TO mug the lash of scorpions which the
cursed Yankee holds over themp Can that gallant
soldier cOely contemplate the deseron of sucha people
oy the other Southern StatesS Would he blur the
escutcheon of our honor forever by the sacrifice Of
Confederate StAte-one which has suffered and bled
no other State has sussedi If this be 80 would
not have boon bound in honor to tell Mssourians to
20 home-that they were foredoomed to Yankeedomi
Snail We accept their swords and the sacrifices of their
lives and then surrender their homes and children to
the ruthless Yankees and the brutal DutchG Can the
Governments thus stutfy its record, and break Its
solemn faith, and write dAmning stain upon il annals!
This cannot be- We must have other and stronger
proof of Seeh intent than the prediction Of Col Aston
TO give i eredaace for q moment
We eithgr able to defeat the military power of the
foe o. We are not. II not We have South,
Try eft If we are hdVs IL all or We are treacher
Gus 70 truth and honor. There il question of boEn
Sy but of toe right OF SFATKs to elect their own Fed
era relations Besides il is not question of Missouri
alone II surrender that State We surrender
along with her-in the judgment Of well informed and
sAgaoous men, every square foot Of Confederate s0A
tCssI Of the AississippiI She il the key to 7ast
domain OF the West Let no selfish view take hold W.
on VA We have suffered togeIher-We must reign to-
gether. We must stand OF fall together. No act Of
peFfdy must ever attach 70 the homo: OF our heroic
grand and SELF sacrificing people!
Rich and Poor Alike.
The AdI nta appeal, noticing, As We did the other
day, the sOphism of some demagOgue, traitor no
doubt At heart that this is the rich mans war AID the