Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-03-12
The Object OF the Rebels.

cd attention TO the fact, that the object
of the Southern democratic slavchold ers
rebellion, was not to secure to them the
possession of their slave pror erty, but to
establish an Aristocracy or Monarchy,
that the lordly shareholders, and the
domineering millionairs Of that land,
might vaunt it over the wor'ing
classes of white men, with some contempt
uous and tyrauiziDg spirit with which
they have been accustomed to drive their
poor negro slaves That this is the case,
every man who for q few years past has
carefully watched the tone of public SEN
timent in the South, as indicated by the
speeches of their public men and the ed
itorials Of their newspaper presses, must
be fully satisfied No terms. however
obnoxious, no phrases. however indica-
tive of the deepest degradation and SER
Witty we're spared by them in the utter
ances they gave of the estimation in
which they held the millions of toiling
white men that inhabit this fair land -
On the other hand, no one could trans
cend in their estimation, the eXcellency,
the advantage, the elevating and emo
bling influence of slavery in anything he
could possibly say; they claimed for sla-
very that it was a divine institution
the corner stone of all true republicanism,
in fact, that it was essential to free gov
eminent and more. that in order to pre-
serve the inestimable institutions for
which our fathers suffered, bled, and
died, it might become necessary to en-
slave tho white laborers of this country.
Educating themselves in those doctrines
so abhorent to the enlightenment and
civilization Of the nineteenth century,
they have pressed forward in their mad
ness until they have involved the land in
that bloody civil war which the true pa
triots of the country are stralnlng every
nerve to subdue. In corroboraton OF
the sentiments which we have advanced
above, we add few extracts which we
fiul in contemporary taken from South
ern journals and to which we-inylte the
attention of our readers:
Mr.. George Fitzhugh, of Virginia,
speaking in support of legislation in ia
vor of the Arislocracy. thus attacks free
labor through the workingmen of Mas
sachusctts He says. ........, n. .
The present governing class in Massachu-
sctts are naturally the lower layer OF society.
They arc incapable offul6lling, for any length
Of time, any other Office than those belong
inr to that lower layer. They will soon sub
side into their proper position, and be glad
to get gentlemen, and conservatives, ami
scholars, and Christians, to rule over them,
while they 'hew the wood and draw the wa
ter These outbreaks of society. III which
the meanest get the uppcrmost VIII occa-
sionallv occur. But in the long run virtue
governs vice, intelligence governs ignorance,
religion controls infidelity. Let us OF the
South be patient, and wait for that process
Of qualification in Northern society, which
"lt u aa FINAL far Mcm to ride as it is for
49,. .p' ,nn - 70 be ridden. ''
,n -" p:.,..d u,o,n;o,,. srcaI;nn Of t,c
!N' n.""''''" $1,000, '',' =, ,to r.an s,,tns
. , saiI.
w., 'n,.t tol. away ,heir liberties at the
North, or they will destroy private property,
religion morns nas, s rye Wstnaes se Ha,3
.ncal;oa Of the Society of the free States,
said: W.,
freo society , m0 .eHo Of Of greasy meebans
;os fltbv operatives, small listed farmers and
moons struck theorists. The
prevailing clasS Jie te be- aenee and snail
farmers who do their own ,'ridgery, and yet
who are hardly fit for association with gen gen
'emah nan ao no'y in Se'i listen to leading Demo-
cratic paper of South Carolina which says:
Slavery is tho natural and norma ,a. Conli-
h hUn Tho great evil of Northern free