The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-14

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Has rsE WAR vISDIcATxD YANKEE
nsso,sns ii were possible that, amid
the din Of war, The calm voice Of reason
could be heard by Yankee ears, we
would invoke the Yankee nation, from us
Executive at Washington TO the meanes.
closllsopper OH the prairies, to lay ''s mana
upon its heart, or the place where tn"'
organ ought to be, and answer us what
real cause there is for its vociferoas exult-
alton over the late successes oil ITS arms
even conceding them to be successes, anu
What the world must think Of nation
which runs stark mad with delight be-
cause. after a war Of two years, and with
odds Of four TO one, it has sometimes
gained victory
Let us take an illustration which any
cledhopper can understand. Four big,
Muly fellows make an assault upon a
small man, and after long fight, in
which the plucky little fellow knocks one
or the other Of the ruffians down dozen
times. they succeed in flooring him once
or twice, and thereupon they set up
such a shout Of triumph as makes the
welkin ring, and appoint day of thanks
giving and prayer for their wonderful
success! Yankee, what in your Utmost
xonl-or in the place where soul ought
10 bc-would you think OF those four
Would not their very exultation be glo.
ryine in their shame? Would not their
wells Of triumph be actually tribute to
the courage Of their enemy, and confes-
sion of their own inferiOrity?
We have never believed that slavery
had rs much to do with this war as per.
sOpal resentment and vindictigeness,
transmitted from generation to genera
zion. smouldering embers Of the old Cava.
lier and Puritan feuds, which had never
died out. The descendants Of those two
classes in the North and the South
would have gone TO war, sooner or later,
if such thing as slavery had never ex.
listed. We do not include all the North
in the Puritan, any more than all the
South IN the Cavalier classification, but
that is the predominant element in each.
slavery is but the occasion Ofthe strife, and
its real provocations are the envy, malice,
hatred. and all uncharitableness, which
have characterized the department o.
Puritanism towards its political and &c
clesiastical superiors from the beginning
OF its existence.
Perhaps. of all the barbed weapons
cast on both sides before this war, none
has ranked SO deeply in Puritan hearts
AS the impntation Of cowardice. ltmat.
tered not that the imputation was not
generally cast upon the North by South
crn men, and that there were many OF
as who emphatically vindicated their
character from the charge. But they
never forgave it, and We verify believe
that second only, If second at all, to the
intense ianaticism Of abolitionism, was
the burning desire of the Northern PEG.
ple to clear their escutcheOn OF the blot
Sf cowardice and achieve renOwn for
chivalry and progress in arms.
Now, we ask them in all .soberness II
they think they have succeeded? We,
for one, never doubted their courage up
to the period Of this war. We always
entertained as profound conviction that
Cromwell and his followers were bold
men IS that they were bad men. We
had often dwelt with pride upon the ex-
plOits Of Northern naval commanders in
the Revolution and the late war. But
this struggle this uprising Of the giant
against the dwarf! this huge Titan, hurl-
ing rocks not against the gods, but against
"A defenceless dweller in the plains, and
calling upon all the powers Of earth and
hell to aid him in the contest-call you
this chivalryg or, even if he should sue
coed, glory?
What have they done? They began
by vociierating in the halls of Congress
that eighteen millions of people could
easily crush eight Is that their concep
ton of ~chivalry They were not salts
lied with the vast numerical preponder
ance. but they secured the earth for re
Inducements, filing their armies will
lrishmen and Germans to establish Yam
kee courage! They have called into tn
tield. from first to last, more than mil
lion Of men. They had at the start al
the regular army; all the old navy al
the machinery and mechanism of war
all the shipping Of the country; all tn
workshops, manufactures, and commerce
besides access for men and munitions o
war to all the nations Of the earth, willis
we, with none Of these advantages, hav
been shut out from all nations. Surely
with such odds in their favor, whateve
else their success in this war nigh
prove, it would never vindicate tina
which they are most eager to establish
Yankee pluck and prowess.
What have these people to 'brag of
They never gained victory which wa
not gained by the most enormous supe
aiority 10 numbers and appliances of war
Their boosted General, Grant, at Donel
son and Vicksburg, what did he do, but
alter the most laborious and protractet
efforts, with the gunboats and resources
Of the whole United States, added to
land force Of three to one, overcome |
feeble and poorly equipped band Of he
roes, who ct last surrendered not to hin
hut 10 starvation? Is it such achievement
rs these that make the Wellingtons o
Napolaons Of the world? What natiol