Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-04-15
From Wilkes Spirit of the Times of March 2sth.
THE sUH.soUTHERN REVOLUTION.

From Wilkes Spirit of the Times of March esth.
THE sUB-soUTHERN REVOLUTION.
The rallyIng of patriotic citizens into loyal
leagues, and the open affiliation of no sttle
| party leaders in a common cause, is a whole-
some indication for the country. 1t marks
the limit of the rebel hopes, and leaves no:
thing outside the general swing and action OF
the n orth, but small particles of hate and utter
treason. In recognizing this fact, it is no,
| proper we should undervalu the aid which
has recently been rendered by the adhesion
of those long time sulen chiefs who have
| been associated prominently with the Demo
cratic party nor, at the same time, fail to
| recognize the fact that the ever loyal and al
ways warlike instincts of the masses of that
| party have furnished the underlying pressure
| which has forced those magnates into their
new attitude. Always ahead of their officers
they were the first to discover and to clearly
understand the true cause and motive of this
Southern plot; and now being fairly on the
track of its infamous intentions, they will be
| very apt to visit it with enduring chastise-
mont, as we'll as with suppression. Error,
however extreme, appeals to the forgiveness
OF the noble; bnt conscious wickeduess and
deliberate crime must undergo penalties
along with their humiliations, in order to
| render just compensation to the outrages
they have inflicted on society.
Two years ago we took the liberty, as ap
humble member Of the ?, ,rty, to warn our fell
low-Democrats against the artful ontcries
which some OF their pretended leaders raised
against the war; and endeavored to show
them that, instead OF the crisis having been
sprung upon us by an indignant people strik-
ing for thei. rights, i. was deliberate South
ern plot for the constitution of an aristocracy.
and the entire subverson of the Democratic
principle. That it was simply the revolt of
set of barons, who, through the arrogance OF
a speca institution, which made hem not
only lords OF the soil, but lords also of the
labor which msde it TEEN and thrive, be-.
lieved themselves to be ga master race and
faDced that the time had come Tor them to
prove it. The masses for a while un-
willing to believe that such an execrable
scheme could have been deliberately medl-
tated; they had been taught to regard the
Southerner as OF specially generous and
chivalric nature and they were told, more
over, by insidious demagogues, who had DO
htical contacts and exchanges with these
lords, that certain commercial prime iples,
which were held in common, made Demo-
Gratis the natural allies of the South. BY
slow degrees, however, the leaven of the re-
volt worked out, and through such decara-
tons, As that sscapital should always own
labor" and that call labor is dangerous,
whether white or black" uttered with marked
appreciation in the Confederate Senate, 0he
Democracy Of the North began to understand
that this base revolt was aimed mainly at
themselves. They then saw Mr.. Stakeholder
in new light. Instead of the courteous
cavalier, whose liberal hand found constant
occupation in scattering his easily earned gold
about our summer thoroughfares, they recog-
nized him as the aspir ing and supercIlious
aristocrat, who had seized upon one half the
country, shut il up from white competition,
and assigned its rich labor market entirely to
the black. Nay, more they not only |
that the super-abounding labor of the North |
was iDvidiously debarred from this inviting |
section, but that it was disdained as being |
baser even than the black, aud babe to keep
its confines in nation by itself, while "the
master race'' had dominion of its own.
No wonder then that the Democracy have
at last come right side up in this momeutous
struggle that they have directed their
to proclaim them thoroughly en-
tered for the fight. They know it now to be
especially their task, and all invidious outside
lookers-on may as well resign themselves at
once to the conclusion that the job of subj.-
CATION will be thoroughly well performed.
rhe vain declaration that the rebels never can
be conquered, Is worthy only of derision. All
The great races have been conquered; Egypt
an, Greek, Roman, Sclavs, Saxon, Celt and