The mountain Democrat., 1863-11-21
From the New Hampshire States atd unions
Kinks COnscript Pens.
The man who has been sent from n


The man who has been sent from Mas
sachusetts into this State to see to "catch-
ing" and "takipg care of conscripts,
and whose august and sublime presence
graces the capital of New Hampshire, has
been engaged, with large retinue Of sub
alterns, in constructing huge pen upon
the fair grounds in which to confine men
who were most unfortunately born white,
upon our soil and have hitherto been sup
posed-foolishly-to have some rights
worthy of respect among their fellow men.
This pen Of Kinks is constructed of wood,
well secured and picketed with irons 1t
is several feet high, and bears strong
EyesemS..Ncc 80 those imaginary pens
which the Abolitionists have been telling
about for several years as scattered all
over the South for securing the poor
downtrodden slaves. How pathctically
they have talked and wept crocodile tears
over the miseries Of these slave pens of
the South. uow they have stirred up
the feelings of our people. How they
have expatiated in the pulpits and ros-
trums and through the newspaper press
upon the horrors of humanity incarcera-
ted like impounded beasts, down in Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas. They have
turned the world upside down and con-
structed literal hell upon earth with it's
lurid fires glaring defiance to Heaven all
on account of subject matter of which
they were as ignorant as an unborn child.
They have sneaked into the churches, in
to the parlors, drawing-rooms, nurseries,
boudoirs and sculleries, crept into the
prayer meetings and sewing circles, de-
fled the Creator and dcsecrated the best
of his works, all about the slavery and
slave pens of the South. They beiooled
one.third of the people and elected an
Abolition President who never received q
single vote in ten States Of the Union,
because his platform was declaration of
war upon sovereign States, and upon
their clear constitutional rights, as ex-
pounded by the Supreme Court. They
got up this war, deluged the land with
blood, and converted our heritage offree-
dom and equal rights into huge Golgo-
tina of human skulls. Now they are
building slave pens for our white citizens,
binding them in manacles and thrusting
them in like hunted beasts, because they
have no business to be white unless they
have three hundred dollars to pay for the
luxurious privilege. Kinks thinks he is
doing smart thing. He is Massachu-
sets scurvy politician, educated in the
Jacobinical school of Sumner and Garri-
son, in mental capacity a plebian, in
physical manners fiunkey. He is our
New Hampshire slave driver imported
for this special occasion, under the aus
pices Of our Gilmore administration. He
strides our capital like gorgeous Colos-
sus, and no free citizen, or no citizen
heretofore considered free, has the right
to ask "Why do We so ?" 1t is part of
the war policy, the military necessity of
the federal administration to overthrow
the free States Of the North in order to
subjugate the slave States of the South,
to make conscript slaves of our own
white citizens in the great work of giving
"freedom to the negroes ofother States.
The work goes bravely on and Kinks
conscript pen is receiving its Victims
! Detachments have been sent from this
city during the past week to swell the
solemn throng. And still they come
These ample acres where cattle and hogs
were wont to be displayed to gaping, in
telligcnt crowds in times just past, are
now the arena Of different kind Of ex.
hibition, with an enticing premium of hu,
man blood as the only stimulant for COM
petition.
Granting for the moment, all the pre-
tended necessities Of the Conscription, we
have the right to demand that our citi-
zens who are forced to take upon them.
selves the dangers of the war, shall be
treated like men having human feelings
and emotions, and not like brutcs or gal
ley slaves. But we hear no word of pro-
test from any administration satrap. No
administration newspaper has breath Of
fault to find. The shoddy contractors,
official plunderers and thieves, look on,
and like the Pharisee thank God that
they are not as the poor conscript, but
they fast twice q week and give tithes of
all they possess, sublimely inspired with.
in their halls of damask, with walls fes-
TONED from the fruits of plunder at the
South. What has become of that vast
exuberance Of human compassion and
sympathy which throbbed their bosoms
in behalf of the happy and contented ne
groes of the plantation ? 1t still runs in
frothy channels, the pestiferouS malaria
of the land, the brave mans scourge, the
patriots hate, the bane of liberty, the
curse Of humanity. Until this is check
ed, dried up forever. there is no hope for
our country or our race.