The weekly union record., 1864-12-03
A Remarkable Article.

The following article is worthy of attentive
pergsal II was published in the Charlotles
vile (Virgiuial Review. IN April, 1861. before
Virginia had pass d her ordinance of secession.
In the ligh, Of pveseat events. the writer's
views seem almost prophetic:
The FIRE AND BLooD OF REvoLUrroS.-
That is the cue. They propose to give you s
taste of Mr.. Yancey's medicines. 1t will be a
nice little operation. Sowing whea, is nothing
10 marking time, and walking sentry at two
O'Clock in the night under drilling rain.
Shucking corn is is, compared to charge of
bayoDeis.
You will also make your arrangements 10
have your barn yards lii up at night with the
fires Of the revolution. Set your boots at the
head of the bed, for at any moment the same
fires mas be sputtering and cracking on the
roof of your dwelling house.
Glistening bsyonets On the south bank Of the
Potomac in front-burning straw ricks and
burning barns behind you-somethug worse
than that. perhaps, in the shape OF death pro-
duced By Invisible and uncomfortable agencies
the State deprived of its labor-those labor
ers escaping by hundreds, or sold at half their
value in the South-your fields unplowed-
your public works ruined-lani depressed 10 the
lowest fgure-Siate stocks insurance stocks,
bank stocks, railroad stocks. hawked at 8 mere
song-these would be the immediate effects Of
the FIRE aud Sword" which Gov. Wise pro
poses in bis speech al Norfolk.
A peaceabIe dissolution OF the Uuion is
sometimes suggested.
Let us allow that the result cond be effected
peaceably.
The next thing we should want would be G
Sta Tba Ahp E.i-
US three hundred thousand dollars. Make the
calculation.
You would maintain line Of posts all along
your frontier.
Yoa would also want a navy, though Norfolk
only produces few fishing smacks. except the
vessels built there by order of the Government
You would pay Southern PreSident-wiih
oil the ordinary Government officials. You
would pay diplomatic corps.
You would have TO pay for an independent
Senate and House Of Representatives, and for
a new Judiciary.
Perhaps you think all this would be readily
managed. They tell you, you are rich. We
tell you, that no purely agricultural people ever
was rich. The wealth of Philadelphia alone is
equal 10 the entire wealth Of the State Of
Virginia.
Take the Post Office alone The total
receipts from the Post Office in Virginia for
1857 and 5S were S242 ,95l; the expenditures
were S453S4S. III South Carolina, the receipts
were Sl0l Jas; the expenditures were S24S.
600 lu Alabama, the receipts were Sill ,092;
the expenditures were S24S. $50. In Mississippi
The receipts were S6S4 ASS; the expet ditures
were 1892 sos. In Arkansas, the receipts
were S35, 727 /; the expenditures were S244. $50
How is this deficiency made up now? Part
of it is made up thus: The receipts in the
State OF New York are SLABS, Ill the ex
penditures are Sl,l54lll. In Massachusetts,
the receipts are S565 ,633 the expenditures are
S435,237. In most of the Northern States
there is a deficit. But in all the Southern
States, the deficit is enormous. The whole
Northern deficit is some $500 000-the whole
Southern deficit is some S3000,000.
Suppose, however, the civil war disposed of.
Suppose the new Government established
Suppose US with our army, our navy, our forti
fcations. Suppose US to have survived the
shock with some slaves il, ii, ead our deprecated
lands. What then? We belong to Southern
Confederacy. The Gotten States begin an
agitation for the reopenirg Of the slave trade
or some coolie system. Our remaining negroes
are TO compete, if they succeed in their schemes
with the new labor. At all events, we are still
TO be a section-a section as regards the Cotton
States, which has no trade with the other sec.
tion. We are still to have sectional quarrels
There are still 10 be charges and counter
charges-aggressions and counter aggressions.
We have not conquered peace.
We have now two sections to plague US. On
the frontier we have to guard against the North.
On the South we have to meet the extreme
views of the Gulf States After o while, per
baps, Virginia would have lost her slaves. and
she, with Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri,
would be an anti slavery section in the Southern
Republic
If any one can fad a remedy iu Southern
Confederacy, we see with different eyes.