The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-04
REBELS.

II
We confess that in inyentng opprobIious epitbet,
OF the people OF the Coniederacy, the Yankees have
| succeeded in selecting which has ienomny
enough IN the idea 10 satisfy even their domoniae
| malice. Can more contemplate condition be in,-
aeIned III the world than which implies allie
glance 10 Yankees Rebels to them What must
We have been If We were their vassals!
There is nothing in the term itself which would
cause amy American modification. Our forefathers
OF the Old Revolution were all rebels. George Wash
ington WAS rebel The Yankees of '76 were. the
greatest Of rebels. They Acknowledged the fact and
glorIedin the title, They were the seed of English
rebels, Ut men who dethroned Charles the FIRST and
cut OH his head although he was better man than
their saints, and less of tyrant than Cromwell -
The rebellion of America was in fact gotten I'D bv
Yankees for the benefit of Yankee trade and OF the
Puritan religion. Virginia had no particular inter-
est and it would be better for her now If she had
never embarked in it.
But a man might acknowledge himself a rebel in
The war OF 20 without any personal degradation
II 1T implied that George the Third was our lawful
master, George the Third was at least a gentleman
We were his lawful subjects, beyond doubt we
never denied 1t. But under what law, or what cor
stitution, or what compact did We ever exchange our
allegiance to the British king for allegiance to
Yankee runaway! When and where did We traffic
OIL the sovereignty of gentleman for that of a
Diackguard! We gave our sovereignty to no man
or set OF men, least of ALL to the refuse OF the Br
tsh isleswho cleft their country for their country
good and came to America for freedom to worship
1od by hanging Quakers, drowning witches, and
alternately cheating and prosecuting mankind gem
orally.
Rebels We were in the Revolution but We came
out OF the Revolution free and independent States
acknowledged and recognized as such by our former
sovereign, George the Third, and so declared by the
American Constitution. How these sovereign
ana independent communities rebel against any
power on the face OF the earth We are not rebels
Not that we would blush to assume the title if il
were true; for ii fathers not ashamed OF it
when they had comparatively little for reyo-
luton, much less should we blush to own it under
such intoierable grievances we have suffered -
IN the first place. 1t is not true. and in the next
tue idea Of being rebels TO Yankees Is degradation
winch We wiii never sanction by any word or act OF
ihelr eager and glib application OF the term,
~heh rs not warranted by the facts, is in keeping
win the true character of political and social rre
tensions in all ages of the world The man or ,h.
party that Is always railing out against arstoeracy
Is sure 10 be the greatest istocrat at heart as is
always proved when they get the power The P,ui-
tans OF England. eaten up with envy of social rank
which they did not possess, and refractory under
every species OF authority, no sooner got to Ame-
rica than they set up masters socially, poti-
caly and religiously. When mental is translated
from the servants hall to the parlor, he is ready to
imagine that all the gentlemen in the neighborhood
belong to him. II is in just such spirit that the
Yankee descendants Of the Purtans are lavish in the
Application Of the term rebel to the Southern de-