The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-05-04
FROM THE SOUTH.
MISCEGENA 7ION CONSIDERED.
Results Of AHnalgamation.
rFrom ths Riohmond Dianaioh Anril la l

From the Richmond Dispatch, April IL.
The Yankee project of commingling their
breed with the African race is open to this
dreadful objection-What will become of the
Yankees? -
We feel assured they have never weighed
the awful consequences of such a catastrophc.
The Yankee race blotted out of existence!
They have threatened to exterlninate the
South. and behold, they are about to extermi-
nate themselves! Alas! what will become of
the cause of civilization, of humanity, of pro-
eress, without Yankees? What will the world
do for steam engines and wooden nutmegs,
philanthropic associations, and patent medi-
cines, puritanism and pumpkin pies, cuteness
and Goldfish, without Yankee Doodles?
Did that blessed Mayfover cross the wide
ocean for such an end? Was Pilgrim Rock
consecrated for such u superstructure? Did
the sanity Pilgrim Fathers fit out slave ships
FOR the coast of Africa, and sell the cargoes to
the South, with any idea that these sable
heathens were to be united in wedlock to the
descendants of the true believers? We wish
that their grim old spectres could revisit the
earth, aud receive the due reward of their
deeds in beholding the final result OF their
notable system for improving the morals, re-
ligion and politics of mankind.
1t is not for US to complain Of the great
loss which mankind at large must suffer from
the deprivation of Yankees. Three years of
self-denial have enabled US to dispense with
even such luxury as their companionship. We
find that, by dintofmanly fortitude and abstemi-
business, we can manage to exist without Har-
per, Beecher, Greeley, Everett, or any other
Of their works. But how can Yankeedom
give itself up in this wholesale suicide, immo-
late the memory of its ancestry, and slaughter
that manifest destiny which was to appropri-
otto tho whole onntInant Of AmPrIoa 70 the
Yankee race?
The Confederacy can luok with philosophy
cal composure upon this tIagical performance.
We are not to be astonished at this time of
day at any exhibition which Yankees may
make. After all the atrocities and diableric
which for three years we have beheld and
suffered, winding up in the effort to make a
bonfire Of a city of fifty thousand souls, we
are not to be amazed by any new wlckedness
which Yankee ingenuity can invent. Having
cohabited spiritually with the devil till their
souls have becom9 as black cs the ace of
spades, it is right and proper that they should
adopt some process by which their bodies will
approximate the complexion of their souls
Our only sympathy is with the sable medium
of this national transformation The polish
ing of Yankee boots, which has hitherto been
their chief occupation in the free States, will
now gre place to the polishing of the entire
Yankee nation, an achievement which no hu-
man power has yet been able to accomplish
A quarter of 4 century hence, the United
States bids fair to be an empire of mulattoes
inheritipg some improvement, perhaps, upon
its abolition blood; but a sad depreciation OF
the African stock, which, Ia its lowest thral-
dom, was never so dehased as when its erich
currents" commingle with the vile spawn OF
Black r epublicanism.