The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-01-19
THE FATE OF CONQUERED NATIONS

THE FATE OF CONQUERED NATIONS
Under the above caption, the Richmond Exam
liner publishes lengthy articles picturlng,
with truth and force, our condition as conquered
people if, unhappily, such should be our fate. We
make short extract from the Examiners articles:
A Senator from Texas, the other day, sketched,
with rapid touch, and in impetuous way, the
: life of an compressed nationality" Coniscation,
Tneanng the entire deprivation of all property of
every kind; Subjugation, meaning foreign garri
cons, guards passports at every town,-with an adj
,dnonal tint of darkness TO suit the supposed case
OF subjugaion i" certain country that we wot ot)
-namely, those guards, garrlsons, passport 9TH
GERS, &c ali c,.1red GtGcE. Some persons may
have ma nea mat the Senator'S gram portraIture
is exaggerated Dy the warmth Of an excited imaS-
sinatIoD. Matters could never, they s1rmlse, be
altogether bad that On the contrary, his
sketch is faint and pale; correct indeed so far
it goes but needing to be filled up by thousand
details Of horror if we would comprehend the fear
,iui reality Of lost cause and conquered people.
Some weak minded persons, we are sorry to
learn, still soothe themselves with the idea that, If
the worst shall come, we should but be reduced TO
the present condition of Kentucky Missouri; in
which there has been as yet no sweeping con6sca-
ton of estates absolute determination of peo-
pie; and they fonGly imagine that, if the
country should fall entirely under the power of the
yankee nation, still the property and the rights OF
them (the weak minded persons) might still be,
somehow, saved harmless by sort of base
oaths and pledges of "loyalty" to the masters.
So dreamed many of the Irish before the capituia-
ton OF Limerick and disbaudment or exile of the
national forces It not till after that event,
when the island lay really in the condition Of
conquered country, shat the code of "penal laws
began to be enacted There was then army in
the held to which men, eoaded by oppression,
could fly for refuge and for vengeance The war
over, and only its fruits remained to be gath
cred
Now, the Yankee enemy has hitherto forborne
from applying the law OF CONQUEST to Kentucky
and OTTER border States simply because he knows
that t0osc States not YET conquered The
(thauk God!) is not over. Our Confederate
mics still on foot, aud on the banks OF the Ra-
pid Ann, and in the gap of thickanauga, not only
guard Virginia aud Georgia. but also postpone in
definitely the fate Of Kentucky aud Maryland IT
the enemy should now prematurely put in force
the policy Of confocation and prescription in those
States, the effect would be only to send their young
men troopng to Gen. Lee aud Gen. Johnston. it
must be only after the submission Of the whole
land-if eyes should ever that evil day
that the yankee nation eau begin to parcel it out
reward for the soldiers. No matter what might
be the guarantees, treaties amnestes capitula-
tions, under which we should have laid down our
uIne, PlCteA'o "oulu pS lLSGiutIl iouuu eva
ding them ALL as in the cases OF the Vienna and
Limerick treaties. No treaty between victor and
Tanquished ever binds the former; and unless
are TO suppose in the yankee nation super
human virtue, some angelic purity and benisnity,
some grandeur of soul heretofore unexampled we
may be sure that they would proceed generally
the Russians and the English did; with, perhaps,
some ingenious additions: for our neghbors are, an
inventive people.
They would need all their ingenuity, however,
If they wished to improve much upon the methods
esewhc tried with such success. The grand OBJ
ject to be obtained in such cases is always uniform;
1t is to appropriate the lands and goods OF the sub
ject people, and to make their industry subservi-
ent to the profit Of their masters The means,
therefore, are toletably uniform aso the means
are to invent ever aud more and more hunil-
laDS tests and oaths, such fail to excite
local lnsurrectlCns and conspiraces-then to crush
these with brutal rgor, and afterwards reap the
harvest In plumber To carry out this process with
safety, 1t is heedlul to take the pluck Of the
subject people, by disarmng them carefully, and
thus killing in them the spirit Of men. Also, to
take into the hands Of 'government' the whole
education OF the young, in order that the school
books given them to read may carefully conceal
the fact that they once had country, and how it
was lost here in the supposed, our school
books and teachers would come all from Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut.
RETAL1ATIoN.--A few days ago We gave an &C.
count of the murder of a member of the C2d Geor