The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-12-22
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phens, eXultInSly, IT not lrreverently. IN
his Savannah speech in vindication OF the
Southern Confederacy. He alluded to the
fact that the American Revolution was
based on the Equal Rights of All Men,
while the Contederacy was as distinctly
founded On he rightfulness and benefcence
of Slavery. Herein he distinctly and
truly cohtrdsted the Revolution of &c and
that Of '61.
MIR. Stephens utterance resembles an
oracle from ancient Delphi, in that it is
found to mean much more than was orig
inally suspected or ever intended. Sambo
the blubber-Iipped, the crooked-shinned,
the nky-haired, the cbony-hued, was the
stone rejected by til. builiers of the
Shareholders Confederacy, yet they find
themselves unable to get on without him.
Not merely in the corn-feld aud the
trenches, where his merits were early and
fally admitted, but in the bivouac aud the
battle field, .'the Irrepres>ibie Niger"
insists on being recognized and hunorably
placed. Chivalry takes objection to his
sinuous shanks, his cavernous mouth, his
extensive feet; tut Chival-y is in straits,
and Necessity hath no law, aad even less
taste. So Chivalry forces down its rising
gorge, coEquers its prejudices, aud adopts
the easy, unsentimental philosophy OF
Private Miles O'ReilIy.
Not that the dose is relished-there is
no pretcnse of that. \ Spanish proverb
athrms that men may ego out for wool, and
come in shorn;" and to plunge into a
revolution for the aggrandisement and
perpetuity OF Slavery, and be obliged to
call on the slaves to help fight you cut Of
1t, is clearly IL the same category. The
Rebellion is based on the assumption that
Slavery is the Divine'y appointed and
most beneficent condition o. the Negro !;
yet Slavery is to be pitched overheard in
the desperate hope of thus saving the
Rebellion. That not only Sambo out
Dinah as well should spend their lives in
hoeing, picking, and ginning cotton, is
Dixie's Golden Rule; yet the Cotton-Geld
lies fallow while Sambo is endued with a
musket and put through his facings as the
only chance lett for beating back the
cowardly, unwarlike, inefficient Yankees
False pretense was never SO glariugly
exposed to the worlds ridicuie
True, the Rebellion still shivers on the
brink Of Negro rHing, foreseeing and
recoi.iug from the fury it will excite; yet
the end is no less clearly in sight. South
Carolina protests, and will mutter dissent
till she realizes that she must either give
up Slavery alone, or Slavery and the Re-
5ellion together; then will decide to throw
one darling to the sharply pursuing wolves,
in the dubious hope of thereby saving the
other. But Virginia and Georgia are
willing, while Louisiana has already gone
ahead. She has raised several Negro
regiments while the rest were discussing g
the propriety or doing so. And it is evi-
IDENTIFY but question of time with all her
Rebel sisters. Each will hold out while
it car, and come in when it must.
The device of concealing all but the
thin end o. the wedge deceivcs no one
"You mean Emancipation - cxclaim the
hang backs. "Well, we do mean that all
who serve faithfully in our armies shall
thereafter be free!' is the hesitating
reply. "And their wives and children %
fercely queries Conservatism. "Nell,
they will have to share the fortune Of their
husbands and fathers" ''And their pa
rents, brothers, and cousins 2" is asked
still more fiercely. awe can't say; the
States must determine" s.Then why not
leave the hole matter to the unprompted
action of the States ?'' is yet more conf
IDENTITY inquired. "Because the Coniederacy
is at its last gasp, and cannot stand on a
pnnctilio 1t must do what it must, and
do it forthwith, or all is over"
Yet there is hesitation to arm, because
there is doubt as TO the ultimate effect. To
arm is easy; to disarm, impossible; and
there is great doubt as to which way the
guns will be pointed when the triggers are
to be pulled by negroes. One of them
AYERS that most OF his people will start at
once for the Union lines another thinks
they will turn and fire two or three shots
at the gray backs in their rear before
starting. Either hypothesis is plausible.
Jefferson Davis evidently feels that
Negro-Arming must proceed, or he would
not have recommended the recruiting of
Forty Thousand choice blacks for pioneer
service in his armies. But this is evidently
simulated reluctance, which hopes and
expects to be overcome. One more grave
defeat will set the whole Confederacy eager
for negro eoldiers-the more tn. better.
And then the Rebellion will be very near its
miserable end.