The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-10-25
A REMARKABLE ARTICLE.
ssThe Fire and Blood OF the Rev
OLtztiOn-''.--IprOphcsy being
Fulfilled


tion of the following to every reader.
1t was published under the above title
in the Charlottesville (va.) Reviev, in
April, 1861, before Virginia had passed
her ordinance of secession. In the light
ofpresent events the writer's views seem
almost prophetic:
THE FIRE AND BLOOD OF THE REvoLU-
That is the cue. They propose to
give you taste of Mr.. Yancey's medi.
cines. it will be nice little operation.
Sowing wheat is nothing to marking
time, and walking sentry at O'Clock
in the night, undera drizzling rain.
Shucking corn is fiat compared to q
charge of bayonets.
You will also make arrangements
to have barn-yards lit up at night with
the fires of the revolution. Set your
boots at head of the bed, for at any mo-
ment the same fires may be sputtering
and cracking on the roof of your dwell
ing house. s..,.,.
Glistening bayonets on the south bank
of the Potomac in front, burning straw
racks and burning houses behind you,
something worse than that, perhaps, in
the shape ofdeath produced by invisible
and uncomfortable agencies, the State
deprived of its labor-those laborers es-
Gaping by hundreds, sold at half their
value in the South, your fields unplow-
ed, your public works ruined, land de-
pressed to the lowest figure, State
stocks, insurance stocks, bank stocks,
railroad stocks, bawked at mere song,
these would be the immediate effects
of the :" Fire and Sword" which Gov
Wise proposes in his speech at Norfolk.
a peaceable dissolution of the Union
is sometimes suggested.
Let us allow that the result could be
effected peaceably,
The next thing we shonld want would
be standing army. The John Brown
affair cost us three hundred thousand
dollars, Make the calculation.
You would maintain q line ofposts all
along your frontier.
You would also want navy though
Norfolk only produces few fishing
smacks, except the vessels built there
by order of the Government.
You would pay Southern President,
with all the ordinary Government Off
cials.
You would pay a diplomatic corps.
You would have to pay for an indepe.
ndent Senate and House of Represent
atives, 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 to the entire wealth ofthe State OF
Virginia.
Take the Postofices alone. The total
receipts from the PostoGices in Virginia
for l857-'5S were S242, ,95l; the expen-
ditures were S453,84s. IL South Car
olina the receipts were slol,l45; the
expenditures 22s,600. In Alabama
the receipts were 1902; the expendi-
lures were 524S,750. In Mississippi
the receipts were $SS,45S; the expendi-
tares were $332,508. In Arkansas the
receipts were e35, ,727; the expenditures
were S244,599. How is this deficiency
made up now? Part of it is made up
thus: The receipts in the State of New
York are 81, ,438,7ll; the expenditures
are 81 ,l54,I41. In Massachusetts, the
receipts are S565,63 the expenditures
are S435,23 In most of the Northern
States there is deficit. But in all the
Southern States the deficit is enormous.
The whole Northern deficit is some
Ss0O,OOo. The whole Southern deficit
is some s3,ooo,0oo. aa
Suppose, however, the civil war dis
posed of Suppose the Government es-
tablished. Suppose us with our army,
our navy, our Notifications. Suppose
us to have survived the shock with some
slaves left, and deprecated lands.--
What then? We belong to Southern
Confederacy. The Gotten States begin
an agitation for the re-opening of the
slave trade or some Coolie system.
Our remaining negroes are to com
pete, if they succeed in their schemes,
with the new labor. At all events, we
are still to be n section-a section as
regards the cotton States, which has no
trade with the other section. We are
still to have sectional quarrels. There
are still to be charges and counter-char.
ges, aggressions. We have not conqu.
cred peace.
We have now two sections to plague
us. On the frontier we have to gusrd
against the North. On the South we
have to meet the extreme views of the
Gnlf States. After a while, perhaps,
Virginia would have lost her slaves, and
she, with Kentucky, Maryland and Miss.
ouri, would be an anti-slavery section in
the Southern Republic.
If any one can find a remedey in a
Southern Cenfederacy, we see it with
different eyes.
~ Was not that good hit Of Sam.
Cary's when he said; " If a traitor
strikes down the American flag, Gen.
Dix says shoot him on the spot but
Gen. Mcclellan says Exhaust all the
resources of statesmanshipto persuade
(?) him to lift it up again y This cad.
led out such storm of Indignation as
shook Old Mozart to its foundation.
The following is the home vote in
SAM Cox's district in 1862 and 1864
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