Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-06-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. RIGATs.
RICHMOND WING.
sArURDAY MORNING. JUNK a, 1854.
IN, sake and the Struggle.

The stake and the struggle.
spss Gain lifted his club against bis ulensDdpg
b,OAsr Abel ths world has Witnessed quarrel more
uojus. on the part OF the enemy one in which inter
ss more momentOus we're involved than that which We
are nov enEsged. Al the rights II nan, and even
civilization self IA al stake. party and people, IL
ssnot with all the brutal passions and all the vices with
which fallen human nature GUST seeks the sI.erninA
ton Of a race ecnfsssedly their superior in manhood,
10 morals, asd in Intelligence. IuPsled BY motives
Ss most sOrdd mbru.ed By nature snd GasPerased BY
defeat the North has The hsrdboOd to avow, in the Aee
of the Christian world is desire and its unFeentiDg
purpose TO destroy from the face OF The eath the white
population OF the sOuh and to replace the void thus
made by negro saves Incapable Of enlightened elevation
and Of proved inc'poeiy for self-gOve'nmenL The
AToxal Is a. brszsn the means BY which Il lie sought
10 be accomplished are asrdish. The eiVlEsd world
stands 6y with folded hsndP, TO see the helsh work
D. rlormed Il possible, 10 the very letter.
Three years experience Of all the Cruetes OF bar
barors Ear, and even the very roaring of the ensmy
cannon in cur ears do n6t enable to realize fully the
dreadful possibilities Of the struggle raging at our
Vsry wsla Cculd We take time &c thi-k, % remember
al shat has been done ard 10 group in one apPsias
uiours AL the horrors which would BE- enacted here
upOo this soil and in the midst Of this innocent people
in case our cause should fail still We should be M
able 10 appreciate the dread reality The mind refuses
70 entertain conception 20 mons.Fcus ard revolving
but elects as the healthy system casts forth morbid
substance from its tissues IL spite % the untold suffer
Jugs which We cave endured esnuOi force ourselves
70 believe at this devsh threat Of rational aunhia
siOn would really b. executed upon US. IOstnetvely
t.tIL hat sNa
should come upon rs - and albeit We eannO. plead
rhOy guiluess IN the eye CT the Omaiseiest. get We
oAnnot comprehend Why the should triumph over
tho better people snd tbs just cause.
No. We eAs neither comprehend believe that shis
evil ching Will coma to Pass. Iocr oWr rights and cur
individual happiness 4 nAs.oa were aions involved
We might perchancs give esederes to tia sad apple
hsus:oD But the whole enlightened world, Indifferent
as seems 70 fate, Is equally interested Wit Is in
the success Of this cause Could the tyranny nov
shsOned At Washington be perpeluisd, the Saen
COS % EaTopeaG civilization and to humanity itsef would
nos be lsss fatal than TO ourselves Az armed fanatic
with millions Of meree1aries bestsl a. himself, 4.
his beck and with rayY almost inVrcble, would ci,-
ta,e eraEy laws the Eatons and woe un.0 hem Sho
refused obedience. Toe lUs. Of power which had LED
hin to the conquest OF the Southern people, nadg al
tas more greedy and audacous by success would carly
bis arms into al lands whore promise Of spoil CT the
chance Of fAnatcAl reforms nigh. Tempt hin. Allied
uh Rassa, burning to avenge her defeats upon West.
ern IarOps, tie Aut)era. OF Aasriea would kno' 10
hnil TO bis lust Of wealth and Of territory. Peopa
gAndis Of the ds.enperei theories Of New England,
be would rest ultihs fAi5h OF FIaeuil HallSw's
acknowledged from Greenland 80 Terra del Fusgo Sid
Ihroug hous The isles Of the two TIE Bear
the Beast would divide the world, and between shst+c
- bstseen the upper and ncth;t. m:t9ns civil zaon
would be ground TO powder.
THIS, thea, is the gigantic stake; and not merely The
houses the lAnds the oertCs Of the southsrn Pecpe
Toe Struggle il pr0Pcrlioned the immensely Of the
ssiks We need not recount the history of ibS' st
ge daring the past three years, dwell upon the
age and ruthless spr with which the enemy has prts
slted this var The Whole Srli is familiar With the
terrible Story, aad NO who live in the midst OF it. "
and take per! in IL Of all people least able to
scribe is Oaly from dis is enormous prep
lions DO sakel in. Centuries hsne, when all the AGAR
th sir ehdreu grandchildren and great grand children
have passed away the historian viii write and the world
viii read with ave Of this mighty eOnsesi.
As tbs moneat the FINAL issue Of thu struggle is
psndng on tho historic fields Of tho ChiekahOminy The
long days OF early summer are too short for the fuzzy
Of me CONTESTANTS. HOar after hour passes, snd SSH
the amuls Of the eombA, is renewed. The thuader Of
cannon and the roll Of musketry rises high above al
Oher sounds The city ia shah By the reverberA.iou.
RsAEsnsl Wha: issues hang each dieting momen: =
Aud yet. how calm the people Tusir Eust is in God,
their leaders and their sOns dying BY for the
SA1ss They no. disnayet. Payeriufiy, hopefully,
they bids each tasolul Morrow.