Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-01-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RIGHTs.
RICHMOND WING.
RTHURSDAY MORNING, JAN. Il, is
Promise and Performance.

When the began, everybody PROGRESSED 70 DO Wilt
;ue TO Law down life and give up property in behalf of
the cause Now, few appear to be willing to part with
either although the MONDAY sun is not palmer than the
fact that without great additional sacrifices the army
cannot be sustained and the cause must fail The fear
of ting killed or wounded threatens TO reduce all OF
u, to slavery and the fear of starvation, added to the
us. of gain may produce famine in the army II not
at home A little less flight and more common sense
we will not say patriOtsm-may compose these dii
culties and shO# US a pathway out of the bog INTO
which We have fallen.
Make il question Of selfinterest at once, and look
at il in that way alone. Shall we give a part TO our
suffering sons in the army, let the Yankees take al
That Is the problem, no. Overstated, and not to DO
evaded We must meet it now. 1t will not do 10 put
it Of till mex. year or even next Spring. 1t must be
faced right away II de your pork, keep back yout
corn tell lies about your profits dodge cut Of the army,
and continue this merry game fof few brief months -
aud the Yankees will cat your hogs and your corn,
your negroes will occupy your house, and you viii be
runaway white man in the woods, conscript in Lit
colns army. Your wife and daughters will be washing
Yankee clothes. Your little children will be working
thirteen hours a day in Yankee factories.
You smile derisvey at this sort Of talk for you fancy
Yourself too smart even for the Yankees. You say to
yourself They are not fool enough to set all the ne
gross fee; they will be obliged to keep them as sp-
prentce and if they do their former maste viii have
control of them for they alone can manage them.
Say nothing OF the infinite baseness OF accepting, even
in thought the place of Overseer TO Yankee masters,
this is the very error of the noon. 1t is stone blind
ness; the faulty Of cOvardce and avarice combined.
waa. man possessed OF eyesigbt and capable OF
reading The newspapers does know that day by day
the radicals gain more and complete control Of
the Lrcoln administration and of the Northern PEG.
pie! Their power is now absolute, and their slogan
Death to slavery" The greater their success, the
more falacal they become Suppose they triumph In
war against slavery, is it likely they will voluntarily
slu,tify themselves by continuing the existence Of
slavery Look at Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Ten
nesse,
l. possible slavery might be retained in the Cotton
States by the Yankees But in the border States is is
doomed If they succeed Every inch of land in these
States will be demanded in the name Of d" free soil,
which never yet demanded aught in vain at the hands
OF any party at the North and certainly not Of the
Republicans. See the promise Of farm in Tennessee
to ea,h veteran volunteer who reenlists for the
Remember the vast debt the Yankees have to pay
Think Of the honesty, mercy, humanity they have dis
played hitherto.
But What will they do with the border State negroes
Free them rst use thempex to torment the quered
Conederates and then permit them 10 die that swift
aud inevitable death which whenever an injector
stands in the way of a superior race Make theh ek-
terminate themselves in the hopeless struggle to com
pete with their cuanng 6erce and greedy berators.
Any way any how, drive them from the soil which the
white man can till with his own hands. Why should
the black nan fare better than the red man? pet in
slavery he becomes rival Oppone t,When free, and
IN the tumultuous tide Of competition the iron pot will
crush the esrthen jug There is no help for it. The
winds that blew the waters that roll the ineXble laws
Of nature compel it.
These things We say again, are plain as the sun at
day Take asay the negroes of the border Safes
and who shall till the soly Not the former master,
surely. The conquered rebel may think to hold his
by cheap oath Of allegiance, but that little trick
viii 10. deceive the Yankee veteran volunteer who
wants farm or the Yankee .OTernmen. which wan s
money. To the victor belong the spells.
Begsary and exile will be our fate if we fater now.
We can't eat our cake and have it We caG't wage a
var without loss The time has come now TO make
good early promises Half loaf is better than 20
bread, with Punishment or slavery TO boot.