The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-02-15

Ssen. Jeekssa and ne Biaek Fiaa.
The declaration Of Gen. Jackson In the be
ginning Of the war In favor Of raising the
Black Flag, recently mentioned by Governor
Letcher In his speech In Danvillc, so al
from detracting from his reputation for hui
manity, was unqucstionably dictated by the
conviction that such course would bring
the war TO speedy termination, by striking
terror TO the foe aud compelling the inter
petition Of foreign powers to put q speedy
termination to the contest. No man moro
thoroughly understood the character OF this
contest as wagcd by the North, and the
character of the people by whom 1t is waged,
than Gen. jackson. He looked upon 1t as
essentially Johr Brown raid, headed BY q
man who resembled John Brown in every
thing but courage. If the perpetrators OF
the John Brown raid deserved death, 80 did
the Black Republican gang who took up
their enterprise, almost on the spot where
they atoned for It with their lives. II there
was any difference in the criminality OF the
enterprise, II was not in favor of Lincoln and
his myrmidoms, who had in view the same
objects OF universal devastation and robbery,
hid under the convenient pretext OF vindica.
ting the laws, and who committed outragcs
at the very start more hidcous and abomi-
nable than any John Brown ever proposed.
Gen. jackson, We say, thoroughly under
stood the purpose Of this wa, and the char
acter Of the people by whom 1t is carried
on. The confiscaiion acts Of Congress, the
proclamation of Lincoln, and the legal expo
sition of the case by Mr.. Solicitor Whiting,
show what that purpose is. Elated by tenn
porary successes, all disguise is now thrown
of, and instant submission, or death and
universal confscatioD, are the avowed OBJ
jects of the Government. There has never
been any other design from the beginning.
Having plundered the South by banks, ia
riffs, and fishing bounties, the North delibe-
ratelyrcsolved to cut open the goose that
had laid the golden eggs, and therefore drew
the sword. 1t was tired Of living in its cold
climate and barren soil; It had cropped short
the heritage of the Western prairies it had
looked long enough upon our uninterrupted
enjoyment of moderate climate and com.
Portable homes, and it resolved to walk in and
take possession. 1t must have pretext, Of
course; there always is pretext for great
national crimes, and abolition and Union
saving were reasons enough to rouse the
Northern masses Of all political compilations
But since the Eruption of the Northern
hordes, upon the plains of Europe there has
been no clearer case Of national highway
robbery and murder than this North Ameri.
can invasion Of the South, and Gen. Jack
son, who saw this from the beginning. pro-
posed to treat them as highway robbers and
murderers deserve to be treated. 1t was, in
point of fact, the North that, by the inau-
guration of such war, had first raised the
Black Flag, and Gen. Jackson only proposed
to fight with their own weapons nation
which had deliberately discarded all the laws
of civilized warfare.
What flag is it-certainly not the flag
which Christian nations of modern times
carry in their combats-which waves over
the houses of peaceful citizens burned to
the ground, Of agricultural implements &C.
stroyed, of helpless women insuIted and out
ragged, Of non-combatants dragged from their
homes and thrust into noisome dungeons
What flag is it which waves over those
Northern Bastiles where our gallant Con
federate soldiers pine in Indebtedness, to
which death is q relief; and where they
are piled with cruelty to compel them
to take an accursed cath? What is that
but the Black Flag in its most Internal form?
What difference between killing the soldier
outright on the field Of battle and putting
him to death By inches in the horrid prisons
Of Chicago, Columbus, Alton, Fort Della
ware, Fort McIIenry, and Point Lookout,
except that the latter is the more cruel,
wicked, and devilish? What but the Black
Flag Is the policy determined upon by
the Black Republican Congress, of arming
the slaves against the South; of seizing
the property, real and personal, of every man
and woman in the South who docs not in
stantly bow the knee and cry Or pardon ;
which resolves TO seize every acre of land in
the South, every article Of household fuini-
ture, every horse, COW, sheep-cverything of
CNCIy hluu tl1e w CNSAJ WuitC uu-
man being in the Contederacy, and turn
them, their owners, out of doors, homeless,
helpless, hopeless begears to conslgn their
children TO the same fate, and to erect gal
lows in every city, town, and cross roads,
from which to swing such rebels as have made
themselves conspicuous in resisting "the
most mild aud merciful Government under
the SUM-" Gen. Jackson, whose keen saga
city was equal to his hcroism, saw at the
very outset this blacklist Of all Black Flags
Tying, os we see it now, and therefore he
was in favor of meeting it with another
Black Flag at the Threshold, and showing
the robbers aud murdcrers at once that ii
they gained their blood and booty they would
have to do 1t at the peril of every mans life
who engaged in that Satanic undertaking.
With equal clearness Of insight, the great
departed patriot detected the weak points
OF the enemy, and the most efficient mode of
operating upon their intense seliishness.-
They had long represented the Southern peo-
pie as high-tcmpered, ferocious, and bully
ing race, who could only be controlled by
fighting them as men would fight wolves and
tigers. When they found the South, in the
face Of the most unparalleled outnges,
steadily refusing to retaliatc, they ascribed
it at once to c0wardice and redoubled their
atrocities Thor eeauf a9 tho ;Aaa that a.,