Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-12-24
YANKEES AND TREIR D0IEG3, As VIEWED BIT
AM RNQIJsMAN

YANKEES AND fhElh OoAnu5, 40 VIEWED bl
AN ENGLISAlN.
,,ao, frou, the Correspondence (om New York; Of Mr.
ssls with the LoIdOp Telegraph, Cot. 7, Isea1
Ihsye from tine to time h,o q No:s 10 say about
the Reverend B. c1eT en- ths Reverend Oneevsr and
the Ieat of the var parsons"-tbe men who below
orth the most furious and the most saDguinary nveo.
lives against their brethren In the South, have not
fined myself to mere assertion. have fort ID
my words By quoting the language which these men
have uaed l nave gwen you extracts from p.oeseed.
IV religious periodical AID nov for the Lass time for
am siok of the sorry lAbcr-leavng to the unbiased
Judgment Of ny readers TO decide whether have
osen riRht or wrong in the manner in which have
myself OF M taskI will tote the views
iusS put forth in leading article by the Boston Re-
coTdes an osensibly religious class PIPER, edited BE-
eIsrfymen, and O. Toying O very large cr0fAtion-+
cae Rsoordr alipdss TO the "dinger" to which the
LOYAL horIh is xposed from sesh desires or peace
and from being ZOO ready to take Divine prerogs.
tive of forg Yel ess uIo our own hsnds, 40 if WeIe
m re m.Iclal than God, and pardon those dreadful
off naers whom the Lord In mercy to posteTity has
deferred 10 No 70 punish and Destroy In support Of
!hs comfortable theory OF religious ouiy the Recorder
ci;es as "a lesson which American OhrRtiaEs should
not forget at such crisis this, the example OF
Saul, Wlo, having been commanded by the voice Of
re Lore, speaking thrCuga samuel the prophet, 10
go and unite Amatki aud utterly destroy all that
hsy have and spare them not but siay both man and
4oman, In ant and suollrg OK and shoep, camel and
ass had been rejected from being king over srae"
beo.use he ;ook Agsg, the king of the Amaekitee,
alive instead of kIifg him, enc because he allowed
the soIdCrs Gf she Jewish Amy to "spare the best OF
tas sheep and oIen under pretence OF reservng them
Tor sacrhcs Instead OF Destroying them utterly, so-
oord to be literal terms OF the commission he had
received hon the Almighty,
T.,s nss # I'M Boston-lrom the modern Athena
..--,, SHariea," from the Hub Of the
Z. c,y adorned by the presence and
rsuder,u IassNla ny sns noIlecuAl labors OF Lonk.
EaIov and Lowell, OF AgAssz and Holmes, OF Whit
ter and Whpple Tbisis fro Boston, In the year OF
gr,ce, eighteen hundred ard slxtyfour, and Is vac
srtten probably by gentleman a.tired in nodern-
cpt coat and panlaoor Apd an orthodox white ctsvS
"A gentleman Who reads the Aaantie Monthly, Who
goss 10 ear the big organ, who attends mes.ngs at
tha F,emont Tempe, WAC is q member, perchanc /,
ooth Of the Sanitary and the Christian Commission
VINO walks on tle Common, who "oratebs % Bunk
II n Oh independence Day, who has friends In BeAsen
sttest, who has. dned az the Reyee or The Parker
House-aud no. By SOUR ,PUrinn with .
,tefpls croWrsd hst, AMI hair costly croppd
r,rnd his ears a came. cleak and Geneva bsndf.-.
IA tx,spuation OF sac inefibls uickednsts Of thun
,1ryertrp Q cad d;stcrliug from Sctpture-Wicksdnesp
all the nj re- heirous for the knoEledse the writer II
he ever read his Bible through, must have Lad shat
there IN another and nav commandment laid upon
VA that We Iowa one arother--,t may be urged that
Svsnsnsr mite RANGES in America mean little MOTH
ing and that The Atrooous doctrines which the Boston
Rseo, DIR strives to NATL into the publ mir would
MAYER be ao.ed upol by sensible aud upright men.
o,Isist in the fImet aud most del bsrate asseversop
frat these doctrines Advs been ected upon, are acec
upon every dfy and wH bs acted upon until some Ter.
rbls calamity or some awful retfouucn convnoes the
Nor h,rn Amercl peope they have played the dev ]
lor enough and that they cannot invoke the Demons
Of aurdeF and DssclAtion With impunily. ! take my
taud or the special order signed Ulysses s. Grant,"
nubished in the New York papers OF Wednesday,
October 6, 1854, addressed to Generals Custer and
Merritt, and couched in the following words:
HrIDoUARrIRs, 10,
Do oil the DAMAGE you can 10 the railroad and erops
Oa-ry Cf ell stock OF al descriptions, and negroes
as to prevent further planting II the var s to
tnus another year, let the Shenandoah Valley remain
a barren waste.
This order, Iu-poIting to emsnate from the Lieu
tenant General commanding she armies Of the United
States in Virginia, appssrs RIratiw ct verbatim 10
ueSspsp.r spaoh, headed by the name OF s writer,
theodore O. Wilson, and dated from the camp Of the
fiddle Military Division, near Harrisonburg. If the
order be forgery, the reporter who transcribed and
the newspaper that gave it publicity must be
held responsible. 1 appeal to sll candid and
impartial men, both in Europe and In AmerCs;
I ask them whether this ieroclous order does
no. tally to the minut,st shade of lie inspiration
ri the doctrines pa! forth by the Boston Recorder
ask all men whether war conducted on such prn.
cfpes il likely ID terminate this year. or next year. or
within dozen yeas TO come, 10 eny state or condi-
ion Of society which can possibly be called psace-
The South, indeed, ray be VavquShstj her last SOL
der NAV be slar her last homestead burn; her last
tree rott'd uT; her last blade OF corn traapled IN
lar foo; Virginia may bscome counterpart of the
light Is W from Poney Mountain In February last;
Georgia may become one Vsst wilderness, Alabama
one huge sWany; L1usi1us may be made jungle and
Texas desert; the bsyous OF Florida may be fItquer.
ed only byths btteFD, Snd the alligator nav walloN
n, the tlImy bsnks of the rice fields. Tae bug
E,rd may r:es. in gsntlsmen's flower garden; The
NAV be skeletons In all their wells, an.
"a q ruins OF their houses msy become ian hsbitato
or bats and 6Isgons." The threat imputed 10
G neral ant that "a Grow lying over the Valley Of
ma Shenandoah shsll have to carry IFS own roionsm
NAV be rsaliz II its stlmmest entirety. n. Whole
Sou,h NAV be convert into one d!o1y .olltud; but
that soiituds will Tot be Peacs. Driven from their
homes txied, bsggsred, scorned and spit upon, the
Eouep and the Young children cannot, u-lsss Heo5s
MASSACRE be- Tepested, bs sxteIminGtsc; and those
vou-k children will grow up 10 be men aud Women
v Sfor I'D to rsr smber their ath,Ts Rropgs AMI TO
hate the North With crisp snd concrete hatred The
assertion that toe Wounds made By civil war ere
snsedily or easily healed s the vaices. and SHALLOW
est fallaey. Has that which Cromwell d d in Ire
land, more that two hundred ysors ego, been
forgotten by the Irsh Of the present dayS Have
fdsd from the memory Of the Scottish Hiehlanders
Are THU and Wallenstea wholly unreme nbered by
GermapsS Gan Jon BE- day il Hamburg without
hearing tho name of Davorst eIecrs,edf Do the
people Of Brescis love the rsms Of HsynaUg Do the
d lie o. hold "a reco;d Of what Ib;shim Pasba did
In the Morea, and Kara All, the "Black" Aga, at
S,iOi Are there not Albanian rothers who still
turn iviS ct tie name Of All P aha of Jsninsf Ard
oou ID the osssFsion OF couatsss coropet save an
English lady, within the memory of men sill living
fsom beng menscsd and iDsuliei whom, tray.
cling in the Tranquil West of Eoglsnd, II
beoams known to the peasantry that ste was the
great gv'nddar ghter Of TIE body fieyG Homi-
eide IN fair 6ghI humanity fcrgiTss. It is give sld
take; the chances are equal The of the
brave men Who beat us OF Fon;enoy, and whom We
beat 3, enheim, beer us 10 malice. Nay. o little
international vapourirg apart, treaty of commerce.
fiscal pact for exchanging bodies Of wine tni or
mou clocks for ecu,ilts OF coal and darniuE-ceedts
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