Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-26
FROM THE SOUTH.
INSTRUMENTATION. CONSIDERED.
A Growl at the English Privateer-
ing, sc.
RESULTS OF AMALeAMArroN.
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phe. The Yankee race blotted out of ex-
istence! They have threatened to EXTERN
mate the South, and behold, they are about
to exterminate themselves! Alas! what
will become of the cause of civilization, of
humanity, of progress, without Yankees?
What will the world do for steam engines
and wooden nutmegs, philanthropic associ-
ations, and paper soled shoes, and patriot
ism, and patent medicines, puritanism and
pumpkin pies, cuteness and Goldfish, with
out Yankee Doodles? a .rqiQ ass-H
Did that blessed Mayflower cross the
wide ocean for such an end? Was Pilgrim
Rock consecrated for such asuperstructure?
Did the sanity Pilgrim Fathers fit out slave
ships for the coast Of Africa, and sell the
cargoes to the South, with any idea that
these sable heathens were to be united in
wedlock to the descendants of the true be-
levers? We wish that their grim old spec
tres could revisit the earth, and receive the
due reward of their deeds in beholding the
final result of their notable system for i'm
proving the morals, religion and politics Of
mankind. 7'Hi 'd
1t is not forus to complain of the great
loss which mankind at large must suffer
from the deprivation of Yankees. Three
years of self-denial have enabled us to dis
pense with even such luxury as their COM
fortitude and abstemiousness, we can man
age to exist without Harper, Beecher,
Greeley, Everett, or any other of their
works. But how can Yankeedom give it.
self up in this wholesale suicide, immediate
the memory of its ancestry, and slaughter
that manifest destiny which was to appro-
PIRATE the whole continent of America to
the Yankee race? ....
The Confederacy can look with philosoph-
ical compOsure upon this tragical perform
ance. We are not to be astonished at this
time Of day at any exhibition which YAM
KEGS may make. After all the atrocities
and diableric which for three years we have
beheld and suffered, winding up in the eff
fort to make bonfire of a city of fifty
thousand souls, we are not to be amazed by
any new wickedness which Yankee ingen-
uity can invent. Having cohabited spirit
ually with the devil till their souls have
become as black as the ace of spades, it is
right and proper that they should adopt
some process by which their bodies will
approximate the complexion of their souls.
Our only sympathy is with the sable me-
dunn of this national transformation. The
polishing of Yankee boots, which has hith-
erto been their chief occupation in the free
States, will now give place to the polishing
of the entire Yankee nation, an achievement
which no human power has yet been able
to accomplish. A quarter of a century
hence the United States bids fair to be an
empire of mulattoes inheriting some Inn
provement, perhaps, upon its. abolition
blood; but sad depreciation of the Afri-
can stock, which, in its lowest thraldom,
was never so debased as when its ''rich cur
rents" commingle with the vile spawn of
Black Republicanism. sas-a5
.a 81 GREAT BRITAIN AND THE IRISH.
~ From The Richmond Dispatch
The best commentary upon the professed
neutrality of the British Government in
this war is its persistent connivance in the
large emigration from Ireland to America
for, the manifest purpose of swelling, the
Federal armies. She is willing that Ireland
for the purpose of enabling Lincoln and
Seward to destroy the cotton raising labor
of the Southern Confederacy. So intent is
she upon this cherished object that she
pockets the insult to herself which every
Federal recruiting agent breathes into Irish
ears-that, after fighting the battles of the
United States, the United States will help
them to fight the battles of old Ireland
England pockets this indignity without
difficulty, knowing well enough that it is
an empty threat, and that Irishmen are
more dangerous to her in theirown country
than three thousand miles away, with the
wide ocean between.
While thus bent on destroying American
cotton and crushing the Southern States,
she cannot permit an iron ram to leave her
shores lest 1t might be used in violating her
rigid neutrality between the two beliger-
entsl The Just and generous people of En-
gland may well chafe under the hypocrisy
and shortsightedness of their Government.
They are mostly our friends, but their Gov
ernment deadly and dangerous enemy.
We do not expect recognition from her. All
we ask is neutrality, and that she refuses
us. -..-,--. -,
We have said that the policy of England
is as short-sighted as it is selfish, all selfish
ness is short-sighted, and such 1t will prove,
whatever the result of the present war. II
we are successful, as no sagacious and well
balanced mind among us questions, of
course the Southern staple will still retain
its supremacy in the markets of the world.
Even If we should be defeated, slaves
will still cultivate cotton, for no matter
what the Yankees pretend, slavery
ship changed to Yankee hands, and the
slaves made to work harder and produce
more cotton than they ever did before. In
the meantime England will lose the best
fighting material she ever had in her ar
mics, as she will find to her cost when an
other continental war arises, and the stall
wart Irish who have so often saved her
national honor, are sleeping their last sleep
In the arid fields Of the South. '' Ai'f''
p II inio'1sn PRIvATEERING. Shsimo9s " II
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