The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-24
WEDNESDAY MORNING. .Auau
!. Hi,tory IL Constantly Repeating ITSELF, y

The observation Is sufficiently trite but il Is non
the less true for all that. The Yankees, with re
gard to u.s. are in the position that Lord Nortl
and the majority in Parliament we've with regard t
tho colonies Of ls7G with this difference that III
colonies were bona kdc colonies. They had beef
settled by Great Britain, governed hy her. and ha.
always acknowledged her supremacy; Whereas tn
State Of Virginia was settled ten years before Ply
mouth Rd,k was ever heard of; never governed
by the Yankees; never owed them any allegiance
and only unted with them in forming government
for certain purposes expressed in the Constitution
Grating that Government. The same may DO said
of all the States constituting the Confederacy They
were settled later but not by Yankees, and none o!
them were ever governed by Yankees, or acknow-
ledgcd any right on the part OF the Yankees To
govern them II follows that the colonies actually
yebefied when they set the Government of George
III at defiance, and that not rebels when VIC
deny the right Of the Yankees to govern us Yet
these same Yankees have not only practically de-
MED every right asserted by the Declaration of indie
pendsnce, but have adopted the very phraseoogy
habitually employed by the Parliament in speak
ing Of the colonies IIe. add, that there is not
one single enormity which Yankee Fourth July
orators and Yankee historians have been in the
habit Of ascnbing to the ministry and armies of
George III. which their own Congress and their
own people have not committed vastly extended
scale, and with the addition of tcn-fold horrors.
We are induced TO make these observations by'a
paragraph in the press telegram of yesterday morn
ing in which it is stated that four hundred citizens
had been killed in riot in New Orleans occasioned
by Canby's attempt to enforce the draft When Sir
Henry Clinton captured Charleston in May 1889, he
published proclamation, in which he called upon
the people Of South Carolina to return to their
homes and remain quiet, promising all who did so
that they should not be disturbed. His successor,
Lord Corvallis disregarding this promise, called
upon all people capable of bearing arms to come
forward and assist in putting down the rebellion,
and his agents and emissaries traversed the State
from end to the other in order to compel obedi-
enoe. This proc,amation produced results the OPP
posite of those intended. The people had staid
at home under the impression that they would not
be compelled to engage in the war but finding that
they were compelled to fight, they determined to
fight by the side Of their eountrymen and against
them. Many who had even taken the oath of allie |
glance on the condition. eitherexpressed implied
that they would be allowed to remain quiet at home,
considered themselves absolved from their engage
ments by this new proclamation. Among others
who stood in that category Colonel Isaac Hayne
who was afterwards captured and executed by Lord |
Rawdon, whose nama has been held in execution !
from that day to this by the whole continent of
America. The Yankees have written nearly all the |
books that have been published touching the rcvo-
luton of 76 and there is not of these books in
which the conduct Of Lord CORVALLIS is not severely
reprobated. The idea of drafting men against their
Will to fight against their countrymen, and pro-
badly to kill or be killed by some of them is too
shocking to think of. The Yankee historians were
perfectly right In denoundng the atrocity when it
vas praetised by the Myrmdons of CORVALLIS; but
We hear not a word of censure, that the execu-
tors Of Lincoln's will are doing the same thing
No men denounced more bitterly than the Yam
KEGS the English practice OF impressing seamen from
7esseis belonging to the United States. This was
me among the many causes that conspired to bring
m the war of 1912, and during that war the Con-
'ress OF the United States, in a formal document
denounced as unchristian and inhuman a policv t.
which retained the American thus impressed
nd rendered them liable to fall by the hands of
heir own oountrymen the deck Of an ene.pv,s |
essei In what do the drafts of the Yankees nj |
Jew Orleans and elsewhere differ from this practice g.
the English, save that, having been aaonted ! Of
lille war is actually raging between the Yankees q
nd the Confederacy, multphes an huntAod-fold q
he danger OF collision between the men thus i'm
ressed and their brethren in the Confederate ar -
lies, ana that 1t is infinitely more sweeping more1
'ranpcal, and more inhuman! There is indeed ! c,
circumstance which aggravate the horrors of co
Al that has not been introduced into this contest q,
: the Yankees. a