Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-08-05
For the Delaware Gazette
NOTES IN DIXIE.
CHATTAHooCHEE HEIGHTs, GA.
July 18th, 1864.

CHATTAHooCHEE HEIGHTS, GA. I
July 10th, 1864.
The aristocrats Of the South have boldly set
up their claims 10 superiority Of race. They
affect to despise the free laborers of the
Northern States and to spurn all political and
social union with thema They regard toll as
mental office of mankind. In such base es-
| timation do they hold it that they deem it not
even worthy oi reward, but regard it as a sort
OF price by which wretched class of beings
are destined to purchase miserable subsisi
ence. They hold further tha' it is infexibly
| decreed in the law of Nature that the superior,
or aon-iaboring class, shall have the right to
buy, sell, own, enslave the Inferior or laboring
class. They claim also that this is rendered
necessary, inasmuch as the inferior class is
created weak, abject and totally dependent on
the superior one.
| Such is the philosophy Of Southern aris'oc,
racy,-the aristocracy which Southern slave
holders are today fighting to establish. Upon
these theories rests the peculiar social system
which the Southerner claims has made him
superior To the Northerner. He insists that
the latter in removing from his social system
the barrier separating the labOrer from the
capitalist, and thus destroying the only solid
foundation for an aristocracy under free gov
ernmeHt, has degraded himself in the scale Of
moral and manly existence. Instead of being
the arstocrat be might have been, he has made
| himself a 'mudsill y instead of owning labor
he has honored it; instead of degrading the
laborer to a serf he has elevated him to the
proud position of freeman.
Here lies the whole fault OF the North aud
the whole secret OF the Southern hate. Be-
caqse of Tue reputed encr0achments of the
tree labor system the Southern people have
attempted to destroy this Union and TO estab-
lish government which shall recognize and
sustain an arstocracy founded on the enslave-
ment OF labor. The object of the rebellion is
therefore TO degrade labor This, indeed, is
the chief cornerstone of the so-called conied-
eracy.
To overthrow these vain and wicked theo-
ries the Northern people are contendiDg. To
establish the nobility of labor, to destroy a
false, artificial, and selfish aristocracy, and to
refute the assumption, as wicked as it is false,
that the man who lives upon the unrequited
toll OF Others is superior, superior, forsooth to
the man vino withholds not from the laborer
his hire, our vast armies are graphing with
this giant rebellion. know this is not the
whole object OF the war, but it an important
part of it. Ii ia part of it which lossilized
conservatives aud c0pperhead doughfaces at
the North have vainly tried TO ignore. But
the soldiers recognize it, all true patriots rec
ognize it, and he who does not recognize it is
fearully ignorant or desperately wicked.
This war goes on. In the meantime the
cotton presses stand idle, the tobacco and rice
fields are bare, and a strange and solemn ST.
lence broods over the half-tilled plantations
where 60 lately the groaDs and prayers of
gangs OF eGslaved men went up daily 10 the
ear oil an avenging God. The mansion of the
proud master is tenantess and its unlatched
doors sway to and fro at the idle mandate Of
the wind No criuging human chattels do the
servile bidding of capricious insolence through
its richly-adorned and lofty-souuding hals.-
With its broken gateway, and weedy untrod-
den avenue, il exhibits enough of diugy state
liness TO Tell imprcssively of something which
was but is not, and stands gloomy, spectral
watcher for that which is TO be. 1t is the rel
ic OF an old cru. The dawn Of new one be-
gins 10 illuminate the land True it ss yet
but gtimmers through the battle smoke and
, ningles with the lurid lightnings OF war. Yet
it gives promise of the coming day aud re-
veals 10 us The flag OF our country still floating
in tranquil glory far above the clouds, aud
, baptized by heavens own blessed light.
The war goeS on. Daily some patriot falli
and daily the fetters Of oppressed bondmen art
broken. And let this be our consolation
j while the best blood of the land IS being shed
/ that our just and equitable government eaet