Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-05


the following to every reader. 1t was pub
lished under the subjolned title in the Char
lottesyille (Va.) RsVisV, in April, 1861, before
Virginia had passed her ordinance of secession.
In the light of present events, the writer's
views seem almost prophetic:
THE FIRE AND BLOOD OF REVOLUTION.
That Ia the cue. They propose to give you
taste OF Mr.. Yancey's medicines. 1t will be a
nice little operation. Sowing wheat is nothing
TO marking time aud walking sentry at two
O'Clock in the night under drizzling rain.
| Shucking corn Is Hat compared to a charge of
| Ibavonots.
You will also make your arrangements TO
have your barn y ards lit up at night with the
fires OF revolution. Set your boots at the head
| OF the bed, for at any moment the same fires
may be Sputtering and cracking on the roof of
your dwelling house.
Gllstening bayoncts on the south bank Of
the Potomac In front, burning straw-ricks and
burning houses behind you-something worse
than that, perhaps, In the shape Of death, pro-
duced by invisible and uncomfortable agencies
tho State deprived of It's labor, those laborors
escaping by hundreds, or sold at half their
value in the South, your fields unploughed
your public works ruined, land depressed to
the lowest figure, State stocks, insurance stocks,
bank stocks, railroad stocks. hawked at a mere
| song-theso would be tue Immediate effects of
the ''ire and sword" which Governor Wise
proposes in his speech at Norfolk.
peaceable dissolution Of the Z Uniun IL some.
| times suggested.
Let us allow that tho result could be effected
peaceably.
The next thing we should waut would Lc u
| standing army. The John Brown affair cost us
| three hundred thousand dollar. Make the cal
culation.
You would maintain line of posts all along
your frontier.
| Your would also want navy, though Nor.
folk only produces few fishing smacks, cx-
cePt the vessels built there by order OF the
Government.
You would pay a Southern President-with
all the ordinary Government officials. You
would pay diplomatic corps.
You would have 10 pay for an independent
Senate and House of Representatives, and for a
new judiciary.
Perhaps you think all this would be readily
managed. They toll you you are rich. We tell
you that no purely agricultural people ever
was rich. The wealth of Philadelphia alone Is
equal to the entire wealth Of the State of Vir-
ginia.
Take the post Office alone. The total receipts
from the post offices In virginia for 1s57-'5S
S4s, In South Carolina the receipts were
$l0l, ,l45. The expenditures were t2sI 600,
| In Alabama the receipts were Sill 092. The
expenditures were $24S. $50. In Mississippi
| the receipts were SSS, ,458. The expenditures
were s3S2 sos. In Arkansas the receipts were
$35, 1877. The expenditures were $?44, $50 How
is this deficiency made up now2 Part of II Is
made up thus: The receipts In the State Of New
York are 81 ass I'll. The expenditures are
u H,154l1l. In Massachusetts the receipts arr,
t565,o3 The expenditures are $435, ,23T. IN
most OF the Northern States there is a deficit;
but In oil the Southern States the deficit is
enormous. The whole Northern deficit is some
t6OO,OOO. The whole Southern deficit is some
| 81, ,OO0, 600.
Suppose, however, the civil war disposed OF.
| suppose the new Government established.
Suppose us with our army, our navy, our forth
hcations. Suppose us to have survived the
shock with some slaves left, and our deproci-
| ated lands. What thoni We belong to a
Southern Confedoracy. The cotton States be.
gin an agitation for the reopenIng of the slave
trade, or some Coolie system. Our remaining
negroes are TO compete, If they succeeded In
their schemes, with the new labor. At all
events, we are still TO be q SsetioH-a section as
regards the cotton States, which has no trade
with the other section. We are still 10 have
sectional quarrels. There are still TO be charges
and counter-charges, aggresSions and counter
aggressions. We have not conquered peace.
We have now two sections 10 plague US. On
the frontier we have to guard against the North.
| On the south we have TO meet the extreme
views OF the Gulf States. After a while per-
haps, Virginia would have lost her slaves, and
she, with Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri,
would DO an anti-slavery section In tho southern
Republic.
II any one can ind remedy iu a Southern
Confoderaey, We see with different eyes.