Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-10-07
A REMARKABLE ARTICL E.

1.-THE FIRE AND BLOOD OF REVOLUTION
We commend the careful consideration Of the
following TO every reader. 1t was published
under the above title in the Charlottesville IVA J
Rebiew, iD April, 1851, before v rginia had pas.
sed her ordinance OF secession. In the light of
present events, the writer's views seem almost
prophetic:
THE FIRE AND BLOOD OF REvoL UTIoN
That is the cue. They propose TO give you q
tnste uf Mr. Ynncey's medicines. Ii will be a
nice little operation Sowing wheat is nothing
TO marking lue and walking sentry at two
o'clock in the night udder drizzling rain
Shucking corn is lat compared 10 q charge of
bayoBets.
You will also make your arrangements to
have your blrnyards lit up at night with the
fires of revolution. Set your boots at the head
Of the bed, for any moment the same fires may
be sputleiing and cracking on the roof of your
dwelling house.
GsieRing bayonets on the south bank of til Q
Potomac 10 front, burning straw rcks and
burning houses behind you-BOmething worse
than that, perhaps in the shape Of dsath, pro-
duced by invisible aud uncomfortable agencies
the State deprived of its labor, those aborers
escaping by hundreds, or sold at half their value
in the South, your fields unpluughed, your pub
lilo works ruined land depressed 10 the lowest
figure. Stale stocks, insurance stocks, bank
stuck, railroad stocks, hawked at mere song,
these would be the immediate effects of the
fire and sword" which Governor Wise proposes
10 his speech ut Norfolk.
peAceable dissolution of the Union is some
times suggested.
Let us allow that the result could be effected
peaceably.
The next thing we should want would be
standing army. The John Brown affair cost US
three thousand dollars. Make he calculation.
You would maintain a line of posts all along
your frontier.
You would also want navy, though Norfolk
only produces few fishing emacks, except the
vessels built there by order of the Government.
You would pay Southern Presdent--with
all the ordinary Government officials. You
would pay diplomatic corps.
You would have to pay for an independent
Senate and House of Representatives, and for
new Judiciary.
Perhaps you think all this would be readily
managed. They tell you you are rich. We tell
you that no purely agricultural people ever was
rich. The wealth OF hilad, phia alone is equal
to the entire wealth OF the State Of ylrginia.
gase the post Office alone. The total receipts
from ihe post offices in Virginia for l957-'5s
were S242, 96I. The expenditures were $685.
o4S In Sonth Carolina the receipts were
SlOl. l45 The expenditures were $254 co.,
ln Alabama the receipts we've Sill 092 The
expenditures were 4248.750. In Mississippi
the receipts were $ss.46s. The expenditures
were 1882 508 In Arkansas the receipts were
$35, 127. The expenditures were 82A4, $50 -
How is this deficiency made up now Part of it
is made up thus The receipts in the State OF
New York aie $l,46s,7ll. The expenditures
are 81, l64, Ill. ln Massachusetts, the receipts
are $685. ,6S3. The expenditures are $435, ,231
In most of the Northern States there is a defcli;
but in all the Southern States the deficit is enor-
nous. The whole Northern deficit is some
$500, 900 The whole Southern defct is some
So 00O, 900.
Suppose, however, the civil war disposed of
suppose the new Government established. Sup
pose us with our army, our navy, our fortifoa-
tions Suppose US to have survived the shock
with some slaves left, and our depI Ieeiated
lands What then : We belong to a Southern
COnfederaoy. The cotton States begin an sgita-
tion for the re-Openng it the slave trade, or
some Coolie 81 stem. Our remaining negroes are
to compete, If they succeeded iu their schemes,
with tho new labor. At all events, We are still
TO be q seetlen-a section as regards the cotton
States, which hns no trade with the other sec
tion. We are still to have sectional quaTrels.-
There are still 10 be charges and counter-asgres-
sions. We have not conquered peace.
we have now two sections to nla,ssau us. On
the frontier ve nave 10 guard againsl the North.
On The South We have TO meet the extreme
views Of tue Gulf States. After q while, per-
haps, Virginia would have lost her slaves, aud
she, with Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri,
would be M ant-savery section in the South
cru Republic.