Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-03-29

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such foul GnA hldcaua blackness Bat 10 sos Eash'
ing Of the kind The very fact that the victims
were unarmed, and in no condition to defendthep-
selves-that, in most instances, they belonged to
that sex which is acknowledged by all but sAvages
10 have a natural claim upon the generosity OF man
hut makes the deeds more acceptable to the
vilest nation that God ever allowed to cumber the
earth.
We are induced to make these remarks by read
ing an article In the New York Herald of the 2lSt,
which, for ITS diaboIcal sentiments, exceeds any
thing we have ever even in that most iniqui-
tous OF all the vile Yankee press. The wretch who
edits it is more than seventy years Outstanding
with one foot in the grave and within very short
distance according to the course of nature, oil ths
bar before which he must account for all the afro
cities OF life OF unparalleled intamy. AT the COM
mencement of the present troubles, and down TO
the capture of Fort Sumter, he was, to all appear
ances, heart and SOUL Southern man, prepared to
dare all aud 20 suffer all in the cause OF Southern
independence which he protested to consider the
,oost holy of all causes In one night the threats
of a mob made him change all mis- oft-repeated sem
timents. He became furious enemy of the cause
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friend, and, as renegade and traitor is always more
bitter against those be has deserted and betrayed
than any other enemy his vilidcation Of the South
ana hIs attempt TO stir up the evil passions oil the
Northern mob against it, have been untirlnS.-
I'm the article in question: he opens by telling the
world that tho North hates South Carolina; It hates
il because 1t had the ''impudence to look upon the
better people OF the North with contempt ii. the
Yankees are better than the people OF South Caro-
lima, God help the people OF South Carolina We
say) Hence" he continues, ''the Northern peo-
ple can see her cities burn with much less concern
than they would feel ii these terrible blows fell up
ON any other people" Revenge, then, for the
heartfelt contempt that South Carolina always felt
for the social qualities OF the vile, swindng, cheat
inc Yankee, is at the bottom OF all this inIquity,
and it Is offered sufficient apology for the yo-
lation of every law that has been held among Chris
an nations as proper to soften the aSperties Of war
The South Carolinians are justly punished because
tney have not high opinion OF the Yankee -
..When soldiers burn cities it IS ordinarily bad
sign for the discipline of the army of which they
form part; but in the present case we know that
the burning of cities and farms is not evidence
that the discipline is loosen, but simply that the
men, in The real spirit Of the people, feel the uncon-
nucrable national hate for that peStilent people"
But the justification of these proceedings is the
most extraordinary of all. "Why should they
- withhold their hands South Carolina never
withheld hers so long as she could strike with safe
ty. VIII they turn this rich farmer out of his
house and home, burn all that he has, and make
.. him starvelng outcast Certainly. Here are
ten THOUSAND me from Illinois and Indiana,
. many from New York and Maine, andhe has termed
. every one OF these out Of house and home. For
his fault for the qualification of his mad and igno-
rant political passion, they have been compelled to
abandon all the comforts of home as he mist now.
They have left aged parents to the chances of life
and young wives and daughters exposed to its
q temptations. They can never hope to inhct upon
him 1.-THE Of the wretchedness he has inflicted on
them; but what little they can do they will, and
8. they burn"
Such are Yankee arguments for converting their
armies into bodies of freebOoters, and the war into
war of determination. And war of extermina-
ton it is rapidly becoming Let us but once sue
cgmb and we shall see the lesson of South Caro-
lima repeated in every State Ofth Confederacy.