Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-03-10
AMERICAN CHIYALRY.

Under this caption, correspondent of the
EdinbuFg tScotland) Daily Review of the 18th uIt
says
IF all the statements we hear of Southern
chivalry, and truth and honor, and honesty, and
pety be ttue If the half of it be true what pity
/ that all the people of the world were not made
slave progagators, slave drivers and slave hunters
The virtue of the peculiar institution" of the
Southern States, to refine and elevate, and sancti
! fly human character must be absolutely marvellous
/ As have only that old fashioned book the Bible,
! to guide me "a moral and religious subjects, and
ind nothing therein Of the humanizing, ennoblng
purifying influence of ssvery on either the ensla-
yers or the enslayed, / prosecute not the inquiry
further at present | am plain and humble man
not exercising myself on things either too high
Oh TOO deep Tor me, but content to take the Bible
as my guide and finding that human slavery is a
sin against God, and crime against man of a pc
euliaT4y aggravated character, would expect it if
persisted IN, 10 be sooner or later visited by God
0i justice and of mercy, with judgments In proper
tioG to the enorfnity of the offence and protracted
until thesin be abandoned or the hesnners destroyed
What God words warrants me to expect see at
this moment in the Southern States of America
fever in the history of our race God interposed by
Judgment to deliver the oppressed from the iron
grasp OF relentless oppTessors, He has done SO in
thus ADleriean war Their sins has found them
9ak He that being often reproved and har-
deneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and
that without remedy
Your correspondent signature Humanitas,
suggests "a me very solemn view OF the subject.
humanity Inhumanity is utterly inapplicable to
the Federal Government IN using all It's power and
resources to put down an uniustitiabe and, If we
consider It's object an iniquitous revolt of portion
of Its own subjects. Russia 'subjugation of Po-
land is utterly irreveant to this whole discussion.
Humanity The greatest inhumanity of the war
hazf +lr4x rba Pat
Tor the expectation of this, the war had probably
never begun and but for this it had not lasted
year. Britain has blown the coal of this continent
wide condagration. The bounding on the South
by portion Of the British press and people, and
the hope 0 being recognized as nation, have sus-
tained the spirit of the Southern Shareholders
no small share ofthe responsibility of that amen-
table war rests onthe shoulders, nay on the souls
et British Sympathizers. Had the honest testi-
Iaony heenupliffe.l from the beginning that the re
8eIi9n in itself was unHsfi6able and in It's object
most infamous, what sin and sorrow had been sa
we'd 70 ''our brethren in America And eveny yet.
when shadow of hope remains not fer the succor
oil the South, the bounding on by an inconslderate
press IL as hrutaiand btasterous as ever,
But why do / indulge in censures such as these.
Perhaps [ should say thus il must be. The
most enormous crime ofwhich any known nation
on earth IS guilty, was about to be perpetrated BY
tile Confederate States OF America They had
ayefled i - their intention % lay for the folnda-
ton Of their new Republic the divine right of hu
man slavery, Letus not wonder If God should Ia
terpose to ps event 50 atTocious crime, By judg-
lnaats 80 terrible that the ears of all that hear
should tingie. Humanity Let humanity dictate
counsel to that deluded, even possibly doomed
people. even now. ere worse befal them, NY soul
thgils with horror whom | contemplate the posi-
bility of the slaves of the South being armed If
armed and brougiltt to the front, who can tel but
when the truth flashes upon them that they are