Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-02-11

ALLINC and inexpresSibly hUmihSting a. sub
NJ iuga,ion to Yankees would be, southern men
might possibly bear il. Beggared, exied, they might
ind home and carve cut fortune in other lands
If compelled to remain under the Yankee, they
could in some sort teach their 0ppressorS TO lessen
the intolerat!e weight OF their chains AT the most
they might fud relief in death, and die with arms In
heir hands Fighting against overwhelming Odds
re many moons Of insolsnt tyranny were past, this
sorcease Of sorrow would be sought by all except
the abiect in soul. In New Orleans. in Norfolk,
in Savannah, aud o;ber captured cities and towns
the men have been sustained b. the hope Of better
times. But when that hope is hed-when the ty-
rant, UNCHECKED by the fear Of day Of day Of
reckoniug, and eNglting in his complete triumph,
shall grind his heel upon the necks Of the subject
but imperial race, there Will be sequel TO tins tale
OF blood and crime at WHICH the world will shud
der.
With the tender, deucateiy -uurtUg;d southern
tvousa. Tie l5se i. tar difcryut. A few OF them
NAV iy 20 ioreisD ci,mes, there TO weep oui their
..nb!c,se6 lives n tears which bring NO relief and
70 waste ,heir nj .hts IN prayers which beat in vain
aJ the doors OF Heaven. The rest must renaiu be-
hind ia a land occursei, subject 90 ,heir own
slaves, oySaNcS by negroes in Yankee uniform,
dragged 10 prison Tor the i-b2st word, outcast nom
-, homes of their childhood, earning preca-
-.ous living by labor the most menial and hegra-
ding. and forced at last, as refuge from absolute
starvation. to the embrace OF brutal onkee hus-
b5lvls Hurled from aiiueuce L. the very depths o.
pogc-ty. cast down r.m the highest scclai position
70 slc lowest walks of life, the next generation,
nav the Young men now living, may behold Tie
lp5s cultivated aud refined ladies' OF ms acquaiut-
sace xalsiug the streets Of Richmond i'm rags and
be,siu, the privilege OF washing the shirts OF Yam
kee Provost Marshals, who grant the boon indeed,
cut couple it with and profane jests at the
viu,ue and the haggard beauty Of his wretched sup
plants. Unhappy the soldier Of Lees army who
lives 10 sec that day. How his blood viii boil within
his veins. Who will answer for the vengeful bound
Of his heart in taat moment when the agony Of
shame and n Indignation shall overcome all the sug
sestious OF pruIeuce2 Himself drayman or 9
porter 70 some thieying Yankee merchant, what
chance win there be for him II lie dare deliver
the blow which he cannot restrain Shot like. dos
by the nearest EegTo guard, lis body viii be throw"
into the pauper'5 graveyard, and his fate excite
scarcely a comment from the hireling scribblers OF
the Yankee newspapers, unless it be the text for
az article in favor Of tyranny stll more grinding
TLisis no fIncy sketch. These are no unfounded
fsars When the war began, the southern press
vavr the Southern people fair warning that it was
70 be war Of unexampied ;erocity. Bnt the people
-ouii not Je made % believe that their late asso
GATES, who sSOke the slEe tongue, worsdppcd the.
same God, ana r.rgr,i tie same heroes. and The
same dt0us could be the devils iucarnate, more
pitless than ,hc feniS q the pit, which they have
proved. Let tie horrors Of the war teach us what
the hSrors Of suhjugstion win be. TIE Phila-
dclphio h,qsiryl, in a late issue contained IN on,
column the exsg-erateftccouuts Of certaiu news
papcr espoudents who lad been Imprisoned al
Selisbury. Their sutEeriugs maguifei with the
art shch is peculiarly the Yankees own-the an
OF l~ir-. But another column OF the same paper
contained TIC depositions Of number of poo
women, who had been employed to make clothing
fcr the Yankee Government. Their average weeks
pa7 after tx days Of continuous labor, from early
dawn until nearly midnight, was four dollars. FouE
dollars for one hundred hours Eard-labor. One
woman declared that she could make but TWO dollars
and half a week. Other women avowed tbst IT
vas with great difficulty they could get paid at all,
however small their weekly pittauce might be. Re
member these women were working for the Yankee
. c remembering clothes Tor the soldiers al the
Philadelphia arsenal. Ii Yankees act thus 10 their
Own women, what will be their tender mercy to
wards The women Of the South, when they have
them in their power God forbid that day shall
ever come
The mar who talks Of peace nov means to send
his mother o the kitchen, his wife 10 the slops Of
the 6edcharaber, his daughters to the wash-tub AM
ais sisters to the sergbbing brosh. lie means this
aad rotling but this. he can mean nothing else.
I, Is true that no man now dreams ofpe0ce who i
not Yankee by birth or Yankee at heart. The
vas, majority are born Yankees. They have amassed
fortunes out Of the blood Of our soldiers and the
tears f-our widows and orphans They have taken
good care to keep out Of the army and have coined
r,lrsv Jy huadreds Of thousands in their auction
stores their airy good stores, and other shops They
hope % tara this money into gold CT greenbacks,
ana thus save their own wives and daughters from
degradation. Not one thought 10 they beStow upon
tac uS8lAers sisters wives ami daughters Of the sol
diers III Lees army, who II peace be purchased al
the price Of submission, val return home no more
for they viii have no home, and their mothers ana
sisters viii be shaving for Yankee masters and mis-
tresses. What does the Yankee dry goods man care
for-hat' Whit other peoples mothers and
sr.,srs 70 him So he but saves his igotten gains
he reeks not if every Southern womaa FROM the Po-
,omae 70 me Rio Grande be stepped in poverty aud
RAGS. AMI became the bOndwomen ~ the basest Of
their female slaves. who have been made the para
,sou,r perbspsths lawfully welded wives of hire
ling Yankee soldiers
We have plain word 10 say 10 these n''sereants,
who are known BY name Snd fame, wherever they
nay hide in the land. We tel them their day Of
opuIeat ease is over. Providence has oecieeu .I''
I u, war sbau continue until the gains smaS'ea y
tbe Yankee sharper and the home-born Spectator
shall be disgorged, and that which was ~rung ITO"
people in agony shall be made to defray toe price
ii heir freedom and their JOY Il is wei that TINS