Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-02-15

1T is almost absurd at this day to accumulate
Z r,roofs Of Yankee hypocrisy and knavery' Inc
history Of the last four years is 50 repIets win 'uis
Hind of material that the task Of The historian VIII
where 10 seek for it, but how to compress its
suuerabuudauce into reasonable ana HSn'seSoe
80 Prom the time when Seward played his
game upon the first Confederate commissioners al
Sy,.tirytn. down TO the most recent exhibition u
du,lt,itv as manifested in the peace pterluue'
th whole history OF Iankee state-crait mas oeen al
rnvaryias record OF cunning arrogance and lrucu-
Ion, L,.noErisv \ nation which had hitherto prIdeu
its,ls on the opeuness and sincerity OF ITS hterha-
,al polcy Is seen surpass the tradiuohary duPh-
city, OF the Italian diplomacy, aud 10 excel all o'nsi
,.,l. in hose dark and censurabie practices winch
have been tue oppr0uium on ADLER Governments
II i, indeed astonishing 10 those who do not Aho"
she Yankee character, that the ounseSt OF the ma
ti,Ds should have so soon become an adept Ia TIE
,,,c, which disgrace the oldest, aud that the oes'
,,,yerpi,s,,r ia the world" should successiuuSemu-
late the ar,s aud the policy OF the worst. nor
,,irht il seem less surprising that a nation which
casts Of its freedom should hasten TO the meanes'
of drspgtisuls Other people II Is true, have SUI
Tered the loss Of their liberties, but the surrender
b $ almost invariably been made TO lie OriHant &C.
igsor the statesman the sword OF the cOnqueror
The Roman Renubiic yielded only 20 the power and
intellect Uf Caesar, tue English Commonwealth to
the ability of Cromwell, the French Republic 10 the
franscenJaat qualities Of Napoleon. 1t was re-
served for the Yankees TO surrender their liberties,
without struggle o. protest, into the hands Of
county court attorney vino has displayed neither the
genius of tue statesman, the power Of the con
qucror
Il could not be expected thar the policy aud the
conduct of'such q man would be anything else than
4 reacc zion Of the character OFT people he 50
6t.y represents Hence there was, after ali, moth
ing - very remarkable in the duphcity mingled
with trucuience the arrogance with pusiIlauimity,
the boastfu,uess withtreachery, which have marked
every act of Liucoln', administration. II was not
surprising that be should have tried to cheat tic
fret Confederate Commissioners that went from
Montgomery TO Washington that ne should have
violated the solemn obligations OF the cartel, and
attempted to deceive the world by system Of false
pretcnecs deliberately planned, ,0ud -sssiduously
carried into effect aud that he should, finally, IL
that supreme moment, when tie hopes vi humanity
hung trembling IN the balance, have tried to entrap
tia three Confederate gentlemen who hOnorcd hin.
with interview by means eta trick too transpar-
eBt 70 deceive idiot, and too dsrSputable To le
empl0yed By any one but Yankee lawyer or
Yansrc President. Our readers, We suppose, have
reai the correspondence transmitted 10y Lincoln e.
he Yankee Congress. II is laid before that body
as;iGcotioa OF bis action il sending emssaries t.
Richmond and receiving Commissioners At Fortress
Nou-oe> Aud such Justification It is rr0yerb-
fally piece OF stupijty for negro 10 try 10 turn
himself into Caucasian Iy painting himself white,
bat Lat would be thought Of a negro who should
try o make L white uau U, himself By putting GA
Al additional coat OF black II is Macaulay who
uses thg ILLUSTRATION in the OF Barere Had he
!lred 10 write the history Of Lincoln's admnistra-
ton, lie would have found it much more applicable
10 him than to the comparatively yirtuous ana nno-
cent Frenchman. No doubt the Yankees vii.
dad the explanation ali that could be dc
sired aud will congratulate themselves ca
the peculiar smsriuess displayed by their wor-
thy President. People WHO applaud robbery, ulur-
dor and arson as the noblest OF acts, are yer.
lkcly to regard hypocrisy the brightest OF viz
tues. The European world will simply regard
this exposure a an additional but quite superhu-
Gus condemnation OF the estimate already formed o.
the Yankee character and as another Justification
vi the refusal OF the south 10 associate longer with
such peop!e And u ths people OF tue COnicderaey
would be degraded by continued partners ship with
Yankees, what would be thought should they con
sent 70 become their slayesr There is no escape
from this dilemma. Ii was disgracetul 70 us>to re-
main in the Yankee Union as equals; can We 60
hack 70 it as interiors We rejected their society
while they protested to accord TO Us certain rights
AMI prtyiieses, can We submit to their domination
when tscy Opealy declare that have longer any
rights at all, AMI no privileges except what may DC
granted by their charity aud mercy The charity
and mercy of the Yankee Talk, indeed, Of-the
charity Of the miser aud the mercy Of the assassa
AMI it would be reasonable in comparison
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