The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-31

Ine object Of the Yankees in waging
the kind Of war they are now engaged
in carrying on against US, could not be
mistaken, even though the New York
HeraM had not taken pains to reveal it
in the extract republished by US yester-
day morning. 1t is no longer q restora-
ton of the Union that they seek. That
was from the first mere pretence, used
to cover designs which, at one time, it
might not have been quite SO prudent to
expose as they believe it to be now
The universal belief among them is, that
they are on the point Of completing our
subjugation. and that it is, therefore, no
longer required by prudence to make
mystery Of the fate they design for us.
That fate is simply the utmost degree Of
degradation to which their ingenuity,
prompted by their malice, can devise
They will not be content with merely
beating us into surrender. We must
suffer all the horrors of conquest ever
heretofore put in practice against
a defeated foe. with the addition of new
ones, devised for the especial qualification
of their hatred. That hatred is a pas
sion universal among the whole Yankee
nation. There are so few bosoms not
agitated byft that they scarcely serve
for an exception to the general rule. It
began long before this war, and any one
who attributes the unheard-o of enormities
which have marked its progress to the
disposition on the part of all armies to
commit excesses will be very much mis-
taken. 1t arises from the long, deep
rooted hatred to which we have alluded,
and which is now presented with an op-
portunity Of gratifying itself: Our cities
are wantonly burnt, and our population
insulted and murdered, upon principle.
1t is the result of cold~blooded calcula>
tion, not of military passions, stimulated
by resistance. These soldiers are turned
loose upon a population whom they hate,
and they are told to do their worst, for
they will rather be applauded than pun
ished for any crime they may perpetrate.
Such being the treatment our people
receive while we have large armies still in
the field, what are we to expect when
| resistance shall have ceased altogether ?
The Yankees themselves tell us part
of what we are to look for, but they do
not tell US all. We must look for it in
their acts. In Charleston, they have not
only set the negroes free, but, as far as
they have been able, have compelled the
whites to associate with them. They dc
this because they know that the whites
consider such association as degrading
to them; and they are determined K
make them drink the cup to the dregs
There are probably among us South
ern people who are tired of the war, ant
who hope that by submission, they ma,
obtain a little mercy at the hands o
their masters. Never were people NOR,
| woefully deceived. The Yankee will hav'
no mercy upon them. He is only for
bearing when he finds his proposes
victim in q condition aud disposition t
resist. Let him but once be at hi
mercy-completely in his power-inca
! pable of farther resistance-and h
might as we'll hope for mercy from
tiger, or compassion from wolf, or fo
bearance from any other cruel and Gov
ardly wild beast Of the forest. Th
Yankee will not only strip his victim
everything he has in the world, dow
to the very clothes upon his back, b,
he will take every other means to NAL
him feel his situation. Is it not bett
to continue to resist even unto dea
than to accept such peace as this?
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