, 1865-08-08

.AtAAkNAato ianSuaSe anu Hlu >coufse1 We
have no objections. We have written th1s
sketch of bis acts to show the important part
the clergy Of the South played In the great
drama which has Just closed.
HOW THE SOUTHERN CON
FRDE0ACF WENT UP., .
4 Voice from the BIO 0rande.
lFrcm the Matamoras Daily Rsuehe.o, Jaly 18.1
GLORIOUS PRIVILEGE.
Three short months ago It was indeed a
glorious privilege to be IN undoubted Corr
iederate- Not Confederate who had been
forced into ranke, for all such were only Con-
fede1ates from necessity. Not Confederate
who was hasking In the dollar and cent smilea
Of enrolling officers, for all such .We1e undar
de!ai1ed or contracting Confederate, for all
such were we'll known To- be making money
ont Of tho war. Not hfty-ana -oyer years old
Confederates, for the whole grey headed tribe
Of them were If rdisputab1y nothing but pack.
Of CID blow-basda. Certainly not enlisted
Confs delates, for It waa well known that they
went into the ranks Just to keep from being
Ct nscr;pted. Not exempted Conftde- ates,
fer they were inconteatsbly exempted for no
other purpose than tor whtppcEa-in and 2 en-
cral teaseIs, without being ConiedcEates at all.
Not slckly, consumptlye, die3olntsd Copfedez-
I'LL H. loI LQtIE u uI 1OuDk Dut 4Att tJQh b4Ck.
-: the assumption OF broke their legsJust
to keep out of'rsc ranks. We nszured1y do
rot mean Nortbesn-boih Cenfederates, from
the highest cfIlces to the lowest private, In
or cut Of the army for all such .lau1teJ IN.
der the most internal tan Of suspicion which
any set Of men ever undertook to pack. We
could not possibly mean an official Confeder-
ate; for their was too clear case OF robbing
the country, soldieFs' families and all. But
at honest, undoubted, unsuspected Confeder-
ate to be such one WIS glory enough for
nDy man three months ago. To have been
| Euch a Confederate at that time, however,
| man and woman In the Confederate states,
and then to hare called up the Savior, and
| possibly, he woUld have suspected h!mse1f.
But DOW how changed the scene! The
glorious privilege Ct beng and baving been
Confederate, free from suspicion, Ia denied to
no one. All that any one may claim Of this
| Without tie Introduction of testimony. Even
No! theln-bcm man can now get sight
draft cashed for as much Confederate patriot
| ism as be Is willing to draw for. The stock
| IN bank is inexhaustihle, and none arc 50
poor as not to have unfailing interest In it.
rious in ITSELF has, like the Iatns from heaven
fallen upon the just and the unjust, upon the
| rich and tho poor.
The Confcde.ucy is dead: It ,7ns st~aneled
IN ths house OF Ifs friends. It isas dead as
| TIE principles for which |. contended-prin-
1ic. But The people Of the ones Confedefacy
have no g. ound to complain, for they we're
| amnEE the first to abandon them they al
| lowed them to be abandontd. They allo red .
every ytstige Of human rights to be ignored,
| under promise Of having them given back
be robbed Of their property, their Inherent
| and natural rights, unds: The APPALLING de1u-
! sicn that 1t wcutd strengthen their poWar of
| resistance. They tole,a1ed tho blackcst act
| that ever d!sgraced legislative record --un-
constitutional and uohols-the act Of con-
| An act that forced the honest, Industrial, Ia
boring nan frcm lis dependent family Into
| tbepRnkF, without providing means ofsubss-
tence ior his family, and exempted p1aoters
and their nigg'rs; doctors, not one In ten
| Of whom deserved a patient, and at best
canttng, eeTen-hy- nine, society disturbing
| preachers, and evef meddlesome and
diciator-supportiug editors. Exempted thsm
t fog no other purpose than to combine wealth.
talent md Influence in support OF the meas
| nrc. and thereby force It down the throats Of
| That net exempted three hundred thousa
effective white men who could leave their
families with pI1ncely fortunes, and every
] way provided with the comsor.s of LIE; It
! exempted from eerEicc Of nny sort, five hum
dred thousand powerful, able-bodied blacks;
I viewing them In o eacred Hight, and thf1w-
| ipg the burden OF war and defense tf;the
country upon five CT six hundred thousand
honest labo.ine men whose families depend
upn their toll for daily Eustennuce. Cruel,
inhuman, dlabollcal act, and cruelty, inhu-
manly and diabolicai'y WIS 1t ID many,
very many, instances executed.
| Added to this, ths people tolerated pack
! Of lie most internal vampires that ere: suck
! ed human blood. In the form OF petty OIL
cisls; little, dirty tyrants, in official livery,
who, under The pretense Of robbfng for the
Government, robbed for Themselves. From
to the most Insignificant pet of the GoYern-
ment, that vas II fortunate enough to come
under The exemption clRuse, a general grab
was made at whatever was In sight. In every
conceivable form ,robbery was carried on. In
nocent men, honest Con:ederates, who hap
erty. would no sooner be pointed out than
would q pack Of official ours statt upon the
truck. The best men Of the country were
suspected expressly to drive them into oppo-
sttlon. or from the country. Confederate States
receivers, none OF whom hare re positively
known to settle with their Government, IN
many instanses diegraced the name Of man
IN their hen-roost searches after conf1scated
property. All these 8tates and Confederate
Etates' officials inaug gn1ated system Of esp1-
, Nu&EE AIu pluuQt& utfGf utlVI6 E4lA4leQ Oh
earth. No man WIS free from suspicion, and
no man dared TO point back to the written
Constitution and laws Of the country for
there Has. no law nor constitution recognized
| by these petty tyrants. No one dared sug,
gest even the object for which the war was
inausurated, for to do 50 Was conclusive eTi-
dence Of disloya1ty. .,.i.
The FOLDERS who were fortunate enough to
get fur1oushs for home, would no sooner be.
hold the work of official vampires, than
W6uld they resolve never to return to the
ranks. Nine times out Of ten thsy would
find that all they had left behind had been
gobbled up, and they, In self-defense, would
commence stealing to get even,
Confidence between the people and Gov
eminent WIS lost +; f0r every new usutpation
Of constitutional authority pared the way
for another Outrage. So soon a. the Gorarn-
nent violated the Constitution, both civil
md military officers caEed to respect the laws,
and the soldiers, as a consequence, ceased to
TeHpect their Ulcers, or the persons or rights
of The people. AL there has been to the
Conft deracy in the last year or TWO WIS an
into1erable military despotlsm and SOLDIER
anarchy. Under this weight 1t WIS impossl-
bic for the ConiedcracY to succeed. Its Own
weight IVES sufticient to cfueh It, aud crushed
1t is, hut not whipped.
4 taser or mere transparent libel was
never pe1pctrated than that the brave SOL
dIe1s and people Of the south haye been whip
die1y having been despoflcd Of every consti-
tuttoral right, having given up their freedom
and their liberty, under The liberty y-rubblng
plea Of " necessity" Saw nothing to be GAN
cd By continuing the war. They had become
worse off teau slaves, and knew that any
had seen all that was worth contending fol
ditappta ar, and refused by acclamatfun, to
cont nue. the struggle, when every day vas
plunRfng them deeper into YassalaTe. The