The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-13
WHAT VIII TUEYUO WITH U.s.?

WHAT VIII TUEYDO WITH U.S'
We fully concur with contemporary
that neither experience Of the conduct
Of other nations where revolutions had
occurred, nor our knowledge Of the pub
lie enemy while We were in political as
ISOLATION with him, nor since the rup-
tuyc, afford any reason to expect that
the consequences Of our failure would
be less disastrous nor deplorablc to in
diyiduals, to property and to society,
than have been the consequences of de
feat, without exception, to vanquished
peoples. No more than Ireland, India,
Hungary or Poland, may we hope for
another fate than political subjection,
with all the accompaniments of humilia-
ton and wretchedness-thc fate Of sub
;ugatcd national ties.
We 90 even further than this. We
believe that the dispositions of England
to Ireland and India, of Austria to Hun
gary, and Of Russia to Poland, are be-
neyolent and merciful compared to those
of the Yankee Government to the South
ern States. In none Of these examples
were 50 many base and cruel. appe:ites
enlisted as in this contest. 1t is not
alone the lust Of power, the greed Of
gain and the madness of fanaticism-add-
ed to ell these are the deuilish passions
Of envy and revenge, the internal spirit
Of the French Revelation, combined with
the ambition of the Gear and the fanati-
cism Of Cromwell.
Neither Hungary, Poland, India, no
Ireland, have ever suffered as this people
will be made to suffer when the foot of
the Yankee tyrant is on the, necks Of
the" first families" That will be the
sweetest drausht-the conqueror will
quati in all that mingled goblet of blood
and subjugation. The utter degradation
Of those whom they represent as the
aliSIocrats will be milk and honey to
their souls. 1t matters not that in no
land under Heaven is there as much res
lcpublicanism as in the Confederate
States. Our enemies are enraged by
that decree Of Providence which has as
signed to the Southern people such a
soodly heritage; they feel the malign
influences which steal over ignoble ma
lures when they come in contact with
superior manhood What will they do
with US, indeed What did Robespierre,
Il. Just and other demons of the Reign
Of Terror do: Even were they disposed
to be tolerant and mercful, the necessi-
ties OF their position would present diff
1cultes which it would be impossible to
surmount. Our own debt, State and
Confederate, would be wholly repudiated.
The enormous debt Of the United States
three thousand millions Of dollars
owed by the Northern people-owed to
them-whose pockets will that come out
or A contemporary, the Confederate,
supposes this case Two candidates in
Yankee States present themselves for
popular suflrages for seat in the Fede.
TAI Congress. One puts to the other this
question: We have debt of three thou
saha millions, and several millions are
Aeld by our constituents-how do YOU
propose to pay it?
We'll, says the other, the Southern
people are our brethren-we are not of
.'e same race and blood it is true they
nave done very wrong, have. committed
s''eSons sins, but they have been SADLY
punished, and their sufferings are many
ana great We can afford TO be humane
anu generous, and forgiving; our nation
- great and prosperous; the debt will
never be felt as burden; l. am for paw.
."s II as an ordinary public debt, by pro.
'a'ohs made through Congress, bearing
I' I''''''in'y on the people of the whole
1A'on' 'orth and South To which the
f@ss0'nsr would reply: care nothing
Se VI blood these Southern people