The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-06
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A lady correspondent writing to us
from White Sulphur Springs, Green
brier county, West Virginia, encloses
US the subioined editorial from the
Richmond Dispatch, of November 18th
1851. She remarks:
II thoaght the article might Interest
you and your readers. II is wen to
compare some things therein with the
present howlings of the same paper
over the Military Reconstruction Bill.
verify the rebels are fulfilling their
Satan-inspired prophecies. They goad
themselves, and cry murder! Cast
away their liberties, and cry theft APP
ply the torch, and yell fire! Defile the
temple, and SHREK SdcTiLe0e! And all
the work OF generalization"
The article enclosed is as follows:
UNIoNIS8f IN THE SoUTH.-In a late
letter TO the London Times, Mr.. Russell
expresses his increduliLy as to the ex-
istence of a strong Union element in
Maryland. The country gentlemen he
speaks of as tenacious and naughty as
any Magyar or Pole who ever lived"
and in Baltimore "the people sullen
and angry" Mr.. Russell suggests
that If It requires thirty-three tho1sand
men to hold the little State OF Maryland
in chains, it will demand a very con-
siderable standing army and enormous
expenditure to keep the rest of the
South quiet, even if they could subju-
gate her. None of the Northern pro-
phets have ventured to look full in the
lace the consequences OF their own sue
cess and to realize that, in many re-
spects, it would be as bad as defeat
There is, 1 know" says Mr.. Rus
sell, "a pretense that there is Union
sentiment in solution in the South
which will tumble down in a thick pre-
cipitation on the head of the COnfeder-
ates the moment it is stormed by Fed
eral bayOnet; but there Is no trace of
foundation for the hypothesis. And yet
II Is upon such hypothesis as this that
the North builds its expectations of a
reconstruction of the old Union. We
need not say that Mr.. Russell's state
ment is literally and thoroughly true.
Except in some portions of Western
Virginia, East Tennessee and Northern
Kentucky, and except handful of
malcontents in the large cities,
| there is no such thing as Union
ism left in any part OF the South. An
undying hatred to the Lincoln despo-
tism is the prevailing and universal
sentiment of the Southern people. The
Federal Government, therefore, must
prepare not only to oUerthTotO us BIZ the
St1ord, but TO keep US dOtpn bU the same
inst -IinIe1ltdLity; and what a work that
win bel And, if it expects to make
southern cotton pay the expenses OF
the colossal military establishment neees-
sdTy to retain its poWer, what If the
South should refuse to cultivate cotton?
She can live in plenty without raising
cotton. She has the finest climate and
the most fertile lands in the world. She
is grazing and IA farming as well as a
planting people. She has not only
raised her usual supply of cotton this
year, but her grain crops have been
more than sufficient TO supply the
wants of her people. The State of
Georgia alone, thou h her staples are
cotton and rice, raises as much wheat
as New York, one ofthe wheat growing
States of the North. The South can
dispense with those staples which the
North is SO eager to obtain, and still
live. She DiU dispense with them, If
the North undertakes to hold her as a
conquered country. They are totally
ignorant of the lofty character of the
Southern people who suppose that,
having proved their claim to all that is
glorious in chivalry. whether in lin
cage, sentiment, or valor, they will ever
degenerate into tillers ofthe soil for the
benefit of Northern commercial task
masters.