The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-02-03
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AN 1,s,recoastructed Rebel Speaks His
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Js, !, recent issue Of the Baltimore Sun
{ ;s q notice of Mr. n. T. Fauntleroy's re-
marks in the House OF Delegates of Viz
oinia. The Following declaration is In part
The subject in regard to which that paper
takes exception and denounces as that gen.
tleman,s g rawlings "--te wit: Force-eon.
stricted. bayonet-pinned. accursed Union.
substituting for the final epithet meretrl-
sious; but a more opposite one is adulter-
oug, since Union, whose ground 10 force,
is exactly Of such nature rs in the case OF
yyedlock, and OF that union OF sovereign
states ,Whiel, was recognized by the fathers
OF the republic, but now dissipated through
the substituted insaDities OF hell and its
H,yrm;doms, the execrabie Yankee ma
+ lignants and desfructionists. and mock
;ers of all civic and religious truth.
Yet the San denounces this just and true
designation Of the loathsome sham now cx-
listing, and which weakened advocate and
Yindicator Of southern inalienable rights
(. during the lawiess and malicious crusade
on q nation Of fourteen sovereign States,
set on foot with an eye single to every fun
damenfal principle Of civil polity known to
our fathers, and which had been rendered
sacred by tradition and aorstten Constitu-
ton. Yet this insane metamorphosis OF our
inimitable governmental fabric is with SUI
pine indifference acquiesced in without
murmur, or protest, or remonstrauce; and
in this record the Charlottesville Chronicle
Is not free from guilt, as in recent issue
1t ridiculed the Dispatch (Richmond) for
its remarks relative to Judge Rives's late
free-negroistic rigamaroie ad 7a1aSeGm, as
to it's bearing on estate rights" in man
ner That bordered on PROCLAMATION; since to
treat lightly OF their obliteration by the
hands OF the atrocious and execrable
fienGs Of Yankeedom shocks the sensibili-
ties OF every enlightened citizen and patri-
otto heart within the domain OF a murdered
nation--the Southern Confederacy! Yet,
we are sickened by some OF our public
speakers, who seem utterly oblivious Of, or
inSenSi6te to, the untold wrongs which the
Yankee deSpoiLeTs have inflicted upon our
people of the South. Have they forgotten
the preparations these devils, who deafen
us with the cry OF g Union = tf Liberty"
"She best Government" &C., had made for
q bachanalian festival over the dead bodies
OF our people Of the South who they had
murdered, with handouts and rope in band
to insult land hang) our President and dig
nitaries OF Government and army --the eUeT-
u
Virginia ''-on the occasion of the first bat
tie Of Manassas? And when we had laid
down our arms through depletion and
want, and thus at their mercy, their imposi-
ton Of filthy test-oaths, their disfranchise-
ment OF all of our best citizens thus taxing
their ingenuity to the utmost to humiliate,
demorallze, degrade our entire people, con-
sti.utes an assemblage OF outrages fiendish
to the last degree, and unatoneabie and un-
pardonable?
And do our people know or forget that
our nationality is extinct by the hand Of the
assassin A right none but Almighty God
can extinguish. and IS ia His sight the third
In degree atrocious Of all other crimes, un-
less 1t be that other-namely, their STABBED
endeayor to debauch ollr people to alike de-
gree to that oil the authors OF our wrongs.
Yetin the face of all this the malignants
OF Yankeedom have set up "a howl" over
the aboye-citied Just and true utterance OF
MIR. Fauntleroy, as though no State legisiass
ture had never been dissolved by the Fed
eral arm; nor the Presidentelect set aside
by lawIess legislators, and that there were
no interpretations aaioacfalty inserted In the
Constitution, and that no odions and
deteStahle form Of oaths OF allegiance,
as the following were exacted OF our
prisoners In their hands, and after the
surrender--to wit: 81 solemnIy swear
that viii support, protect, and defend the
Constitution and Government OF the United
States against oil enemies. whether domestic
or foreign; that will bear true faith, allie
giance, aud loyalty to the same, any ordi-
nance, resolution, or law Of any State, con-
yention, OF legislature to the contrary not
withstand ding - and I take this
oath freely and poluatdTsky, without any
mental reservation or evasion whatever"
TO frame and exact such form OF oath ar
CUES total restitution OF any moral sense
or character. and Is the act OF demon OF the
Vilest grade. and it affords ample proof OF
the :. accurssd = nature Of that Government
as administered by Seward and lis like
soulless tyrants, aud iusti6es the language
OF Mr. Fanntleroy In toto.
"A CONFEDERATE OF THE FATAESs STAMP
ETERNAL.LY. 5s