Year: 1862

from the Richmond Dispatch, February III


The invasion which the South has most fear ID that
which will occur peace made. This is a sub


ec emneny worth the attention OF Congress and OF the
State Legislatures We confess that on ms point ap
psehessns great and that that after
hos is haze cease, the South oH ds completely
nldr us commercial domination Of the North as erer
before IT, % unnecessary to say that, in this event, the
Union will have ceased exist only in It would
still be Union Of the powerful and the weak o the in
dependent and the dependent leaving ths South as com


pleey ut the mercy Of the North she unor
the former government II the North after this war; is
stu 70 conuct our commerce, trade and manufactures,
we snail always be weak less and ees capable or sell
defence and the question Of nominal wei act al
subectioa boonly question OF time. We have heard the
prediction from one OF the most sagacous and dspas
sonae observers of men and things In tho South that as
soon as peace is declared whole legion o. Yankee com
mer,ia aud man Featuring agants will appear in every
southern CITY town and neigbofho0d each Of them with
an enormo re OF documents under his arm proving
that he hal nothing Whatever to DO with the
present war; that he had been prosecuted
and maltreatcd or account Of HIS strong Southern
sympathies and respectfully ouostng share Of South
ernparonage Men whose hands hayeset fire to South
houses, demolished Southern property, and red with
Southern blood, viii be hero by tousands and Of
thousands, smiling snrkng, howiDg crirgng ,fawning,
protesting and proving by documentary evidence that
they had always osed the war and nwardy goating
the folly aud credulity that can be easily i'm
posed upon by the smooth tongue Of datery and deceit


The peope Of the South are naturally shocked at the


idea that after the supendous crimes aud horrors of
whose unparalleled barbartes have called down tie
solemn reprobaion Of every civilized conty in Europe,
we should ever permit ourselves again TO become hewers
OF wood and draweis Of water for these malignant and
murderous tyrans II would be better far better to be
subugated in name well in fact han to be guided
by the hnmbug Of in lependenoe and become rel, and
tributary slaves 10 hieous despoi ism. In the
our vassaaSe will not be degradation, because
slal have resisted 1t with all The courage. power and


talents the God Of heaven has placed disposal and
shall throw il of at tho frs opportunity, and trans
NIT our wrongs to posterty for redress and retbution
In the other, we shall be the authors Of our own
shame shall throw contempt on the graves Of our
heroic dead and with hands deliver children
and children's children become the commer cal
servants
quered Yet disgraceul and infamous would be such
asequel Of the it is among the possibilities and,
tho is short, 1t s probable well possible. If
peace were declared to- morrow unless there strn-
gent legislative enactments to prevent it, there
in every community who would hurry by the
train for Northern goods and the FIRST through
from the Northern cities would bring Yankee drummers,
with their boots yet wet with the mud Of the Potomac
Roanoke Island and tho smell OF blood fresh upon their
garments. Our own infant manufactures would be nip
ped in the bud homo industry and enterprise Of every
kind srsnge Yankee shoes Clothes carriages agricul
tura implements cotton and woolen goods school books,
lying histories and filthy weekcs be again pcdded at
every We this sub ect most earnestly
to Congress- There are difficulties and perpexes, we
aware, In establishing system which shall prevent
these evils; but unless they be prevented,
once lay down arms.


In regard the danger that Yankee enemies will trans
fer their business and themselves to the South after the
war, we have heard it suggested that ght be obvia
ted by requiring Of all foreign emgrants who desire natu
razaton residence oath that they have not been
engaged in the present against the South and in the
that is afterwards shown that they have peurcd
themselves to conscae all their property. II evident
that stringent laws must be adopted in regard to the
cise Of the right of suffrage by all future emgrants to the
South. Either high freehold qualification the pos
session Of negro PROPERTY Or no other means will meet


the case the entire exclusion from any such franchise Of
all future emgrants from tho North except by special
act Of Congress-. We have been able TO why
countrymen should make this boon Of suffrage
cheaper than IL is in any other country the earth In
Great Britain, as free aud prosperous nation as the
world ever saw. neither our own countrymen nor natives
Of any other country permitted to vote except by
special act Parliament While existing rights resi-
dents before the ought Of to be respected
should rejoice to total prohibition Of suffrage TO all
Northerners who shall hereafter make the South their
home-a home whose institutions they have assalied by
the sword.