Year: 1865

people OF the North were celebrating the
anniversary of the birth day of the Faith


er of his country, the chivaly of the South


under the Administration, and by the per.


mission Of the imbeciIe old functionary


james Buchanan, were busy in building
Forts and planting batteries In Charles


ton Harbor, and mounting guns to batter
down the walls of Fort Sumpter, erected
there to protect that modern Babylon
FROM invasion by foreign foe, Without
any real cause or grievances, for they
never have stated any grievances yet, but
from a fear that the time might come
when they would loose the control of the
Government which they had hitherto con-
trolea from its foundation to the present
time, they set about destroying that Gov
crument. They always had the balance
of power in the L. S. Senate, and could
defeat any measure not in harmony with
the interests of their peculiar institution;
and if there was an act on the statute which
would give liberty to Dred Scott, by
reason Of his masters taking him, at his
own pleasure, into free territory, where
according to the Constitution of the U. s.,
he was made free man, they always had
a majority in the Supreme Court Of the
U. S. from the slaveholding States, to
interpret the Constitution in favor of their
interests. In the language of one Of the
Rebel Chiefs, Alex. II. Stephens, what
have they ever demanded of the north
that was not conceded to them Further
with the majority Of the confirming pow
Ell in the Senate, they could reject any
candidate for Important positions, whose
views did not accord with their own with
regard to the interests Of slavery.


Notwithstanding they had every thing
under their control, except the vetoing
power in case a President was elected
whose views did not correspond with
their own, they commenced war upon
the Government that protected them, and
and hurled defiance at the constitution
and the Government bequeathed to US by
Washington and his compatriots; inaug


urating a warfare and civil strife which
for cruelty and crime, barbarity and fend-
ishness, on their part, only finds para
bel among the red savages of the forrest.
Yet these chiyalric knights make great
pretentions to civilization, and lift up ho-
ly hands Of horror, and shed crocodile
tears. for the hundreds and thousands that
have been slain in their hcllish crusade
against the best Government on earth,
and profess TO be as innocent as doves,
and invoke the blessings and wisdom
of Almighty God to aid them in their
mad and reasonable purpose to destroy
our good Government, and establish in
its stead an empire whose chief corner
stone is human bondage. But we have
good cause to believe that he who came to
brake the bands Of those that are bound,
to raise up those that are trodden down,
and to preach the Gospel to the poor, viii
not hear and answer the prayers of those
whose hands are stained with the limo
nocent blood of their fellow men in an
attempt to build up an empire OF Slave


~ on that of freedom. That they thought
the contest would be short one is evi


dent from letter written at the begin


ming of the rebellion, by that mad cap o


secession, Howell Cobb, Of Georgia, il


whose house Sherman's men found th'
letter. In writing to Jacob Thompson


of Mississippi, be said the thrift loyint


Yankees would not fight long. The,


might attempt 70 ovcrwhelm the Soutl


by force OF numbers in a short contest


but the yankee would soon get tired, an


Lincoln could not make them fight long
that the planters would appropriate two
thirds of their Cotton to carry on the wal
ard with their seaports open to the maj


kets of the world, and such brave men


the south could put into the field, the


could carry on the war forever; that on


Southerner could whip five Northener
who would run at the mere sight of col
' steel. Alas for this rebel seer. Fo'
: years have passed by and his vision HI
: failed, and his harp hangs on the wlllO'
!. by the rivers Of Dixie. No seaport op(
I to sell King Cotton to all the markets
! the world. Even the King himself


dethroaed, and Sambo in his seat, VI