Year: 1863

mail will soon start for below, it being
our last chance until we reahh Fort Am.
bercrombie. l will try and write YOU
from there, and until then adeu.


j. M. B.
The Rebellion Drawing its own Por-


trait.


Week before last we found in Tile
Richmond Examiner an article giving so
correct and clear view of the principles
and designs Of the Rebellion that we can
render no better service 10 the cause ol
truth than by aiding its circulation


The establishment of the Confederacy
is a distinct reaction against the whole
coarse Of the mistaken Civilization of the
age. And this is the true reason why
we have been left without the sympathy
of the nations until we conquered that
sympathy with the sharp edge of our
sword. For Liberty, Equality, Fratern-
ity,' are haze deli6erate1y substituted .Sla0.
cry, ,SaJordination, and Government.
Those social and political problems
which rack and torture modern society
we have undertaken to solve for our
selves, in our own way, and upon our
own principles. That among equals
equality is right ) among those who ale
naturally unequal, equality is chaos (;
that there are SlGec races born 10 serpe,
master races born to gogern such are
the fundamental principles which we in
herit from the ancient world, which we
lifted up in the face of a perverse gene.
ration that has forgotten the wisdom of
its fathers; by those principles we live,
and in their defense we have shown our
selves ready TO die. Reyerently we feel
that our Confederacy IS a God sent mis-
Sj0nary TO tie na'ionS, p'M great trails TO
preach. We must speak them boldly :;
and who hath ears to hear, let him
hear.


"Thank God the Conrederates have
some statesmen and thinkers up to the
mark and level Of the situation. There
are men in these Confederate States who
have long deeply felt and earnestly striv,
en- to exprcss-though hmidly and spec
ulatiycly-on what foundations Of fact,
with what cornerstone of principle our
social situation was one day TO be built
up fair and bright. Now is the time.
Let them speak in no apologctc tone,
nor place Us, at their peril, in any depre
cautious attitude. This people has won
the right surely 10 be "let alone" They
will accept no deduction in politics, in
literature, in philosophy; they will not
follow but lead, nor borrow but lend.
They are more than content with their
own principle Of morals and WAYS Of life.
and will stand upon it 10 the end, so help
them God"


With these clear and decisive declara.
tons do the advocates of the Southern
rebellion present themselves and their
cause TO the world. They proclaim it a
reaction against The fundamental princi.
Piles of modern civilization. Against
every idea which tire world accepts OF
justice and of liberty, the rebellion is a
distinct protest. They declare that the
great problem which racks and tortures
society elsewhere. of the elevation of the
laboring classes into dignity and freedom,
they have solved by short and easy
method of their own. There arc races
which are born to perpetual scryi;ude
this is the fundamental principle which
tha new social state has received from
the ancient world, and which ii is sent
Of God 10 lft up before an uubelieslng
generation.


Before principles like these we stand
in wonder and abhorrence Such ayow
ais remind us of those extraordinary
Suggestions OF treachery and baseness
which Maehiavelli and his school, in
dark and evil days, propounded as the
contamination Of craftsmanship Over
those inculcations the world has perplex.
ell itself ever since, TO find some possible
explanation Of a deprayity which. TO an
age of higher cultivation, seems utterly
incredible. We need no longer perplex
ourselves. Tie doctrines Of "The
Prince" so long inexplicablo to minds
which retained either any honesty or any
sham. find parallel in these atrociou.
principles. which illustrate the method
OF their origin. and The manner Of theiI
publication.


For n whole generation the dire slave,
ry of Virginia has been becoming more
intense. Under tie thin disguise OF {
necessity imposed upon them by the VIC