We have read with attention the proceedings resolutions, and speeches, of the recent great Democratic assemblages in New York, and must confess that we can see nothing in them to justify any hopes of the ‘"intervention"’ of that party on behalf of the
Confederate States.
On the contrary, beyond a political opposition to the
Lincoln Government in its abolition policy, we regard the
Northern Democracy, as its views are expounded by its candidate for Governor in New York, the most formidable enemy we have to encounter, and as implacable and uncompromising as the
Black Republicans.
Mr. Seymour proclaims in the most emphatic terms that he will never consent to a division of the
Union.
He is as blind as
Mr. Lincoln to the fact that it has been divided long ago, and can never again be put together except as a union of the living and the dead.
The
programme of the
Washington despot, whilst more inhuman and brutal than that of
Mr. Seymour, is more logical and comprehensible.
The Black Republicans intend to subjugate us, and to leave us not even the name of State Rights, or free institutions, or any badge of liberty.
We are to be conquered provinces and held as such by large garrisons in all the strongholds of our country.
The Democracy also intend to in the language of their orators, they intend to reduce us to unconditional submission, and then, when we are thoroughly at their mercy, they will permit us to have the same nominal State and individual rights that we had under the old Constitution!
We are to be graciously allowed all the insignia of State sovereignty, with the understanding that if we ever exercise any essentials of sovereignty we shall be hung and quartered for high treason.
In fine the Democrats of the
North are practically as thorough consolidationists as the
Black Republicans, and only differ them in this, that the Republicans are in fa- of taking away both our property and lives, and the Democrats of taking away our lives and leaving us our property!
It is needless to say to Southern readers that of these parties understand the spirit and intent of the
Southern Revolution.
We are not simply to keep the
North from taking slaves.
We are in arms because we do act to be made slaves ourselves, either to
England fanaticism, New York greed of gain, or to their common idol, the
Union--a miserable that whom they worship as if it were the God of Heaven and Earth, but whom we regard as a demon, whose altars are wet with the blood of our children, and whom we loathe detest, and will resist to the last breath, with every energy of our souls.
We can comprehend Lincolnism in its pure and unmixed diabolism; but, after all that has passed, we cannot comprehend how any party in the
United States expects the
South, under any circumstances whatever, to become reconciled to living once more under the old Union.
In the language of the London
Times, ‘"have vast armies been fighting in their sleep, have hundreds of thousands of men been claim in dreams,"’ that the scenes and events of this war should pass away and leave no more impression than the keel of a tempest-tossed vessel upon the waves, or a shower of shooting stars upon the sky!
In all those scenes and events the Democracy of the
North, according to their own showing, have been the chief actors, furnishing the largest proportion of fighting men, the ablest
Generals, and, we may add, the most unmitigated brutes, that single beast,
Butler, of New Orleans, having surpassed in his infamy the blackest monster of Black Republicanism.
We have no hopes, therefore, and ask no favors of any party in the
North.
Our trust in the future is in Him alone who has delivered us in the past, and through His mighty aid and our strong right arm, we will be free.
