What will they do with us?
The New York
Herald informs us that the
Yankee Cabinet are consulting about the proper mode of treating the conquered Southern rebels.
Part of them are in favor of granting an amnesty to all but the civil and military leaders, and prospective emancipation of the
Southern slaves; others for extreme punishment and immediate abolition.
All of them, however, are united on counting the chickens before they are hatched, and cooking the fish before they catch him.
We are not informed whether our own Cabinet are consulting about the proper disposition to be made of the
Yankee nation.
Possibly we may exempt their military and civil leaders from punishment, as they have had little else for the last two years. If they will come to terms at an early day we may grant an amnesty to the rank and file, on condition that they never show their faces again, in peace or war, within the borders of Dixie.
The white slaves of the
North must be at once emancipated.
For this purpose our Government might deem it proper to propose to all deserters of foreign birth from the
Yankee conscription work enough to support them and their families on this side the line.
As soon as the men dragooned into the
Federal ranks reach the
South, we should offer every inducement and facility to them to quit their detested bondage.
The New York
Herald indulges the delightful idea that, after the rebellion is crushed, the united armies of North and South will cooperate to whip out
England and
France from every vestige of foothold upon this continent.
England and
France must be blind indeed if such developments as these do not startle them from their suicidal neutrality.
But the
Herald can scarcely imagine that the present war, whatever its result, will facilitate such an enterprise.
If the
South is conquered, it will be because its fighting population has been exterminated.
In that event nobody will be left to fight
England or
France.
If the
South succeeds she will have no despotism to embroil herself on Northern account with any nation of the earth.
In any event that would heartily sympathize with any nation within would make war upon the
North.
Of the cannot have her own independence, this would infinitely prefer being a French of British province to coming under Yankee destitution.
The
Herald may rest satisfied that
Mayor the
South approaches subjugation as as that journal imagines she is at this payment, she will make her own choice of masters.
