Who we have to fight.
The proceedings of the brutal mobs in
Philadelphia,
New York, &c., are of course what might be expected of those sewers into which the whole world has poured its superfluous filth and scum.
The action of these church-burning, flour-plundering, swinish groundlings, has no terrors for any but their Northern masters, the cowardly conservatives, or conservative cowards, who succumbed at the first onset of their white slaves.
It is not only easy but delightful for bestial and craven natures to be ferocious and blood thirsty where there is no danger, and
Philadelphia,
New York, &c., being supposed to be perfectly secure from bombardment, of course the dogs, wolves, hyenas, &c., had it all their own way. But upon the barbarians who compose the lower orders of the
Northern cities, and who are much inferior in humanity and refinement to
African negroes, it is a waste of ammunition to exhaust a single invective.
The grossness and bestialities of these ‘"lewd fellows of the baser sort"’ are all upon the surface, and therefore, bad as they are, they are not as contemptible as their masters.
With some exceptions, the wealthy classes of the
Northern cities are reptiles who have emerged from the same Stygian mud in which the more demonstrative and unclean mob are now wallowing, and in no wise differ from them except in their wealth, which has no power to confer elevated sentiments or purity of character.
Consequently, as their own newspapers testify, the classes of those cities called conservative, which is but another name for men of money, are the most depraved and ignorant of any society in the world which pretends to social elevation and influence.--It is believed that
Paris, in its worst days, never equalled the corruptions of society among the fashionable classes in the
Northern cities.
For true conservatism we have the most profound respect, and Heaven forbid that, in forming a new Government, the
South should leave root or branch of that accursed levelling and agrarian spirit which has brought this country to its ruin.
But for the whited political and moral sepulchres of the
North called conservatives, simply because they have money in their purse and seek to conserve it at the cost of a nation's peace and happiness, we have no sentiments but those of profound loathing and abhorrence.
