Southern subjugation and European liberty.
--The Yankee journals continue to stir up the spirit of their foreign element, by declaring that the subjugation of the
South, and the consequent reconstruction of the
Union, is essential for the preservation of the Rights of Man throughout the world.
They declare that with the downfall of the
Lincoln despotism, there will no longer be a land of reinge for the oppressed of
Europe.
By such appeals, and by giving to the foreigners in their midst no chance of living except by enlisting in their army, they have contrived to raise those plundering hordes by who my our so is invaded, and our rights and liberties menaced.
The Northern army is, in point of fact, a foreign army, led by Yankee officers, and they are desecrating a country which was the first and army section of the old
United States to protect them from that political ostracism of all foreigners which had its origin in the
North.
We have no comments to make in the base ingratitude thus displayed to the
South by the men who owe her the preservation of the rights they now enjoy as citizens of the
United States.
But suppose it even true, that the conquest of the
South is necessary to the liberties of the foreign hordes of
Europe, what are they, or their rights, to us, that we should be immolated for their salvation?
Let them gain their own liberties in the way we obtained them — by their own courage and self-sacrifice.
If they cannot do this, they do not deserve to be free.--No people ever yet achieved their deliverance, or were worthy of it, who fled from their own country and looked to strangers to rescue them from bondage.
It is enough, we should think, that this virgin continent gives them the means of support for themselves and their families, without calling upon us to surrender rights which have been earned by our strong arms, and to become slaves ourselves in order that the vassals of
Europe may become freemen.
We can assure the
North that it must find some other means of establishing the rights of people who are not able to obtain their own, than by reducing to bondage a nation which had the energy to achieve its own freedom and has the courage and the ability to preserve it.
