5 other side of the Atlantic ? In short, are we willing to suffer and perhaps to die lighting against people with whose views we fully agree, and with whom we have a common interest, in order to continue and aggravate the evils that have heen brought upon us, and for no other purpose than to sustain a set of political harpies, who are fattening upon our misfortunes, and who look down upon us with a lordly contempt ? Unless the self-styled chivalry, (or, as Prentice calls them, the “ Chivalryites/’) who rule the South can keep the rank and file from thinking, trouble will arise in their midst before they anticipate it. When the outraged masses, goaded at last beyond endurance, rise up against them, such as may not have taken time by the forelock, and followed their money abroad, may meet with a swift and terrible retribution, instead of surviving to experience in exile the weary pangs of remorse. ------- ------------- THE VULGARITY OF TREASON. {See the Appendix to this Article.) This article, from Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, has been revised and materially altered and enlarged by one of the contributors to the Loyal Publication Society, Mr. Wilkes is not responsible for the changes made. The secession leaders in the South divide mankind into two classes—Secessionists and Abolitionists. The letter from Beauregard to Bragg that was intercepted in Kentucky, urged that this classification be adopted, and the suggestion has been acted upon. Already, they had declared Secessionists and Unionists were of different races: that the former were Normans, and the latter Saxons. The new classification is not regarded as destructive, but rather as cumulative of the old; and now, among the elite of the rebellion, the white human family are in general held to consist of Norman. Secessionists and Saxon Abolitionists. That the leaders of the secession movement intended, from the outset, to give up republicanism as being incompatible with slavery, and to adopt a stronger and more aristocratic form of
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