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'Oppressed nationality" shall never, by
God's blessings, be a designation for the
States of this'Confederacy ; and while we
stand in armed and defiant resistance, , it
may even be thought gratuitously offen
sive to enter upon an account of that inter
estino- class of communities, as if it could
haveauy possible relation to us and our
destiDies. Yet in order that we may all,
with one heart and mind, continue to re
sist to the triumphant end ; in order that
none of the very cowards amongst us may
ever dream of laying down those arms in
the delusive hope of peace, until a glorious
independence has been achieved, it may
be well to keep before our eyes the miser
able, shameful, but too sure alternative.
Nothing can be more certain than that we
have before us either a complete .military
success in this war, or else the full' meas
ure of Poland's and of Ireland's grinding
oppression and emaciating humiliation.
Some weak-minded persons, we are sor
ry to learn, still soothe themselves with
the idea that if the worst should come, we
should but be reduced to the present con
dition of Kentucky or Missouri; in which
tUnKa liao hoon sft Vfit no RweeDiner confis-
cation of estates nor absolute extermina- ' , his personal, and the income ot his real es
tained in such cases is always uniform; ' it
is to appropriate the lands and goods of
the subject people, and to make their in
dustry subservient to the profit of their
masters. The means, therefore, are toler-"
ably-uniform also; the means are to invent
ever new and more and more humiliat
ing tests, and oaths, such as cannot
fail to excite local insurrections and con
spiraciesthen to crush these with brutal
rigour,- and afterguards reap the harvest iu
plunder Tq out this process with
safety, it is el to take the pluck out
ot the subjeej people oy disarming: them
carefully, and tliufe killing in ' them the
spirit of men. Slso to take into the hands
of "government" the whole education of
the young in order that the school' books
given them to read may carefully conceal
the fact that they once had a country, and
how it was lost; here, in the case suppos
ed, our school books and teachers would
come all from Massachusetts and Connec
ticut, and they wouH teach our children
that they ought to be proud of living un
der the glorious Stars and Stripes; if the
"rebellion" were ever mentioned at all in
their historical readings," it would be with
execration upon the unhappy miscreants,
who, in those years, criminally sought to
destroy the best government in the world.
Under the Irish system of penal laws, in
the reign of George I, Irish children were
forbidden to be educated at all, except by
English Protestant schoolmasters; and as
the Catholic gentry of the -country then
adopted the practice of sending their child
ren to be educated in France and Spain,
another act was speedily passed r "That
if any Catholic child were sent abroad
without license, it waB presumed by law
that he was sent to be educated in a for
eign seminary, by which a forfeiture of
tion of people; and they foudiy imagine
that, even if the country should fall entire
lv under the power of the Yankee nation,
still the property and the rights, of., them
the weak-minded persons) might still be,
some how, saved harmlessly by some sort
ot base oaths, and pledges of "loyalty" to
the new mastors. So dreamed many of
the Irish bofore the capitulation of Limer
ick and disbaudment or exile of the nation
al forces. It was not till after that event,
when the island lay really in the condi
tion of a conquered country, that the code
of "penal laws" began1 to be enacted.
There was then no army in the field to
which men, goaded by oppression, could
fly for refuge and for vengehce. The war
was over, and only its fruits ; remained to
be gathered. ; , ; .
Now the Yankee enemy has hithorto
forborne from applying the law of , con
quest to Kentucky and other border States
simply because he knows that those States
are not yet conquered, (The war (thank
God!) is" not over. v, Our Confederate i ar
mies are still on toot, and on the banks of
the Rapid Ann, and in the gap of Chicka
mauga, not only vguard Virginia and Geor
gia, but also postpos indefinitely the; fate
of Kentucky and Maryland. - If the ene
my should now prematurely put in force
the policy of confiscation and proscription
in those States, the effect would.be only to
send their young men trooping to General
Lee and General J Ohnston. 1 It must i be
only after the sub mission ' of the whole
land-if brir eyes should ever see that: evil
day-that the Yankee nation can begin to
parcel it: outas reward for the soldiers.
matter what might be th e gnaran ties ,
treaties, amnesties, : carjitnlatipns ; under
which we sliotild have laid rdowri our arms,
pretexts wouldj 'tip, TinstSahfly rfbund t for,
evading them alla in e'e
enna and Lirherick treaties. iNo; treaty e
tween victor and vanquished; ever binds
the former; and unless we are toisuppose
in the Yankee, nation r, Boraen snperhnraau
virtue, s6me bnjelic purity and benignity,
some grandeur of soui heretofore unexam
pled; we may be sure that they would pro
ceed generally as the' Russians and - the
English did;, xvltfx perhaps sorne ingenuous
additions; for our ' neighbors are;an inven
tive people. ; .'V''.-,
They;w6uld need all r their . ingenuity,
however, if they, wished, to ?itnprpve much
upon the methods ; elsowhereatried vjvith
such success. The grand object to be at
tate was incurred." The personal ,and the
real estate was the main point; but, m or
der to clutch it, all education had ; to be
controlled, all history to be perverted, and
the spirit of the rising generation denation
alized in its very spring.
' It may be imagined that the cases of
Poland and Ireland are scarcely applica
ble to any possible state of affairs amongst
us, inasmuch as in both those countries
much of the persecution ; was occasioned
by religious intolerance. The Irish and the
Poles were Catholics; and Great Britain
and Russia Were resolved to crush out that
religion, and establish, in the one country,
Anglican Protestantism; in the other the
Greek church. Yes, but in both cases re
ligion was only the pretext, and any other
pretext would have done as well. The
grand object was the , real and : personal
estate. If the people had really . become
converted, under that sort of severe prose
lytism, why, some" other pretext would
have had to be invented, that is- all. In
these States one could easily contrive cun
ning tests and oaths quite as hard to swal
low, and quite as sure to yield a crop of
confiscation, as any subscription to a reli
gious creed. Besides, are we sure that the
Yankees are not provided with the very
same religious machinery of plunder I Is
it forgotten that all the Churches in Ainer
ica (save one) are irreconcilably divided
upon a great . moral question- -that the
Northern branch of each communion holds
it abominable to teach that , Christianity
countenances slavery, .while the Southern
branch, renounced all connection -:, with
Yankee Christianity upon that very ques
tion ? The Churches are divided upon the
very question upon which the- States se
ceeded. t Conquest of the ' Southern States
would be con qufest of the Southern church
es ; they would kihstahtly become J schis
aticjthereticalaccused a r Jthr zeal
and odium: ifieotygicTMtf ' Yan kee? ehris-
tiansnot without an eye : to; to' the eal
ah d person al" would soon 'no t'only coyer
them and their pastors and communicants
with evil repute but also, provide penal
laws against the I'riegrp' drivers': church,?
the.uchurclof the, blood mongers,"
which. if lt did. not 7produce conversions,
would at least, produce confiscations; and
that would be quite &s, good, or much bet
Col. Czvmra. whose work on i the, teur
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I glOUS policy '-i iwuBOiai ui , jl uiauu vt-Vv'
higli autUonty, u as given n . aconus m
the measures taken by -the Emperor . Kiqh
plas, to .fbVce the United. Greeks pt Bosil-lans-f-about
three millions of peopleihto
the regular Greek Church I . '"
"In most of the parishes;" says Czyrma,
"a strong opposition was offered "by the
clergy but all in Vain; the recusant priests
j were expelled, their parishes and deprived
oi tneir livings. Alany were sent . on to
schismatic monasteries, and there incf.rcer
ated, with no food but bread , and . water;
some had even that denied them, .but re
mained in cold, dark dungeons," &c. v
As for the method of dealing, with the
laity , take two extracts from the same writ
ter. After a forced recantation, .. relapse
was thus provided against : ,
"As to appostates, an ukase of the lst
of March, 1840, declares, besides the pun
ishment already provided, by law, that
their real and all other property shall be
confiscated; they cannot employ any orth
odox peasantry, nor sojourn where ortho
dox people live. Their children shall be
taken from them and brought up in the
orthodox church," &c.
Again v J' '
"Up to the 6th January, one hundred
and seventy of the clergy had fallen yic
tims of inhuman treatment. The younger
Eortion, who w ould not turn schismatics,
ad their heads shaved, and were sent as
recruits to the Caucasian army."
- The nature of the penal code in Ireland
is, perhaps sufficiently well known. A
Catholic turning Protestant was to take
the fee-simple of his father's estate, avoid
ing all settlements made, by his father,
and turning his father into a tenant for
life. Catholics were prohibited from tak
ing land by lease for a longer period than
thirty-one years; prohibited from purchas
ing any of the forfeited estates; prohibited
from exercising the office of mayor, sheriff,
baliff, alderman, burges, town clerk or
common councilman in any corporate
town. A Catholic could not legally own
a horse of five pounds value; and if any
Protestant discovered a Catholic posses
sing such a quadruped, he had 'nothing to
do but get a constable, break open the
stable door bring the horse before a mag
istrate, and then and there paying down
five pounds five shillings, take and keep
such noree, 'as if bought in market overt.'
Al! Catholic clergymen, of every rank,
were ordered to depart the kingdom be
fore the 1st of May, 1698; and' those who
should return were to be hanged without
benefit ot clergy It would be tedious to
varrate the long curiously elaborate code
which was in force in Ireland tor nearly a
century. The point to " be remarked is
that the atrocity of this code only made
the people of Ireland more attached to
their church and clergy;; and this had beea
fdrseen and Intended; for thereby the real'
and personal estate of that kingdom came
by d egrees into the hands of orthordox be
lievers. The very obstinacy of the Cath
olics was the profitable circumstance, and
if they had allowed themselves to become
converted,' that would have defeated v the
whole scheme, and another scheme' would
have become necessary, ' f ' '" ' ' ; "
We do not do our very ingenious neigh
bors at the North the injustice of suppos
ing that they can be at any loss for an ef
ficient system of appropriating real and
personal estate with such plain examples
before them ; Indeed-it seems al m oat cer
tain that the religious machin ery we have
suggested would be worked with the most
decisive effect; because a murderous fahat
acism is more easily excited m that direc
tion than in any other. The Southern
scnismauc cnurcnes couiu oe easily uesig
pated as the-enemies, and indeed, .Calum
niators of Gob! himseli;men!4whovfalsiiy
the:Bibie and pretend that the Saviour of
the 'world-was' a slave driver; nt of this
controversy could not fail to 1 come much
real and personal estate. ; Dr; : Minnege-
roae ana Lr.? noge, witn omer scmsmaucs
might have their heads ; shaved; - and be
sen t to work 1 on - the x Paci fic railroad ;
while their parishoners; who should ' sym
pathise with them, or ' hear them preacli;
or.rcfuse to -renounce ftheir heresies--or
shouldvrelapse,ior refuse -: to. teach -t their
children the Yankee catechism- would be
simply stripped, of all they have and tuiti
ed out to beg. N . . V'"'" "
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4 Jhis is.the principle, and, this, jui. the
method. If anyf reader do really believe :
that the Yankees are invading us with
any other metive than that of entering in -J
to the land to possess the land or imag
ine that they will be more delicate or foi '
bearing than other nations in the dike ex
igency than . the innocence of such i read
er is admirable, but we cannot compliment
mm ou xiis understanding. V;;5i, v
i Other details, remain to complete, the
picture of a sub ugated people. t- It is still
to be shown how the dominant " nation
proceed in the matter of education -and'of
arms; both of which subjects always need
to be strictly regulated by methods ; most
offensively inquisitorial, hut quite indis
pensable to the main design. ; The more
revolting all these details may be, so much
the better;, we shall not spare one hideous
feature of them; because all Confederates
ought to know them, and to' think of them
and ponder on them, until
41 the thought thereof :
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw their
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Ancient Speech.
The following extract from Li vy of a
speech delivered in a full as&embly of the
Roman people by the Consul Emiliua J
Paullus, at his departure for the MacedW
nian war, is so applicable to a large class
of our citizens at the present time that it
may be well to publish it
"Romans : In every circle, and trnly,at 1
every table, there are people who leaa ar s
mies into Macedonia; who know where ;
the camp ought to be placed, what post
onght to be" occupied by troops; when and t
through what pass Macedonia should be '.'
entered; where magazines should be form-v
ed; ho wlpro visions should be securedjjhbw '
provisions should be conveyed by land n
and saa; and when it is proper to engage
the enemy; when to lie quiet. And they y ;
not only determine what is best to be :
done, but if anything is done in any other ,:
manner than what they have pointed out,
they arraign the consul as if he , was , on t
trial before them. These are gieat imped- '
iments tD those who have the management "
of affairs; for every one cannot 'encounter 1
injurious reports with the same constancy ;i
and firmness of mind as Fabius did, who
chose to let his own authority; he . dimin- T
ished though the folly: of the people rather
than to mismanage .the . public business 7:
with a high reputation. v ' : , r . ;
I am hot one of those who think that
commanders ought not to receive advice;
on' the contrary, I should deem that" man
more proud than wise who regulated eve- ;
ery proceeding by the standard of his own
simple judgement. Whattken is my opinn v
ion ?. That commanders onght to be ad- .
vised chiefly by persons . oi knowledge; .by ,
those who have made the art of war their r,
particular study, and-have derived instruo
tion from experience; from those who are
present at the scene of action; who see the
country, who see the enemy, who see the
advantages that occasions offer, and" who;
like people embarked in the same ship are
sharers of the dangeril'elf. .therefore, any '
person tnmKs , nimseit qnauueu w give
me advice resoectiner. the war which l am '
to cbnductwhich v may : prove adyantav
gepus to the . public let mm not , refuse t r
his assustancato the btate, but vie,wnim
come with me into MacedpniaV rHe shall
be furnished ;with a ship, a horse, at ent--?s '
even his travelling, charges shall bede-
fraved. - H. v " rV--if 'V' ; vvir-?''-:;
But if he thinks this too .much trouble
and prefers the repose of a city life to the
toils of war, let him not on land Assume
the ofiice of a!i5il6t. The ci ty itself furns :
isnes aDundance or topics ; lor . wuyere-
tibii; let it cdnfihe itir pasiipnfcr'tlki1
that we shall pay no attention. to anyjcpian j
6ils but such as 'shall be tranied within urvl
press dispatches contain the following '
, The New York : steamers Olympus and
Mryjfor New. York.and tbgiAmanda, -for
Falmouth,' were buried . hy , tUt Ala- o
bama on the 16th cf November, off Java ,
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