A National Governors for the Stuff.
The New York
Herald regales its readers with a long string of names who will be candidates for the appointment of
Governors of the to be subjugated Southern territories, all of them being the most offensive abolitionists that could be selected, such as
Charles Sumner for
South Carolina, and.
Owen Lovejoy for
Virginia.
It is not difficult, nor in any degree dangerous, to sit down and write such a programme, but the execution of it is another matter.
The
Herald has not yet observed the direction of the housewife in preparing a fish for dinner,--first catch the fish.
The South has to be conquered, and thoroughly conquered, before it, can be roasted with
Sumners and Lovejoys.
Then, again, when conquered, the claims of native traitors to the Governorship have to be considered, or what will become of the
Union senoment of the
South, which consists in acting one's country for a mass of pottage!
There, for example, is
Andy John.
son, of
Tennessee, who is receiving the reward of-treason in the dominion of that revolted province.
Is Andy, the elegant, and high-bred Andy, the pure and patriotic, to be deprived of the wages of righteousness!
Virginia, too!
Is not
Pierpont, our Governor already ? Is
Pierpont, that Republican
Chief Magistrate, who has been elected to his position in the manner pointed out by the
Constitution, to be displaced by some usurper?
That is another difficulty., Br then comes a third, worse than all. Would
Charles Sumner, for example, if he should receive the appointment of
Governor of
South Carolina, venture to live in that province?
Who would insure his life?
Who would insure for sixty days the life of any Abolitionist that should be appointed Governor of a Southern State?
The South has not yet resorted to extreme and desperate measures.
because its instincts are humane and there has been no necessity for them.
Whether this was good policy or not is not the question it is. however, the fact.
We are of opinion that
Jackson, of
Alexandria, sounded the proper key-note of this Revolution, and that if it had been followed up universally in a like, spirit, we should have had a different condition of things to-day.
We are dealing with an enemy who does not comprehend humanity, who violates good faith, and interprets the clemency and forbearance of our people into cruel and cowardice.
The only way to deal with men who proclaim in advance their determination to plunder our property and defile our hearthstones.
In to treat them as robbers and pirates.
But we have chosen a more refined and merciful mode of warfare, and shall not depart from it till forced to it by necessity.
We are still a belligerent power; we are not yet deprived of all hope of our country's independence.
On the contrary, all history teaches, and it is the universal opinion of all men acquainted with the teachings of history, that no nation like the
South, if true to itself, can be conquered.
If conquered, however, we should have nothing more to hope for. We should have no longer a country, no longer a home; no longer our property or social system; no longer the respect of the world or, what is far more important, our own self-respect; no longer one earthly good that makes life worth having.
The Southern men and women who would desire to live after such a result are, we believe, few of number.
Imagine
Charles Sumner,
Owen Lovejoy, and the like sent to rule over a people reduced by these men and their counsels to a condition in which death would be considered a deliverance!
Nothing could save then; no art, no device, no guards, could keep out the sure and certain vengeance.
Hundreds and thousands of men, who would madly give their no longer desirable life for the purpose of securing retribution, would catch for them day and night and convert their territories existence into a fortune greater even than death.
Not one of the four gang could be induced to accept the honor of inevitable martyrdom.
Our wonder is that the ambitions and vallant Beauty should be willing to forego his own claims to the people in behalf of others who, whatever their malignity, have been impotent for evil in comparison with the hoary reprobate who conducts the columns of the New York
Herald.
