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T H E
SPIPRIT OF THE SOUTI-I
TOWARDS
NORTI-THERN FREEIEN AND SOLDIERS
THIIE A-[ERICAN FLAG
AGAINST
TRAITORS OF TIHE DEEPEST DYE.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHIIED BY  R. F. WALLCUT,
No. 221 WASHINGTI'ON STREET.
1861.
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SOUTHERN HUMANITY AND REFINEMENT.  The following is
one specimnen only of a class of letters which are almost daily
received b y Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, from "chivalrous" gentlemen (?) in the Southern States:                "UNION SPRINGs, ALABAM,A, 
Confederate States, May 6, 1861. 
"Gov. ANDREW:
"Sia,-We  see in a New  York  paper that you have
requested the authorities of Baltimore to send the bodies of
the soldiers of your regiment that were killed at Baltimore
back to Boston packed in ice, at the expense of the Commonwealth. We also see that you anticipate sending 200,000
men to coerce the South, to march from Washington City to
Pensacola. Now, as it is very probable that some of these
soldiers will be killed, we propose to take a contract for sending back their dead bodies, so as to be much cheaper to your
people and give general satisfaction to their kindred.  The
following is our proposition:  "For the first thousand, $50.00 per head.
"ten            "       37.50     "
"thirty         "       25.00     "
one hundred"         15.00 "
"We pledge ourselves to have them packed as quickly as
possible after they are shot, so that the corpse will retain as
much of his native bloom as possible.
"In all instances, commissioned officers will be charged
double the above rates.
"Should your Excellency be pleased to give us the contract,
we will thank you to notify us immediately, or as soon as the 
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Northern army crosses Mason and Dixon's line, for it will be
necessary for whoever takes the contract to begin at that
point, as Lee and Beauregard and Ben McCulloch and Jefferson Davis will be there to receive them, and will be very
apt to kill a few-and we would regard it a great calamity
for the Northern soldier to spoil; besides, we Southerners, in
our hot climate, dislike offensive smells. After due reflection, and some little Christian consideration, we will be
pleased to hear from you.
"Very respectfully,       TONEY   &  WAUGH."
RAvINGs OF A VIRGINIA EDITOR. The Richmond (Va.)
Examiner indulges in this highly amusing view of the North
and its soldiers:  "The North has no officers to command or drill the cowardly, motley crew of starving foreigners and operatives that
it proposes to send South to fill ditches and as food for cannon, because it has no room in its penitentiaries and poor
houses to receive or sustain them. The regular troops of the
Union, since the resignation of the Southerners, are deficient
in officers; and who are to drill and command the 75,000
militia sheep?
" If we except Benedict Arnold, there never was a Northern man who was fitted to command, if you would give him a
chance to run. Like cowardly boys, when pent up on shipboard without a chance of escape, they gather courage from
despair, and fight desperately. But with ninety-nine Northern men in a hundred, on all occasions, duty, honor, patriotismn, has ever been considered a mere matter of profit and
loss. Since the days of Washington, they have ever deemed
that course of conduct by which most money is made and
least risk incurred, the most virtuous and honorable.
"They will not come to Washington, they cannot be handcuffed and driven to Washington, if we only precede them,
and let them see that they will have to fight for glory, and
not for spoils and plunder. They never did fight, and never
will fight, except for pay, for pillage and plunder. Once
satisiy them that no money is to be made, no plunder to be
gotten by invading the South, and no power on earth can lash
and kick them south of Mason and Dixon's line."
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TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH.
" WEEPING WARRIORS." Under this caption, the New
Orleans Bulletin indulges in the following effusion:  "If we can credit the Northern journals, there must be in
old Abe's officers very little of that sterner stuff soldiers are
supposed to possess. Whenever or wherever they make their
appearance, it is, like Niobe, all in tears. They weep when
they surrender; weep when reinforced at some invested post;
weep when ordered into service; weep for not being ordered
into service, and weep even when the recipients of a great
popular ovation. By the Rood, these Northern Paladins are
o'er given to the melting mood. From the Lieutenant-General down to Lieut. Jones, who, in one night, ran all the way
from Harper's Ferry to Carlisle Barracks, Pa., there rains
such a flood of tears,
"That were the world on fire,
They might have drowned the wrath of Heaven,
And quenched the mighty ruin."
"But the latest and most affecting of all these exhibitions
is the following, from the Providence Journal: -
"' We learn that when the Massachusetts troops arrived at Fort Munroe, the commander of the fort was moved to tears.  He exclaimed, seizing
the hand of their Colonel, "in Heaven's name, where did you get such
noble-looking fellows as these?" He shook every man by the hand.'
"Well, if the greasy operatives of Lowell and Lawrence,
and the smutty shoemakers of Lynn, be'noble-looking fellows,' then language has lost its meaning. Probably the
weeping commander, being a kind-hearted man, used the
language attributed to him in the sense that Wordsworth
somewhere says "the meanest things can call up thoughts
that do often lie too deep for tears."
"Let patriotic citizens, then, go forth upon the trackless
war paths of the ocean to fight for their country in the most
effective manner. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of the
property of the enemy invite them to spoil him-to'spoil
these Egyptians' of the North, who would coerce us to staying when we strove peaceably to make our exodus to independence of their oppressive thrall; to go forth from degrading fellowship with them. The richly laden ships of the
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enemy swarm on every sea, and are absolutely unprotected.
The harvest is ripe; let it be gathered, and we will strike the
enemy to the heart-for we hit his pocket, his most sensitive
part. His treasure ships, laden with California wealth, traverse Southern waters. Let them be the prize of the bravest
and most enterprising.
"iHis commerce is the very life of the enemy's solvency
and financial vitality. Strike it, and you lay the axe to the
root of his power-you rend away the sinews of war. Let
the flags of privateers show themselves on the seas, and the
blockade will be raised. Lincoln's fleet will scatter over the
world to protect the commerce of his citizens. But they
cannot protect it, though they try. They are numerous
enough -for the blockade, but not to guard the ocean. The
risk of the privateer will still be trifling, and he will continue to reap the harvest, laughing at the few scarecrows
which would fright him from his profitable employment.
"It is easy to put privateers afloat.  There are an abundance of brave men among us ready to volunteer to fight any
where. There are many among us ready to give money to
the cause of their country, not looking for return. In this
privateering, the most enormous returns are promised, with
but trifling risk. Let the men of means fit out privateers if
they would best serve their country and advance their own
interests. Let companies be formed to embark capital in
privateering. If they can't get the craft here, they can get
them  somewhere.    It  is a pursuit of honor,  patriotism,
profit. Let us scour the sea, and sweep their commerce from
it with the besom of destruction."-Montgomery Advertiser.
"We predict that Jeff. Davis will be on the banks of the
Hludson within thirty days; that Mr. Lincoln will fly, with
what little may be scraped together from a bankrupt Treasury, from Washington, and that Gen. Scott will bear him
company; that nothing will be left a month hence of the Old
Union, except possibly New England; and that the special
session of Congress, called for the Fourth of July, will not
meet nearer Washington than Portland, Maine, if it ever
ets at all." —Mlemiphis Avalanche.
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TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH.
" 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, flourplundering, 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 comnpose 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 have root or branch of the accursed level ling and agrarian>,spirit which has brought this country to
its present ruin.  But for the whited political and moral
sepulchres of the North, called conservatives, simply because
they have money in their purses, and seek to conserve it at
the cost of a nation's peace and happiness, we have no senti ments but those of profound loathing and abhorrence."-Rick mond (Va.) Dispatch.
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" That the brutal fanatics who sit in the high places at Washington are ready to plunge the whole country into contest and
blood, we have never doubted. It was a thorough conviction
of their treacherous and desperate hatred of the South that
compelled us to urge, as the only course of safety for the
South, a prompt and eternal separation from their power.
" Events have shown that our estimation of this brutal and
bloody faction was correct. Large portions of the people of
the seceding States did not believe it. The frontier slave
States have not believed it. They have still believed that
there were feelings of respect, feelings of fraternity toward
the people of the South, from the great body of the people of
the North. Hence they have lingered in the foul embraces
of a Union mastered by Abolitionism, whose one great policy
was the subjugation of the South to the dominion of the
North-whose one great passion was to destroy the South.
Slowly, but surely, time has lifted the veil from the hideous
and loathsome features of Abolitionism enthroned in Washington. Its inauguration by cannon and bayonets manifested
at once its principle and its reliance for success-despotism
and force. Oliver Cromwell, praying whilst Charles the
First's head was being cut off, was the example of its bloody
hypocrisy.
"With  Lincoln's proclamation,  and his requisition  for
troops to march upon the South, the standard for the conquest
of the South is at last unfurled. Thirty years' agitation and
hate at last breaks forth in its eager cries for blood. It is
most natural.  Thank God, the consummation is in our day,
whilst yet we have the power to resist- the capacity to save
ourselves from its meditated devastation, insurrection and
horrors.
",But will Northern hate and fanaticism fail in its prey?
Will it not at least carry through the South one long track
of blood, which will tell to future ages its fierce invasion, and
stern efforts for conquest?  We answer, no!
, Fortunately for the world, it is never all mad. The
first great result of the meditated invasion of the South will
be to unite the South together. United together, the South
is invincible. The North knows this as well as the South.
On this account, we rejoice at the late demonstrations in
Charleston Bay, and the war policy declared at Washington.
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Virginia will soon be with us; and the other frontier States
will follow her lead. They are forced to take sides by the
Abolition government at Washington. They must help to
conquer us, or aid us in our defence. We cannot doubt the
result. The miserable fanatics and charletans at Washington
are pursuing the very course of policy we most earnestly desire them to pursue, and,will defeat and destroy their power
for evil in their effort to exercise it. We deprecate war; but
we frankly confess, that if war is necessary to consolidate the
South, it is far preferable to the slaveholding States being
divided. It is very far preferable to a mixed confederacy of
slave and free States. The demonstration of war upon the
South will, however, prevent war, by raising up such a power
to meet it, through a united South, as will ensure its defeat."Charleston Mercury.
A -IODEL LETTER FROM A BALTIMORE SECESSIONIST.  One
of the valiant secessionists of Baltimore has written the following  curious letter to his brother, a Union man:                     "BALTIMORE, Md., April 25, 1861.
"MY  DEAR BROTiER,-I received your letter yesterday.
All glad to hear from you. We have had stirring times in
Baltimore since last Friday. We have driven back the
hordes of negro worshippers from the North. It is really
laughable to read the extracts from the New York papers
about sacking and burning our city, when we have fed the
half-starved slaves of Lincoln.  On last Monday, we sent
three car-loads of bread to the Pennsylvania paupers sent to
attack us, and Baltimore told Lincoln to order them home,
and he obeyed her. You have no idea of the war spirit
here. Man and boy are all ready for the attempt to destroy
us. In twelve hours, we could have sixty thousand men
under arms, all eager for the fray. New York is a ruined
city; the South is done with her for ever; her attitude towards her will not be forgotten soon. Maryland is out of
the hateful Union-this will be the battle-ground. I beseech you not to volunteer against your native State. Your
brothers and nephews will be in the ranks of old Maryland.
I am so much excited, that I cannot write any more.   I a
a rebel.
"Your affectionate brother,
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"The rapid enlistment at the North of'Dead Rabbits,
'Plug Uglies,''Blood Tubs,''Jakies,''Soap Locks,''Barroom  Loungers,'' Loafers,''Wharf-Rats,'' Thieves,'  and
' Picekpockets,' reminds us that it is time we had begun to organize, and prepare to defend our wives, our sisters, and our
little ones from the menaces of a lawless horde that is now
preparing for a descent upon our sacred hearthstones. Thousands of vagabonds at the North. with nothing else to do, are
enlisting, not only for their bread, but the plunder that they
expect to place their lawless grip upon. Men who have
nothing to lose make the best thieves, and the outlawed
scoundrels who are now filling the ranks of the Black Republican army are men who have no interest in common with
humanity. Their nature is to prey upon their species, and
they are prepared, like all other freebooters, to cut the throats
of their neighbors, their fathers, or their brothers, for the sake
of gold!
"To call them Judases would be a compliment, for that
fallen disciple must have been possessed of the devil, and
was prompted to betray and deliver the body of Christ, more
by the influence of his Satanic Majesty than for the sake of
the filthy lucre. But these mercenary hirelings, these Arnolds, are influenced alone by the thirty pieces of silver, and
are not possessed of a sentiment half so sublime as that which
the devil placed in the bosom of Judas.
"Is it to be supposed, then, that the Cut-Throats and Assassins, who sell themselves to the Typhon at Babylonish
Washington, for Gold, for Booty, and for Beauty, will spare
our homes and our household goods?  Let no man lay that
'flattering unction to his soul,' but rather let us prepare for
their defence, and wall them in with bristling bayonets, determined hearts and willing hands."-Norfolk Day-Book.
"The people of the North are either scared half out of
their senses, or they are endeavoring to frighten us with their
war bluster. By all accounts, they are raking their country
from one extreme to the other, to catch every poor vagabond
that they can either coax, buy or force to enlist."-Savannah
News.
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I We are ready for action —they are getting ready to prepare to act.  They may raise plenty of men —men who
prefer enlisting to starvation, scurvy fellows from the back
slums of cities, whom Falstaff would not have marched
through Coventry with; but these recruits are not soldiers,
least of all, the soldiers to meet the hot-blooded, thoroughbred, impetuous men of the South. Trencher soldiers, who
enlisted to war on their rations, not on men, they are-such
as marched through Baltimore-squalid, wretched, ragged
and half-naked, as the newspapers of that city report them.
Fellows who do not know the breech of a musket from its
muzzle, and had rather filch a handkerchief than fight an
enemy in manly combat. White slaves, peddling wretches,
small-change knaves and vagrants, the dregs and off-scourings
of the populace-these are the levied  forces' whom Lincoln
suddenly arrays as candidates for the honor of being slaughtered by gentlemen such as Mobile sent to battle yesterday.
Let them come South, and we will put our negroes to the
dirty work of killing them. But they will not come South.
Not a wretch of them will live on this side of the border
longerthan it will take us to reach the ground, and drive
them over.
"Mobile is sending forth to wage this war of independence,
the noblest and bravest of her sons.  It is expensive, extravagant, to put such material against the riff-raff of mercenaries
whom the abolition power has called out to war upon us. We
could almost hope that a better class of men would fall into
the Northern ranks, that our gentlemen might find foemen
worthy of their steel, whom it would be more difficult to conquer, and whose conquering would be more honorable.  For
the present, however, we need not expect to find any foe
worth fighting, with the exception of a few regiments, for the
North is now getting ready, and will likely be whipped before
it is ready."-.Iobile Evening News.
"It is said that affairs in New York are in a very gloomy
state, and that the people have no hopes of a better future
state. Of course they haven't-Heaven was not intended
for Black Republicans." —New Orleans Delta.
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A writer in DeBow's Review. the ablest of the Southern
magazines, gets quite beside himself in talking of the North.
Hear him!
"Our Southern women are all conservatives, moral, religious, and sensitively modest, and abhor the North for infidelity, gross immorality, licentiousness, anarchy and agrarianism.'T is they and the clergy who lead and direct the disunion movement. It is a gross mistake to suppose that
abolition alone is the cause of dissension between the North
and South. The Cavaliers, Jacobites and Huguenots, who
settled the South, naturally hate, condemn and despise the
Puritans, who settled the North. The former are master
races-the latter a slave race, the descendants of the Saxon
serfs. The former are Mediterranean races, descendants of
the Romans; for Cavaliers and Jacobites are of Norman
descent, and so were the Huguenots. The Saxons and Anglos, the ancestors of the Yankees, came from the cool and
marshy regions of the North, where man is little more than
a cold-blooded, amphibious biped.
" We are the most aristocratic people in the world. Pride
of caste and color and privilege makes every man an aristocrat in feeling. Aristocracy is the only safeguard of liberty,
the only power watchful and strong enough to exclude monarchical despotism. At the North, the progress and tendency of opinion is to pure democracy, less government,
anarchy and agrarianism. Their hatred of the South will
accelerate this noxious current of opinion, and anarchy will
soon wind up in military despotism. There will be as many
little despots as there are now States, for no usurper will
wield means sufficient to conquer. or fuse into one several
States. It will be a great improvement in Northern affairs,
and is far preferable to Northern Democracy, agrarianism,
infidelity and free love."
"Virginia is the particular object of abolition envy, hatred
and arrogance. As the doomed and damned of Tophet hate
the blessed in Paradise, so do the mean, hungry, avaricious,
lying, cheating, hypocritical, cunning, cowardly Yankees hate
the high-toned, elevated Southerner, but, above all, the Vir
g nian."-Richmzond Exainzer.
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MEN IN BUCKRAM. The New Orleans True Delta says:
"It is really refreshing this ardent weather to read the
.ucubrations of the Northern journals, each one of them,
from the infamous Herald to the slimy Journal of Commerce,
trying to outdo its mendacious neighbor in lying upon the
most stupendous and patriotic scale. The immense armies
these individuals proclaim as springing like Macgregor's
clansmen from every bunch of heather, eager to devour these
States, niggers and all, are, in our opinion, in buckram only;
mighty upon muster rolls, but few and far between upon
marching occasions. That a good many can be got to go to
Washington, we do not doubt; pastures thereabout are pleasant, and when open gratis to all visitors, agreeable and welcome; but when it comes to the turn of Patterson, or Butler,
or Cushing, honest Caleb, to try their'prentice hands at war
making to the South of the Potomac, our belief is that they
will be missing.
"Virginia, we think, can hold her own against all the
armies this description of men will lead against her, without
any other aid than her own fighting resources will furnish;
still, as her climate is inviting, and her hospitality of worldwide recognition, we would wish our gallant young soldiers
now sickening upon the Metaire ridge an early safe deliverance from that locality and its execrable commnissariat, and to
get the route for Richmond. When there, if Butler and
Cushing should find followers from the Massachusetts men,
or the terrible New York Seventh, other than such deserters,
the country will be delighted, and for once in their lives
these worthies will have a chance of meeting that retribution
which sooner or later never fails to reach the betrayer of
principle, the enetny of right, the venal conspirator, and the
traitor, in all of which characters they have appeared and
flourished. Let the Abolition and Breckinridge Democratic
journals of the North continue to call for the destruction of
the South; it inspires no more uneasiness than the incoherent
gibberish of the drivelling idiot, for they well know it means
nothing, and that those who most vociferously unite in making
the cry will be the very last to undertake the experiment of
putting it into execution. The people are bewildered, but
their enemies tremble in the presence of the spirit they have
raised."
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The New Orleans Delta-the organ of the buccaneering
horde which makes that city its head quarters-thus speaks
of the enlightened masses of the free States. The last we
heard from the Delta, (says the Boston Transcript,) its agent
was in Boston soliciting subscribers, on the ground that it
was a Union paper. Hle obtained about a hundred names, at
ten dollars each.  That paper now says:  "There is no doubt that the Northern people are at this
moment fit representatives of the barbarian hordes which formerly devastated the world. They are furnishing the very
best evidence that they are incapable of thorough civilization;
that they possess only the outward symbols of modern enlightenment, while they are by nature cruel, blood-thirsty,
arrogant and boastful. But there is really very little danger
to be feared from them. Civilization no longer stands in
dread of barbarism. One race of savages has already been
expelled from the country; but not that it may fall into the
hands of another. The Northern people may exhibit all the
ferocity of the Huns, but they will never find an Attila to
lead them to the conquest of the South."
The following article, copied from the Richmond Examiner,
is a choice specimen of the appeals put forth to concentrate a
rebel force on Washington:  "The capture of Washington city is perfectly within the
power of Virginia and Maryland, if Virginia will only make
the proper effort by her constituted authorities; nor is there
a single moment to lose. The entire population pant for the
onset; there never was half the unanimity amongst the people
before, not a tithe of the zeal, upon any subject, that is now
manifested to take Washington, and drive from it every Black
Republican who is a dweller there. From the mountain tops
and valleys to the shores of the sea, there is one wild shout of
fierce resolve to capture Washington at all and every human
hazard. The filthy cage of unclean birds must and will assuredly be purified by fire. The people are determined upon
it,. and are clamorous for a leader to conduct them to the
onslaught. That leader will assuredly arise, aye, and that
right speedily.
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TOWARDS TIlE SOLDIERS OF THIE NORTH.
"It is not to be endured that this flight of Abolition harpies shall come down from the black North for their roosts
in the heart of the South, to defile and brutalize the land.
They come as our enemies-they act as our most deadly
foes_-they promise us bloodshed and fire, and this is the only
promise they have ever redeemed. The fanatical yell for the
immediate subjugation of the whole South is going up hourly
from the united voices of all the North; and for the purpose
of making their work sure, they have determined to hold
Washington city as the point from whence to carry on their
brutal warfare.
"Our people can take it-they will take it-and Scott,
the arch traitor, and Lincoln, the beast, combined, cannot
prevent it.  The just indignation of an outraged and deeply
injured people will teach the Illinois Ape to repent his
course, and retrace his journey across the borders of the free
negro States still more rapidly than he came; and Scott, the
traitor, will be given an opportunity at the same time to try
the difference between' Scott's tactics' and the Shanghai drill
for quick movements.
"Great cleansing and purification are needed, and will be
given to the festering sink of iniquity, that wallow of Lincoln
and Scott-the desecrated city of Washington-and many
indeed will be the carcasses of dogs and catiffs that will
blacken the air upon the gallows, before the great work is
accomplished.  So let it be."
"It seems that Washington City is the destination of most
of Lincoln's levies. Hle is evidently determined to secure
the protection of his own person against the approaches of
the'secessionists,' who doubtless haunt his midnight dreams.
Hle could not play his card more effectually in the interests
of the South. When he collects as many of his trainbands
around him as he may deem essential to his safety, the armies
of the South will close in upon them, as the hunter draws his
net upon the luckless covey that find their way into its folds
in the blindness of ignorance and fear.  Maryland and Virginia have joined the South in time to participate in this rare
sport."- Jackson Mississippian.
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SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH
"A squad of Massachusetts militia, confronted by an equal
number of Mississippi riflemen, would make better time than
ever Lexington made over the MIetaire course. Massachusetts pluck and prowess are terrible on paper, but on paper
only. The down-easters of Massachusetts are now avowing
their ability and their intention of whipping the Southerners,
to use their own classic language,  to all darnation.'  When
it comes to the pinch, they will simnmer down more quickly
than the well-known individual, whose call for the man that
struck Billy Patterson was so promptly and unexpectedly
answered. The South, so it is threatened, is to be invaded by
an army of codfish and onion-fed warriors from the State of
Maine.  At the first fire from Bragg's or Beauregard's battery, they will scatter like a parcel of young chickens when
they see the hungry hawk swooping down on them from the
upper air."-NVew  Orleans Crescent.
"The  cowardly' eighteen millions' North  told us  we
should not leave the Union. We did it openly and boldly,
and they humbly acknowledge our government' as a necessity.' They shouted the praises of the' stars and stripes,' and
dared the' chivalry' to touch the sacred emblem.'  We have
torn it down; we have placed in its stead the flag of the
Confederate States; we have dared them to'coerce' us and
resent the insult; we have invited their vaunted numbers to
the field; but the only cry that comes from the craven dogs
is,'military necessity';' give up the forts';' withdraw the
troops'; let us'eat dirt and live.' It is sickening to think
of ever having lived in the same government with such a
people; but let us rejoice at our separation, and look southward. The game North is beneath contempt, while Mexico
invites us, by invasion of Texas, to reenact our former
achievements."- Houston (Texas) Patriot.
WANTED-oo5000 Washerwomen, with broomnsticks, to whip
back Governor Sprague's regiment from rliode Island, lately
offered to Lincoln.
CODFISH & INGUNS.
- Aztusta (Ga.) paper.
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TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH.
MORE SOUTHERN "IHONOR."  The following is a copy of a
letter   received b   y  M r. Lyman Dike, a shoe dealer in Boston. It                     needs n o  comment: such specimens of Southern
honor and honesty have become too common to excite much
remark:
"COLUMBIA, S. C., May, 1861.
"LYMAN DIKE, ESQ.,- I have collected three hundred
dollars and twenty-three cents for you, and also for 0. M.
Ilitchings three hundred and sevenrty-eight dollars and twentysix cents, the notes for which said amounts were given; you
have my receipt for collection. The above amounts are deposited in the Branch of the Bank  of the State of South
Carolina at Columbia. I noticed, some time ago, that the
citizens of Boston were paying twenty dollars per month
for hirelings to invade and subjugate the South. I will
retain the above sums in my hands to assist in the payment
for powder and ball expended upon your city hirelings, and
the balance will be applied to give them a more decent
burial than they would probably get at home.
"Yours, &c.,            J. H. PIERSON."
The Mobile Register of May 1st cheats itself and its readers with the following delectable romances:  "The Massachusetts troops which were so roughly handled
by the people of Baltimore were half armed, badly clothed,
and nearly starved. Their colonel behaved like a dastard,
gave his men the order to'run,' and sheltered himself under
the wing of the Mayor.
"At Gosport, where by Lincoln's order the public property was burned, all the accounts show that the naval and
military otfficers and men to whom that vandal work was entrusted, behaved in a most cowardly manner, and all hands
were drunk, from Commnodore Macaulay down.
"The five thousand rowdies who seized Cairo are represented as the scourings of the city of Chicago and other
Western towns, and they amuse themselves with stopping
unarmed boats and stealing hen-coops. An eye-witness says
that one thousand firm Southern men could run them from
the town, unless the mosquitoes and chills and fever save them
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SPIRIT OF THE  SOLTH
the trouble in the meantime. Throughout the war, so far, not
one act of courage, not one symptom of generalship and soldierly feeling or ability, have been displayed. Lincoln himself is frightened to death, keeps up his spirits by' pouring
spirits down, sleeps with his boots on, and his' cap and
cloak' at hand, with his palace filled with armed men to
guard his sacred person. The Government, and the military
and the press in its service, are exhibiting at every step unmistakable signs of trepidation.
"Woe  be to the Northern battalions that meet the first
shock and outburst of the fiery valor and fierce indignation
that have fused in one compact mass the entire Southern mind
and heart!  If the war lasts five years, the terms of peace
will be dictated at the gates of Boston. But the war will
not last so long. The day is not far distant when the North
will sue for peace. Until it does, the policy as well as the
will of the South is to give them war to their hearts' content-war to the knife and to the hilt."
"Gypsies and free negroes have many amiable, noble, and
generous- traits; Yankees, sourkrout Germans and Canadians
none. Senator Wade says, and Seward, too, that the North
will absorb Canada. They are half true; the vile, sensual,
animal, brutal, infidel, superstitious democracy of Canada
and the Yankee States will coalesce; and Senator Johnson,
of Tennessee, will join them. But when Canada and Western New York, and New England, and the whole beastly,
puritanic,' sourkrout,' free negro, infidel, superstitious, licentious, democratic population of the North become the masters
of New York-what then? Outside of the city, the State
of New York is Yankee and Puritanical; composed of as
base, unprincipled, superstitious, licentious, and agrarian and
anarchical population as any on earth. Nay, we do not hesstate to say that it is the vilest population on earth. If the
city does not secede and erect a separate republic, this population, aided by the ignorant, base, brutal, sensual German infidels of the Northwest, the stupid democracy of Canada, (for
Canada will in some way coalesce with the North,) and the
arrogant and tyrannical people of New England, will become
masters of the destinies of New York."-De Bow's Review.
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The sort of stuff which passes for news in the Southern
States seems to be growing more and more absurd. For instance, in the Charleston Courier, of April 29, we find these
items:
"We learn from a passenger from Philadelphia, that one
day last week, at Havre-de-Grace, three of the Northern
volunteers who were marched from the North refused to go
any further, assigning as a reason that they did not volunteer
to go into a war of invasion upon the South. An officer
who was standing by instantly cut and hacked two of the
men to pieces.  A  third, who took the same ground, gave
vent to a similar expression for the Union, cut his own throat
from ear to ear, rather than allow himself to be hacked to
pieces.
"Mob law [in New York city] is triumphant, and Southern
men, or those known to sympathize with the South, are in
constant danger of their lives.  Vigilance committees visit
the houses of the wealthy, and every man is heavily assessed
for the support of the families of those who have volunteered
their services to the Administration. Assessments of $5,000,
$3,000 and  $2,000  on large houses are said to be very
common. Those merchants who refuse, or make the slightest
hesitation, are threatened with the cleaning out of their
stores, and several already have been emptied by the mob.
"Three men were set upon in Florence Hotel, New  York,
and two killed, for expressing sympathy with the South.
"Merchants are packing off their clerks, and it is said that
several large manufactories have been stopped with a view of
forcing the operatives into the ranks of the volunteer soldiery."
The Raleigh (N. C.) Banner, urging an attack upon
Washington, says:  "The army of the South will be composed of the best material that ever yet made up an army; whilst that of Lincoln
will be gathered from the sewers of the cities-the degraded,
beastly offscourings of all quarters of the world will serve for
pay, and run away just as soon as they can, when danger
threatens them."
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SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH
The following insulting letter has been sent to the President, who is in frequent receipt of such malignant effusions:
" DEMOPOLIS, Alabama, 
Confederate States of America, April, 1861.
"I Iis EXCELLENCY, ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
"Sir,-I have just read your proclamation calling for
75,000 mercenaries to invade these States. With all proper
respect, I offer you a wager of $50,000, that we meet you
half way, and whip you and your Yankee hosts.
" Respectfully,           ALFRED  HIATCIH.
"P. S.  If the bet is accepted, the money will be deposited in the Farmers' Bank of Virginia."
A   POLITE  INVITATION.   Troops  from  the  South and
Southwest continue to pour into Virginia. They all go armed
and equipped, and when Abraham orders his mercenaries to
invade Old Virginia, they will be met by not less than
100,000-well drilled and thoroughly disciplined troops, and
after the first battle, won't the vultures have a good time
fceding on Yankee carcasses?  Come on, Abraham, you are
wanted! Old Scott, we hope, will head the invading force.
If so, his bones will be apt to rot on the soil which he has
disgraced by his treachery.- Newbern Progress.
THE POISONING POLICY.  A  letter from Pensacola to a
Mobile paper gives an account of an interview between a
U. S. officer on board of the Powhatan, and a Capt. Thompson, whose craft had been overhauled, wherein the officer expressed a desire to purchase fresh butter, eggs, vegetables,
&c. The writer adds  "Here's a chance now  to play old Greeley's gamestrychnine the last rascal of an officer; rat soup the marines,
and drench the sailors with chain-lightning whisky. Any
thing, any thing to get rid of these hateful ships and their
crews."
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TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from
Richmond, anticipates an attack upon that city, "the gemn of
the State, the Koh-i-noor upon which Lincoln and that twinhearted brother of his, the recreant Scott, are feasting their
gaze as the richest prize of the South."   "Possibly,"  he
says, "the' glorious Seventh,' that orchestra of military virtues, will lead the vanguard-' glorious' in their clean faces,
languishing  side whiskers,  good clothes, white kids and
patent leather boots; and possibly they may be received, but
not as before.  It will be a  welcome with bloody hands to
hospitable graves.' Zouaves, rowdies, New York thieves
and cut-throats, mingled with a hodge-podge of Jerseymen,
Rhode Islanders, Massachusetts men, wooden-nutmeg Yankees and Down-Easters, may  also come-a solid, gaping
phalanx; but they will be met by a wall of Southern hearts,
who will turn them in their tracks, or annihilate them from
their soil. There is a great difference between fighting for
wages or for an abstract idea, and fighting for mothers, wives
and sisters.' Beauty and booty' may be a tempting motto
with which to invade your neighbor's fireside, but it is one
which wipes out all the landmarks of civilized warfare, and
will secure for its follower the fate of the brute."
The Memphis Avalanche says: —" It is painful to see the
Chair at Washington disgraced by such a degraded, drunken
wretch as Abe Lincoln. Our reverence for the Father of his
Country makes us anxious to see the city bearing his honored
name rid of such a caricature of a President."  The same
print persistently accuses " old Abe"-as honest an old teetotaller as ever lived- of habitual drunkenness, and says the
President became addicted to this vice in this way: —" The
cares of place affected his nervous system so much that he
could not sleep. Hlis physician administered to him large
quantities of opium and brandy each evening until stupidity
would ensue, and then he would fall into profound slumber.
In the morning, his prostration would become so great that
liquor would be resorted to; and thus, by a frequent repetition of this treatment, he has become so demoralized by the
use of liquors as to be perfectly imbecile, and thoroughly
indifferent to what is passing around him."
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SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH
"We have much to do.  We  shall be necessitated to whip
them soundly - to burn a few of their towns-to capture
Washington as a city, or enter it as a heap of ruins; we will
have to cripple their commerce with privateers; burn their
factories, and reduce them to the condition of begging peace,
instead of graciously condescending to grant us a separate
existence with peace, as we have besought. Every thing
leads to this opinion. They are distracted among themselves.
Their resources are crippled; their toiling millions are suffering already; their sober, thinking men acknowledge that
madness rules their every movement, and none who view
things as they are can for a moment believe that success will
crown their efforts.
"On our part, we have hundreds of thousands of men well
armed, ready to take the field at a moment's warning. We
are united in every way, with the consciousness of a just
cause, and, above all, with millions of dollars at our command."- Montgomery corr. Charleston Courier.
"The people of the Monumental City were right in arresting the progress of an army raised to shoot down their
Southern brethren.  We hope they will keep up the good
work, and even strike at home for their honor and independence. There are slumbering fires, not only in Maryland but
in States north of her, that await only an opportunity to
burst forth, and when they appear, we may look out for a
revolution that the world now little expects. Thank God!
the time has arrived when these minions of Abolition can
never plant a foot south of the Potomac. Virginia will see
to it, if tried, that they repent thd experiment."- Savannah
Republican.
ALL TO BE BUTCIIERED. The leading papers of the Lincoln party at the North declare that the people of the South
shall be butchered like dogs, and their property divided out
among the soldiers who fight for Lincoln. They threaten our
wives and our little ones with the most inhuman butchery,
and talk of setting fire to our dwellings and wiping us from
the very face of the earth. -Milledyeville Federal Union.
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TOWARDS THIE SOLDIERS OF THIE NORTIIH.
The Tallahassee Sentinel has just learned how Mr. Lincoln lives.  It says:  "Lincoln keeps five men in his room to guard him by
night, and Mrs. Lincoln two to guard her.  Old Abe, in
order to keep his spirits and courage up,  pours the spirits
down,' and is half drunk all the time. For fear of being
poisoned, Mrs. Lincoln has turned cook, and prepares all the
food they eat. Some ministers of the Gospel recently called
to see him, to entreat him to desist from his mad policy of
coercion, when the indignant Abe cursed them away, swearing that the Southerners should wade knee-deep in blood before entering Washington city."
"But one course is left for all honorable Southern men to
pursue: that is, to get ready for battle.  The  man that
doubts is damned; he that dailies is a dastard.   We feel no
apprehension as to the patriotism of the people of the Confederate States. An army of seventy-five thousand men, backed
by volunteers from the Border States, will soon be organized
by President Davis. But we must not only be ready to defend our-homes, our families and firesides: we must carry the
war into Africa. We must attack the Black Republican
citadel, and drive out its infamous garrison. Let Washington city be the point of attack, and an army of 100,000 men
be marched against it."- Federal Union, Milledyeville, Ga.
The following is an extract of a letter from  New Orleans,
dated April 10: -
" I start in a few days at the head of a thousand of the best
men you ever saw, with Maynard rifles and Colt's navy
revolvers. We think we can whip five Abolitionists to one
of us. We may meet some of you at Washington-if so,
look out for the top of your heads at a thousand yards."
"We learn from a gentleman who saw this regiment [the
Massachusetts 6th] at Baltimore, that it is composed of the
meanest-looking, whiskey-swilling, rum-head ragamuffins that
he had ever seen."-Montgomery Mail.
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SPIRIT OF TIlE SOUTH.
"Our  citizens feel considerable relief at getting rid ot
Gen. Butler-in other words, Picayune or Strychnine Butler-who was in command for sonice days of this military
division.  A  more conceited or bigger fool has not appeared
in Baltimore since the National Democratic Convention last
spring, when the same popinjay coxcomb was here figuring
as a great Breckinridge mana.   Our citizens tf int liigence
and polite attainments, who were obliged to come i, official
contact with him, were absolutely disgusted. Supreme respect for law and order alone prevented his getting into difficulty.  Fancy the old mgsh-head seated upon  a charger,
armed with sword and pistols, a cigar in his mouth and half
tight, surrounded by his staff and body guard, riding the
streets in open day, blustering like a swelled frog, assuming
importance much beyond what that reptile did when it
swelled to bursting at beholding the ox. Thank fortune,
' PicayuneButler' has gone from town, as is well understood,
at the bidding of his master, and left a gentlenan-Gen.
Cadwallader-to adorn the position he cumbered  with  a
mountebank."-Baltimore corr. Charleston Courier.
The  Charleston Mercury, after saying that the officers
clothed with power by the voice of the people "would fly like
rats out of a burning barn," out-lHerods Herod thus:  "Let them go.  Do  not pollute the Soil of Virginia or
Maryland with their mean blood.  Let them go.  To keep
them in Washington, after Virginia and Maryland have seceded, you will have to put them in a tl'ee-story jail. Do
not dignify them by chasing them — muh  less killing them."
..,,,
"If one half the Northern people feel and think as we infer
from their paper's-and they repr ent 3a vast Tmajority in
every State- we would as soon confederate with the cannibals
of the South Sea or the Thugs of Irgdia as with them. They
have forced us to the separation, and now, wt say, let it be
for ever-and even beyond that 4ime, should God in his
providence permit. We want nothing to do with such a people, either in time or eternity."-Savannah Republican.
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