you have an
apt illustration of Yankee numbers, Yankee equality, and Yankee
greatness.

'We must bring these unfranchised slaves--the Yankees--back to
their true condition. They have long, very probably, looked upon
themselves as our social inferiors--as our serfs; their mean,
niggardly lives--their low, vulgar, and sordid occupations, have
ground this conviction into them. But of a sudden, they have come
to imagine that their numerical strength gives them power--_and
they have burst the bonds of servitude_, and are running riot with
more than the brutal passions of a liberated wild beast. Their
uprising has all the characteristics of a _ferocious, fertile
insurrection_.... They have suggested to us the invasion of their
territory, and the robbery of their banks and jewelry-stores. We
may profit by the suggestion, so far as the invasion goes--_for
that will enable us to restore them to their normal condition of
vassalage, and teach them that cap in hand is the proper attitude
of a servant before his master_.'

These extracts are from the Richmond _Whig_--a paper beyond all
comparison the most respectable and moderate in the whole South, and by
no means of so little weight or character that its remarks can be passed
by as mere Southern vaunt and idle bluster signifying nothing. It speaks
the deep-seated belief and heartfelt conviction of even the most
intelligent secessionists--for the editor of the _Whig_ is not only one
of these, but one of the most honest and upright men to be found in
Dixie.

'But,' the reader may ask, 'if the man really _believes_ that Yankees
are serfs, slaves, vassals of the South, where are his eyes, ears, and
common-sense?' Gently, dear reader. When we reflect on the toadying to
the South by Northern doughface Democrats in by-gone years--when we
recall the abominable and incredible servility with which every thing
Southern has been hymned, homaged and exalted--when we remember how
vulgar, arrogant, ignorant Southrons have been adored in doughface
society where gentlemen whom they were not worthy of waiting on were of
but secondary account--when we think of the shallow, pitiful meanness
which induces Northern men to rant in favor of that 'institution' which
they, at least, _know_ is a curse to the whole country--when we see even
now, how, with a baseness and vileness beyond belief, 'democratic'
editors contin