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A. LincolnThe Lincoln Monster |
Below is an item published in the Lynchburg Virginian
on January 7, 1863.
Lincoln has won an immortality of infamy. Henceforth, Butler the Beast will not stand alone as the synonym of all that is brutal and devilish. His master will be entitled to a place in the same niche that shall be assigned to these twin brothers in crime. Lincoln, the Monster, and Butler, the Beast, will descend to posterity as the representative men of a debased and half-civilized people. They will stand out in gloomy and revolting isolation, and if the student of history shall seek their parallels, it will be in Alaric the Goth, and Attila the Hun. As common instruments of cruelty, only, will their similitude appear; for the former, whilst evincing the brute ferocity of their prototype, lack wholly the brute courage which they dare not emulate. Lincoln and Butler! What names they will have in history. The one as the instigator of servile insurrection, including amongst his victims (so far as he could effect it) helpless women and children; the other as the brute who not only robbed and plundered a defenseless city, but incited the lusts of a debased soldiery to seek gratification on the persons of those whom it should have been his pleasure, as it was his duty, to protect. To what a depth of infamy have these two men plunged their country, and how long, can we imagine, it will be before the civilized world will revolt at their enormities? The day of retribution approaches swiftly; and even England, slow as she has been to recognize the inhumanity of the war that has been waged upon us, will respond in terms that will make the guilty wretch at Washington on his throne. Mark the prediction! But what shall we do? Why? what, but hurl back scorn and defiance at the incarnate fiend who thinks that he has let loose a new pack of hounds upon us. We defy his impotent rage, as we loathe and contem the miserable creature himself.--- Let the proclamation of President Davis, and the laws of the States, be executed on all this class who shall be induced to act upon the suggestion of Lincoln. We would advise more, and recommend that a response be made to Lincoln's proclamation. He should be declared an outlaw, an enemy of mankind, and a suitable reward be offered for his head. This would indicate more unmistakably than could be done in any other way, the contempt we feel for the fiat of the negro generalisimo. Not that his head is worth much, should this reward be offered; but because he is not entitled to the immunity which Divine mercy secured to the first murderer, who was only condemned to be a vagabond and a wanderer in the earth. The modern Tamerlane, whose future monument will be the skulls of at least a million of his murdered countrymen, does not deserve to live a day. We sincerely trust that if he ever ventures to set foot on Virginia soil again, there will be found some heroic Jackson, who will not count even his own life dear, to rid the world of such a monster. Lincoln's appeal to contrabands for military aid, betrays the desperate strait to which he is driven. Twenty millions of yankees, with the whole ocean at their command, could not whip eight millions of Southerners without the aid of the four millions of their slaves! What a commentary on Yankee sagacity, that expected seventy-five thousand yankees to finish up the job in three months! The world will take note of this. We wonder if the better thinking people amongst them won't feel ashamed of their government and nation, and wish they were of that heroic race whom no threats can daunt, and no terrors dismay. What will Maryland and Kentucky think of their government? Alas! for them. The universal Yankee nation has proclaimed its everlasting disgrace in the eyes of the whole world. It will be a hissing and a by-word amongst the nations. |
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