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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: The Alternative If there are any, who hope or dream that the fanatical crusade against the South has, or will have, any defined limits, these persons must ready by other lights than those of history. From the remotest periods until the times in which we live, the histories of all fanaticisms run in the same channel. either the fanaticism is quenched in the blood of its votaries or else it pursues its destined victim to the bitter end. The motive power of this war is the abolition fanaticism. It has grown for years until it has obtained power, broken up the best form of government men ever had, created a civil war and drenched the land in blood. To the negrophilism they have added hatred of the master, and now the blood of every southern man alone will satisfy them. It is sickening to see southern men willing to temporise with the monster now feasting on blood who, like the craving horse-leech, still cries, "give, give." The armies arrayed against us are but the first of the evils. Their commanders may be satisfied with conquest, but the insatiate monster behind them, which grows as it gorges on blood will not be satisfied until our people are extinct. Shall we cite the nations hunted for years, pursued by religious fanaticism. Shall we tell you of Greeks resisting Turks till from very shame the world interposed to save the remnant left? Shall we tell of the brave Covenanters struggling against fearful odds till they were crushed? Is not history full of racks and tortures, famine and wretchedness, robberies and prisons, sufferings and deaths inflicted by fanatics? To yield, to succumb to the abolition fanaticism is to make it more cruel and remorseless. It is not the slaveholder now; it is not the pretended sin of slavery, that they war against.—It is the southern people. We are a distinct people—almost a different race. There has grown between them and us an immortality of hate. If they succeed in the present struggle every southern man, woman and child is doomed. Nor will this fanaticism halt if we offer ourselves bound hand and foot at the altar. so long as there is an object the monster will strike. Let no man lay the flattering unction to his soul that any "union" is the object of this war.—It is plunder and the absolute destruction of the people of the South. We are fighting not for negroes or for any system but for honor and for life. With us dies the last hope of republican government. Our struggle solves the problem of the capacity of man for self-government. We are not contending for an abstract idea, but for existence. If our foes succeed, a huge military despotism will be created and we shall be pursued with torture, racks and merciless death. Men of Arkansas—men of the South, your fate is in your own hands. If you will rise as one man, you can drive the monster back to his lair and become a free and happy people. Fail to do this, and long years of suffering may be before us. If the North conquers, slaveholder and non-slaveholder; rich and poor, black and white, will be engulphed [sic] in one common ruin. We must be free. For the sake of liberty, for the hope of oppressed humanity and for your own existence go to the field and strike one good blow for your country. No temporising, no truces or treaties will do us now. Eternal separation as nationalities or our utter extinguishment are the alternatives. To arms, then, to arms. Let none fail to do his part. To be united and resolved is to be victorious. One gallant struggle now, one heroic effort and we cast the bleeding monster down to earth never to rise again. Men of the South, Arkansians—now is the time to strike in the name of freedom; of your country, your wives and children and your God.
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