The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.

ALTHOUGH the Slave Power cannot in decency
be defended, it must be aided. This, it seems,
may beet be done by defaming those Free States
which are most strongly opposed to it. The New
England States have best deserved this enmity.
Those States have for generations been the pride of
every liberal-minded Englishman and the admira-
tion of the world. Their freedom, their order,
their morality, their liberal culture have been
attested and celebrated by British and foreign
travellers of all ranks, religions, and opinions. This
alone would entitle them to the hatred of the
South. Their civilization condemns its barbarism,
their growth its stagnation, their regular and
varied industry its aversion to labour, their
intelligence its debasing and increasing ignorance.
But above all, New England has committed
the unpardonable sin of admitting the negro to
citizenship and to a full share of the blessings of
civilization. By elevating the black man, and in-
troducing him to positions and functions in which
be displays high intelligence and morality, it has
shown the world how base is the conduct of the
South in first keeping the negro in ignorance and
immorality, and then making his degradation an
excuse for continued wrong. These are some of the
reasons why the New England States are dan-
gerous to the South, and why they are hated su-
perlatively by the friends of slavery on both aides
of the Atlantic.

But if it was expedient to vilify the New Eng-
landers by accusing them of a monstrous design,
it was worth while to do it with more plausibility
than was achieved yesterday by a contemporary
who undertook the business. When we read that
it is proposed to excite &servile insurrection, "incite
" four millions of blacks to murder, lust and rapine
" upon the unguarded plantations of the South,"
and " organize a series of Cawnpores," all we
learn from it is that some of the advocates of the
South are very audacious, and that it is hoped
that some of their readerswill be very ignorant. We
shall not insult our readers with any serious com-
ment on this cock-and-bull story. The writer has
probably heard or read that it has been proposed
to make this • war for the abolition instead of •
war for the restriction of slavery, and for that
purpose to carry the Federal army again into the
enemy's country. We do not know what proba-
bility there is of the execution of this plan, which
it seems to us would have been far more likely
to be attended with success a year ago than now.
Neither shall we say a single word to stimulate
the people of the Free States to further sacrifices
of life. They have poured out enough of their
blood to have earned the right to sheathe the sword.
But if, remembering that only a few months ago
the South was reduced to straits as great as those
in which they are now placed, they are not dis-
posed to accept the issue of the recent struggle as
final, we sincerely hope they will take the course
which so alarms our contemporary, and carry
liberty to as many slaves as they can approach.
Six months ago it was computed that a hundred
thousand slaves had escaped from their masters
and gained the Federal lines ; and the number
would have been doubled had not some of the
Northern commanders loved slavery more than
the Republic. Had Mr. LINCOLN'S Government
accepted the offer of some of his best generals to
organize in regiments and brigades so many of
these men as were willing to serve, placing them
under white officers, he would have done what be
is now urged to do, and in so doing he would
have taken the best security against a wild and
disorderly rising of the slaves.
We do not, however, see any probability of the
immediate adoption of this plan. While Generals
Hanzeit and M'azi.tarr are at the head of the
armies of the Union, we may be sure it will not
be sanctioned. The Secessionists, indeed, tell us
that those who devise such plans are reckoning
without any real knowledge of the raoe ; that the
negroes are warmly attached to their masters ;
that all through the contest they have been work-
ing cheerfully ; and that wherever they have been
brought into contact with the Federal it has only
been to show their goodwill to the Confederate
cause. We believe that no fact in the war is better
established than this, that whenever the slaves had
a chance of escape they ran for it. However, if
the negroes have shown so mnch fidelity and
attachment to their masters as we are told they
have shown under severe trials, then the least