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London, England, 1861-05-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 21.

Tl►.ac must he something very intoxicating
about the pleasure of driving, beating, and selling
a fellow-creature, when people who wore never in
a position to hold a slave in their lives, out of
mere hatred of the principles of civil and social
equality, stretch their sympathies over a thousand
leagues of ocean to meet the slaveowncra of
Georgia and South Carolina. When this Seces-
sion movement broke out, we felt quite sure that
the friends of reaction at home would not be able
to restrain themselves from proclaiming it •
movement on behalf of freedom. They
have forhorne longer than we expected,
bat it seems they can hold no longer. Without
stopping to inquire by what miaerablo process
any Englishman could so pervert and muddle his
traditional notions of liberty, we will look at
what the Secessionists are doing, and implies
what are the principles and institutions of that
Covemment which they have earned so much
praise for setting up.

It certainly seems strange that a section of the
American communityof which the world never hears
save when it tars and feathers or hangs some white
man, a missionary, or traveller from the North, it
may be, accused of abolitionism, should suddenly
conceive a passion for liberty. It is only partially
intelligible when we remember a certain sense of !
the word which our race has left some five hundred i
years behind. Wu must go to feudal times,
when high-spirited barons flew to arms to vin- ,
dicate, against • too humane and inquisitive 4
central power, their liberty to harry a helpless
local impulation with toll and tax and dungeon, i
to find anything like tho ideas of free-
dom
which the Secessionists profuse. Per- ;
hats the nearest approach to an assertion of
the Mlle principle in our own times was the well-
known
demand of a great English Duke during 1
the agitat' of the Reform Bill, who said of his
tenants and their votes, "May I not do what I
" like with mfi e,-,i f" This was thought at the
time very revolting ; but it is the faintest echo of
the old spirit, once deemed chivalrous and
gentlemanly. Yet the old and modern claims
are the same. Utica let one portion of
society resolve to build up itself—whether
in wealth and luxury, or in liberal culture, makes
no moral difference—by the deliberate sacrifice
of another section, consigned on system to per-
petual degradation, and its character is made, no
matter whether its Government is called republi-
can or monarchical, whether its victims are black
or white. Formerly the slave-owners of the
South regarded their position without complacency,
as one for which they were not responsible, and
which they were simply to nuke the beet of until
a door of escape was open. Such is still the feel-
ing of the better men of the class. But it is a
state of mind inimical to the entire theory of
the new Gevennuent set up at Montgomery. In the
new Confederation slavery is sacred, blessed, myste-
rious, inettable. Modern civilization has gone quite
satiny on this matter, and the seceders of the South
will correct its aberrations. To accomplish this the
basis of the institution is laid deep in the funda-
mental laws of the Confederacy. It is • part of
the new Southern Coustitution that no law shall
be made denying or impairing the right of pro-
perty in slaves; the general Government is in all
its jurimliction required to protect slavery. And
no wonder, considering what slavery is to be and
do for the law-makers. Hear the Hon. Mr. Huss,
one of the ablest and most distinguished men in
Georgia, and a moderate and sensible man, as sense
and moderation go now-a-days. The hon.
gentleman, speaking at Atlanta, was elo-
quent on the superiority of a society which
abandons productive industry as a dishonouring
occupation to another and subjugated race. "We
" have none of the incentives to riots and violence
" that the people of other nations have. We
" shall never have any bread riots nor pauper
" mob violence. Such scenes will never disturb
"or disgrace this country. Wu have no pauper
" population, and nu •efcrior Messrs among its.
" This stratum, which is found in society in all
" other countries, is filled by our negroes, who
" are net degraded, but elevated, by being as-
" signed that position, and who are compelled to
" work and maintain themselves from being
" paupers, whether they will or not."
Thus relieved from the necessity of toil, the
Southerners are to show the world what the An-
glo-Saxon race is capable of becoming. " Our
" prospects for the future are great. We shall be
" a benefit to all the nations of the earth and be
" ourselves. The radical element, which hung sa
" a weight to impede our progress, we have cut
" off and loft. Wu shall have the greatest
im-
" provement of our race, and constitute the most
" elegant society on earth. We shall have society
" that will charm the world by its elegance--ell
" our white population educated and intelligent,
" with peace mid plenty smiling over our happy
" land." And all this glory and bliss will
be due to slavery as protected and developed
under the new constitution. The results to huma-
nity, of course, will be proportionately great. Such
a grand spectacle must tell upon the outer world.
So Mr. Hut premeds ;—" Slavery is right, and
"if left to ito own course, the world will be con-
" rimed of this truth. he rectitude is undeniable,
"aid ib duration is that of human want. Slavery
"will ultimat:dy be its own logic to the mind, its
"own power in the earth, and its own bayonet to
seise foes. This day will come. It may be de-
" layed by wars or commotion, but it will come.
"Our example—our progress and good govern-