The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1861.

which they have broken up the Union and taken
the field against their fellow-countrymen is to ex-
tend and perpetuate slavery. It is neither more
nor less than a wild and despotic crusade on behalf
of the greatest curse that ever afflicted or ever can
afflict any people. That this is the true character
of the war in the South is demonstrated by the
formal acts and declarations of the Secession
leaders and representatives. Mr. STEPIIEN,, the
Vice- President of the Confederate States, publicly
declares to all the world, " The fomndations of
" our new Government are laid, its corner-
" stone rests upon the great truth that slavery,
" subordination to tho superior race, is the natural
" and moral condition of the negro." Hitherto,
while its evils were admitted, Slavery was defended
in the South on the ground of its necessity.
Now it is declared to be absolutely right,
a now moral truth, the centre or corner-
stone of a new State, the symbol and
watchword of a new and sanguinary crusade. The
deepest wrong and most cruel injury that man
can possibly inflict on his fellow is formally
consecrated as right, while Heaven is profanely
invoked in its defence. The one social curse
which destroyed free and noble nations of old,
and which modern civilization has repudiated as
essentially destructive of national life and pro-
gress, is now, for the first tune in history,
proclaimed as the one grand principle of the new
Confederation. Such a State, were it possible to
set it up, must be the permanent enemy, the
natural foe, of all free peoples. To talk of coining
to an understanding with such a State, of living
on terms of amity and peace with it, would be
out of the question. Such a State brands the
notion of freedom as a falsehood, and stig-
matizes industry as a disgrace. The moral
influence of a free and industrious people would
be more fatal to it than the sword—than any
display of mere material force. Its policy must
be violent and aggressive in mere self-defence.
It would be essentially by nature, constitution, and
necessity, fillibuatering and piratical. This is the
real meaning of the struggle in the South, and this
would be its result were it successful. In view
of such results, mere constitutional arguments, true
a• they may be, sink to the level of idle pedantaj.
If the Southern leaders and their adherents owed
no obligations to the Union, but were perfect
strangers, the Northern leaders entrusted by Pro-
vidence with the necessary material force would be
morally bound to prevent the formation of such a
State—such a portentous anomaly in the history
of human progress.

parties of the tribes, who pillage all the caravans. H•ggi
Abdallah Oubehi, governor of the province of Haba, has
been eommisaioued by the Emperor to reduce those tribes
to obedience, and he has daily encounters with their troops.
The tribes will not be satisfied with the Emperor until
matters are settled with Spain.
The Constilutionncl has a long article on the visit
of the King of Sweden to France. We take front it
the following extract :
King Charles XV., prepared for his high position by •
regency of a year and a half, has already accomplished acts
which augur favourably for his reign. He has promulgated
the law of Oct. El on religious liberty. By his generous
initiative Roman catholic, have the right of building
churches, founding schools, and propagating their doc-
trines. The Jews of Sweden are now able to establish
themselves and purchase property in any part of the king-
dom. These advances in the path of pewees, unexampled
in the history of the country, are the work of the French
dynasty of Bernadotte. In their relations with foreign
cabinets, the Kings of Sweden have given proofs of tact and
firmness. As the chiefs of • secondary state, they cannot
stand forth as champions, and risk their own security in
defence of others ; but in all the events which have been
accomplished during the last ten years, they have invariably
favoured the right cause, and have not lost sight of the
part which the geographical pceition and the well under-
stood interests of their people called on them to play.
Placed in the north of Europe as a barrier against the power
of Russia, they turned towards England and France in 1856,
and engaged with them by treaty not to cede any territory
to Russia, not to grant that country any rights of
fishing, pasturage or others, and to communicate to Eng-
land and France any proposition that Russia might matte to
Sweden for any cession of the kind. From such a treaty
to an offensive alliance was but • single step, and that step
would have been taken if the necessities of the war, instead
of ooncentroting the effort of the allied powers in the
south of the Rllllll9ll empire, had transferred into the north.
France was grateful to King Oscar I. for all he did at the
time for the success other warlike enterprises; and the Em-
peror's government has ever since regarded Sweden as
it. ally.

Thu article concludes by affirming that the
strongest possible proof of the exceedingly friendly
relations which subsist between France and Sweden
is the present visit of Charles XV.