The southern press., 1851-12-23
For ths Southern PrsA.
AkoIItlsn
ITS ORIGIN, NATURE, AND CONSEQUENCES.
No. T.


ITS ORIGIN NATURE, AND CONSEQUENCES.
No.. 7.
The people Of the United States, and espe.
cialy those of the South, should beware Of Abo-
liiion--for they never before had such an enemy
to encounter 1t combines all the ardor of en-
thusiasm, with all the cunning of hypocrisy; all
the force Of sincere feeling, with all the sell
fishness of political ambition. 1t has natural
affinity with great party in the United States,
which has always been opposed to the rights Of
the States--for this plain reason, that Abolition
cannot attain its ultimate objects, without
trampling those rights under foot; and in addi-
ton TO all this, it is backed by the entire force
Of British literature, and British policy.
The weight of this influence may be esti-
mated by brief reference to what is now pass
ing before our eyes on the lsthmus, and in re-
at.on to Cuba and Hungary. England is
gradually gaining footing in Central America.
and preparing the way for concentrating sys-
TEN of measures, which will, if successful, enable
her in time of war, to put total stop to all in
tercourse between the possessions Of the United
States on the Atlantic and Pacific, by the short
est and most convenient route, and arrest, dur
ing her pleasure, the most magnificent project
of this or any age--that Of ship canal connect
ing the two great oceans Of the world, and
which, if ever completed, will revolutionize the
commerce of the globe. While thus employed,
she has sufficient influence TO make the people
Of the United States-at least great portion of
them-believe that the interests of the two
countries, if not one and the same, are closely
connected, and that they are both indissolubly
united by the great bond of universal philan-
thropy. With this tune, our administration has
apparently been sung to sleep, while England is
wide awake on the Isthmus, under the sanction
of a war principle of international law, of her
own invention, which will justify her, whenever
she pleases, in taking under her protection all
the savages Of this continent, as she has done
all the negroes of Africa, except the Kaffirs.
should not be in the least surprised to hear Of
her having taking the Camanches and Apaches
under her special protection" provided the
United States can be persuaded it is great tr
umph of philanthropy.
With regard to Hungary and Cuba this in
luence is, if possible, still more apparent. The
great balance of Europe, which has made so
much noise in the world, land cost of blood,
is now vibrating between Russia and Austria on
one hand and England and France on the other.
Et hnuayor ic fhnrOuUhlv aaROpiat cd
with England in sustaining this balance of power
in Europe, though she appears to be so in at
tempting to establish similar balance in the
New World. Louis Napoleon-magni hominis
un,bre-is, as it were, between hawk and buzz
zard. Having, by his attempt to establish a
permanent authority in France, and his intrigues
with the factions of Bourbon and Orleans justly
forfeited the confidence and affection of the re-
publcans of France, who really constitute the
nation, he is obliged to depend for support on
the hollow friendship of England, given only as
the price of subscribing to her views-at least in
America-and the forbearance Of Russia and
Austria, for his present position and future pros
poets. To this condition has he been brought
by not at once throwing himself into the arms
of the people of France, who, had he identified
himself with the Republic of France, could
have enabled him to defy the world.
In the present state of things, it is the policy
of England to weaken the powerful coalition of
Russia and Austria, in order to preserve the
balance of Europe; and nothing could so effect
ually subserve this end as the secession of Hun
gary--a nation of fifteen millions of the most
martial people of Europe-from its ancient con-
necton with Austria Hence the selfish SYM
pathy of England with the struggles of the
Hungarans They were fighting her battles
they were weakening her enemies; and there
can be no doubt that had not England been in a
condition which would have rendered it ruinous
to engage in a contest with three such powers as
Austria, Russia and Prussia, in all probability
she would have openly espoused the cause of
Hungary. There would have been no danger
to the great common interests of legitimacy in
so doing, because the Hungarians were simply
fighting for the liberty of crowning king not
for the sovereignty of the people, who were only
to be emancipated from, serfdom just as our
slaves are from bondage, by paying for their
freedom.
England had, therefore, no direct interest in
the success of the Hungarians, and at this mo-
ment would rejoice to see the contest between
them and Austria renewed, though she dares not
join in it. Hence the reception given to Kos
suth--the praises lavished on the Hungarans,
who well merit them, and the pretended sympa
thy in the fate of the exed Magyars, while
Smith O'Brien, and his fellow victims, are ban
shed to distant land, peopled by thieves and
robbers, for endeavoring TO do for Ireland what
Kossuth so nobly attempted for Hungary.
Hence, too the outrageous belowngs Of
John Ball against Lopez and his compau.
ions, whose object was the independence
of Cuba, just as that of kossutb was the
independence of Hungary. Both equally failed
in precisely the same attempt, in which one sac