The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
Europe Foresees Dissolution Of the
Union.

Europe Foresees a Dissolution of the
Union.
+, We are telling no news to the world
in stating that the Americans, who mus,
always have an agitation going on, have
for year or two past been becoming
moro and more excited on the dsuuion
question. The Southern States have been
so accustomed to threaten secession from
the Union, when anything that they did
not like was said or done at Washington,
that their complaints have for sometimes
ceased to alarm the friends Of republican
government. But when the North, after
long submission to the domination Of the
minority from the South, began openly to
question whether the Union he really a
very divine instrument, seeing the moral
sacrifices it has required, il was eTiden.
to all Europe, as it had long been to all
wise Americans, that the Union must
break up in disorder, unless its subjects
could agree (and ag ee soon) to weed out
the compromise which renders it now un-
workable. The Washington newspapers
of recent dates-the tidings which came
from the very heart of the Union-- OPEN
ly acknowledge the dander. Within ibis
month the Washington Union has spoken
thus. After referring TO meeting at New
York, and another at Charleston, this
central paper says:
We need not repeat what we have so
often said, that whenever the North and
South are arrayed against each other.
with political parties in the field exclusive
ly sectional in their organizations, the
days Of the Union are necessarily num-
bered. The Charleston Mercury, there
fore, is but carrying out its hostility to
the Union, when it advocates a Southern
party, and repudiates the Democratic or
ganization." The South, however, no
sooner sees the North seriously forming a
disunion party, than she complains Of the
treason, and Of some other things which
show how empty were her own threats
OF secession. She complains of poverty,
especially, and Of her weakness in all
respects, in comparison with the North.
One OF the most curious features of the
whole controversy is the incompatiLility
of the pleas Of the party which began the
sectional quarrel. The slave States CON-
plain of the expressions Of the free States,
while boasting in the same breath Of their
own supremacy in Congress where they
have carried all their points, from the be-
ginning of the quarrel till now. Where
thew have been baffled, it has been BY the
nature Of things, and not by the votes OF
the North. They complain that the free
States are rich and populous, while they
themselves are "ruined" in fortunes, and
in continually decreasing minority as 10
numbers; yet, they Turning expeditions to
acquire" territory, Of whose richness
they hold out tempting accounts to set
tiers from Europe who, like John Mitch
ell, thinks a plantation stocked with fat
negroes very good thing. After play
ing fast and loose with the Union for u
bove twenty years, the South seems to be
at last really frightened lest the Nortl,
shoild take her at her word. The first
and most obvious resource is to bring on
the question Of foreign war. The pres
ent time is remarkably favorable to the
device. The Cars emissaries have fat
tered the vanity, the cupidity, and the
Pre)udices OF that class Qarge in every
country, and predominant in slavehold-
ing one) who are in he srt either despots
or slaves. Spain is seen to be occupied
with her new regime, and England and
France with the war so that great a.
mount Of coveted territory is supposed to
be less carefully guarded than usual. To
crown ali, the Cabinet at Washington is
devoted to Southern interests, to an ex-
tent which black page o. American his.
tory will show to all posterity. This Cab
met is now the speaking trumpet of the
slave party, aggravating its insults and
its boasts, for the purpose especially Ia
mong severaD Of silencing opposition in
the North, by means Of the common 10.
terest Of a foreign war.
Will the policy succeedi viii the
event justify the South in her confidence
that the North will allow her 10 ma ke
war with Englandi Nobody doubts tba,
war with England would either secure
the Union for further term, or break !,
up at once. Which Is the more like.
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reasons for believing that serious gov
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