Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-02
THE SLAVE STATES MUST EX-
PECT NO AID OR SYMPATHY
FROM ENGLAND.
ROW

THE SLAVE STATES N1OS94 E2A.i
PECT NO AID OR SYMPATHY
EROM ENGLAND.
MESSAGE 10 the EMITTED STATES FRoX BARON
HuABoLDT.
[Frouasshe Lenasa star. September is.l
I'm order TINT our readers may have some
idea what is said aud thouEht.of American diff
ficulties IN Europe, we take from the London
Star, the following discussion of the probable
ities and consequences of a dissolution of the
Union i
There are, probably, many among the minfons
of despotism in Europe who cxust O.er the in
ties feuds which now distract the American I'm
ion, and anticipate with gloating satisfaction the
time when the great confederacy, whose very ex-
.iStcnce is j TepToach and a menace to their own
organized conspiracy against the liberties OF
mankind, shall be violently rent asunder. Very
different, however, are the feelings with which
the conflict is watched BY all those on this side
of the Atlantic whose opinions founded upon
genuine sympathy with them and their free III
stitutions, ought to be regarded with respect by
every section of the people ofthe United States.
Among this class we believe there IS almost
perfect unanimity in the conviction that the crlS-
is is come when the North must al all hazards
assume firm and resoiute attitude towards the
slave power, unless they wish to see their glOri-
Gus country subjugated beneath a more sordId
and degrading tyranny than the very worst form
OF deSpOtlSm with Nll1ct9 the OiC w oFId IS ours
ed. 1t is far more in sorrow than in anger that
we remark the reckless infatuation with which
the rnenof the South seem bent upon trampling
under foot all moderation and mercy, all fear of
God and all reverence for man, in their headlong
pursuit Of al object which arrays against them
the UNIVERSAL conscience humankind.
But if they do insist upon driving matters to
extremity, we have no rnisgiving as to the issue.
If they are determined to take counsel only of
Il their own fierce animal passions, and to ignore
all considerations of justice and fairness, they
viii find themselves blygiven overt Pcrdi-
ton. For once the Northis fairly reused against
the South, it will be short work with the latter.
We hold very cheap the braggart talk about
southern chivalTy. Northern races arc less i'm
pulsiye and may therefore sometimes seem to
be nj first run down by the more impetuous on
set of the South, but they always win against
lower ATTITUDES when fairly brought to bay.
We observe that the southern newspapers are
fond of throwing out threat, that the slave
States if their pretcnsions are resisted will form
a union of some sort with England. In all prob
ability these threats the mere rawlings of pas
sion. But il we could conceive it possible that
they arc in earnest, no language can adequately
describe the utter faulty of such notion
That it should have found lodgment for single
hour in any mau's breast, betokcns an Ignorance
of the state of public feeling in this country that
| is perfectly astounding. Any British statesman
that should give ear for one instant to such a
suggestion would be swept out of power in
day, in whrlwind of national indignation.
The men of the South had better very distinct
| ly understand that they must not look in this
direction for sympathy in their efforts TO per-
petrate human seryitude. Before they can be
admitted to n union with Great Britain they
must not merely rclinquiS!l their 1avoritc policy
for the extension of slavery, which is all their
fellow-citzens in the free states wish thcm to do,
but they must first enancipatc every slave they
HF
! of England they would be, every man of them,
/ felons in the eye of the law, and liable to the
| punishment of transportation for owning slaves
| We believe that if it were proposed to im-
port among us n colony of lcpcrs, it7would hard
| IL excite more Of horror and disnay, than an
/ offer to incorporate slavcholding communities as
an integral part of the British dominions, In
deed, We doubt whether there is a nation in El,-
trope which would not shrink with instructive
and Shuddcring repugnance from such an over
ture. Itreally seems as though the people of the
South were given up to the madness which pre-.
ceeds and portcndS destruction, OF they would
mot challenge the attention of the world to their
obious institution, SO monStrously out of time
and out of place in civilized and democratic
community in this nineteenth century of the
| Christian era.
All rejecting and candid men ready to
acknowledge that the final solution Of the ques-
ton of American slavery is bcset with enormous
make all reasonable allowance for the tardincss
and caution with which all measures might be
introduced, tending to its eventual extinction.
But the fanatical prOpogandism by the chosen
apostles of liberty of system which lncarnates
the fnulest wrongs that can be committed against
humanity, and that in an age when even i'll the
most dcspotic countries of the world all teuden-
ces are in the contrary direction; this it is that
| fairly cxhausts the patience and provOkcs the
resentment and disgust of mankind.
1t was our fortune, in the year 1850, to ac-
company distinguished American on visit to
Baron Won Humboldt, at PotSdam. After eX-
patiating long and eIoquentiy upon the exhaust
less resources, the marvellous progress, and the
glorious dcstinies of the United States, and ex-
| pressing, in language of similar ardor and ami
nation, his own love and admiration for the
country, the venerable philosopher added, adj
dressing our American friend
''But there is one thing sir, which grieves
me more than can describe, and that is the
policy you have lately adopted in regard to sla-
very l am not so unreasonable as to expect
that you should instantly emancipatc your
slaves. know well the formidable difficulties
that you have to contend with in solving the
! problem of slavery. But what occasions deep
sorrow and pain, believe me, to all lovers of
your great country, is to find that, instead of
adopting any means, however slow and gradual,
to relieve yourselves Of it, you are constantly
trying to extend aud consolidate system which
is not only opposed to all the priGcpleS OF mo-
rality, but, as it appears to.Inc, is pregnant
with appalling and inevitable dangers to the ftl-
ture of the Republic itself. Tell your country
men this for me" These arc wise and wcighty
words, coming from an authority than whom
there exists greater at this moment on the
face of the earth.
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