Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-07
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MONDAY. APRIL Z, 1856.
So Mar wilh EnaIand.

hen0eu some lllne SLICE. II answered very
well, for a while, for the Virginia and South
Carolina Senators to talk large in favor of
" vindicating our national honor" &C., with
the intention, as usual, of Tightening the
North into submission to their demands on
other matters, by making US believe they
were really in earnest for :" q brush with
John Bull But how. suddenly did their
81 patriotism and heroic "valor cool down,
when they saw the wind taken out of their
sails by the speeches of the Republican Sen
ators, who happened TO possess the advantage
of speaking what they meant, and meaning
what they said, OH the matter in controversy.
At the opening Of the present session of
Congress, it viii be recollected that Senators
Mason, Hunter, and Butler, occupying the
three most important posts in the Senate, of
Chairmen, respectively, of the Committees on
Foreign Relations, Finance, and the Judiciary,
were disposed to be in their usual degree bel
igerent in regard to our foreign affairs, and
seemed ready to ''chaw up any rascally ''fed-
eralist," or fanatical " abolitionist," who
might take up on the other side. But, to the
great chagrin and modification of the South
ern 6re-eaters, and before Gen. Cass had got
ready to come to their rescue with his Gus
tomary bellcose harrangue, up got Senator
Seward, followed by Collamer of Vermont,
Wilson, and others, in succession, and actual
ly stole march upon them, and ran off
with their thunder, in vindication of our
rights in Central America. No mortal be-
stricken, than were the three magnates of
the administration, IRON the Old Dominion
and the Palmetto State, at this. One of
them GButler) got up at the close of Gen.
Wilson's speech, and actually begged for
cessation of further discussion, at that time,
on the matter, and on his motion, further
consideration of the subject was postponed
from Tuesday to Monday following. The de-
cided, and by some termed belhgerent"
tone of the speeches of the Republican Sena-
tors, proved perfect quietus on Southern
buster and administration braggaIdocia, and
put an end to all possibility of war with
England at present.
The light in which the South noe views the
matter of our foreign policy with England,
may be seen in the following extract from the
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, the leading organ
of the whole pro-slavery interest. and rabid
administration paper, to boot No wonder
the Virginia and South Carolina Senators beg
"peace! ~ when the capital they were intend
ing to make out of their hypocritical bluster
is used up. This organ of the g democratic
slavocracy,of the old Dominion, says
1.-The belligerent tone of the abolitionists,
habitually SO meek and averse from violence,
admonishes US in this cenjuneture, to pursue
policy of pacific moderation. They act not
from impulse, but from calculations of the
profouDdest policy; and when We hear Sew.
ard, Sumner, Collamer, and Wilson clamor
for war with Great Britain, we need no as
suranee that they seek not the yindication of
national honor, but the degradation and de-
structlon Of the South"
this particular juncture. might strike the pros
perity of the South with so terrible and ire.
trievable ruin, that we may we'll appeal to
the legislature Of Virginia to interpose voice
of wise admonition between the country ard
that greatest disaster.
The British press clearly reveal the design
of the British government to strike the first
blow at the heart of the South. Whether
their confidence in the detection of our slave
population prove foolish or a wise calcutta
ton, it is certain that the effect of war with
Great Britain on the general interests of the
South, will involve manifold and irreparable
injury. 1t is very doubtful if the conserve
tive spirit of our State Rights government
could survive the conflict. 1t is not absolute
~ certain that some extreme States of the
North might not be detached from alliance
with the South, and be seduced into crusade
against slavery. In any event, the produce
tons of slave labor would be reduced to
value altogether inadequate to the support of
the institution.
The cotton Of the Carolinas, and the tobac-
co Of Virginia, would waste in the fields of
the planter, and he might accept the emanci-
patton of his slaves as relief from an lnsolera-
bic BURDEN The South, nov so rich and
powerful, might be Impoverished and humili-
ated; and, on its ruins, abolitionism would
erect the commercial and political despotism
to which it aspires. The plumber of priva-
teers, the monopoly of the market in the pur-
chase OF cotton, and the sales of manufac-
lures, and, above all, the conquest of Canada,
South sinks in the scale of wealth and power.
So inseparably are the interests of the South
bound up with the preservation of peace with
Great Britain"
When the object of a war is to whip fee.
bic power like Mexico, in order to get her
territory to spread slavery in, there is no
" eayiDg in" because of the belligerent or an
n-belgerent tone Of anybody else. The slave
power, in such case, is ever ready to 20 10 war
70 annex all creation, provided it could be
converted into slave pen but, war with
England, besides losing our hold on our hu.
man chattels, would result in the annexation
oil free territory perhaps all Canada. There.
fore although our rights may have been eyre.
giousiy compromised in Central America az
it was commended they were IN OREGON ten
years since, we must have "peace., At anv
cost, even at the expense of "retreatine from
GAO to 49," or to the equator, for the British
Lion will attack us in our weak spot. and
prove too much for us in the contest.
Hon. LEWIS D. CAMPBELL the ex.
plantations of the position of this gentleman,
by the Washington correspondents Of differ.
ent journals, of his speech at a Fillmore
ratification meeting, in that city, we were
led to think that Mr.. Campbell had been
greatly misrepresented, and had come to the
conclusion that he was " all right" in regard
TO the grand political issue. But the fact that