Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-03-28


land, who, while they have many differing laws and
customs and differ ii many ciAractefstlts ARP yet
content usss fss many years, content to re-
mAin eaeefally sidsyhy side; Or thatsbetRecn Car
"a md The United States with contermiTous boun-
afies fTee navigation of boundary rivers, like the
ST. aaofRt and The ST lawrence and reciprocity
huitiss, like that negotiated few years since ad-
hitting the products of either country wthoutduty
In brief there is reason why the two confedera-
cies should not exist side by side, with friendly re-
lations, free from all commercial restrictions, per-
hitting close and friendly intercourse Of citizens
of each country and intimate business transactions,
just at present. except that the Northern people
will have no voice in the making Of our tGlcs, and
We shall be rid Of the aggressireness Of Puritanacat
fanaticism, which, in its blind pursuit of its own
vain imasnings, would destroy Pdradise
substitute for the mild precepts of Holy Religion
"highef law" an anti slavery bible, and an anti
slavery God would hurl the blessed Saviour Of
mankind from his throne in Heaven, and place John
Brown, the cheat the horse thief and midnight MUIR
| derer, in his stead! i ;3s isi4@
Now, Mr. Editor, can there be any dosbt as to
which course would be adopted by the Northern
| States upon a Withdrawal of the South from the
| present confederacy? Doubtless. if only two or
three of the Southern States were to withdraw, the
! North might attempt to coerce them; but would
! the other Southern States permit this? To do so
would be to surrender the liberties of the whole
| SOutn! lnS, however, Is not QucStlOn HOW uI-
| der consideraton,-i: is whether great civil war
would be undertaken against us in case Of the with
drawal of the slave States from a nationality with
| the North? Bear in mind that it is not the border
people we have TO fear; they are generally friendly
and know enough of the negroes not to desire more
of them as public nnisances among themselves
Then it would only be by the united action of the
North that any great important aggressive action
| could be taken, resulting in military attack upon
us. Now, would the Northwest the North and the
| New England States be likely to be united among
themsetres? Arc their interests so mutual and de-
pendent reciprocay, as to unite them in any great
enterprise, much less involving the expenditure
of millions and the sacrifice of thousands of lives
the dlsrupure of all business the destruction of all
prosperity, and the utter ruin of numbers of their
| best people? With whom is the great Northwest
most closely connected? Certainly with the South,
through the great channel of the Mississippi, which
it would be as much object of the South to keep
open and free, to retain the business of the North
west flor We are not likely to drive off our best
friends to propagate an abstraction of our own) as
it would for the Northwest itself! With whom
does New York and Pennsylvania carry on the most
profitable trade? Certainly not with New England :;
in fact it has been declared Ivy of the members
from New York City, that New York could not
afford to break with the South :" and her orators
have declared they had best break with New Eng
land!
Again: when the North should meet in council,
on so momcntous an occasion the disruption of
our present COnfederacy. and to consider what
was best to be done for their safety and pros
pertyit would be her statesmen who would then be
called from their present exile; her Everetts her
Winthrops her Appletons her Dickinsons and her
Seymours, would then lead the deliberations of her
councils and the action of her assemblies The
Wilson's Summers, lickmans and chafees would
descend to the obscurity whence their vile dema.
gogical pandering to an ignorant fanaticism, only
has raised them. There would he no question of
"squatter sovereignty" no Fugitive slave law" no
territorial rights for these persons to make a
noise about but these would be changed for the SOL
emn consideration of the future of their country.
And when the question comes up before such an
assembly of conservative statesmen. whether they
should commence civil war, of which none of the
most sangune could foresee the end the wsest FORE
tell the result; or whether they should offer
alliance of comfy and free trade to a sister Repub-
JIG, from whom so much was to be gained by trade
and commerce, much to be lost by distractiRg
and desolating war-can there be doubt as to the
way they would decide? None! Ny own opnionis-
and have been closely intimate in Massachusetts,
for twenty five years-that in less than two years a
ter the formation ola Southern Confederacy, Massa-
chusets herself would agree not only to return all
fugitive slaves that may escape hereafter to her ter
rtory but to restore all her SOIL in order to
obtain treaty from the South, by which her manu-
features would be received by us the same terms
I they now are. In fact Southern Confederacy
would hold the prosperity for years at least of all
New England in the hollow of her hand. For the
prosperity of New England being dependent exclu-
sivey upon manufactures and commerce. without the
market of the South for the former and the protec
ton of the navigation laws for the latter these
~ her sole employment, must perish.
! No. Mr. Editor when the North find too late,
that they have driven their brethren of the South
II r.
reflection will then come, and their object will be,
most assuredly, not to begin destructive and use
less war against Them but to by negotiation
and treaty the advantage of their former trade and
relations, and in bidding for this Venture to pre-.
dict that Massachusetts will out do all her COMPETE
tors! -.
MANY other reasons could be adduced to prove
the utter mprobability, almost impossibility, of
civil war being sequence to the formation of a
Southern Confedcracy, but really it would like
silly surplusage to argue the matter further. The
nineteenth century is not an era, in which disas-
tros and desperate crusade for the propagation ola
fanatcal creed is likely to be undertaken by cviliz
ed nations, and there assuredy no other cause for
a murderous onslaught upon an unofending and
homogeneous people, than that We can't be made by
moral suason" to believe that slavery is sin
against the laws of God and mar" for We find it
clearly ordered in the former and it has been ac.
knowledged by the latter in all civilized and uncivi-
liked nations and in all periods of history till the
supposed interests of England excluded it few
years ago, at least far as the black man is con-
cerned. Cobbett Coleman, Lester and others, tell
that as yet the whte laborer of England has not
been freed but is in far worse state than slavery
Having thus shown that confederacy of the fif-
teen slave States would present to the civilized world
nation whose friendship and alliance is every way
desirable, and whose wealth and power must soon
make it take rank with the frstef the earth-whose
i af nd h,rkb
upon the people, enable it to support dgnied and
liberal government and further that so far from an
attack upon US BY the North trade and alliance
would be equally sought for there it only remains
to consider the relation that would exist among the
, States and peoples of the new confederacy
And hero We are at once MET by fact Of no small
importance in this consideration: it s that are