Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-12-28
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2a 1860.

tDucu tuOFe ike u eonbf|FaAce IOr keeping up
negro servitude than for weakening it. The
utmost outrage with which they are meuaced
by Mr. Lincoln and the Republicans il Con-
gressicDal measure prohibiting the Introduction
of Slavery into the North Western Territories
of the Union. Even this disadganta ge is not
necessarily consequence of the Republicans
carrying The Presidency; fer Congress is still
hostile to the Republicans and the Southern
planters, who are unanimous themselves, and
allied with powerful minority in every State
OF the North, have reasonable prospect of
even BOW thwarting their antagonists policy
But If the Southern States unce succeeded 10
constituting a seperate Federation, it is surely
clear that every question now pending between
, themselves and the North would become at
onGe an international question. Every point
now at issue iu the domestic forum of Congress
would come under the cognizsnce of the gen.
eral society OF natioas. What sort of division
OF the unsettled territory now belonging to the
! United States would ever hJ agreed upon be-
tween the Northern aud Southern Federaiions
nobody can pretend even to conceive and this
is the very difficulty which seems tc show that
the severance could never be effected without
bloodshed. 1t is plain, however, that every
attempt of the Southern States TO expand he
! you'd the territory absolutely secured to them
would be resisted, a5t simply By their Northern
noighbors, but by tue whole strength of Eu-
ropean civilization. Tue more reckless spirits
of the South are pushing on their quarrel in
the belief that, If they were once embarrassed
of the Union, they could rend province after
| province from Mexico, and fill each successive
acquisition with their slaves. But Europe
| d FL 81. T..
the incorporation of the North With the South
which prevents European statesmen from
treating the anuexations Of the United States
as ayowed extensions of the area Of Slavery
They cannot now upbraid a Confederacy, Of
which noreNthan half the members have no
slaves, With conquering and anuexing merely
In the interest OF cotton aud negroes, but there
would be no scruple about taxing the Southern
Federation With designs which it would be at
no pains to conceal. Nor is there, we take it.
the slightest doubt that he Free States would
rather assist than impede the efforts of Euro
pesn diplomacy. The Monroe doctrine would
be destroyed By the very fact of separation,
and Northern Union, once divided from the
South, would no: be long in making the dis
conragement of Slavery the cardinal principle
of its foreign policy. In short, the measure
of the dangers of separation is the advantage
now derived from disunion. Slavery is sufIi-
GENTLY unpopular in the world for mere slave
holding Commonwealth to run no small risk of
becoming The victim Of general crusade
But the actual connection of the Southern
States with the North has the effect of mask
ing their exclusive devotion to a hated system.
The Constitution of the United States, as ex.
( perienee has abuudantly shown, can often be
so managed as 10 promote the objects of the
slave-owners, and whenever advantage is gain
ed in this way, it is gained without incurrine
danger, and almost without attracting attention.
The extravagant notions of their own prowess
| entertained by the Americans of the Southern
States has persuaded them that they would
lose nothing in military strength aud resource
| BY casting OFT the bondage of tho Constitution
We can only say that England is the only
country which has had a serious struggle with
the United States, aud English experience
does not bear out the Southern pre!susions.-
During the Revolutionary War, the English
troops scarcely commanded foot of ground
In the North which they did not actually oc.
| cupY. But, later 10 tae struggle, the South
was all but suLjugated; and had not the in
conceivable strategy of the English Generals
gwen different torn to the issue, il seemed at
one time probable that, even if New England
/ and the Middle States obtained their indeDen :.
! dence, the mother country would be left ip
! possession 0: Georgia and the Carolinas. inst
as she was of Canada and Nova-Scotis.-
Similarly, in the war of 1872, nobody 10 Eng
land ever doubted that tae Southern States
were the Vulnerable part OF the Federation !;
nor has the result changed this opinion The
expedition TO New. Orleans, though wilfully
given up TO destruction by General Pakenhatr,
was exceedingly we'll planned aud had not
tue signing OF peace in Europe interrupted
hostilities, second expedition on larger
scale, and under better commanders, would as
suredly have assembled the Mississippi. Ii is
not, indeed, to be supposed that anybody in
England ever doubted, or doubts, the personal
gallaEtry of the Southern whites Even if
the Southerner be somewhat of bully he is
poltroon. But we in Europe have recently
learned to distrust the strength Of every system
which is based On the depression of subjedt
population. There We're brave men In ltaly
who were welded 30 the cause of legitimacy
such men, for example, as are still grouped
around King Francis az Gaeta. But the lesson
We have received is, that it is never safe to
calculate on the abasement Of SUBJECTS. The
Southerners can hardly disdain the negro as
rebel more than the local Italian despots des-
pissed their people as nutiueers. Ii the negro
is considered half an animal, the Italian was
Thoughts half woman. "My people," wrote
King Ferdinand, '.bend their necks and obey"
Yet very slight assistance from without swept
away the Italian tyrants and for our part we
do not euvy the Southern whites when once
negro Garibaldi is among their slaves.
Among the advertisements in a late London
paper, we read that stwo sisters want washing
1. - IL l.