New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-15
THE ENGLISH PRESS ON SECESSION.
COLD COMFORT TO DISUNION.

From TIE DAILY Ne1cs, Nor. ~.
r. contrary To probability, the FESTIVE state oil SCUM
Carolina should rebel-what then 7
II she il bent upon trying the chances OF war, she
will of be Immediately beaten ont OF tile held
She has neither men nor money enough for war. her
white population ia always declining relatively to the
black. Even with allies size could not fight for day
without complete discontinue aud humiliation. II she
il allowed TO secede without opposition, how can she
subsist Poor in resources helpless against enemies
at the mercy Of her own slaves, with small aristoc
racy in debt ard the rest Of her white population g
porant and degraded beyond precedent; with no
money to buy ship coal steamer her lands wear
ing out, and no manufactures-what can she do to
ve2 Some people say . Let her try, she Is tu t
70 give her her wish p This IL more easily said than
doie; but it will not become practical question.
Why should she resort to either suppostion when she
Gun simply go she is' She has az We have said
gamer by tie Union, and in fact could not exist with
ont il. As everybody knows this WHO knows anything
about her, the quietly she acquiesces in her turn
of political defeat the better she will preserve her
dignity.
But if Southern society has been actually misled
what q warning il here What peace of mind can
there be again for citizens who have presided or
attended passvey when the halter was knotted round
tie necks of cergymen and the fire kinded round the
bodies Of honest traders craven negroes VIII this
not be lesson them to be quiet aud keep the peace
under the laws of the Republic, while they claim and
enjoy the protection of those laws II they can learn
tl first lesson of citizenship all NAV turn ont well
for them and for human freedom. II they cannot the
ruin will come upon them; for The forces u human
Liberty arc too strong TO be resisted By HANDFUL Of
sioreorHers.
Tie resignation of their Offices by the Federal EN-
ployses Charleston has not yet been accepted at
Wellington ard the sanguinary rhodomontade OF Gov
Brown probably sounds less formidable to those who
Lear it than to Us who read il. We Enghshmen are
,Iaripp Of opr WOrds and little know how far bluser
may be carried before barking passes into biting The
threat of secession is the standard resource OF mob
aud the Roman pJs often started for the Mons Saeer
ard actually encamIed there more than once, without
Permanently separating from the Republic. There,
however tire indictments had underground which
oury Of tie city and the lives Of their patricnn OPP
pressors depended their cooperation against foreign
enemies, whereas here it il tie personal safety of
tie southern planters that is guaranteed BY the
North. That great social question which inspires
interest immoasurably more Intense and ab-
sorbing than all tie Political watcLwords Of Europe,
has n twcfod bearing OH the present crisis,
ard if il furnishes a motive in favor OF secession
il furTi5les overpowering motive against II.
II l. singular fact" says one Il our American CO.
ten oares " that States IN position secure against
injury from the noneXecuion Of the Fugitive Slave
lsw ile tie oIy States making the nor-executon of
tlie law pretext for secession" But are theae re-
fia,toIy citizens prepared TO be closeted beyond the
reach Of call with their own domestic institution ~
j. il certain that In such States South Carolina and
hiaisiTIi, where the slaves outnumber tie white
POI uaon the masters could dspensc with the MD of
d cir Noithen brethren in "A servile war Or turn
ing TO anolberitcm in the came calculation Of expedi
ency, would South Carolina whose exports exceed in
value her imports IL the proportion Of TO one
lie the gamer by system of mercantile exclusion
Can any sane man believe that England and
France will consent, as is now suggested. 70
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