Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-11-21

papers in the country, has the following, in an Ar
t;cIe deprecating the dissolution of the Union:
"Then the South would declare free trade and
make treaties with the European powers.
The North will thus be left to support ITSELF and to
compete with Europe. The South can exchange
with Europe her cotton and her tobacco for what
ever she wants. The North will have nothing COM
paratively to exchange. There IS nothing whatever
which the South now receives from the North which
she cannot get cheaper elsewhere. The North can
nowhere else get what she now gets from the South
In these two sentences there volumes of sug-
gestions."
Mr.. Kettell, statistical writer of great experience
and research, long the editor Of one of the ablest
Reviews in the country, has recently published
work chiefly of statistics, in which this part OF the
question has been thoroughly examined. On page
rs, he seems to sum up the argument thus: "trom
what has been detailed above, revealed TO us from
the returns of the census it is quite apparent that
the North as distinguished from South and West,
would be alone permanently injured. Its fortune
depending upon its manufacturing and shipping but
as has been seen it raises neither its own food nor
its raw MATERIAL does it furnish freights for its
own shipping. The South on the other hand raises
surplus of food and supplies the world with raw
material"
The Editor of the New York Herald, certainly
one of the most intelligent observers among the wri
tiers of the day, and who for twenty-five years has
been watching the of events studying the re-
lations of trade and and politics, between
this country and Europe, whose opinions are quoted
frequently, by the first journalists of Europe, differs
also very decidedly from Mr. Moore on this matter.
In an editorial quite recently published, discussing
this very question of the results of dissolution OF
the Union, he takes occasion to warn the North of
the evils that would thereupon ensue to them, and
the comparative exemption Of the South from like
difficulties. In the paper of the 30th Oct, the ed
tor says: 1.-THE English and French governments
would at once recognize the independence of the
the South, for the sake of its cotton and market
for their manufactures for five millions Of British
population are depending Southern cotton for
employment While the balance of trade would be
against the Northern Confederacy, and it acould be
compelled to resort to direct tGraion to support the
government, the Southern Confederacy would derive
an abundant rerenue from its imports" Farther:
Mr. John O'Sullivan of New York. doubtless dis
gsted with the destructive tendency of Mr. Stewards
policy and erroneous conclusions as given in his
late speeches, has addressed to Mr. s. public let
ter in which he ably shows by elaborate statistics
and arguments that the result of Mr.. SIS policy
must sooner later Inevitably produce direful
revolution by shutting up great and rapidly in
creasing population of slaves in narrow compass
and that IN all probability the South would not even
now submit to such denial of right and justice
and shows further the entire ability of the South to
maintain a position of independence of the North
and the existence of a body of conservative men
there, abundantly able to check any attempt at
coercion on the part of such blind deStructives but
also the avidity with which foreign nations would
accept from the South, treaties of comfy and ALI
ance. Iquote the following:
81 certainly have not yet written word which
even you, Mr.. Seward, who are fatally able man
as we'll as courteous and amiable gentleman, will
deny or question, however we may differ in regard
to the application Of these manifest truths to the
present crisis of our common country.
Well, then, Is the South now as a great section
yet strong enough to make it able thus to 20 out of
the conederacy and TO re-constitute itself as
ton among the powers of the carth in the event of
its becoming animated with such general spirit of
dissatisfaction with its position in the Union? Sir
it is. 1t is already four times as strong numerically
as were the whole thirteen colonies in 1916 More
over the North is no powerful naval and military
mother country, either willing able to send great
fleets and great armies to fight out the ISSUE or even
to attempt to resu6jugate by force seeded South
Still further, no man acquainted with the policy of
Great Britain and France, who for nothing from
but our cotton, and whose hearts would leap for
Joy at the spectacle of our DIVISION doubt but
that they would be prompt to recognise the indie
pendencc of the Southern confederacy, eager to
make free-trade treaties with it. and only too glad
to humble what should remain of the old Union by
supporting the cotton States with the full power of
their fleets, their loans, and were it necessary of
their allied armies. And still further, again, will
add that before you "Republicans" could marshal
or march your Wide-Awakes for the rcconquest of
the South. whether by fair fight with white
brethren there, by still more nhuman appeals to
negro insurrection, there still others with whom
you would have to deal before setting out mean
us. the indignant Union Democracy Of the North it.
self
In case you should doubt the soundncss of nv
reference to Great Britain and France let me men
ton the substance Of what recently heard from a
distinguished English diplomatst at foreign court
1t was the occasion Of the recent furry between
and the British government about the attempted
search Of our vessels in the Gulf: ut is not be-
cause you Yankees cuff us every and then first
the right cheek and then on the left that COM
plain. 1t is not because you like occasionally, to
give US an unpleasant kick behind But do think it
rather hard that after doing So you should then insist
on our getting down on our knees and begging your
pardon for it. And it's all for your id cotton!'
England cannot afford to our production OF cot
ton and its free flow to Liverpool arrested or mpeo
ed a single week, and she must and she would land
France the same, though in less degree) put forth
the whole power of her empire to protect the tran
guilty of our cotton region, (which is far from
being the case-the South stood in the slightest need
of her support or her succor.
So much in regard to the ability of the South,
even at the present day, to make good an easy and
safe secession in the event of the contingency sup
posed-namely, the generalization at the South OF q
spirit Of dissatisfaction in the Union.
It remains only to consider the corelative ques-
ton, will the ascendancy of your Republican policy
in the Federal Government produce that state Of
things? say it will, and it must inevitably"
The mass of evidence on this point Ito those who
uN seek i viz, of the entire ability of the South
to command ample revenue, and her complete
independence of her Northern connection for any of
her necessities-even further of the complete depen
dence of the Northern manufactures, ship owners
and mechanics, upon the South for market and for
employment, is conclusive, and is to be found in
every recognized authority on the trade and COM
merce of the country, in DeBows Review, in Ket-