The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1860-02-04

Alisalole amidst the STRIFE
Treat a#heia kindly, deign to lose them
And thy mothers feelings pra9e,
10 not, pass them eoldly saying,
Z. Mine are all that / can love
Ees.sr.s OF England against she american
Jnkaif.
Iii sHE EXPLOITS 10 aAtS BY a p9ssoLcEloN
"A OF THESE UNITED STATES.
Below we publish a few extracts sm q
letter dated London. Dec. ID, in which the
writer himself an Anseriean) calls the ntlei-
ton Of his eounsfynen to The designs Of Eng
land against the United States
Borl ard educated in the North, and having
ever been an ardent adlnifer aud snltsfter of
those great eha.aplops OF a rericai1 industry,
| Webster at$4 GiaY, itcan not be supposed that
/ huyessany undue sympathy - the south
But / can not but regard with doubt apd APP.
prellension the effect Of the mistaken agitation
1T the subject of slavery in the Northern
States and my anxiety. hiss been increased BY
the confidence which exists here, ahlotg polits-
clans Of every shade AID class, that The days
Eof the Americas Union are MI nttesea and !
~tegtet To say dat that belief has betn greatly
sirengtlenedsNi, the past few weeks.
~ When j tSis remembered that Elalsla es-
petded more than seyen hundred milton dol
liars IN the attempt to sabjngate the colonies
! when it ia remembered that secret societies
we're organized in certain Northern States by
| British agents during the war If 1872, for the
purpose OF making u diversion against our
i arms, wMaaif5 it ii remembered that large sums
I Of money were furnished from Great BRIAN
~,r the purpose OF sending men aad arms TO
Kansas during the anfortlnsas struggle IN that
II iserriiofy when tits remembered that dnring
the Criuiean war Eng'nid. through her Minis
Ter at Washington aud her Gonsuis at New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. in
contempt Of our laws, secretly enlisted troops
to fight against y Power friendly TO the United
HSiases, and that, when charged with the Of
fence, ssGd Ministers and ~tfRnshIs s~oleRlitly de
MED ait participation in said tnlistintsits, even
after their gtfilt had been established ii the
: federal courts when it is remembered that
/, after Great Britain had disaFowsxi the action
i Of MIR. Champion, in consequence OF which he
a was dismissed from Washington, she appoinieG
g him Minister 10 st, Petersburg. thereby giving
the lie to her disavowal Of his cotHlnct-wlieu
alt these things are remembered, no one should
a be snrprissd to learn that the British govern
nent have determined to devote two hnndret
J thousand pounds sterling ~tsenletiiing less tlra,
n million dollars) during the approaching
il Presidential canvass in faiAellting bad blood ii
u the North and West against tle South, in tht
T. hpfe thereby Of producing u dissolution Of thu
Union.
! know this. to be the fnet; far | have i
from a person Of uudopbtea cred!biiity, and
= am only prevented from giving his name from
I the certainty that 1t would ~inslse him III CO.
most serious difficulties, il not prove his ruin
But is there anything astonishing ia this?5 !
it strange that the people who expended NOR
than seven HUNDRED million dollars in thei
enieavor to sea lave our fathesg should now b
willing Il sd one million III order to SIM
= der the Norm from the Sonth, thereby regain
ing the real, if not the nominal ascerdanc
over at least one section of the Statcs? is
rs strange that the people whip entertain an herr
= ditary hatred for us and oar institutions, afoul
- desire 10 see both crushed aud osertlirown2
: Bat some oln may ask, what has Englan
to gain by the dissolution Of tie America
Union? What has she to gaia? Everything
We are now her rival on the sea, aud nfeasur
dc with her ton fer ton in the great race Of stssaal
4 aud sail for the carrying trade of the work
es She knows that our shipping is owned almoi
W. exclusively in the Northern coast States ST
"a knows, too, that the best paying freight borl
by those Northern vessels comes from the plal
gu talions Of the ~Sau.h-ffem the three kAl;e
y bales Of cotton, from the sugar, the tobaca
:" and ether products Of the slayeEtates. Isl
knows well that the Union onGn dissolved, Il
th9st lnsetefaie hostility must ever after 5eyi
between the North an South that. fro
necessity. the latter would he compelled
les form y European alliance, to resist the aggre
us sions Of her more powerful neisbber; that II
Is terms OF such an alliance. would e~ssaade Nc
thern, aud especially New England, yesse
fit from the Southern trade, by the imposition
Ia: such onerous Understanding taxes as won
ini render competition with Great Britain impe
.es sIble. She knows well that, iii such a state
Ter things, Northern manufacture would be q
u- clnded from the Southern market, through /
Ct agency of a high tariff, while British goo
sri would be received free Of datsa She know
too, well, that, herself possessing these adya
let tages, both Northern shipping aud Northe
manufactures must cease to exist. But VII
advantages wonld the South secnfe from sh
an alliance? All thai she could desire. 4
fleets. of England would protect her on tile s,
on and the subsidies Of England would support
Southern army of $4,000, composed Il Sou
ern inca and commanded by Southern Office
to protect her from inenrsions from the Nor
"a or to pass the frontier with fire aud sword,
III seek vengeance for some unredressed Wrol
Is Bnt would England snrpdSa such an army
the snnth? | answer, does she not supper
les. much larger army in India for a less canside
!, ton But has the South the troops? DO ,
misunderstood me. / would blush with sl,a
ID, did ! not believe that The North was /
equally as brave as, the South. | do belit
ae so but the organization Of the South wol
enable her to bring into the field not orl
more powerful, but also u larger force than
lali- North. In the South the labor is perform
by the negroes, in the North by the viii,
non 70 organize a Northern army, farms and wo
shops must be abandoned. factories must ca
their busy hum, and the soil refuse to prod,
, ,n from wapt Of cultivation. Far different i!
with the South.
At the first tap of the drum, an army
take the field, without Withdrawing one II
es from the ordinary course of labor. How \
1t during the Mexican war? On the first lie
Tennessee and Massachusetts we're each cal
On for one regiment of volunteers. In
than three waalss Tannnosaa so{f,,,l 4I...a.,