The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-11-14

the .anriefN OF the. British In OIIY.
'Prestde1ttfnI Observation-Disclosures
The British; as usual, desire to have the
Democracy defeated in. the Presidential cam
:paign, and the London Chronicle tells us why:
&Me should. be very sorry to see Mr.. Douglas
elected 2 1t says, f'because he is in favor of the
obnoxious institutions as they exist, and The
4thffy of tie States. There is 10 safety for
European Monafchical governments If the
progressive spirit of the Democracy of the
United States is allowed to. succeed. Elcot
Lincoln and the first 61oao TO The separation
of the United States as elected"
The shrewd and sagaeious politicians of
Great Britain have always famed the embers
Oh. discord between the Northern and South
iern States, and have done their best to bring
about q dissolution Of the Union. As early as
1909 she dispatched a messenger-John Hen
Iy-to New England, for the purpose,of sound
ing the tone of public sentiment and making
-oyertures to leading people in favor of the an
nexsioa, eff the, New England States to Canada,
sor, to give them q Protectorate under the Brit
ISL Government Great Britain soon saw that
il was only by means Of the slavery question
that the Union could be dissolved, and She ac
cordingly commenced the abolition agitation.
+ Exeter; Hall, London, is the source of Ameri-
can interchangeable fountain head of all our
trouble on that subject. The interest Great
Britain has in q dissolution of the Unien Is
immense. She sees Northern States lrivaling
hefin commerce, wealth, and In manufactur-
ing resources, under the fostering5car of the
tariff and the navigation laws of the Union,
whiehaexcludes British shipping and British
: manufactures, or subjects them to sonerous
taxes. 4 If there was no Union Great Britain
would do the carrying trade for the South,
and supply it, in a great measure, with British
Mahufactures. Northern commerce and Nor
ifRern Z manufaetures-which now rival and
compete with her in the markets of the world
F-.-would receive a severe blow.
3snuAlthough pretending to side with the North
on the humane aspects of the slavery question,
it can not be doubted that in case the South
thern States, should set up for themselves an
independent government, Great Britain would
be. frstte recognise it and tender them q close
~alliance. She would engage to admit their
,eettoa free of duty, and to gnard and protect
them from i~nyasion, IF they in return would
sdbait her. manufactures free, or at nominal
rates of duty. She would side, with the North
to get a dissolution. but after that she would
re with the South, as her interests lie in that
direction. The leading Southern Disunionists
,ofsthe Yancey stamp count upon this with
great certainty; -
are blinded by prejudice or passion to the eff
1eCL OF HIS elcCGLOb; OuU SHS PNORN OA
err side. of the Atlantic, removed from the
smoke Of the conflict can see distinctly, and
give cut such predictions as we copy from the
London Mroaicze.-sCtn. Enquirer. "A
% The above article was published in the Gin
einnasis ndaiycre.som time before the Presi-
9de eItiaE SECTION 1sisma5o 70 e-a'"lglaa
- ,HW7BssAsr FL the predictions viii be fulfilled we
:hayeSyet 70 see, but the news from the South
afp totbis fFpe indicate their fulfllment to the
letter. sAIreasy the Collectors of some of the
Southern portsAays resigned and it is report
"a AT that British manufsctnfes will be admitted
s.seinto those portse Secession is evidently
upon by some Of the Southern
states and nothfngtbat the srong arm OF the
properly executed can prevent H.
Already csn be seen id imminent proximity
bese S,atss "dissevered, discordant, beiliger-
the result Of Abolition fansticisH' Ill the
North and Of ambitious consptsators against