Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-12-22
The English Press on American
Affairs.

Affairs.
Some extracts from leading English
Journals viii be found below, giving their
Views on the election Of Republican Pres
Iident and the secession movements at the
South.
[From the London Times
For the present, however, the storm is
raging throughout the Southeastern States.
= = But through all THIS yioleacc
ve cannot Int think that signs Of issinccri-
III appear. Tie Carolinidus and GeoS'-
otaas protest TOO much The flame is TOD
violent and too sudden to last long. No
doubt much sedition will - talked, and
MANY acts committed which the federal
government might be justified in treating
as reasonable; but when time has been
given for reelection the southerners vii be
reconciled to their fate-which, after all, 4
no hard one--and common sense will show
them tho absurdity Of refusing to accept a
constitutional election because it has gone
against them, and breaking up a great ma
ton through the vain fear chat magistrate
Of limited powers viii do what no despot
would be able to effect y
There will not be Carolinian President
with ENJOYS duly accredited at the foreign
capitals Of Washington and London, but
the authority ofthe federal government will
be impotent within the limiis Of the State.
and he people, if determined to remain
obstinate viii undertake to manage their
own posl office, their own customs, the
lighting Of their coasts, and will perhaps
90 the length Of constructing and arning
domestic fortresses. A strong-minded
President, like Jackson, whatever his own
Isympatbies, would probably not hesitate to
crush the Carolinians by force. 1t IS evil
dent, indeed, on the smallest reflection, that
the South, even if united, could never OPP
pose for three months the greatly prepon-
derating strength Of tie North. Al few
hundred thousand slave-owners, trembling
nightly with visions of murder and pillage,
backed by dissolute population Of 'spoor
Whites are no match for the hardy and
resolute populations Of the free States.--
The northerners have hitherto treated the
South like petuIant child, and given in 10
all its ways; but if ever the day of conflict
were to come it would be shown that the
South is but a child in its weakness as well
as its forwardness.
We believe, however, that moderate
counsels prevail at Washington. Public
opinion is evidently opposed to the use Of
military force to quel the agitation. Vio-
lence is to be met by calmness, and sedition
by quiet discharge Of constitutional duties.
The Southerners are not to be eoerced, be-
cause it is expected that they viii shortly
be able to restrain themselves. The over
throw of a party so long dominant could
hardly be effected without some display OF
excitement and anger. The extreme sec
ltion in the slave States, have so long and
so vehemently, asserted their resolve never
to submit to Republican executive that
they could not, without becoming ridicu-
Iloua, quietly aequiesce in their defeat. -
Everything has been at stake with them
place, power, cal position, credit With
their fellow citize... and now they can'hard-
Nv bring themselves to believe that they
have lost the day. But the South as not
united Whole States are lukewarm in the
Democratic cause, and look with horror on
anything like disruption Of the republic
The South will grow accustomed to Re-
publican President, the movement in South
Carolina and Georgia will be confined to
only a section of the slave States, and after
some months wiser counsels will prevail
even there. President Lincoln viii prof.
ably be found by the Shareholders more
harmless than they anticipate. Mems acts
are never so extreme as their opinions, and,
as the free soilers have fiourished underline
dominion Of their opponents, so the South
may exist in spite Of a chief magistrate
whose opinions on slavery are not consid-
cred orthodox at Charleston.