Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-02-28
The English Press on Ameri-
can Affairs.
The London Neps Of the 2lst says Of

concession:
/ "Ihe concession Of the points of differ
ence by the one section or the other is the
ons only condition on which TIE Union can
be reconstructed. Suca concession is now
no longer expected of the free States, and
is always absurd to imagine it. The ques-
ton now is-whether such concession viii
be agreed to by the slave States as the only
alternative to subjugation by conquest
1t is better to face the truth of the case, af-
ter what we have seen of the mischief that
comes Of covering up for supposed pru-
Dental reasons.
"What is the precise nature Of the con-
cession the South must make in the case
supposeds The answer is given by the
demands she made upon the North. The
whole Union has borne the discredit, and
moral and material injury, Of being slave
holding nation, while nine-tenths Of the ma
ton held no slaves, and disapproved the
institution. The aim of the recent election
was to get rid of the disgrace and injury
by taking measures for restricting slavery
within its actual boundaries, and making
it sectional instead of national. This indi-
Gates at once the folly of proposing to tho
majority to yield up this aim, and the pre-
else necessity that the South lies under,
whether she chooses war or peace. In eth
er case now, slavery and its liabilities must
be restricted within its actual limits; aud
it is for the pro-slavely people to decide
whether they shall first undergo a conquest
by arms. They cannot expect, of course,
to conquer the free States At most they
can propose to hold their ground and if
they could hold their ground and establish
themselves in independence they would be,
in regard to the conditions of slavery, pre-
cisely where they may now be without
fighting If they had lived anywhere but
in saveholding society, they would see
this as the world does; but they are ignorant
of life elsewhere, and as unconscious as the
Chinese Of the relative strength and ciyii-
cation of themselves and other people
This ignorance may lead them to adventure
a war. In the whole case this is the thing
to be feared. They do not know how poor
their resources are in comparison with those
Of any other civilized country-their rotten
roads and bridges, their scanty arms, even
where men 90 armed about their daily
business; their incapacity for military dis
cipline, or any sort of discipline; their
restitution of stores, such as are necessary
for warfare, and especially their pecuniary
poverty. They are alarmed about their
negroes. They do feel what a milestone
they have about their necks in their seryile
class-their four million of domestic foes.
The poor whites would make serviceable
banditti, as long as they were not brought
face to face with Northern free laborers.-
When that happens. they forthwith become
Northern free laborers themselves. There
IS no other force which could be brought
into the field against federal troops and
after a great Northern army had swept the
country, brushed away all opposition, and
possessing themselves of every town, plan
tation, ferry and fort that they chose to
take setting the slaves free as they went
what would remain to the citizens? Ger
tainly worse chance, as to terms, than
they have now. They might now be re-
ceived back on the simple condition that
they should keep their peculiar institution
to themselves, and make really domestic
matter Of it. 1t is probable that even the
three ffths suffrage might be left to them
for a time But they must manage their
own concerns, and see the nation ut large
casting off the discredit of an institution
that the world thinks i'll of. These are
surely easy term FOR a rebellious people !;
but we believe they may have them, if
they see in time what they had best to dc"
The Morning Star and Dial Of the I'd,
links the South should be left alone to
pursue its new career:
"There are thousands Of noble hearted
men and women in the Northern States
who have a hearty hatred Of that moral
completely in the barter of human flesh
and blood, which has been forced upon
them by their political organization. They
know that many of the blemishes which
the foes of freedom have signalized in their
Republican institutions and social condi-
ton arise from the presence, IN the consid-
Grafton, Of system essentially anti-Repub-
lican, and as hateful to God as it is imuri-
Gus to man. They feel that its alliance
with the North has been to the South as
that presence Of few good men which
would have induced the Almighty TO spare
the guilty city; and that, had the slave
States stood alone, slavery would probably
before this have been numbered among
obsolete iniquities. Various considerations
NAV have induced them to refrain from
seeking themselves to break the bond which
led to such disastrous Consequences; but
now that the South sues for divorce, why
should they oppose the prayerl Let the
seeding States carry out their insane pro-
iect. and base their new nationality upon
the principle that man has right of prop
ertT in Immortal beings; they will soon
discover that they have built their house
upon heap Of crumbling sand. The bles-
sing Of God viii assuredly never rest upon
that-hag, which, in fair division of the
emblem Of the existing Union, should re-
tain the stripes without the stars. If the
men Of the North have clear perception
Of their duty and of the true interests Of
humanity, they will stay the hana Of vi