The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-01-05
THE LONDON TIMES ON SECESSION

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The following extract from an article in
the London Times, of Nov. 29th, will show
how much sympathysstL e, SoaAheFns, NAL
contents may expect from England. not
withstanding the leaders of the South, are
caioiipg their followers, with promises Of
aid from England and France. We would
call particular attention to the first two SEN
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Ard are these refractory citizens prepared
to be elosetsd beyond the reach Of call With their
oacn s'dOaestic institution 2" Is 1t certain
that In such States as South Carolina and
Mississippi, tUbere the slaves oUsnum6er the
tUtite population, the masters could dispense
Nth tie aid Of their Northern brethren IN
a0ars Or, turning to another item in the
same calculation of expediency, would South
Carolina, whose exports exceed in value her
imports in the proportion of seven to one.
be the gamer by . system of mercantile ex-
clusion Can any man believe that Eng
land and France will consent, as is now sug-
gssted, to stultify the policy of half centu-
ry, for the sake of an extended cotton trade,
and to purchase the favor of Char lesion and
Milledgevills by recognising what has been
called "the isothermal law, which impels
African labor towards the tropics" on the
other side of the Atlantic? Will the sus
pension of payments in speice improve the
credit of the recusant. States and will an
indie pendent administration prove an econs-
mical expedent to States who have hitherto
borne very small share of the public bur
dens? These are considerations that may
be drowned in the passions of the hour, but
which will, we still believe assert themselves
as the movements become more regular
and orderly. We have confidence, not only
in the discretion of Mr.. Lincoln, but in that
of Mr.. Buchanan, who, in the remaining
months of his Presidentship, may do much
to mitigate these desperate and ruinous
counsels.
OF one thing the Democrats may be we'll
assured-that the character and prestige of
the several United States in the eyes of Eu
rope depend on the federal union. Lord
North saw this when he skillfully proposed
compromise which would have had the
effort of isoIating some from the rest, and
Burke resisted his scheme of Cancellation on
that very ground. "Hoc Mhacus Vel1 -
the stubborn and mutinous spirit of the
South is falling into the tactics of the enc
mics of American independence. Let there
be no mistake as to, English public opinion
on this subject. If we have paid a sincere
homage to the rising greatness of America,
it has not been to that which the Southern
ers are so anxious to conserve, but to that
which they are striving to destroy. All
that is noble and venerable in the United
States is associated with its federal consti
tuition. It 10 not the demonstrations of
Southern ruffianism in congress, of the fill
clustering ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the South,
from the Mexican annexations ,downwards,
or the Fugitive Slave law, or the bred Scott
decision, or the Kansas Nebraska act: it
is not these, or any other triumph of Dem
ocratic insolence during their ascendancy of
half q century, that has commanded the
sympathy and admiration of Europe. We
have judged of these things leniently, as the
actions of great men and great nations
ought to be judged, because we knew the
perilons conditions under which 30 mighty
an enterprise as the civilization of America
must of necessity be carried out and have
confidence in the practical good sense Of the
American character, A certain hectoring
tone. arising from the exuberant conscious
ness of health and strength, is characteristic
of adolescence, but no such allowance is
made for deliberate, acts of lawless violence.
Even now. so long as the agitation- is con-
fined to bullying and insults, to 'retalistory
laws and indignation meetings in the form
of Conventions, we shall not despair
High pressure. moral as we'll as mechanic
al, is the rule in America, and threats oil
civil war may be used there in strictly
parliamentary sense. But if this rough
sparring should by any chance be. carried
too far, and the threat so often uttered in
jest or wantonuess should be repeated in
earnest and lead to bloodshed, it Is some com
fort that the aggressors will not be the
stronger party. Mr.. Lincoln will in thai
case command majority in Congress, anc
will carry with him the support of all those
who, however tolerant of Slavery, will no
tanely acquiesce in its becoming the basis
of an illegal and hostile confederation.