Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-06-20
The Character of the Contest in which
 we are Engaged.

Hostility has been bred in the blood, and has descended to the belligerents through centuries. Hollow truces have been patch ed up, and an interminglng of races has had tendency to produce longer and longer intervals of peace between the anta9onistlc elements; but the oil and water would sepa- rate when left unltsturbed by outside agl- tation, in which both parties were equally interested, and the old feud between Nor man and Saxon, Puritan and Cavalier broke out into fresh violence.
 English statesmen p2rcieved this fact lono aoo. They have seen that the only way to preserve peace between their arlS- tocracy and their people, sprung from dlt- ferent stocks, was to keep their attention engaged in foreign wars They wanted no more instructions lik those of Wat 1ayler and Jack Cade in former times, and ot the Chartists of our own. They wanted no more contests such as broke down the arls- tocracy in the wars of the roses. For eign war was the iron tire which bound the wheel of their government together. Out side pressure and sense of common nsecu- ritv was necessary to make the hetero5ene- ous elements commingle. Upon this idea we may cease to wonder at the frivolous causes. which have estensibly induced Eng fish statesmen to plunge their country into bloody and expensive wars.
 The cankers of a long peace have produc- ed their effects in America. Our ancestors brought over the Atlantic the same differ ence of race, and the same consequent hos tilities. Instead of being crowded and mingled in one little island, where their inbred animosties could be more easily re- strained and where the opposing ranks had scant room in which to array themselves, the Saxon Puritan and the Norman Cava- Her seperated into distinct seetlons-one took the South and the other took the | North. Long exemption from foreign war, difference of habit, institutions, climate and productions has aggravated the old en-
 mitv, until now we find it bursting forth apain with ten-fold bitterness, and by the decree of Providence, slow but immutable, | the races are to separate.
 But the dominant and governing race will conquer and continue to govern, if the examples of history are worth anything and if another truce should be patched up.
 But once in the long course of eight hun dred wears has the Saxon or the Puri- tan held the assendent Cromwells iron troopers were victorious at Naseby anl
 Worcester, but what did they gain by their victory? A very short and troubled lease
 of power. The rightful and legitimate go- vernment was re-established and has con tinued with few Interruptions or changes to
 the present day. Only when the charac- teristics of breed and blood are obliterated can this contest be ended short of a final dissolution of the ties which have bound the antagonists together. In our day the decisive battle of this war of centuries is to he fought. Neither side may conquer; but an eternal separation will assuredly take place. and the Norman-Saxon race will be resolved into its original elements, and each, as far as this continent is concerned, will be left to work out its destiny alone Southern soil Is invaded, but southern men have no need to fear the result. Never have men of their race been successfully invaded The Roman, the Saxon and the Dane successively overrun Britain, and each wave of the invader drove the original Britain farther and father into remoter and narrower corner of the island; but the Norman came, and since no invasion of England has been successful. France and Spain, in the night of their power and glory, have been repelled and beaten back dishonored. Races do not loose their characteristics by the lapse of time, and that from which southern men have sprdng has always played the part of an invader, not of the invaded.
 But aside from the prestige of domi- nant race, there is another consideration which adds to the power and superiority of the southern type of manhood. We all Jude of course to the presence and elevating influence of the institution of slavery - The spirit of liberty is higher and more naughty in slave holding country than elsewhere. In such country, says Ed mond Burk, those who are free are by far the most jealous and proud of their free dom. Freedom to them is not only an enjoyment, but kind of rank and privilege It is not as in country where freedom Is common blessing, and broad and general | as the air, may be found united with much abject toll. with great misery and with all the exteriors of servitude. Amongst slave holders liberty looks like something more noble and liberal. Such were all tho an cient commonwealths: such were our Gothic ancesters-such were the Poles and such will ever be all masters of slaves who are not themselves slaves In such peo- pie the haughtiness of domination com pines with the spirit of freedom and foFti- fies it ani renders it invincihle Hence. continues Mr. Bark. the people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with higheF and more stubborn spirit. attached 10 liberty than those to the north. ward. The history of our revolution and