Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
a Blavehsldine Republic.
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which is confidently predicted and If tn
event be an American event, ineredulity is in
creased by the knowledge that the American
have principles of barking which are entirel.
distinct from their principles of biting. Still
/ there are some symptoms which make it WORT
while to attend to the contingency Of separ
alton between the Northern and Southern
States of the Union.
As soon as it becomes worth while TO dis
cuss the establishment of a separate federation
of the slaveowning States, the considerations
which suggest themselves are such as to make
US wonder at the folly of the undertaking =
the least drawback on it is its expensive nese
At present the cost of the General Govern
ment is most unequally distributed between
the North and South and though in tht
Southern section the expenses are much larger
than in the Northern, from the greater inac-
cessibility of the country, the amount cOntri-
buted BY the slave States 10 the revenue
which pays them is out Of all proportion small
Ter than the amount raised from the States oil
free SOIL This however, is trifing reason
for valuing the Union, compared with others.
Is it possible that the planters do not perceive
that their connection with the Northern States
has the effect, as it were, Of i1snring their pc
cuiar institution? Looked at impartiallv. it
is much more like c0ntrivance for keeping
mp negro servitude than for weakening it
But if the Southern States once succeeded in
constituting a separate Federation, it is surely
clear that every question now pending be-
tween themselves and the North would become
at once an international question. Every
point now at issue in the domestic forum of
Congress would come under the cognizInce of
the general society of nations What sort of
division of the unsettled territory now belong
ing to the Unitid States would ever be agreed
upon between the Northern aud Southern
Federations, nobody can pretend even to con-
ceive and this is the very difficulty which
seems to show that the severance could Eevcr
be effected without bloodshed 1t is plain,
however, that every attempt of the Southern
States to expand beyond the territory abso-
Iutely secured TO them, would ba resisted, not
simply by their Northern neighbors, bnt by
the whole strength Of European civilization.
The more reckless spirits of the South are
pushing on their quarrel in the belief that. If
they were once disembarrassed of the Union,
they could lend province after province from
Mexico, and fill each successive acquisition
with their slaves. But Europe would have q
word in the matter 1t is simply the incor-
poration of the North with the South which
prevents European statesmen from treating
tn, ann .xatinas of the .Iited States. as avow-
cd extensions of the area Of slavery. They
cannot now upbraid Confedlracy, Of which
m r. than half the members have no slaves,
IL,
interest Of cotton and negroes, but there would
DC no scruple about taxing the Southern Ed
erAtiJn with designs which it wou'd bH at no
pans Il conceal. Mr. is there. We take it.
the slightest donbt that the free States would
rather assist than impede the eff ,rts Of Euro
paan diplomacy. The Monroe doctrine would
3c destroyed by the very fact of separat Of.
and Northern Union, once divided from the
South, would not be long in making the dis
couragcment of slavery the cardinll principle
of It's foreign policy. In short, the measure
of the dangers Of separation is the advantage
now derived from disunion. Slavery is sufi
cienty unpopular in the world for mere
slaveh0Iding Commonwealth to run no small
risk Of becoming the victim of general cru
sade. B ut the actual connection Of the South
ern States with the North has the effect ei
masking thair exclusive devotion to hated
system. The Cons itu ion of the United
States, as experience has abunlan ly sh Dwn
can often b. 50 managed as to promote the
objects of the sIaye-ownerS, ard whatev ad
vantage is gained in this way, it is gained
without incurring danger and almost without
attracting attention.
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ess entertained by the Americans of the
Southern States has persuaded them that they
would lose nothing in military strength and
resource by casting of the bondage of ihc
!. Constitution. We can only say that England
is the only country which has had serious
struggle with the United States, and Englisl
experience does not bear out the Southern
pretensions. During the Revolutionary War
the English troops scarcely commanded a foot
of ground in the North which they did not
occupy. But later in the struggle, the South
was all but subjugated; and had not the in
conceivable strategy Of the English Generals
given different turn to the issue, it seemed al
one time probable that, even if New England
and the middle States obtained their indepon
dence, the mother country would be left in
possession of Georgia and the Car0linas, JUS
as she was with Canada and Nova Scotia
! Similarly in the war of 1912, nobody in Eng
/ land ever doubted that the Southern State
were the vulnerable part of the Federation
nor has the result changed this opinion. Th,
expedition to New Orleans, though wi!full.
given up to destruction byGeneral Paclenhanl
was exceedingly we'll planned and had no
| fbn Of IN info 1fpt
hostilities, Il second expedition en- a large
scale, and under better commanders, woul,
assuredly have ascended the Mississippi.
is not indeed to be supposed that anybody il
England ever doubted. or doubt, the persona
galantry of the Southern whites Even
the Soulhcrner be somewhat of 4 bully W
have no faith in the assertion that bully is
polIroon. But we in Europe have recent
learned to distrust the strength of every sys
TEN which is based on the depression Of sui
ject population. There were brave men i
Italy who were welded to the cause of legit
macy-such men, for example, as are groupe
around King Francis at Gaeta. But the les
son we have received is, that it is never sal
: to calculate on the AMUSEMENT of subjects
The Southerners can hardly distlain the ncgr
as rebel more than the local Italian despo
despsed their people as mutineers. If tt
negro is considered half an animal, the Italia
was thought half a woman. "My people
: wrote King Ferdinand, q" bend their necl
and obey" Yet a very slight assistance fro
without swept away the Italian tyrants; an
+ for our part, we do not envy the Soulhei
: whites when once negro Garibaldi is amor
their slaves.
i The Detroit Advertiser publishes an inte
4 esting statement Of the disasters upon Il
# lakes during the past year, and the loss of h
L man life resulting therelrom. The aggrega
e is fearfully large-larger, it is believed, thu
n that Of any previous season. il not any thr
: seasons. Flee hundred and sirt y-t,po perso
d met their death between the 22d of Mar