The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-15
VOLUME XII. NO. 7.
The English Press on the American
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by the otie section or tho other Is tho ono
only condition on which tho Union can be
reconstructed, Such concession is now no
longer expected of tho Free States, and il
,Ods ai,Oays absurd 10 i.d0gine il. Tho ques.
tion now is whether such concession will be
agreed to by .he Slave States as the only
alternative to suljugation by conquest; 1t
Is better to face tho truth of the case, after
what We have seen of the mischief that
comes of covering it up for supposed pru-
dental reasons.
What is tho precise nature Of the con.
Cession the South must mako in the case
supposed The answer is given by the dc.
mands she made upoh the North. The
whole Uuion has borno tho discrodit and
moral and material injury of being slave.
holding nation, whilo nno-tenths of tho
nation hold no slaves, and disc pproyed tho
institution. The aim OF the recent election
was to got rid of the disgrace and injury by
taking measures for restricting Slavery
Within its actual boundaries, aud making Il
sectional instead Of p,ltional. This indica cs
at once the folly of proposing to the ma
jority to yield uD this aim and tho precise
necessity that tho South lies under, whether
sho chooses war or peace. In other case
now, Slavery and its liabilities must bo ro
stucted within its actual limits; and it is
Tor tho Pro-Slaverv people to decide whoth-
or they shall first undergo q conquest by
arms. They cannot expect, of course, to
conquer the Fruo States. At most they can
propose to hold their ground and il they
could hold thoir ground aud establish them
solvos in Independence, they would DO, in
regard TO the conditions of Slavery, precisely
zuhora fhav h. uy;th G,,h
If they had lived anywhere but in slave.
holding society, they would SEQ this as tho
world does; but thoy are ignorant Of life
elsewhere, and as unconscious as tho Chinese
. OF the relative strength and civilization Of
themselves and other pooplo. This ignn-
rance may lead them TO venture war. In
the whole case this is tho thing to be feared.
Jhov do not know how poor their RESOURCES
arc in comparison with those Of any other
civilized country--their rotton roads and
bridges, their scanty arms, oven whore men
go armed about their daily business tleir
incapacity for military discipline, or any
sort of discipline; their dostitution OF
states, such as arc necessary warfare, and
especially their pecuniary poverty. They
are alarmed about their negroes. Thoy do
feel what millstono they Lave about their
necks in this soryile cass-ther four mil
lions of domestic foes. Tho "ooor whiies"
would make sorvicable banditti. as long as
they were not brought face to face with
Northern free laborers When that happens,
thoy forthwith become Northern FREQ
laborers themselves. Tbore is no other
force which could bo brought into the field
against Federal troops; and nf;er great
Nortborn army had swept the country,
brushing away all opposition, and possessing
themselves OF every town, plantation, forry
and fort that they choose to take-setting z
tho slaves froe as they went-what would
remain to the citizens Certainly q worse
chance, as to terms, than thoy have now.
Thoy might now be received back on tho
simple condition that they shonld koop their
''peculiar institution" to themselves, and
make really domestic" matter Of it. II
10 probable that oven the three ffths suf-
frage might bo left to thom for timo. But
they must manage thor own concerns, anG
SOC tho nation ut large casting off ;ho dis
credit of an institution that tho world think
Ill Of These arc surely easy terms for 1
robellious poop!o; but wo beioyo they may
have them, if tboy 500 in timo what they
had best to do.-LOndon Nrtos. Jan. FL.
america is signal illustration Of h'
t1orih o. frepresentdhUe g0rerRmenL THE peo
Dtc OF EUgtIHu HtitHcs OttcCc UOf uloh tO Oc'
heue in the ruin of the grent Commonwealth
of their kindred beyond The ocean but what
ever perils DO in store for it, arising out o
tho schism of tho Southern States, thoy wei
know that these perls originate, not from
the application or misapplication OF the
Democratic principle in South Carolina
Georgia or Virginia, but conspicuously ano
not0riouely from It's absence in those States
The Southern States are MOI: aud ncreI
t1ere, Democrdcies ia any sense 81 The term
Tho simple truth is. aud il cannot bo to,
ofton repeated, that Virginia, Carolina
Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, were eacl
aud all expressly founded with oligarchi
caro- and oligarchic ain upon an oligarchi
model. All power and privilege was con
centrated 10 tho planter caste; and o sor
vile multitude was provided by regal an
aristocratic policy, by whose unrequitte
toll the governing few wore TO subsist. w
grieve to be obliged to say that in our est
mato of the possible future Of America W
SEQ cause for the deepest anxiety as to tn
fate of civilization, social aud political, il
the devoted regions whose frantic oligarch
are striving to sovcr them from the wise an,
enlightened rulo founded by Adams, Frank
lin. Hamilton, Jefferson and Jay.
For the destiny of tho FREQ North, wit
Its intelligence and industry, its wealth an
invention, Its love of equal libcrty, and il
love of equal law. there is no cause for fea
1uferiority of soil, seaboard and streams, {
mineral wealth and of mountain pasture, {
sweep of domain aud enjoyable climate
the vigorous, fearless, sel:.reliant North ca
afford, with laugh, to admit all, and "
feel how trauscendontly stronger aud richie
nobler and happier, Is its place among Il
nations. lf permanent severance there mr
be, the tcorid wiH comprehend he di6eren
befpeen compact nation Of educaird fr'
and self dependent ei.issas, and a eommsniI
of indoieRi aud insoLent proprietors Of Ian
living ia hourly dread Of herd Of slave
--Loadon Netos, Jan. l9h.
There arc thousands of noblo hearted me
and womon in tho Northern States who ha'
n hearty hatred of that moral completely
the barter of human flesh and blood whi'
has boen forced upon them by their polite
Organization. Thoy know that many OF Il
blemishes which tho foes of Freedom ha
signalized in their republican institution
and social condition, arise from the prosenc
Ia tho consider alton, of a systom essential
Guti.replblicau and as hateful 10 God us
- .,n. Thau fonl that ita ii