, 1861-05-29

The Evil and the Good in the Ar1cr1.
can Civil War.

The Evil and the Good in the Amcr1-
can Civil War.
From the London Economist, a1ay4.
THE EVIL. .:::
The war which has at length broken out in |
America, in spite Of the truly legal caution |
and forbearance Of the President, through the /
p-e6umptuous aggression Of tho secedeEs, will |
no doubt be fierce and bloody. No one can
think Of It without dismay no one caa eyen
venture to predict what may be It's results |
and where il Elll end: The southern leaders
have unquestionah1y the whole responsibility |
Ct this fatal step. The blood which has at |
length begun to QoW must be upon them and |
on tleir children. They originated the quar-
rel by their passionate desire to extend the |
shameless institution. Of which they are go |
they nave been the agsressora. They not |
only declined to submit to Consti- |
tutiopal defeat, but their statesmen had pre-
pared by years of Becret treason for the re-
be1lion Of Last November. When they had |
coEeummated their purpose, and found the |
Northern states ett1 long-su1ering, still re-
and yet intent on holding their ground in the
Federal property still remaining to them
they pro1ted by the delay which the iuterces-
s!on Of the Border States secured only to
mature their aggressive measures, and then
GD UUL Ntbllalt LO ultt1k lu6 lIuEG Auu plunge
the country into civil war. Their plans are
well conceived and ably executed. They are
directed by man Of prompte- mind and mora
vigorous decision than President Lincoln, aud
fof time they will probably be successful.
The Border Statee, after causing delay long
enough to serve the purposes Of Mr.. jeff
eions 10 the enemy. Virginis has seeded,
and On the attempt Of her troops to seize the
Federal Arsenal ut Harper's Ferry, 1t was
blown up and abandoned by the officer In
command. North Carolina has again seized
the Federal fo1ts. Even Marylandis hcrcely
divided. The war feeling Is strong in Ten
nesaec. Kentucky, alone, appears still to in
cline to the Ncrthtrn side 4 march on
Washington was arrreheuGed ; mud the North
ern statca, at length aroused to the true char
acter Of the position, were slowly sending
in tl.eir succors to the President, while the
Southern army WIS said to be completely Or
gan:zed. Blood had been already shed by The
Feccttionists both at Baltimore and Harpcr's
Ferry, and every hope of compromise Wa5 q:
an end.
Such ncws seems pure evil And that it is
the herald Of hightfn1 calsmiies, no thought
full man can deny. Still it is not in our esti-
nation evil quite unmixed and unfathomable.
Black Is the storm is VIC believe there is prom
jec Of light through it. Let US take the worst
feature first; and the worst feature about the
war undoubtedly is that the eventual victory
Of tie North can scarcely carry with it event.
uni success. ": speak Of the northern vic
tory Us ultimately certain, because wealthy
ond free population Of twenty millions cannot
but conquer in the long run In q contest with
o poor free population Of the salne race, num-
te1ipg ut most seven millions, even If we give
the South the whole Of the border States.
Tint the North may be beaten ut first ne re-
gard az exceedingly probable. But that de-
| fat will only animatcSthe Northern States to
greater and greater exertion we consider ab-
solute1y certain And In the long fnn no doubt
wealth and numbers must decide this fatal
etrife- But suppose the war ended by the de-
| fest Of the Southern Confederation, will vic
| tory mean success? We think not. 1t NAV
bring back one or two doubtful districts, or
| even doubtful States within the Union. It
may restore western Virginia, Missouri and
| the United States; but In the Gulf states at
lcest victory Fou1d be conquest, and conquest
| only.
| No one doubts that in these States the &C.
ce1sionist party has always had an enormous
civil war into feeling Of ferocous unauimity.
| Those States may be conquered my be held
in military possession, but they can scarcely
again he expected to take voluntary part in
| the political institutions Of the United States.
Unless the Issue Of civil war were ) slave In
stitution Of slavery altogether as the result Of
train Of events which 1t Is utterly
impossible to measure or foresh.dow-the
toS ou Ses ~ ~ T.; LEX t1 oe seaSonaUi5 *
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~ os ~ hnrnnn nvs,f ca, h. ~ h. - 3ha
ia.st ths ets1, taE.n ,n Ina' h., ret-onea
1t fellows, therefore, that tho war, bloody and
perhaps long as it may be. will be In this ro.
Pte1t = W. Snr at;a.i,st 5
er@,arartv *5a n,r 7o[s;t;.,tn 80 ~ ~
WET. AlteI tue conn;ct ls over l9e IlEa' par
! 1les Will De poorer sna more !lnoicuve than
1t tnc ontset. Inc North will beat the South
In the end, bat when it has done go, ne do
not see what the gosernment can 40, except
tfo 70 dn 10 s own af'less
)y nothing can well be blacksr than prospect
q aWa7 at once E1ndictlve, bloody and fruit
ICES
TIE GOOD.
This Is the dark side of the prospact. and 4
Yerv dark Side indeed It seams, Thera is
I,oxeTer. YER not a little to be- said On the otbe, ~
s;de And the main cnnsiderat3on anncars t. r.
~ - he That the VA F;Ii draW toocfhar ~
ror+hrTn gtnt 90 IA fhnrhaye naver hean ir,.vT
tnoether retMsril} fe3ch tbcm thc aj1.;n,n"r
~ char3cter If thu slavery issueNE;11 s11enT
fhe nolitical horizon Of those petty politica
contrroversIes tn1 rI Which have lonr Eittered aWs,
ftn1a ~ thc 1ca1S ereaf issues which Tere s1oT e
" 1o maturirE beneath the surf.ce Of society
~ ~ neon2e,+v ~ ! c1nser nntnn stron1o Svo
central @ % power, = suppression Of those repni
e;ve fares a. Which keep state and state Jealous,
en.nN;n one Word. Tith fhe 5nfT nf tn1nfnt
tbe Observation-Disclosures liz Ty3 T into rea1v - s|nremI
no.se- snch or +h;nf mnv md INIT m
bahs1 vii be. :one resut Of thn dIsastrous con
dict IN which the Unified States a5e now en-
sred. A e '~>% >'''>''' ~ ~" -
Is q secondary and casual ad1nntage, th
strnerle viii Iiberate from the autho2ity q
tie 6orler States, a1l those sections which ar
already prepared and anxious to e1tinguis!
slavery. This would be difficult to efec
1rithni1t xar. While the State organization i
sti1l oerfect the stronger party viii cary Ii
States For example, II Virginiathe State ha
declared for the Souih, but Western Virgini
il almost entirclY In sympathy with tho Nortl
: Aeain. In Kentucky there seems to be yer
. 1aTca 3nrthern parfv. and the same is true I
Te5nessee. NOTHING but wnr, probably, coul
dissn,Ve thnse State chains Rhich bind th
1a1rct.nt froeman d, the corrupt aud corrup
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