Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-10-11
THE sLAvEHOLDING REgELLION-ATTI-
TUDE OF ENGLAND

THE SLAvEHOLDING REsELLION-ATTI-
TUDE OF ENGLAND.
From The London Morning Sdr and Dial Sept. H.
The war is but beginning, aud oil the antece
dents of the Northern justify tho belief that
their first efforts would be the least successful
They have encountered one single disaster, and
have set about repairing it with the patient vgor
OF men who can afford making sure their next
advance at any expenditure OF labor and money.
With the dignifed humility that is not above
learning from defeat and danger, they have
thoroughly fortified their own capital before
making another attempt upon the elemy's.
They have made Of Washington an arsenal and
depot, as well US a fortress. They have collect
cd there an immense store of guns, with so many
horses as to suggest to our special correspondent
that Gen. Mcclellan means to win the campaign
with field artillery. Ii the new commander has
not under his orders much larger army
than his predecessor, he has brought 1t into in
fuitely better condition. Ho has certainly
checked the approaches of Dcauregard to the
lines before Alexandria, and could probably in
ilict upon assailants severe repuse. II he is
not master of the south bank Of the Potomac
from HArper's Ferry to Fort Monroe, he has col
ected marine force sufficient to render the
passage of the river almost impossible. The
physique and morale Of the new levieJ are such
us to satisfy even the experienced eye of Mr.
Russell. The maritime superiority of the Feder-
nlists is now becoming practically manifest.
| The hardy seamen OF the New England sea-
board are entering for service on board the gum
boats built with marvellous celebrity in the dock
yards of Maine and Massachusetts. A naval
expedition of four thousand men and one hun
dred guns has left Old Point, probably for the
const OF North Carolina. On the southwest, the
hanks Of the Mississippi are likely to witness the
advance Of an overland expedition against New
Orleans. General Fremont is taid to have been
charged with the conduct Of this bold enterprise,
and to have no scruples with regard 10 the accep-
taLce of negro auxilaries This vary latest news,
telegraphed to the steamer at Father Point, in
dicates the resolution of the Government to act
upon that famous decision of Congress to which
the President 80 reluctantly assented Martial
law is proclaimed u Missouri, and freedom
promised TO the slaves of insurrectionists,
Thus the weakest place in Mr.. Lincolns policy
has been converted into strong tete du pont
The world will be assured of the tendency of the
war, whatever doubt may still rest upon iii
origin. The defense of the Union will be public
ly identified with the liberation of the negro.
but it does not follow from these premises
that the English public may safely dismiss iron
their minds all apprehension MS to the attitudt
of our Government toward that of the Unitct
States. Gen. Mcclellan may have disslpatet
tho illusion of au easy victory over the North
The Missouri proclamation may bring the Fedora
A cause nearer than ever to the sympathies of thu
8 British people. Yet arc our rulers by no mean
to be trusted. The language Of their organs-
y the organs Of the ruling classes Of this counr.
i lis that of spirit maleyOlently hostile to tn
I North. They magnify every difficulty in th
! way of a reunion, exagerate every excess of po
i pular feeling, dwell upon and disiort every dis
, agreeable necessity of the crisis. In vain do WI
Q look through their columns far n spark of jus
: OF generous feeling toward men-and those ou
x tremendous emergency, and are exerting them
, selves with courage and fortitutde to bear VI
against ii The South, on the contrary, /
4 treated with the tender consideration of friend
i and relations whose faults and errors are thos
4 of noble blood, and whose cause though no
e stainless, is honorably sustained. The following
]. exquisi sentence was published yesterday b,
= an aris.ocratio and ministerial contemporary
G "lf the secession movement were free from til
! tnint of Slavery n great obstacle in the way o
it's recognition by foreign Powers, and especial.
4 by this country, would be removed" Was thcr
d ever such virtue in an gift" Tint which i
e delcately called ''taint' all the world outsid
- Belgravia knows to be the body and soul, th
: flesh, blood and spirit ofthe secession movement
4 Its leaders have avOwed, with blnsphemou
h peryerson of sacred imagery, that Slavery is til
corncr.s stone which the builders of the Unioi
would fain have rejected, and did at least en-
deayor to conceal. Slavery has been the on
solitary but all-pervading element of unsound
!, nes and danger in the composition Of American
- society 1t has batiled all endeavors to confin
il within n territorial boundary. 1t has pushe
its arrogant pretentions TO the very limits of til
= Union, and beyond-caimed to pursue its fugi
y tives even TO beneath the folds OF the Brtis
" flag, and to imprint its devlish foot upon th
soil of Mexico and Cuba, as wei as Of Kansa
d, and California 1t has become the irreconcabl
" foe Of civil and religious freedom, and indeed o
~ civilized society. The men who are now how
u ling and whining about the tyranny Of tn
u Federal Government and the brutality OF Federa
~ mObs, are the same men who countenanced nm
l.; even instigated the suppression OF every Aboli
= ZIONIST newspaper, the lynchng of Aboltionis
advocates, the violation of correspondence sua
m pected of Abolitionist sentiment, aud the prOhi
~ bition of Bibles and tracts within the pale q
y negro settlements. The English sympathzer
4 with these apoogists of barbatism now taunt US
H. through the columns of fashionable Journal.
70 with the ''praotical result of American Demo
cfacy' as no better than the reign of Kin
BOmba. The extravaganza of the absurdity in
= dcates propottiouae depth of malgnity
None but those who profoundly hate tho libeTt
that is for the moment Obscured could thus mndl
reyle the man who had drawn swords in defens
of the vailed idol And we may be sure thu
they who thus bespatter the image they profes
u u to reverence would, if they dared, make clos
II alliance with its sacrligious assailants.