Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-08-21

evil as tremendous in its consequences 10 the
North as to the South, and il would lead to an
irrepressible conflict betw cen the Federal
troops and their new allies. There are some
few people who talk about re-settling the
South by negro proprietors, now slaves; these
are blatant lunatics or very wicked idiots.
others there are who desire, very kindly, TO
make an arrangement with England by whic h
our colonies could be supplied with labor, and
who wish to make bargain with us for the re-
ceipt Of population of four millions of black
people. When they are in a condition to do so
perhaps it may be time to characterize the
transaction as it would deserve. No one that
| ever heard of purposes to receive the negroes
into the Northern States; though perhaps they
might be allowed to 60 further and fare worse
in Canada. Victorious, the North will have to
encounter on the very threshold Of the Tenn
pie of Peace, foe more terrible than war. Is
there in all the wise heads of the world one
who can solve the knot without the use of the
sword? And when the sword has done its
work, what next? There is the eternal negro
tripping up the foot of Alexander as he returns
his blade to the sheath. Can any one devise a
scheme for the deportation of 1000, 900 souls?
Why such an emigration was never heard Of
SOUTHERN CHARACTER.
In no place does greater objection to univer-
sal sufrage-unpopular as ii is, in private con-
versatiOn at least, over most of the States
exist than in the South. The satraps can bear
no rival near the throne. With all their indi-
vidual charms of manner, easy demeanor, hes
pitality and good breeding, there is at the
bottom of the whole system, as there is at the
base of secession, gross materialism. 1t may
be that the North is equally under the same
infiuence-it may be that all the world is reg
ulated by it-that interest is the sole motive
power in politics and in the action of mon. But
IN the South alone, in spite of refinement and
chivalry, Is the doctrine preached to the exclu.
sion of any other dogma. Nowhere else have
heard so much of the potency of the dollar
expressed in acreage, in bales of cotton, and
hogsheads of sugar. Every white man who is
among them takes or may take something
from them. Their mum Der is minimized to
meet the strictest requirements of trading in
the towns, and of mechanical arts in the c0un-
try through all the extreme South. 1t is
delusion to imagine that the possession of slaves
tpso Jacto, makes gentleman.
WISE CONCLUSION.
And now / bring this letter to close, with
the assurance that, if have extenuated many
things, have set down naught in malice In
my next l shall have few words to say as to
the question of administration of the laws. and
the morality which prevails in some parts of
the recent United States-ths which may have
more to dc with the questions to arise hereafter
than we may think, or be ready to perceive at
hrst blush; and then, before leave the South,
by the aid of faithful authorities trust to give
some information respecting matter of much
interest in England-the cotton supply. If
Cotton be King, we may as well admit the
sway at once; but for one, l would sooner live
under the worst form of government possible,
even the disreputable rule of the American
public, than the sway of such a soulless sense
less, aocculent potentate.