Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-15
The Success of the sOutheFn COnfederacy-
A French View of the Question.


French View of the Question.
NJ. Gaspsrin, whom we have before quoted,
says in his new work..
suppose that, to its misfortune, the
Southern Confederacy has succeeded in all
which it undertook. Charleston is free
port; the border States have been drawn in;
there is new federal pact and new Presi.
dent the Northern States have abandoned
the idea OF suppressing the insurrection by
force. Europe has overcome its repuguauce,
and received the ENJOYS of the great slave
Republic. All questions seem now resolved;
but no, we have not resolved a single one Of
them.
For now the Southern policy begins to
make itself practical. It's FIRST article-say
1t or not, know it or Dot-is the necessity Of
coDquests; the absorption of Mexico, for ex-
ample. The Walker fiIibusters are ready to
set out, and the first moment when it be-
came them 10 be cantinns having gone by. it
! is little likely that they will impose much
! self'Iestraint now that the prudence of the
! North is no longer present to counterpoise
! the passions of slavery --.-
But let us admit that this ENTERPRISE results
/ in no disastrous complicationsSr For these
/ new territories il will be necessary to pro-
/ cure negroes. Then, sooneror later, will the
| second article of Southern policy--like it or
! not-fnd its inevitable applications; the Afri-
I can bIdNes Idu6 Will DC re- eStaOuSQeQ.
| The richest planter in Georgia, Mr. Gauden,
lately took pains to point out its necessity in
| the following language: "You have hardly
| negroes enough for the existing 3tates--se-
! cure the reopening- of the slave-trade--then
| you will be able to undertake an addition to
4. the number Of the slave, States" .Il
| Can the official re- establishment of the
| African trade ever take place without
| bringing down upon the new Confedersey a
| "a nl,o -
| can not belieyeit. In any case, L know enc
thing; the value Of the slaves, and conse-
quentIy, that OF Southern property, will
suffer depreciation vastly surprising that
i with which it was menaced, as they said, by
the abolitionist tendencies of the North
| Already, by the mere fact of Secession, the
price Of the blacks has dimished one-half
and more than one intelligent planter
catches glimpses of the hour when their price
shall have fallen three quarters, perhaps
nine-tenths.
The Southern fortunes are sinking with
extreme rapidity-and this, not only from a
foresight Of the future effects of the, African
save-trade, but from the certainty that
heneeforth all opposition to the escape Of
fugitives is impossible. These escapes, all
summed up, would continue to be insignif
cant as long as the Union was maintained
in all Canada there were not more than fifty
thousand free negroes. But from this day
the Southern Confederacy will have every.
where Canada on its frontier.
L bow is that slavery to be retained, which
shall simultaneously leak out by the North
and South The Southern Republic, ws
We may safely say, will be common foe
whose slaves assuredly nobody will take tht
4 trouble of keeping for her. a. -
7 Besides, it is not credible that she will bt
long able to preserve herself from intestine
diyisions-diyisioDs among the whites; a
the outset, when all runs smoothly, her una
nimity is far from proving itself as com
pletely as announced. A little later, and i
will be much RoIse.i s..-. ~