Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-02-06
Civil War will be Abolition /

If the difficulties between the North and South |
should not be settled during the next six months,
war will be the result. There will be three or four
Confederaces. 1t will be impossible for the North
western and Cult States to avoid war,-the naviga-
ton of the Mississippi will lead to it California and
Oregon will set up for themselves. The isthmus |
route to California may be disputed and obstructed
Some of the Northern States will seek an alliance
with the Canadas, and this will lead to Intervention
by Great Britain. England, France, and Spain will
become interested and entangled in American affairs
The flags Of the Confederacies will be insulted
on the high Seas and privateers will prey on their
commerce. War, or impending war, or the state of
alarm in which the country now is will arrest in
dustry, check commerce, and impair confidence be-
tween man and man. If war once breaks out it will
rage in the INTERIOR on seacoasts, on the high
Seas and on frontiers One section will let loose
the Indians on another section. Twenty millions of
Northern people will at one become our enemies
They will war upon US along line Of three thou
sand miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One
section will call in foreign troops against another
section. One Confederacy will humble itself before
the powers Of Europe to get better commercial terms
than the other Confederacies. Meanwhile war will
rage Negro property will cease to be valuable, be-
cause the products of slave labor, and of all other
labor will be in great degree cut off from the
kets of the world The negroes will know, too that
the war is waged on their account They will be-
come restless and turbulent. Heavy taxes will re-
suit from these wars. These taxes must be paid
mainly out of slave labor. Strong governments will
be established, and will bear heavily on the masses
The masses will at length rise up and destroy every
thing in their way. State bonds will be repudiated
Banks will break. Widows and orphans will be re.
duced to beggary. The sword will wave every
where paramount to all law. The whole world out
side the slaveholding States, with slight exceptions
is opposed to slavery; and the whole world, with
slave labor thus rendered insecure and comparative
ly vaueless, will take sides with the North against
u.s. The end will be-Abolition There are other
considerations touching slavery which shall not
refer to here,-every intelligent mind will at once
understand us, and will weigh those considerations
for itself
1t is criminal to say there is "no hope for the
Union" If five hundred Of the public men of the
two sections could be transported or confined in dun.
geons for six months, the Union would be restored
and reconstructed during that period, and it would
be more glorious and prosperous than the one now
threatened with destruction. The disunonist PEI,
Sc is either mad man or bad man. He who pre-.
fers disunion to Union, and who labors to provoke
and aggravate the two sections against each other,
is an enemy to his He who is for discord in.
stead of concord for instead of peace, for disu
nion for disunion's sake, is guilty Of crime more
stupendous than any which has been committed
! since Cain slew his brother.
W Remember that our present national troubles
are not the first we have had The old Confederation
was failure The States and the people suffered
under it. 1t required years to form the presen
Union. In 1898 it was the eve of dissolution OF
9 account of the alien and sedtion laws Virgins
saved it then. Some years later the dispute abou
the navigation of the Mississippi placed it in peril
In 1872 the Hartford Convention menaced its exis
!. fence and in 1915 the Valley of the Mississippi wa
saved, and an ignominous treaty of peace most pro
badly avoided by the triumph of jackson at New
Orleans. In 1920 the Missouri controversy shoo
the Union to its centre. Even Mr. jefferson almos
. despared of its preservation. In 1882 South Care
lima bristled with arms against the general govern
!, ment, but compromise was effected and the Unto
- saved In 1850 the Union passed through anothe
trying ordeal but it survived. 1t is now in grea
DANGER but believe it will pass through this tri'
as through former ones, and go forward gatherin
\ strength, and power, and glory for long ages
:. come In Gods name, let US have faith as on
fathers had faith-let us not SILVER, and COVER an
dcspond before the dangers that surround us, br
let US meet them and do our duty like men. vi
Of ginia leads now as she led in 1888 and 1882. Il
us hope for the best and let refuse to accept ii
e worst until the worst is forced upon US. But ma
II the latter never be- What a shout will 60 U
m among the nations, when it shall be proclame
six or twelve months hence, the Republic lipes an
n gires promise Of indefinite duration! But VIII
il. if it should perish! Mark il: good reader-ma,
re t!-civil liberty, it has been known and enjoyt
in England and America, will perish with tn
in day, month"; year, but the seeds of deal
will have been deposited and they will spring fort
ne to blast and scourge, and destroy in the alott'
al times All history teaches that liberty has be-
'h lost by divisions among States and peoples. II
MS smallest States arc invincibe when united; Il
'e largest and most populous empires are weak al
IT. contemplate when divided.
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N. The Convention Of the seeded States ASSET
bled yesterday at Montgomery, Alabama, for Il
st, purpose of forming provisional government. 4
Is, exander H. Stephens, it is thought, will be elect
he President and Jefferson DAVIS COMMANDMENT CHI
49, Of the army. But short time since Mr.. Stephe
ne. was called submissionist Now he is spoken of
or the probable head of the new Confederacy. tt
RI teaches two things first that the ultra men Of
South are ANXIOUS to concate and draw after thu
the border States; and secondly, that it does I
follow because a man opposes hasty and prematr