Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-16
Northern sectional Spirit Of the Express.

people Will stop tne paper. Inc express
continues to be sound enough on the ques-
tion of opposing the Government during ,.e
war, but it does so in the character of a stage
Yankee in short trowsers, and short wasted,
high collared coat, with buttons all over it,
What cares the Express for the gallant South
ronb? 1t has other fish to fry. 1t is oppos-
ed to the war because it is so devoted to
Northern interests, and fears that "our army"
will be annihilated, "our section" ruined, "us
of the North" ruined forever, and 1--WE of the
North" done for, collectively and individual
ly anj craunched up in the bloody jaws of
war.
The Express is rapidly drifting towards the
camp of Wendell Philips. We have never
seen its hatred Of Southern people so plainly
exhibited, before, as in its leading editorial
of yesterday, headed "The effects of the
war on the North more disastrous than on
the South" Why not cay at once that if
affairs could be reversed. and the South be
injured more than the North, by the war,
you would cry aloud for slaughter? But
let US hasten to quote from this champion Of
Northern interests:
at was confidently believed by many that
soon as the North gathered together a
formidable force the Southernefs would lay
down their arms without a blow and sue for
mercy. If this were not done it was expect
ed that the Federal army would march
through the entire South without meeting
with any serious obstruction. and that the
entire slave population would rise and iock
to the standard of our army, and thus assist
in putting a speedy end to rebellion. All
these vagaries have exploded, and soe find oaa-
SeLveS confronted wiM formidable foe, who is
determined to contest every inch of ground
and, if need be. drench the very earth with
blood at every step"
The Express army never ought to have
relied upon such aid as slave instructions.
If we were the Express we would not own
that we ever had an army which made suck
calculations. That paper finds itself and its
Northern friends confronted with a formida-
bic foe, where it expected to meet with no
serious obstruction, and therefore, counsels
the prudent course of giving up the contest.
The proposition is worthy Of Yankee ped
dler on Southern circuit. The Express con
tinues
"The most fatal blundcr into which the
people have fallen through the influence of
these demagogues. is the effect n war with
the South would have on Our own section
The popular idea has been, and unfortunate
iy still is to great extent, that such q war
would result disastrously to the South alone"
Here the oieven foot protrudes distinctly
The organ would have gloried in pushing
"our army" "fol ward to Richmond" as it
seems, if the war would result disastrouSly to
the South alone. 1t cannot. however, endure
for moment, the least sacrifice by "our own
section" Shame on such narrow sectional
ismi 1t is fit for the New York Tribune,
but not for an organ of the National Dis
unionists.
Here is more:
"Let no one imagine that the injury sus-
tanned by US of the North will be bot tempo
rary."
There is the clock -peddler again, fearful of
losing something. We say to the Express,
the San Francisco Times, the New York
Tribune, and every other journal which ad-
vocates Northern at the expense of Southern
interests, that the loyal people of this nation
do not stop to inquire what section is to be
inconvenienced by the war for the nations
integrity. If the Express cannot bear the
idea of seeing its section-the North-make
any sacrifices for the good of the nation, it
had better shoot the top of its own head off
with one of the one hundred and Thirty tUo
pounders which Bull Runner, n day or two
ago, declared were taken by the rebels at the
late battle:
Here is another extract:
We are 4eseiriag, Or rather compelling,
the South to live within itself We are learn
ing them to rely upon themselves for every
thing re have heretofore furnished them"
One exception, the Express should have
made. We still fernish the South with toadies
The blockade does not prevent numerous
cerulean ahdomens from crawling in the dust
and filth, and waiting sweetest kisses to the
rods which smite them. The Express will see
the justice of making the exception, the next
time. it says that, by the war, ,ce of the North
are to find no more market ut the South
for our Yankee notions.
One more quotation and we have DONE
"The only hope of restoration of our
former prosperity rests In stopping this war.
1t has done US injury enough already. Let
it cease before it ruins us eternaly. Let as
no longer cherish tie hope of running the
South, when oge Of the North must be swal
lowed up in the same vortex"
So the Express unblushingly admits that 1t
did at one time ''cherish tile hope of running
The South" and by implication declares that
it would stiH favor such an infamous project,
were it not apparent that eve of the North"
must be swallowed up in the attempt. What
can have prompted such vindictive hatred of
the South in paper which has hitherto been
as model by National Disunionists,
and entirely Sound on all those issues" we
know not. ut is, perhaps, one of those mys-
teries which can never be explained. One
thing we pledge the DEMOCRAT to, and that
is that should the Express fail in inducing its
fellow sectionalists of the North to abandon
their mad project of "ruining the South,
and should that paper again Cherish the
hope that such work can be accomplished,
we will never be found in antagonism with
any Southern interest which is not
seeking to destroy the great and glorious
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