The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-02-13

The Movement in the
20 United States -Rernar kable
Article from the London Times.
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"A lengthy article in the London 4 times
of January Is, on the domestic troubles
of the United States, concludes as fol-
lows: = ''s..'a 'h 't'i'20 u '+7'-7 a1'
If South Carolina secedes; if Georgia
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas
Louisiana follow; it, a Southern Federation
be formed, and take its place among the
powers of the earth. there can be no hopo
of keeping the border slave, States
These will be drawn by natural affinity
to detach themselves from the North and
join the slaveholding Federation North
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, will then
be dissociated from the3free States Such
an evsat cannot be regarded aOithout dis,
may by the most stanch Abotitionist. 1t
aoOuld tn fact, make the ISouthsrn Fedora
tion tho real United States, as far as terri
tory presentand prospecsiveis concerned,
and reduce the North to what our ances-
tors would have called f'Rump.'' c The
people of Boston, or. Philadelphia; might
be distinguished for their ability, and en-.
terprise, but they would belong to acoun-
try with hardly greater future than
Canada: Every natural advantage would
be on the side of the slave States 80
Look at the map, land you win see
what a narrow slip of coustry composesl
the free sol, Of the American Federation
Only the sea coast from the British front.
ier to the Delaware-a few hundred miles
belongs to it; ali the rest, stretching
far away down the Atlantic and along
the Gulf of Mexico, is in the hands of
the slave owners. The mouth of the
Mississippi is theirs; the Missouri and
Arkansas, ,dthe great arteries of the, lex,
treme West, are theirs. Virginia pushes
spur of territory to within less than q
hundred miles of Lake Erie, and thus di.
vides the Atlantic free States from the
West in a manner highly dangerous to
their future union Indeed, iitis doubtful
| whether the connection between n York
and New England on the one hand, and
Illinois and the neighboring States on the
other, could long survive the total sepa-
ration of the South The North would
have territory as struggling as that2oi
Prussia, and the Western region would
soon find it advantageous to dissolve its
union with the Eastern. ,s@ nsfa7I an
| In the mean time, all the riches of the
New World would be in the grasp Of the
Southerners. Instead Fof exploring the
inhospitable regions in the, neighborhood
of the British frontier, which would be
all that remained to the North, the slave
owners would carry their " undeniable
property" into lands blessed with every
advantage of climate, soil and mineral
wealth. Texas has territory enough to
make three or four great States. New
Mexico is about to be admitted with slave
institutions q Arizona will follow. Mex
i leo must in few years be conquered. and
the Southerners, lords of the most mag.
ni6cent domain in the world, would con:
troi the passage between the two oceans
haIn short, if the Union lets South Car.
olira go, there is no saying what may ge
with it,o It is very well. to- speculate toI
the return of an erring sister. but expe.
rience shows that secessions, when once
made, are not easily recalled It is thu
nature of cracks to widen, and both al
the North ande West there are masses %
people SO earnest in the advocacy, o
strong measures to prevent q disruption
that the President may be forced into
active measures. For our own part
whatever opinions Americans may hav.
of English policy we beg to assure then
that in this country there is only one wish
that the Uuion may survive this terribl,
trial Should Providence decree it 9th
erwise, we earnestly pray the separation
, may an amicable one. Civil war in .
fourishing country, and among kindred
! people, can never be contemplated withou
, horror by a nation like ours, and we trus
that neither the violence of the people mo-
the weakness Of their leaders win brint
this cals'mity on the American Union.