The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-07-18

y exempt; while the deep source Of our
present difficulties, slavery would assume
a yet more formidable character. The
restoration of fugitives, would be de-
nanded and insisted upon as an indis.
pensible condition Of peace, it would he
refused indignantly os crime. To make
our country the freest and best on earth,
a ground on which to hunt slaves for
despots Of the worst type, would never
be submitted to by liberty. loving. and
magnanimous people. There would be
internal marauding expeditions from the
South, which would be resisted unto
blood-till the passions Of both parties
becoming reused, local outrages and fierce
conflicts, would be merged in public aud
open war.
Who does not see. what will be the
condition of the South, within one year
from the acknowledgment of her indc.
pendeuce? Preparations for military
ascendency would commence; her har-
bors once fully her own, would be fortif-
ed, against all possibility Of successful
assault. The very first return Of COM
mercial prosperity, would witness gigantic
efforts at great war like organization
Every ship yard from the Penobscot to
the Chesapeake, would be employed in
building swift steamers for the confeder-
acy. The skill of the shipwrights would
vie with that of Canada and England, in
furnishing vavy, that should give them
the superiority on the sea. Iron, n,plated
ships, freighted with the latest inven-
tions Of European warfare, would afford
scope and position to the rcsiguing off
GERS of our own navy. Let US look for a
moment on land. The engineers of the
Southern army, not exceeded by any,
would soon discover the important points
by which invasion would be most effect.
ually prevented. Iarper's Ferry would
see such a military work as those by
which Austria now defends her Italian
possessions. Every detile of the Aleg.
hanies would be blocked. Every narrow
bend of the rivers would be surrounded
with frowning batteries. Every railway
train that entered her territory, would
pass for miles, beneath the muzzles of
rifed cannon. Behind these fortifca-
tions would afford exercise to the armies
of the confederacy. Railways would
concentrate, from points five hundred
miles off, upon her frontier fortifications
Preparations that would put to shame
our scanty ornaments, would give em-
ploymen, to the labor, aud afford COM
mand to the chvalry of the South At
length the preparation would be complet-
ed, and the outbreak would begin
Troops would concentrate in thousands
on the border, protected by great militia
ry works impregnable to attack; and
from the shelter Of these strongholds,
armies would pour over into the terrific
ries Of the North, to assert that superior
ity, which is the first and the grand ar
ticle of the Southern creed. The vallies
of Pennsylvania, the weat fields of Ohio,
Illinois and Iowa would be overrun with
the armed hosts of the South and before
the north could summon her forces, the
hostile bands, would be bombarding
cinnati and Philadelphia, and pressing
on, to the Hudson-to the great lakes.
At the signal of war, the Southern
navy would rush forth upon the seas,
eager to find in the ample commerce
of the north, the resources that should
make the war support itself. The Gulf,
the Atlantic shore, the remote Pacific,
would swarm not with petty privatcers,
but with war vessels, worthy of the name.
No commerce so rich ever foated on the
sea before, since the treasure ships of
Spain invited the cupidity of English
adventures of three hundred years ago.
That commerce skirts the southern coasts
of the Pacific from California to the
Isthmus; it goes through the passages
and keyes Of the gulf Mexico, for thou
sand miles, almost on the soundings of
the gulf shore, and traverses the Allan
tic for another thousand, in sight of their
coast. How much of it, would one
month of war, leave in existence, after
the Southern Confederacy had occupied
the northern half of Mexico, and fortified
itself on both oceans? How much of
our commerce with the West Indies
with South America? How much of
our whale fishery would survive three
months of such war? On sea aud on
land, the eager energy of the South, that
hates our freedom, despises our industry,
enyies the prosperity which these beget,
would sweep US bare Of every resource,
save the energies Of an accursed and
desperate people, who would then dis
cover to their sorrow how "irrepressible'
the conflict is between two such princi-
Piles as slavery and freedom. That war
would be one Of simple self defence to be
fought on our own soil, and to be mark
ed in all its progress with the ruin aud
desolation Of our homes. Great cities
would be besieged and sacked; villages
and hamlets burnt; the country impov-
erished to feed and transport the troops
of the enemy; aud the retreat of the
invaders would be marked by the blowing
up of every bridge behind them, the de-
struction of every canal, the tearing up
of every railroad, the conaagration Of
every town, which could facilitate the
progress, or give shelter to the pursuing