The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-10-09
What We are Coming to.

] What we are Coming to.
From the Atlantic Monthly. A aa
"We say, that the issue of the contest neet
not be doubtful. The events of it may b,
very uncertain, but we think we can indi
cate the four chief causes of the Scottish fail
ure as existing in the present crisis.
I DrssEMsIoSs AMONG THE REBELS. Thes,
Of course are hid from US by the veil o.
smoke that rises above Bull Run. But Al
| between the party of advance and the party
of defence, between the would be spoilers o
New York bank-vaults and Philadelphis
mint-coffers, and the more prudent who de.
sire "to be let slone," there is already an is.
sue created. There are State jealousies, and
that impatience Of control which is inheren
in the Southern mind. as it was in that oI
the Highland chieftains. There will be, Al
events move on, the same feud developed be.
tween the Palmetto or Carolina, and the
Pride-of- China Of the Georgian, as then
burned between Glen-Garrv of that ilk and
Vich Fan Vohr. There were rivalries of in
terest quite as fierce as those which reused the
anti-tariff furor Of Mr.. Calhoun. Much as
Great Britain may covet the cotton Of South
Carolina, she will not lie disposed to encour-
age Louisiana to competition in sugar with
her own Jamaica. Virginia viii hardly
brook the opening of rival DAhomey which
shall cheaper into unproftableness her rear
ing of slaves. While fighting is to be done,
these questions are in allegiance but so scon
as men come to ask what they are fighting
for, they revive. There is selfshness inher-
ent in the very idea Of secession.
There is capital story, we think, in the
"Gesta Romanorum," of three thieves who
have robbed man Of a large sum of gold
They propose carouse over their booty,
and one is sent to the town to buy wine
While he is gone, the two left behind plot
to murder him on his return, so as to have a
half instead of third to their shares. He,
meanwhile, coveting the whole, buys poison
to put into the wine. They cut his throat
and sit down to drinking, which soon finish
es them. It is an admirable illustration of
the probable future Of successful secession
Something very like this ruined the cause Of
James III, and something not unlike it may
be even now damaging the cause Of H. S. l..
Mills Sea-Island Majesty, Cotton the
First. .-...... -aL $3.50 s.-
The WANT OF EFFICIENT AID FROM ABROAD
We are not yet quite out Of the woods, and
it behooveth US not to halloo that we certain
ly have found the path But it is more than
probable that the Southern hope of English
or French aid has failed. Either nation by
itself might be won over but for the other.
He is bold and good charioteer who can
drive those two steeds in double harness. Eli
ther without the other is simply an addition
Of x - y to the equation. Ifby next No
vember we can get to single cotton port open,
we shall have settled that Uncle Tom and
the Duchess of Sutherland may return to
the social cabinet of Great Britain, and that
being SO, the political cabinet is of small
account. ........... .,
With the want of foreign aid comes the
next want, that of MONEY. The Emperor of
Austria has convenient currency in his do
minions, which you can carry in sheets and
clip off just what you need. But cross q
frontier and the very beggars' dogs turn up
their noses at the K. K Schein. Nunsr The
Virginian and other Confederate script ap-
pears to be at par ofexchange with Austrian
bank. .notes,--in fact, of the same worth rs
that Brandon Money" Of which Sol. Smith
once brought away hatful from Vicksburg,
and was fain to swap it for box of cigars.
The South cannot long hold out under the
wastefulness of war, unless relief come
"With bread and gunpowder one may 90
anywhere," said Napoleon, with limited
hoecake and NO gunpowder, even Governor
Wise would wisely retreat.
But most certain Of all in the long run is
THE Conviction OF TIE MEN OF rHE SouTH
THEMSELVES OF THE VALUE or THE UMoN.-
1t is said that the Union feeling is all gone
at the South. That may be, and yet the
facts on which il was BASED remain. Feel
ing is thing which comes and goes. The
value to the South Of Federsl care, Federal
Offices, Federal mail facilities, and the like,
is not lessened. The weight of direct taxa
ton is marvellous corrector of the exciting
effects of rhetoric. 1t is pleasanter to have
Federal troops to line State Street in Boston
to guard the homeward passage Of Onesi.
mus to the longing Philemon than to have
them receiving without challenge the fugi-
tive Contrabands. 1t is pleasanter to have
B. F. Butler, Esq, argue in favor ofthe Dred
Scot decision than to have General Butler
enforcing the Fortress Mon.es doctrine. Bet
ter to look up to whole galaxy of stars, and
to live under bakers dozen Of stripes, than
to dwell in perpetual fear Of choosing be-
tween the ca!aboose and the drill-room oi
the Louisiana zousvss. We have noticed
that the sympathizers Of the North are quo.
ting the sentence from Mr.. Lincoln's inaugu.
raj to this effect, What is to be gained af-
tor fighting We have got to negotiate at
last, be the war long or short. This is a
very potent argument, as Mr.. Lincoln mean,
it. To men who must sooner or later ncgo-
tiate their way back into the Union, it is ,
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