The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-07-13

make in this case a rather better fight, where
all is at stake. But it is well to remember
that no Border Rufian of Secession can now
threaten more loudly. swear more iercely,
or retreat more rapidly, than his predeces-
sors did then.
One does not hear much lately of that
pleasant fiction, so abundant year or two
ago, that North and South really only need
ed TO visit each other and become better ac-
quainte6. How cordially these endearing
words sounded. to be sure, from the lips of
Southern gentlemen, as they sat at North
ern banquets and paitook unreluctantly of
NoI thern wine Can those be the gay cav
alters who are now uplifting their war
whoops with such modest grace at Rich
mond and Montgomery? Can the privations
of the camp so instantaneously dethrone
Bacchus and set up Mars It is to he re-
GREETED they appeared more creditably IN
their cups. and one would gladly appeal
from Philip sober to Philip drunk. mi,
mate intercourse has lost It's charms. New
York merchants more than ever desire an
increased acquaintance with the Golfers of
their repudiating debtors; but SO far as a
knowledge of their peculiar moral traits is
concerned. enough is as good as feast. No
Abolitionist has ever dared to pillory the
sIaVe-propagandists so conspicuously as they
are doing it for themselves every day.
Summers ''Barbarism of Slavery seemed
,tolerably graphic in its time, but how tamely
it reads beside the New Orleans Delta!
A Scotchman once asked Dr. johnson
what opinion he would form of Scotland
from what strangers had said of it.
Sir" said the Doctor. II should think
ii region of the earth to be avoided, so far
as convenient"
but how persisted the patriot, elf you
listened to what its natives say of it 90
''Then. sir" roared Old Obstinacy, 81
should avoid it altogether -
Take the seeded States upon their own
showing and it is absurd TO suppose that
they can ever resume their former standing
in the nation. Are there any stronger oaths
than their generals have broken, any closer
ties to honesty than their fnanciers have
spurned, any deeds more damning than their
Legislatures have voted thanks for? No
one supposes that the individual traitors can
be restored to confidence, that Twiggs can
re-dye his reputation, or any deep-sea-
soundings fish up Maury's drowned honor.
But the influence of the States is gone with
that of their representatives. They may
worship the craven image of President Lin
coin in Mobile they may do homage to the
ample stuffed regimentals of General Butler
in Charleston {; but it will not make the
nation forget. Could their whole delegation
resume its seat in Congress tomorrow, with
the three-ffth delegation intact, it would
not help them. Can we ever trust them tc
build ship or construct a rifle again ? Nc
time, no formal act can restore the past re.
lations. SO long as slavery shall live.9 1t is
easy for the Executive to pardon some con-
Wet from the penitentiary; but who car
pardon him out of that sterner prison o.
public distrust which closes its disembod
led walls around him, moves with his mo.
tons, and never suffers him to walk uncon-
scious of it again ? Henceforth be dwells
as under the shadow of swords, and holds
intercourse with men only by courtesy, moi
confidence. And so will they.
| Not that the United States Government
is yet prepared to avow itself anti-slavery
| in tue sense in which the South Is pro- slavery
We conscientiously strain at gnats of Con
stitutional clauses, while they gulp down
whole camels of treason. We still look after
their legal safeguards, long after they have
hosted them with their own petards. But
both sides have trusted themselves to The
! logic of events. and there is no nistaking
| the direction in which that tends. In times
| like these, men care more for facts than fol
phrases, and reason quite as rapidly as they
act 1t is impossible to blink the fact tina
/ Slavery is the root of the rebellion and Wa
is proving itself an Abolitionist, whoever
else is. Practically speaking. the verdict il
already entered, and the doom of the de
structive institution pronounced, in thu
popular mind. Either the Secessionists will
show fight handsomely, or they will fail t.
do SO. If they fail to do it. they are th,
derision of the world forever-since no on,
ever spares beaten bully-and thencefor
ward their social system must go down 0
itself. If, on the other hand. they make
resistance which proves formidable and cost
ly. then the adoption of the John Quinc,
Adams policy Of military emancipation i
an ultimate necessity, and there is nobod
more likely to put it in effective operation
than certain gentleman who la:ely wrot
an eloquent letter to his Governor on tb
|, horrors Of slave-insurrection. No douh
instruction is terrible thing, but so is a
war, and every man of humanity approache
either with a shudder But if the trut
we're told, it would be that the Anglo Saxo
habitually desrises the negro because be
not an insurgent, for the Anglo Saxon woul
certainly be one in his place. Our rae
does not take naturally to non-resistance
t aud has far more spontaneous sympath
, with Nat Turner than with Uncle Tom
] But be it as it may with. our desires, th
/ rising of slaves, in case Of continued wal
is mere destiny. We must take facts 3
t they are.
: Ineurrection is one of the risks voluntaril
assumed by Slavery-and the greatest {
t them. The slaves know it, and so do I'll
masters When they seriously assert th;
t they feel safe on this point, there is realI
no answer to be made but that by whic
: Traddies in David Copperfeld' puts dow
? Uriah Keeps wild hypothesis of believiD
himself an innocent man. "But you dom
r you know" quoth the straightforward
e Trajdles; +" therefore, if you please, v
D won't suppose any such thing" The
earnot deceive Us, for they do not deceiv
] themselves. Every traveller who has see
, the faces of household suddenly gro
! pale, in Southern city, when some stree
? tumult struck to their hearts the fear of IL
surrecIion-every one who has seen til