Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-02-21
A Splendid Dream.


 conflict" upon the national politics which they severaily desire to fix upon the eoun try. The United States is just in that stua- tion The North and the South have diff ferent civilizations, different institutions, different interests, different hopes, and diff ferent politics for the future. Politicians with very limited range of ideas fatter themselves that the slavery question is all, and that when few deceptive compromises | shall have luled for time the agitation of that question, the ship of state will again float onward upon the calm and gentle waters of peace and prosperity. In the pride of opinion and the blindness of stu pidity they persevere in ignoring great philosophic facts, and madly attempt to bind together two great nations, which the destiny of events have sundered forever- History presents long array of significant failures to achieve just such attempts. A brave and gallant line of English princes sought to anglicize the volatile and mercu- rial Frenchman, but Joan of Arc was the humble instrument which defeated the mad scheme, and preserved to us the refinement, the taste and the arts of France. Bona parte, covered with military glory, thought to infuse the genius of his people into the dull and. formal sopan,ara, l doomed to disappointment and his bravest marshals found their laurels wither before the Maid of Saragossa. When George the Third sought to fasten upon us sys- tenn of taxation, which would letter the young aspirations of the colonies, our fore fathers spurned the effort and left one more lesson for the reader of history.
 So now, when different plans of national policy convulse the North and South little men with little views, forgetful of the les sons of history and the peculiar advantages of our system of government, cheat them- selves and delude the honest masses with the sweet deception that the cloud will soon pass away, and the skies brighten up with the summery gladness of peace and frater- nity. Our forefathers fought the revou- tion on the philosophic theory that no mii- tary prowess or political alchemy could bind together divergent civilizations, and in the formation of our government this fact was felt and recognized, and the doctrine of coercion altogether omitted. It was left to the stern logic of circumstances to deter mine when such crisis should arise, as would justify the States in the resumption of their entire sovereignty, for silence often is Me protoundest aoisdom, and the oracles of Delphi were never so significant as when the vailed priestess stood with unmoved lips and speeches. prophecy.
 The time has come at last when the di- vergent interests of the North and the South can no longer be cemented by the plastic hands of political cunning and the syren songs of compromise. Different dreams fill the visions of the two sections. The northern people are industrious, eco- nonical, avaricious and aggressive. Their religion is one half cant and the remainder fanaticism. The profits of commerce is the basis of northern wealth. Her laborers are drawn from the surplus population of Flu rope, and the tide of emigration is ever pressing out into the new territories all but | land holders, manufacturers and pauper ! hf4slfifgs: The& chief aims of northern statesmanship are to grasp all of the new territory, and to use the tariff system for the protection of northern commerce at the expense of southern interests. The poodle politicians of the South do not realize these facts. Mere lap-dogs of northern sentiment they still cling to the relics of federalism. To grasp the territory and to tax the South arc the aims of northern statesmanship.- Free homesteads and protective tariff were the warcries which sent dismay into the democratic ranks and enabled the black re- publicans to triumph
 The southern people, on the other hand, are liberal to fault. Their peculiar insti- tuition is sensitive, and shrinks from the outside pressure of the labor system of the North, fed and strengthened by daily ac- sessions from pauper Europe. The pro- ducts of her soil is the basis of her wealth. and free and unrestricted trade the high road to prosperity. It will be the aim of her wlsest statesmen to attract to her the commerce of Europe and the competition of the world. This is precisely what the North does not want and will never consent to. Various other causes might be men, toned which make us divergent, but we will only allude to one more-the splendid dream of southern republic which has seized upon the imagination of the rising generation of the South, which is dazzlinp the young with visions of ambition, and splendoring the future with military pa- geantry and
 " Battles magni6cently stern array"
 The islands that sleep in tropic beauty in the bosom of the Mexic Gulf, and the mineral wealth and inviting atmosphere of Mexico have already hattered the southern mind with hopes of conquest, and the first abnormal manifestation of this sentiment was reckless spirit of fllibusterism. It will find its true fulfllment in the absorp tion of all that portion of the North Ameri can continent and the adjacent isles, homo- geneous in climate and institutions, into one splendid republic Such is the dag zling dream which has seized the southern mind, and to prove that it is well-founded. read the following from the London Times of the 18th of January-it is significant:
 If South Carolina secedes; if Georgia. Florida Alahama. Mississinni Arkarasas 1