Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-04
A British view sf me Future Of the Unite,
StntF0 and their DANGERS.

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The North British RsViev, in an article
entitled American Secession" has the fol-
lowing .-.. " u.
The great prospective danger for recon
structed Union is the possibility that future
divergencies may result In further disinte-
grafton, continuing until the empire crum-
bic away. The four great divisions which
might primarily be formed might in their
turn be broken up into petty confederacies,
unstable and jealous existing In constant
apprehension Of assaults without and treason
within, formidable only to each other, aud
contemplate to ell beside; the prey OF local
interests and ambitions, internecine quar-
rels, and foreign exactions; unable to pro-
tect themselves from insult, and known only
in our ReogTephies IS "The obscure Repub!
lies of North America" Neither great
achievements nor stupendous infamies oould
be possible for such Confederacies. The
stars, whether singly or in small. clusters,
could only emit thenceforth" glimmering,
waning light, and no future combination
that might follow the United States could
prolong or even renew the majestic march Of
national progress
q In view Of such spossibility, the Ameri
can Just stepping on the Threshold Of life
might we'll weep with all the bitterness of an
Ruish; for the greatness of his country per-
ished premsturely, and exists no more for
him or for any that shall come after him.
We are, however, sanguine enough to
hope that catastrophes so disastrous to
America and the world will be averted. We
can not believeit possible that people so
astute and sagacious as the Americans can
pass through the vicissitudes which are be-
fore them without learning their deep moan!
| ing and practical lessons. We have strong
| faith in the recuperative powers of the peo-
pie; and that out of the soil of political cer-
Iuption and jugglery, race of purer, nobler
! men will rise, under whose sound states
mahship a Reconstructed Union of free
| States will resolutely cleanse herself from
her faults, and advance by a stable progress
to far nobleI,s mightier position than she
lost in 1861. 81 ...5as
1t can not be that the latest born o.
mighty Protestant nations, the most en-.
lligbtened, the richest in the heritage of al
priceless things, which sages, and martyrs
and patriots have bequeathed to the world
shall fail to fulfil her destiny. To believe il
her national suicide would be to believe also
that men live only for themselves to satisfy
their own cupidity, to revenge their owI
wrongs, and crafty their own ambition
rather than for their fellow.men and fo
poeterity. There are moments of frenzieC
discomfort, but there is also a sober after
thought; and we can not suppose tina
under its influence the Americans Of thi
generation will disinherit their children O
the liberty and glory held only in trust 70
them, ard deprive the world of some of Jth
brightest hopes it has cherished since ou
race began its slow and painful but wisel
appointed progress. ,'A
There surely can not be a permanent re
progression and decay in nation planted i
the noblest principles of right and liberty
and combining in marvelously adjusted pre-
portions, the vigorous and energetic element
of the worlds master-races, 10 the midst
which the tone is given and the march is le
by that one of them which has never faltere
in its onward course, and which is possesse
of such tenacity and versatility, that it
everywhere successful. The epresent calan
ity and confusion probably form the crucibIt
fires in which the Union is to be "purifet
made white and tried" in order that she ma
take her destined place in the van of Il
worlds progress in Christianity and civilizl
ton, fulfilling in the resistless march Of ht
dominant Auglo Saxon race across tt
American continent one grand part Of ~
Divine scheme for the spread of that Gosps
which shall survive all changes, overtime
, all evils, and achieve its mightiest triumph
in the later days of our worlds history.
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