Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-25

SION Ui LeSSuufg, were ipl tIuc' IN " sN''7
mish u, Tuesday, terrible execution was done
on the ichpis by a company OF s'larpshooters
with Target rifles
The London Times maintains ttat incom
patibiIities OF spirit and diversites Of interest
and opinion make necessary 81 separation be
tween the northern and southern states OF this
republic There are differences between HE
two sections, but none so great or threatening
as have existed between England and Wales,
or England and Scotland, or England and Ire
land, and none greater than some OF those that
now exist between different sections OF Great
Britain. There is no nation entirely free from
sectional djssimiayitIes and differences, and
if these were in all cases TO justify
separation, in defiance Of the considera.
tions that forbid it, the affairs OF the
world would immediately tall into endless
confusion. The london Times might show
this with great force and effect, and probably
would do so if the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the Brit
ish empire I ther than the destruction OF this
republic were in question.
Those who talk as that Journal does Of the
dissimilarties aud antagonisms between our
northern aud southern states, forget the many
imperative reasons why the two sections must
and will be held together. Take one Tor eX'
ample The northern and western sections
can not allow a hostile power 10 hold the
mouth Of the Mississippi river and control
navigation between the Ohio and the Gull OF
Mexico The possession OF this river was so
manitestly an oVerruling national necessity
that Jefferson while president of the United
States consented TO do what lie held to be
unconstitutional, in order TO secure 1t, viz :
purchase and annex to the republic the torelsn
territory OF Louisiana. This national neces
sity, so imperative at that time, has not
lessened since On the contrary, the popuious
and prosperous states that have arisen since
Jefierson's time, in the northwest, make 1t an
hundred told stronger. There has been no
time within the last thirty or forty
years when we would have permitted any
foreign nation to hold the mouth OF the Mis-
sissippi; and could separation such as th'
London Time sand the secessionlsts desire, 0'
effected, ii would soon be followed by wa
for the control of that river.
Moreover there is no little deusion IN TIN
current talk OF irreconciIaDle antagonisms be
and antagonism between Virginans and SOutl
Carolinians or between Kentucky and Missis
sippi, as between "the north" and che SOUTH
and with the difference that in the former
cases the causes of antag0nism are more per-
manent. Slavery will at length disappear.
1t can not withstand lhe progress OF civza
ton, and should not be treated as a permanent
cause OF disagreement. When it disappears,
the animOsties, the antipalHies, the political
deprayities, and all other black and baleul
things that flow from it, will cease to exist
Without slavery, we should be one OF the
most homogeneous and united nations on the
face of the earth much more SO than Great
Britain ever was or ever will be. The present
civil war ia due chiefly to the political deprav-
ity that has been generated by the institution
of slavery.
1t cannot be expected that any organ OF the
ruling class in Great Britain, the aristOcracy,
will do justice to our government in the pres
ent controversy. They always deal treacher
ously by that side of any question in which
free institutions are involved, sometimes prom
Using them more than they intend to per
form, and sometimes turning against them
with slealthy deception, or in open hostility.
In her diplomacy, Great Britain is usually
mean, selfish, and treacherous, and at the
same time "eminently respectable" like GER
tain individuals that may be found in every
civilized community. The London Times is
very fifty The leading journal of the kingdom,
and dily expresses that mixture Of meanness,
cant, arrogance, common sense, and self con
ceit, for which the aristocracy OF Great Britain
have SO long been remarkable among the ma
lions,