The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-11-21
The Resnlt of a Rebel triumph.

tHe campaigns Vi lue ARMY Vi luS OtO-
mac Itis said to be substantially in the
interest of Gen. Mcclellan, giving that
officers explanation of matters needing
explanation, and is generally free from
criticism. The Peninsula campaign is
only spoken of as anlucky Prince
Joinville in philosophizing over the prob
able result of the contest, con cludes that
if the Confederate States succeed in
breaking the bonds that bind them in the
Union, and successfully secure their in
dependence, the Northern States will
soon be broken asunder and become, in
detail, the prey of their more powerful
Southern neighbors The South would
be powerful because it would be held to-
gether by the bond of slavery. This
portion of the Prince s::sketch is so espe-
cially interesting ITO the people of the
North-west-where the ground has al
ready been broken by Tom. Hendricks
and others, in favor of handing us over
to the South-that we feel impelled to
publish it in full, so far as it relates to
this subject 1t should be read as the
observations of an intelligent foreigner,
who-without local prejudice-can look
over the whole field and trace consequen-
ces to their legitimate results:
" If the National bond were to be def
nitively broken between the North and
South, it would very soon be broken be-
tween those States which form the North
ern group Each of them would have an
eye solely to its own interests-while the
Southern Contederaey would be more
and more closely united by the powerful
bond of Slavery. She wo6L1 have shown
her strength, acquired grann PRESTIGE.
and would exercise that attraction whSeb
always belongs to success and power.
Victorious, she would stretch out her
hands, not only towards those States
which are now contested, Missouri, Ken
tucky and Virginia, but Maryland also.
Baltimore would become the cRtrepot of
all her foreign commerce. English iron
would reach almost tie heart of Penn
sylvania Who can say whether that
State, whose people dislike free negro
no less than slave, would not decide to
make peace with that powerful Confede-
racy on condition of receiving the pro-
lection which it would eagerly grant?
For the Southern States are free traders
only from the temporary necessities of
their cause. Once masters they become
Americans first of all New \ ork would
follow the example of Pennsylvania.
Commerce is not the business of the
South-they have need of some one to
conduct it for them. The same move
ment, according to all probabilities,
would bring in the Western States, all
whose means of access to the sea would
be in the hands of the Confederates. The
New England States alone, where the
Puritan creed has preserved all its ascen-
dency, and where the hatred of Slavery
is sincere, would remain isolated, cut off
| from the resources which created the en-
terprising spirit of their large and active
maratlme population.
with the exception of these six
States, and probably also of California,
which, separated from the rest of the
world, has interests peculiar to itself, the
old Union would be re-established-only
the ideas of the South would rule it. The
gloriication and extension of Slavery
would become the common badge.
Founded by arms, the Confederation
would be conspicuously military power.
The slaveholding aristocracy would have
won its spurs; it would be drunk with ex-
ultation, and would submit no longer to
any check Conservative at home, but
aggressive abroad, it would no longer be
restrained, as hitherto, by the CONNER
cial interests, the good sense-cold, and
little English in its character-of the
merchants of the Northern States With
the impulse which the return of peace
would give to business, and the prosperi.
ty which would follow, the Confedera.
ton thus constituted would become for
midable power, and those who desire
above everything else the maintenance
of a great nation in North America could
give it their sympathies, subject to the
essential conditions of its duration.
But there is the trouble Great
things can be done with Slavery; fabu.
lous wealth may be rapidly acquired, as
in Saint Domingo; while the blacks till
the soil, the whole free population may
be put under arms, and carry on victori
ously war with superior forces, as we
see now done in Virginia. But these are
temporary efforts; and, in the long run
Slavery weakens, ruins, demoralizes al
it touches. Compare the destinies o.
two great neighboring cities-Louisvillt
and Cincinnati; compare what the frs
has become, in spite of natural advanta
ges, under the weakening influence o.
Slavery, with the marvellous growth O
its rival, under the influence of Freedom
The fate of the Slave Union would bt
that of Louisville. The old Union, or
the contrary, with its slow, careful bu
certain progress toward gradual emanci
patton, would have resembled Cincin
natl
"The old Union was a Commercial
people, furnishing Europe with article.
of Indispensable necessity, and at the
same time market for its products. L
, was useful to everybody, and in reality
in spite of appearances, hostile to none
The new Union would be military anC