Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1862-10-31
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Vh:as Esiey Think of us ina Europe
From The London Weekly Dispatch of Sep
..-s TENDER 21st.
They have sustained for nearly two years
the shocks ofa war to which those of Napoleon
+ were skirmishes rolled back the tide of battle,
aud arefnow laundering at the very gates of
.auakng enemy, that has brought thirteen hun,
cred THOUSAND warriors into the field, and
equipped, paid fed and furnished them as never
army and navy were sustained before. We
were told the Southerrcrs sunk in listless
liuxur yland selt-ndugent security; that they
| we're depsnved by self-will and RIGHTEOUSNESS
below the capacity for admin strative govern
ment " hat are the facts? =? Never, we assert
with the utmost confidence, was there known
a people so able in public affairs SO heroic,
/ SO brave, so prudent. SO devoted. Whatever
may be the issue of this was, planters and slave
owners have raised up by their deeds i'm
perlshable monument of their greatness and
inagnanimity.
la little more than month they extempor>
ICED and m4tured a government, constitution
a legislature, social authority, that have stood
the test of the most critical experiment with
triumphant success, and are more workable,
consistent, stable and free than the institutions
they disowned. The Border Slave States have
left them to their fate, have armed against
them Twenty millions OF Unionist have at
| lacked six million of rebels, and the Free
States III en- have been beaten back TO their
/ very trenches by less than third of their
| nun, Der of slave drivers. The latter had no
navy, had to fight in every river, and struggle
| in every town against powerful fleet Ihey
had not the nucleus of regiment, company,
squadron, scarcely piece of artillery They
| had to raise regiments without any great centres
i~c ho6 no Hdn
founderies, no paper for cartridges, leather for
\ shoes and harness, cothing-industry and
production were paralyzed, and their inter
course with the world shut out by blockade
They had to destroy their produce. abandon
, their cities to the invaders, and their villages
, to the flames-they were menaced with, and
t have had SC provide for, the contingency of &
D scr vile war-they have been left without tbs
! countenance of Europe and opposed by tn
). border planters; yet benold the result OF slay
t cry as against equality and fraternity. 1t i
n quite evident that the resources OF the South
must be prodigious-.hat the state of society
: must be at least up to the greatest and mos
t. enlightened nations-that the culture of th
r peonIe must be severe, self denyn and refine'
t. to nrodnce such fruits as these All thes
h proofs of wealth, strength, intelligence an
.r virture are more than borne out by the dece
nal census made by the Federal Governmen
|. itself no disturbing cause threw suspicion uE
on the returns.
We know very we'll the capt will be-is be
: ing-fred off upon us by those whom an ea
posure of hard facts have argued to non plus
:sWhat are you in favor. of slavery? Ou
! answer is. that in the abstract We are agains
:. every thing evil but IN the contrite we bow
T the dispensations of Providence, and do nc
: presume to fly in the face of Divine wisdom
" Prostitution, drunkenness, illness, squalid ind
gence, sensuality slaverly, are not to be got ri
OF simply by shooting sensuaIists. sots, planter
, | through the head. The slavery of Louisiana
! bad, but the liberty Dahomey is worse. Slav
cry is an ordeal through which men must scare
. their own way to freedom, the only way tha
God has decreed for permanent emancipation
Who would be tree himself must strike tn
= blow. and all Interference with the progress
i fsociety, in any other way than the Creator ma
precribed, his only led, can only lead, to dis
$ comiture aud retrogression. Sallust SAID trui,
e that the vicious and ignorant alone were slave N
: So We .Caaanot, ,-Live Together. aas..s
y Archbishop Hughes, in a speech which ne mao
e to the Irish Bishops, declared that the unit
of the States was the vital object %: the presef
struggle, unity under the present Governmen
or, if that could not be accomplshed, unity W
!. der the Southern Government was preferaol'
ISL This was his declaration though we nave nc
= .bis sneech before us aud the same / iQeas ID