Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-15

Noteworthy Reflections and Specaiations
u the Depressed Is sbeIs.
From the Charleston Mercury, Feb. ,.
GREAT BRITAIs AND OUR LATE NORTHERN
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The people OF the south nave never COM
pretended the oiium which has been unceas-
ingiy attached 10 heir institutions in England.
They are ignorant OF the extent 10 which the
northern press and northern writer's have
stimulated and fortified the abolition sentiment
OF the British people. Southern politicians, in
the history OF the Uaited States, got office.
The northern people, through the central gov.
eminent, got banks, tariffs, navigation acts,
bounties, and large expenditures Of money by
the government Tor national improvements.
Centers OF credit, manufacturing establish.
meuts and trade were created in that section.
Towns grew TO be great cities, commerce and
manufactures hourished. The people thiived,
and the European world sent its surplus pop
ulation to participate in the benefits OF this El
DOradO created out Oi very ordinary natural
advantages, only through the beneticeut oper-
alton OF this model republican government.
While the north thus grew and became rich
and strong, the south, unfortunately, became
constantly weak, by cOmparSOn--more and
more provincial and dependent. Our ner-
chants ceased to import for our markets, our
factors to export TOR foreign markets. Every.
thing came from the north or through the
north. Everything, even cotton, went to the
north for expectation abroad. BY the working
OF a consolidated government made subservi-
ent to the pecuniary interests OF the north, for.
egn competition was killed off, the people got
lucrative employment, the cities OF that sec
ton became the centers OF credit aud channels
Of trade, both foreign and domestic; southern
cities became mere feeders, cOnduits, depots
or SUBURBS Tor northern prosperity and in.
crease.
Great centres of trade necessarily became
centres OF influence on opinion. The press of
the north, the literature of the north, no less
than their other marketable commodities have
freely circulated and exercised great sway at
the south. The southern public has been de-
pendent on the north in these respects. And
abroad, the newspapers and books of New
York, Boston and Philadelphia have alone
represented the country, from the st. Law
renee TO the Rio Grande. How the south and
her institutions have Jared in this representa-
ton, we are practically seeing and feeling
now. The teachings of the Tribunes Times
and Heralds-Of the "Uncle Toms Cabins"
and the "Criss"-are not recent. They are
the Instructions of thirty years. 1t is from
these sources, during that period, that Brit
lsh opinion has been forming, and is formed.
Need We wonder that we are misrepresented,
misunderstood and disked in our institution?
1t is to great degree, the work OF IL consoli-
dated government, by its effects upon the
status Of sections-their prosperity, their indie,
pendence. We are learning lesson as valua-
bic as ii is costly.
But, however strong the pref udice, how
ever great the Ignorance in regard to the con.
tederale states in Great Britain, we are strong
enough TO survive and overcome them Mani.
fest interest and the necessities ofour trade af-
ford ground, too Tor believing that a large
portion OF the British public are open to con-
vicliOu, ana anxious TO know the favorable
truth about us. Not all England will APP
prove the brutal and wanton assault upon
Messrs Mason and Slidell lately made by the
London Times. Whether it be designed by
the government to anticipate and defeat any
thing like an enthusiastic reception OF the con-
federale commissioners, it will certainly create
a strong feeling in their tay0r in certain quar-
tiers. where the good will OF the south is DEEM
ed important. Such ill-bred denunciation
must disgust the hitherto Indifferent, while it
will stimulate The friendly and interested. We
airs not, therefore, at all dscomposed by the
extraordinary yulgaritv Of the Times. The
south has something more important to the
peace and comfort OF England than the theO
retieal philanthropy OF Barriobooa-Gha. Pos
sessing that, we can give her people and gov
eminent the choice between great approach
ing distress, and suppression of their a pTiori
sentiments about other peoples private affairs.
When we have time aud opportunity we may
correct such errors.
Correspondence ol the Charleston Mercury.
RICHMOND, Jan. 81, 1862.
The London Times has given us a blow
between the eyes entirely unlocked for, and
not easily explained. Mason and Slidell are
fellows" to be regarded with no particular
favor, to receive no ovation for England would
have done as much Tor 1.-TWO negroes" as she
did for them Is this the feeling OF the En-
lisb of tyil Ia La
is said to be the faithful exponent? l think
not; for Punch of the same date is heaping
endless ridicule on Tankeedom. | think the
object of this most gratuitous insult to our
ministers Is TO repress, us lar as possible, the
enthusiastic reception which awaits them,
which might 90 so far as to involve the Yam
kee minister in the public ndignation--not an
Improbable sequence OF the eXcitement--and
so precipitate the crisis, for which England is
not yet quite prepared
Again, correct as are the opinions of south.
ern statesmen in Il general way, the reach of
their thought does not contemplate the remote
contingencies which English diplomatists have
to estimate when meeting the question OF hos
tile interference in American affairs. We look
to cotton and TO the immediate present; they
look to vast movements on the continental
chess board and to important changes in the
map OF Europe, which are to- be guarded
against in the far distant future. The simple
problem to us is to them tul o! completely
Another point which we should never lose
sight OF, is the settled policy Of England in re.
gard to the possession of the great commercial
transit routes of the entire globe. Her hand
once IN this Angto Yankee acar, England, far from
being content Nth cotton, tobacco, and free trade
Nth the sonttern coqtederacy, ,cW ADJUST great
personal interests in Central america, and especial
~ on the ISthaWs Of Panama.. But to obtain
control Of this isthmus, requires most adroit
manGuvering to concliate or outwit France
and Spain, whose operations in Mexico, begun
at the suspicious moment OF American dissen-
siuns, are but the prelude to definite system
of procedures which looks to an established
transatlantic polity, and the future subsidiza-
ton Of both Of the great powers OF North
America.
In politics The strongest teiio,cshipS sometimes
.loliow almost instantly The bitterest nmities, and
The combination Of tie Uaited States Cih the south.
ern con(edaacy, to check European encroachments
on this side Of the ,pater, and 10 preUem English
domination IN lie ISibmuS-Temote and incredi.
bic as such thing now seems to us-is Il pos.
sbility studiously considered in the closets Of
Downing street. These cogitations, suggest
ed by the insult in the Times, occur to me as
the most plausible excuse for course so
wholly unwarranted. Be their value what it
may, we can rest assured that, hereafter the
relations Of the great civilized pewers in Eu
ripe and America will be intimate and COM
plicated. The Monroe doctrine is very dead
for all time to come and the day may not be
very far distant when ,ce Of The south shall feel
so deeply interested in the "Jalance of Dotcer,"
iohich hencejorH embraces both continents, that lie
icgionS of Great Britain and Virginia, or of
France and South Carolina DdU be found f0bt-