Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-17

to satisfy the requirements of the South for fresh
 importations of negroes. Many will be sur prised to learn that 1t IS not so, and the slave 1 trade is maintained only to supply the necessi> ties of Cuba We believe that many of the slave States prohibit by law the importation of | negroes; and the same southerner assured us that, in the last twenty years, but one landing of cargo of Africans had taken place, within his knowledge on the southern coast, and that that had been effected by proprietor who had employed the vessel on his own responsibility, not with $ view of establishing the traffic, but
 in order practically to contest point with the government.
 With these and other circumstances to neu- tralise so largely the hostile statements of abo-
 itionistS, we feel sure that nothing is wanting but plain statement of the southern slave sys- tem, and clear exposition of the tendency of the laws of the slave States, to modify consider akly public opinion in Europe. But to this the South and its advocates have never appealed. To what end should they have done so? So long as they were in the Uuon public opinion did not affect them--the Union itself as northern writer has remarked, has shielded their pecu
 liar institution from the hostility of the civilized world And 1t was not necessary to state their case to the North, because majority oF the North was interested in the maintenance of sla- very, and no advocacy was needed to secure its complicity. And as for entering upon an argu- ment with the abolitionists, the South mig ght well disdain to do so, both on account of the insigniGcance of the party, and because of the conviction of their insincerlty. In face of the fact that they have never made any practical attempt. even where IL might be done by really earnest men at no considerable sacrifice, to re- deem any portion of territory from slavery, or l Ia .l. acl, J4 %E,o people of the South, and other people also, may we'll be justified in believing that the crusade against slavery has been used either as means of obtaining notoriety, or as the weapon of political party. But now that European opin> ions on the subject have become of such i'm portance, we do not see how an able sOutherner could do better service to his country than by lessening, in plain and temperate statement of facts, the hostile feeling created by the unfair and insincere advocacy of those partisans and sham fanatics whose exaggerated statements have been allowed to pass unchallenged.'
 The reviewer then goes on to show that the increase of population, and the ratio of repre- sentaton has thrown the preponderance Of power in the hands of the North and that the South was completely at the mercy of an interruptions majority We give the following extract to show that transatlantic writers have clear idea of the real causes of the revolution Speaking of the tariff the reviewer says:
 "It is clear, then, that the difference between North and SouthiS sectional and geographical not moral. That differences of feeling, of in terest, of manners, Of origin, of occupation, of society. and of soil and climate, do exist, is a fact too familiar to be enlarged on here. And if being assumed as proved, that this wide and deep division is politically, and not morally, coincident with slavery, 1t only remains 10 show how this political preponderance has been turn ed to the disadvantage of the South.
 That agricultural and manufacturing interests may exist in the same communlty-not only without antaeonism, bat with mutual benefit All experience shows. But circumstances of soil. race and climate, have caused the South to become almost entirely agricultural, while the manufacturing interests predOminate in the North: and, this being the case, the North have used their political power to protect their own that is. the manufacturing This they have effected by duties levied on foreign manufactures. And though certain southern products are also protected, yet that does not prevent the South from being the chlet sufferers inv the system Whenever 1t was oGnsldered notic to bribe 8 State, 1t was done by protec- tjon to it's special interests, and done Tn such way as to show that the object was, not to make the foreign rival manufacture contribute to the revenue. but to exclude 1t entirely. The result hos been. that the southernerS have been com peled to pay, on such manufactures as are ne' cessary to them, Q tribute which is calculated to he as high as 2 per cent. for tha benefit of northern interests. Against this they have struggled for thirty years. And that 1t IS griey- ance capable of producing the most bitter feel inrs and most serious consequences, must be admitted on consideration of the two facts that it was tax on imports, and very lnSlg- n ,+icant one, that produced the American rebel lion rainet England; and that 1t was the retu- a; to pel'rnit the South to share in the benefit or . a+,~nlns revenue ky the remission of a yexa- hous tariff. which droye Souia Garollhia to re> ToIt ;n 1922. Northerh writers, who wish u8 to believe that the tariff grie|@nce IS an ai'eT, thouCbt and pretence to justify s6@asslop' ana that slavery is the real cause, drop out O. slsnt inc fact that American precedents justify Us III baIieving an oppressive system of taxation to he sufficient to excite 8 nation to revolt, and the absurdity they are guilty of in saying that the South has armed to defend an institution which the North does not profess to attack.
 Remembering that the article from which we are quoting was written last spring and publish edrin April, the following passages will give evidence of the writers sagacity:
 Mountain warfare demands especial skill in the general who conducts offensive operations. The opportunities for the employment of ouerilla system will be numerous in that hll- country, and the advantage of water carriage w;ll fail the invader, while the facility of con- centrating on point of the front of operations will probably pass to the opposite party. Even & series of successes in Tennessee and ken lucky will therefore not render the affairs of the South desperate, if the people maintain the spirit of resistance.
 Political reasons, doubtless, dictated the ex- tension of the Confederate forces. 1t was highly inportant that the border States should not con slider themselves abandoned; but, on military grounds. it was extremely iniudicious to occupy them, O., at any rate, to maintain the positions held in them, when the greater facilities os trans ports of the North had laid them open to the attacks of superior forces and heavier artillery. AS soon as the southern line of defence is drawn back, throughout its length, to the Alleghanies, the line of railway before mentioned becomes, solitary as 1t is, of nestimabie value. To the Confederates will then pass the power Of readily concentrating on the points desired-an advan~ tace which will far more than compensate for theirinferior numbers; while the northern troops, .,,. moment they quit the rivers that have be- 1. H..