Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-11-14
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF "C0LoNIEs, RE-
PUBLICS, AND SLAVERY"

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perception Of the power and character OF the South
ern people manifested by the British press towards
Us, which, with the exception OF the Exeter Hail
organs-such as the Nscs, Star, and two or three
others-are the warm advocates OF our cause, and
are constantly and steadily doing all that they
TO sustain and cheer in our struggle for indepen-
dence The London Dispetch, of the 2lst, has
most interesting article on the war in America,
portion of which we transfer to our columns:
There is no form eftmendacity more pernIcious in
its consequences, or more insidious in its tempta-
tions than that which imposes pious frauds on
society. The sanctfcation Of means, by considsra-
ton Of their ends vice inherent IN religious peo
pie and no offenders have been more shameless in
this regard than the Abolitionsts of America and
the anti-savery {" Chapman Sect'D persuasion In
England Their lecturers, their travellers, their
takers and tourists, their historians and novests,
have seen in slave countries, and as the effect OF
slavery, phenomena which the slightest reflection
would contradict ana belle Every man at all well
read-any one indeed, who can but read his Bible
knows that slavery has been the normal condition oil
human society, and that it has been found compa-
tible WITH to have been even promotiveiot power,
wealth, civilization, nay, even humanity. The
Scriptural natiuns, the very patriarchs, all were
shareholders Sparta in the glory Of its purity AMI
virtue; Athens, in the zenith Of its glory in arts
arms and literature had vast majority Of their sub
iects "held to labor" The Jewish law of Moses is
full of provisions for the making, transfer and man.
omission of slaves. The Tenth Commandment tells
US not to covet our neighbours man-servant or his
maid in the very same category as his OK
and his ass Rome conquered the world and eiUiL
ize,l It, under dispensation of slavery The West
India Colonies hourished while slavery prevailed
They went to ruin both Of white man and black
the day they were emancipated. All the expert
rnents that have been tried of the seLfeevaton of
the coored races or, indeed Of even white races OF
aboriginal savages, by nanumissioN or colonization,
Ga In pallc
the negroes together to tell them that their contguty
is ordorous to his Subjects and that they must clear
ont for Central America He assures Horace Greeley
that If the Union be saved by rveting the chains
of the slaveS he will rvet them.
As for the slaves the Oselves-cruShed with the
wrongs of bred and Uncle Tom most provokns-
they cannot be brought to "burn with revenge."-
They are spies for their masters. They DISTINCTLY
refuse to run away ito liberty, outrage and starva
ton. They work in the fields usual when the
planHr and the overseer are away, and only the
white women are left at home. The black regiments
of insurgent Unonists have proved failure, and
been dlsbanded. We wonder how Professor" u
Olmstead and Horace Greeley look, now that their
tours through the slave States compared with
facts and Land along side the dispatches and the tele
grams of the belligereRts. Stowe, Wendell Phillips
Garrison insured US a servile war the moment an
army of liberation was marched into the South but
the soda powder won't tizz the lucifer match has
been rubbed but obstinately refuses to fare up
We were assured the Southerners were indolent and
their soil stricken with hopeless and growing power
ty They have sustained, for nearly two years, the
shocks Of war, to which those Of Napoleon
skirmishes, rolled back the tide of battle. and
now laundering at the very gates OF a quaking
enemy, that have brought thirteen hundred thou
sand warriors into the field, and equipped, paid, FED
ard furnished them, never army and navy were
sustained before We were told the Southerners
lryn and Salf ind,
suaIity, that they were depraved by self will and
RIGHTEOUSNESS below the capacity for administrative
government What are the facts Never,
sert with the utmost confidence was there known
people so able in public affairs, so heroic brave
so prudent so devoted Whatever may be the is
sue of this war; planters and saveowners have rails
ed up by their deeds an imperishable monument Of
their greatness and magnanimity.
In little more than a month they extemporiZed
and matured a government Constitution, Leg
slature, soc1 authority, that have stood the test
of the most critical experiment with triumphant
success, and are workable, consistent stable
and free, than the institutions they dlsowned. The
Border slave States have left them to their fate
have armed against them. Twenty millions Of
Unionists have attacked six millions Of "rebelS,"
and the free States men have been beaten back to
their very trenches by less than one-thrd of their
nOmber of slave drivers. The latter had no navy
and to fight in every river and struggle in every
town against powerful feet They had not the
nucleus Of regiment a company, q squadron,
scarcely a piece of artillery. They had to raise
regiments without any great centres of population
they had no powder mills, foundries, no paper
for cartridges leather for shoes and harness. cloth
ing-industry and production were parayZed. and
their intercourse with the world shut out by block
ade. They had to destroy their produce abandon
their cities to the invaders and their villages to the
hames-they were menaced WITH and have had to
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have been left without the countenance of Europe,
and opposed by the border planters yet behold the
result of slavery against equality and fraternity
1t is quite evident that the resources Of the South
must be prodgious-that the state of. society must
be at least up the standard of the greatest and
most enlightened nations-that the culture of the
/ people must be severe, self-denying and refined
to produce such fruits as these All these proofs of
wealth, strength, intelligence and virtue are more
than borne out by the decennal census made by the
Federal Government itself, when disturbing
causes threw suspicion upon the returns. In 1850
the breadstufS of the free States given at 33f
000 900 of bushels and of the "rebsls at 1885, 000,
00O potatoes in the North 60,000,000, and IN the
South A, 900, 900; mich COWS, 1000, 900, and q
S00,00 respectively; sheep, 1000 600 in the North,
against $500, 900 in the South; swine, 100000
in the North and 90 600, 900 in the South; North
ern bullocks 4 200 900, and Southern 6,0S5, 000.-
This proportonate producer is 1871 bushels bread
stuffs per head in the free, and 80 bushels in the
slave States; of potatoes 81 bushels each; of rice
lS pounds in the South, and mono ut all in the North
of sugar POI pounds in the South, and nil in the
North Besides all this, the South exports e45-
000,0 600 sterling in cotton and tobacco, Tor which
the North has no equivalent In word, without
the South the Republic will fall to the state of Rus
sia for its resources really not greater, and the
charity of Europe in emigration alone raises it above
the Muscovite level Let but the South 60 on fight
inc Yro ct fociS until Ire hecome
soned and thoroughly military as the cohorts of
Cesar, Napoleon or Wellington, and they will need
but secession.
We know very we'll the cant will be-is being
fired off upon US by those whom exposure of
hard facts have argued to non plus. "Whatl are
you in favor of slavery% Our answer is, that in
the abstract we against everything evil; but in
the how the tinns of Prnvi.