Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-11-21
A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF A SOUTH.
EKN EMPIRE.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN If THE REBELS BECOME
INDEPENDENT.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN If THE REBELS BECOME
&c.,. INDEPENDENT.
The London Daily Neps draws this pic
probable consequences which would follow
its achievement Of independence: :" n.f a.
," As far as England is concerned, we may
judge from the past. Many people say, in
excuse for their state Of mind about the war,
that they detest the Americans. Very well
and what does this mean? 1t means an as.
sociation Of ideas made up of trouble about
search of slavers at sea, and brag about the
Monroe doctrine. and threats of Canada, and
slanders about our cruisers in the Gulf, and
outrages on San Juan, and the bullying of
the General Harneys, and tho sharp practice
Of Cabinets at Washington, and aggressions
on our seamen in port. and universal rude
ness to our representatives in tho States, and
to our Government through American rep
resentatives in England. All this, with inn
pressions of tillibustering, threats about Gu,
ba, an unrepresscd clandestine slave trade,
lynch law, marauding in Kansas, brag about
liberty, together with tar and feathers, cow
hiding, slave-markets, human stock breeding,
and all the rest of it--these impressions
combined to make up the sentiment expressed
by the avowal | detest Americans But
for epcry element Of this impression Conted
erute society is anstoerabls. IL tcas the South
reigning at Washington, the South importing
negroes, the South cooetinq Cuba and Caaada,
the South sending Walker and Lopez into the
territoryof an ally to stir up ins,lrrsction,
tn, South sending General Harvey to San
Juan, the South getting up the Monroe doc
trine, the South lynching clergymen, and
burning alive travellers suspected of disap-
proving slavery-thc South as universal
aggressor, bully, braggart, traitor, mischief
maker and thorough bore-that society was
getting to detest more and more every year.
What follows, If this same South, inflated
with pride and revenge, could actually recov-
er her dominion l. ...'. ..#"Ha
"The Dred Scott Decision would be act.
lively enforced, and the whole territory of
the Union made slave SOIL The popular
vote would be overruled, or practically pre-
cludcd, az hitherto in the South and rights
Of education, free speech, and free press
would be extinguished. Labor being dis
credited by the extension Of slavery, the
paupersm and degradation of the free work
ers of the North would corrupt society to it's
core. a, The concubinage Of the South would
spread beyond the present dividing line, and
the morals of the whole nation would be in
danger Of becoming like those of the slave
States, which are grosser than can be con.
ceiyed of in any other part of Christcndom.
E,ery other nation soould be perpetualy on
the cer9e IF soar, or engagcd in 1t, because the
STARE po,oer cannot abstain from, aggression,
nor n,intain its position by the arts Of peace
We should see a retrograde period arrive,
more disastrous to civalization than the ad.
vent of the first Napoleon. We should sec
buccancering nation turning the progress
Of political liberty into a mockery, destroy
ing the freedom Of the seas, and the security
Of territory, and the prosperity of labor
We should see the natural laws of industry
and trade tampcrcd with, civilization turned
back, a canting paganism set up in the name
Of Christianity, and the Old World infested
with the piracies of the New, in every de-
partment Of politics, of business, of terrific,
rial possession, and Of intellectual and moral
intercourse If the Confederates could pre-
vail, and reinstate the spirit and pslcy of the
South at Washington. it would be the great.
est calamity that has bcfa,len the world for
centuries. But it will not be. The Ameri-
can people will not permit it; and the rest OF
the world, once aware of the danger, will not
endure it," r,4r ...s.r. .,,... a 5.. ......