Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-11-07

tiCie the lltl, II seems 70 Iuop "0A'N
South into false and dangerous security. At all
events, let both sides be represented
Very respectully'-SSc
Ions WAR IN PROSPECT
CENT Having just returned from six
weeks soioura in the United States, permit me to
give to the public through your columns, the IN
for1nationsI obtained respecting this war, and on
which my conviction is based that it is to be gerry
long ons. shall state the substance of what L.
learned in New York, during stay OF three weeks,
from merchants bankers, and lawyers, IN regard to
public sentiment throughout the entire North And
this is it.: The whole North is prosperlng, growing
rich, in consequence of the war. The commercial
and manufacturing interests of the North Eastern
States are now more hourishing than ever before.
Everything made finds ready market.
The North West finds it more profitable to con-
vert its immense quantities of grain into beef and
pork, and forward these to the Eastern ports for
shipment to Europe, than it was formerly to dis
pose of them IN the markets of the South. west
Consequently, the port of New York alone, has ex-
ported during the first eight months of the present
year $3l ,000,0 900 worth more than in any whole
year of the preceding five. They point to their
large and increasing imports an evidence of their
growing prosperity. Thus while the staples of the
distant West must now be carried East for ship
ment instead of sending them down the Mississippi
the products of other countries carried back to
them by the same routes furnishing employment
to every species Of transportation and to thousands
of men. And thus as the West empties itself East
ward in turn, it is supplied from that quarter. The
two sections in this way aid each other. The pros
perity of the United States this day is UNIVERSAL
There is another bond that keeps them united
against US. Even if the West were suffering in
commercial point of view, it contains the throne
OF abolitionsm, and around this the entire people
rally, Vermont Massachusetts and Connecticut
arr nnt hostile 70 inst han nbiO
Indiana and Illinois. The conflict of political par
ties cow waging in the State of New York, and
which We unduly magnify and hope may be of bene-
tit to US, really amounts to nothing far az ending
the war is concerned This strife is like quarrel
of two domestic dogs for a bone; if strange dog
attempts to take it, they forget their quarrel and
unite to drive him off
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic candidate said,
in a late convention of his party at Albany that
though, as Democrats, they differed from the Adj
mInlstration IN many things, still they were for
prosecuting this war, until the Constitution is eS-
tablished over the Rebel States. Daniel S. Dickin-
son, the high priest of Democracy in that State,
warmly advocates the same cause.
However much, therefore, political parties differ
among themselves, they all are united against U.s.
True, there is no hope now expressed Of bringing
us oacS to the Union. Not word is said of re-
storing the Union as it was" All parties are
now bent on establishing one government over the
whole territory of what once the United States,
sohGterer that government is to be! The Northern
people do not desire republican governl1ent for
themselves, if We can fly off and set up an ndepen-
dent one by their side. Other States may do so in
the future and what they say, is TO become of the
country? We should be like the German or Next
can States constantly the market for the highest
bidder. Against this they are determined to guard,
and for this result they are contendng to have
one government, Of some kind over the entire
Nhav 6aclarn thaD,caIraS co.
out of this war under the viFest deSpolism ever
known on earth, provided that prevail over the
whole land. That We should establish a govern
ment by their side, with slavery at its base is a
thing they are resolved shall never take place and
that six millions of people, shut in from the world
and with very limited resources should be able to
do 1t, against twenty millions possessing immense
wealth and strengthened by the contributions of
the world, they say. Is simply absurd If they
nave the men and means this is one thing that
shall never be. They begIa to look on a repub!i-
can government as not desirable 1t is not strOEg
enough They are madly bent on their ruin, if
That be necessary to effect The debt now &C.
they look on as great blessing; for,
IS 1t Is due to themselves it will attach the people
to the government, Whaterer form thut IT, is TO hare
when the war Is over. Should it be repudiated
which they do not much dread, this Reputation
Will involve them in no troubles with foreign pow
ers-It Will only be an individual and domestic loss
With gold enough to manage their foreign indebted
ness unbounded confidence is given to government
money and securities. In no instance are bonds
below par any huctuation that occurs is always
ABOVE that figure, and the government currency,
me demand note, or Green Back" sells readily al
rom to per cent premium in exchange for State
bank notes No nation has yet failed to prosecute
war for the want of money, and they wall not be
me nrst 10 set the example Engravers and print
ng presses can manufacture the article Congress
sttach an exchangeable value to it. and the people
sill receive it gladly
Another point They have now di covered that
sae reoelllon rs serious thing-one not to be
.rl1ed with; but they have not yet exerted their
strength to suppress it. They confess that they
nave oeen hitherto unprepared to meet it success.
uity. But the time is coming. Their people are
slow to move-much slower than we-but now tbay
ire ronsingi and when they do take hold, it will
&c win bulldog o6st:nacy. When the time comes
q execute the emancipation proclamation" they
WI have fifteen new vessels of the most formi
liable character completed and on our waters. in
laa,uoh 70 their present navy they will have
attti0R OF disciplined, well armed troops in the
ieid, and if the rebellion then holds cut. thew are
o enactSuch scene in these "rebelIious States
$ tae world never saw. No age or sex is to be
pared from death or dshonOr Meanwhile thew
re keeping US off their territory; defending their
apltai; and gradually cutting up the best army we
an ever put IN the field, while forcing u.s. in this
ondluon, to exhaust our resources But their real
rength is yet to be put FORTH and the time for the
xertlon OF 1t is drawing near Their best fighting
material is yet to take the field and to it men are
locking oy thousands from city, town and country.
'eItner the government nor the people have been
me least dsheartened by recent reverses They do
"t regard the battle Of Sharpsburg as defeat to
'clr arms They have kept our army out of their
apital made 1t Necessary for us to fall back on or
~n territory and this is all they expect to do for
he present J drawn bat tile in front &C p:e,-I ~
'aying it still in our possession would be claimed
$ victory by US, and very justly SO. This is pre.
lSely the light in which the Northern mind views
ne battle OF Antietam. The menaced Washington
theirs still But even if that last battle were ad
litted by them to be defeat they have received
) as they would just now more ones, with stoical
'mposnre. Defeats they do expect and many of