The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-10-14
Opinions OF the English Press.

From the London News, abolition Sept. II.
AN ENGLISH OPINION OF A sLAyE-HODING Ma
TON.
The friends Of seccssionin this country are
justified in celebrating the military exploits
OF the southern army. Their praise Is very
high, the achievements Of the Coniederates
beng found 10 be almost 1c.thoHt a Pdrditei. 1t
is, moreover, we observe, judiciously height
cncd IN q t'ibote toAthe courage and tenactty Of
the Feaerals, such as thcy'would probably not
have received had they been successful. Far
from wishing to eXtenuato or disparagc the eX-
plots OF the Confederate army, we desire that
they should receive the fullest justice, and be
considered in all their significance. We do
not know Of any political object, not Of consc-
quenco Immediately practical, to which the at
tention Of EngliShmen can be more ~uscfully
directed than to the remarkable leats Of arms
by which the Confcderates assert their preten-
sion to the mastery Of the New World. Ger
tam we are that such Il study ViN oUerthroU
many wide-sprcad dclaSions sohich hare been art
fully propagated IN this country.
The picture of Southern success which we
are now invited to admire mist dcStrOy the no
ton that people ChoSG social SySten,i is Jounde4
on S,a0ery is By that fact condemned to military
,oenkRcSS. When this war broke out, the eff
forts Of the North to keep the slave power with
in the pale and under the restraints Of the
Union, were ascribed to the passion for en-
pire, and our sympathics were asked for a peo-
pie greatly outnunbered, and feeble in all but
their indomitable patriotism, who desired moth
ing more than to be let alone. Thousands of
we'll intentioned persons in this country nc
ccptcd these representations. A slaveholding
nation, they thought, might very well be al
lowed to achieve its independence by thevery
framework Of its society ii was condemned to
feeblenGss, and in a state Of isolation it would
learn the necessity Of conforming its institu-
tons to the moral opinion Of the world. We
shall not now repeat the considerations w
have urged to show that slavery, far from I'M
fitting II State for war, is itself ~ nursery Tor
soldiers. We have to-day what is more con-
vincing than any arguments-a great fact
Here is Il power which has for eighty years had
unboundcd liberty to spread itself over the
Southern portion Of the Union nobody has
until now dared to oppose its extension its
character has been developed by a freedom UNI
known, since the time Of the Greek republic;
its liberty in this respect is absolutely incapa-
bic OF addition it cannot point the world to u
single circumstance in it, condition, and say,
This Is that which warped my coursc-this
has hindered me in the path Of ciyilization."-
We know as much Of the character Of The
South rs we could know after it had procured
Tie recognition Of lis independence, and this is
the sum-: 1t is at this moment thomost barbar-
GUS Anglo-Saxon community under the sun,
the one which pursues the lowest ends in the
present and takes least thought for the future
but it can fight. Its system Of agriculture,
precIudiug the intelligence which only attends
freedom, turns the most fertile portions Of The
earth into wilderness-bnt II can fight