The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-11-26
Graphic Picture OF n Southern
EmUtre

The London Daily NeWs draws this pic
ture of the character of the South and the
probable consequences which would follow
its achievement of independence:
AS far as England is concerned, we may
Judge from tho past. Many people say. in
excuse for their state of minds about the
war, that they detest the Americans. Very
we'll and what does this mean? 1t means
an association of ideas made up of troubles
about search of slavcrs at sea. and brag
about the Monroe doctrine, and threats of
Canada, aud sanders about our cruisers in
the Gulf, and outrage on San Juan, and tho
bullying of General harneys, aud the sharp
practice OF cabinets at Washington, and
aggressious upon our seamen in port, and
universal rudencss to our representatives,
in the States and to our government through
American representatives in England. All
this, with impressions OF flibustcring,
threats, an nrcpressod clandestine slave
trade, lynch law, marauding in Kansas,
brag about liberty together with tar and
feathers, cowhidng, slave markets, human
stock breeding, and all the rest of it---these
impressions combine to make up the senti-
ment expressed by the avowal i detest tho
Americans. But for every element of this
impression Confederate society is answer
able. 1t was the South reigning at Wash
ington, the South importing negroes, the
South coveting Cuba and Canada, the South
sending Walker aad Lopez into the terri
tory of an allay to stir up insurrection, the
South sending General Harney to San Juan,
the South getting up the Monroe doctrine,
the South !ynching clcrgymen and burning
alive travellers suspected ot disappearing
slavery-the South as universal aggressor,
bully, braggart traitor, mischief maker and
thorough borc--that society was getting to
detest more and more every year. What
follows. if this same South, inflated with
pride and revenge, could actually recover
her dominion?
"The bred Scott decision would be ac-
lively enforced, and the whole territory of
the Union made slave soil. Tho popular
vote would he overruled, or practically
precluded, as hitherto in the South and
rights of education, of free speech, and
free press would be extingushed. Labor
being discredited by the extension of slav-
cry, the pauperism and degradation of the
| free workers of the North would currupt
society to its core. 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
tuOHC vi tht SluNc DlVlCS, WlllCn dIS HlbSStI
than can be conceived of in any part of
Christendom. Every other nation would DO
Iperpetually on the verge of war, or engaged
in it, because the slave power cannot alb
stain from aggression, nor maintain its po-
sition by the arts of peace. We should see
a retrograde period arrive, more disastrous
to civilization than the advent of the first
Napoleon. We should see buccanecring
nation turning the progress Of political lib
erty into a mockery, destroying 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
tampored with, civilization turned back, a
canting paganism set up in tho name of
Christianity, and the Old World infested
with the piracies of the New, in every de-
partment of politics, of business of terri
torial possession, and of intellectual and
moral intercourse. If the Confederates
could prevail, and reinstate the spirit and
policy of the South at Washington, it would
be the greatest calamity that has befalleu
the world for centuries. But it will not be-
The American people will not permit it /;
and the rest of the world, once aware of tho
danger, will rot endure it,"