Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-11-14
A Graphic Picture of Southern Em-


The London Daily News draws this picture Of
the character of the South and the probable con :
sequences which would follow its achievement
Of of"independence':
"As far as England is concerned, we may
judge from the past. Many people say, in ex-
cuse for their state of mind about the war, that
they detest the Americans. Very well; and
what does this mean2 1t means an association
Of ideas made up of troubles about search OF
slavers at sea, and brag about the Monroe doc
trine, and threats of Canada, and ISLANDERS about
our cruisers in the Gulf and outrage on San
juan and the bullying of the General Harneys
and the sharp practice Of cabinets at Washing
ton, and aggressions upon our seamen in port
and universal rudeness to our representatives in
the States,and to our government through Amer
lean representatives in England, All this, with
impressions of fillibusteriDg, threats about Cuba
! an unrepressed clandestine slave trade lynch
law, marauding in Kansas, brag about liberty
| together with tar and feathers, hiding
slave markets. human stock breeding, and al
the rest of it-thesc impressions combine tC
make up the sentiment expressed by the avow
al j detest the Americans, But for every elc
ment Of this impression Confederate society Is an
srnerdble, n ,cas The South rcigniNg at Washing
ton, The South importing negroes The South COZ
citing Cuba and Canada, tie South sending Wake
and Lopez into the territory Of an alley to stir uf
i,,surrection the South sending General Harney
to San Juan, the South getting up the Monroe
doctrine, the South lynching clorgymen, and
burning alive travellers suspected of disapprov.
ing slavery-Ao South as universal aggressor
6u1ly JrGggart, traitor, mischief-maker and thor
ough 6orc-that society was getting to detes
more and more every year. What follows, i
this same South, inflated with pride and revenge
could actually recover her dominion2
"The Dred Scott decision would be actively
enforced, and the whole territory of the Unior
made slave soil. The popular vote would b.
overruled, or practically precluded, as hitherto
in the South; and rights of education, of fret
speech, and of free press would be extinguish
ed. Labor being discredited by the extension
of slavery, the paupersm and degradation o
the free workers of the North would corrupt so
ciety to its core. The concubinage of the Soutl
would spread beyond the present dividing line
and the morals Of the whole nation would be il
danger of becoming like those of the slav
states, which are grosser than can be conceive
of in any other part of ChFistendom. Eucry oh
er nation ,could be pcrpctualy the verge of sc0
or engaged in IT, because The Sdyc posccr cannot db
stain from aggression, nor maintain rs positio
6y tie arts ofpcace. We should see a retrograd
period arrive more disastrous to civilization tha
the advent of the first Napoleon. We shoul
see buccaneering nation turning the progres
of political liberty into mockery destroyin
ri the freedom of the seas and the security OF ter
ritory, and the prosperity Of labor. We shoul
see the natural laws ofndustry and trade tam
pered with, civilization turned hack, cantin
: paganism set up in the name of Christianity an
n the Old World infested with the piracies of til
New, in every department ofpolitics, of busines
of territorial possession, and of intellectual an
moral intercourse. If the Confederates cOul
prevail, and reinstate the spirit and policy of tt
I. South at Washington, it would be the greate
calamity that has befallen the world for centurie