The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-07-19

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! The North md South mist anderstano
each OTHER. The South must know tLat
we realize the evident truth that slavery
caused the rebellion. Efor were made
on other questions 10 shake the Union
but all had proved impotent in he past,
as they must in the future, until We
were divided by slavery, the only issue
compe cnt to produce a great rebellion.
! Nor will angry denunciatons of the dis
cordant elements of sla"ery and aboli ion
now save us, for still the fact recurs,
tina. Without slavery there would have
been no abolition, and, consequently, no
secession. Slavery, therefore, was the
cause, the causn caVsans, and whilst we
should use all wise and Constitutional
means to secure its gradual disappearance,
yet we should act jus ly, remembering
how, when, and under what flag slavery
was forced upon the protesting and op-
losing South. then feeble colonies of
England. And yet, for nearly thirty
years past, England has constantly agta-
led this question here, wi h view to dis
solve our Union, and has thus been
mainly instrumental IT. sowing here the
seeds of discord, which fruc,iGcd in the
rebellion.
And then, when the tide Of battle
seemed adverse, England, giving her
whole moral aid to the rebellion, de-
mandcd from us restitution and apology
in the case Of the Trent, for an act
which had received the repeated sane
ton OF her own example. Her press
then tccmcd with a'rocious falschoods,
insulting threats, and exulting annunci-
atoms of our downfall. Her impcrious
demand was accompanied by fleets and
armies, her cannon Numbered on our
coast, and she became the moral ally of
that very slavery which she had forced
upon the South, but which, for nearly
thirty years past, she made the theme
OF fierce denunciation of our country,
and constant agitation here, with one
cver-rrcsent purpose, the destruction Of
h1s Union. And now let not England
suppose that there is an American, who
does not feel the insult, and understand
the motive. England behcld, in our
wonderful progress, the oceans scepire
slipping from her grasp, our grain and
cotton almost feeding and clothing the
world, our augmcn ing skill and capital,
our inventive genius and cver-improving
machinery, our educated, intelligent,
untaXed labor, the marvellous increase
OF our revenue, tonnage. and manufac-
lures, and our supcndous internal COM
munlca ions, natural and artificial, by
land and water. The last census en-
hbited to her our numbers increasing in
ratio, making the mere nddiion, in
the next twenty-five years, equal to her
whole population, and our wealth aug
menting in far greater proportion
She saw our mines and mountains of
coal and iron (hcr own great element o.
progress,) exceed hers nearly hundred
fold, our hydraulic power, in single
State, greater than that of Great
Britain: a single American river, with
rs tributaries, long enough to cncirclc
the globe, and that England might be
anchored as an island in our inland seas.
She witnessed Connecticut, smaller than
many English counties, and with but
onc-sixth The population of some OF
them, appropriating more money for
education in that State than the British
Pan lament for the whole realm: that
we had more heads at work among our
laboring classes than all of Europe, and
she realized the great truth that know
ledge is power, rcposing on common
schools for the whole people. She
measured our continental area, lavcd by
two oceans, as also by the lakes and the
| gulf, with a more genial sun, and soil
far more fertile and productive than that
of Finland, and nearly thirty times
greater in extent. She saw us raise
wi hin the loyal States uoiuntcer army
of three fourths of million, wi bout a
conscrtpt, the largest, and far the most
intelligent and effective force in the
world, and millions more ready, when
ever called, to rush 10 the defense of the
Union, whilst great and gallant navy
rose as if by enchantment from the
ocean. She marked the rapid transfer
of the command of the commerce of the
world from London 10 New York. She
observed the transccndent success of our
free institutions. and, with that " fear o.
change pcrplrXing monarchS." she realized
the approaching crash of ihornes and dynas
| ties under the moral influence and advancing
march of our republican empire.
To insure onr permanent division was &c
destroy us Hence. she encouraged the
| South, acknowledged her as bcliserant
welcomed the rebel flag and war vessels into
| her ports, protected them there enabled
them to elnde our cruisers and prepared tc
aid and sustain slavery. For time, will
| the exception of Golden, and the lmmorta
John Bright.we seemed to have scarcely az
Influential friend in England. Her masse.
favored us. but four-ffths Of them are cxclu
dcd from the polls by restricted suffrage
| For time. king cotton nevea had more loya
subjects than those who then controlled III,
press and Government OF England. Our I'm
| ion was to be severed, the Southern Conied
eracy TO be acknowledged. the blockade bro
ken. free trade between the Sonti and Eng.
land established, cotton given her. and rcfu
sed us; we were to be forever cut off from,
the Gnlf and the lower Mississippi Portland
| (the Star Of the EaSt) was to become British
city, and Maine, always loyal and patriotic
/ was TO be wrested from us rcanncx?d to tho
British Crown. 1t was the carnival of dcs
! pots. cxulting over orr anticipated ruin, il
our death struggle in the great cause o
human liberty and human progress.
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