Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-11-19

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF "COL0NIES, RE-
puRLICs. AND SLAVERY"

fUDLlCC, ANU Ola A1AsA'
Whatever may be the opinion OF the course pur'
sued by the British government, it Is very graft
fying to see the change Of opinion and the growing
perception of the power and character OF the South
ern people, manifested by the British press towards
US, which, with the exception o. tue hxeter hail
organs-such rs the Neus, STAR and two or three
others-are tho warm advocates of our cause, and
are constantly and steadily doing all that they can
to sustain and cheer in our struggle for lndepen
dence The London Dispatch, of the 2lst, has
most interesting article on the war in America a
portion of which we transfer to our columns:
There is no form of mendacty more perniclous in
its consequences, or more insidlous IN Its tempta-
tons, than that which imposes pious frauds on
society The sanctification Of means, by conSdera-
ton of their ends is vice inherent IN religious peo-
pie and no offenders have been more shameless in
this regard than the Abolitionsts of America and
the anti,slavery e. Chaplain Sect') persuasion in
England. Their lecturers, their travellers, their
takers and tourists their historians and noveliss,
have seen in slave countries, and as the effect of
slavery, phenomena which the slightest reflection
would contradict and BELLE Every man at all well
read-any one, indeed who can but read his Bible
knows that slavery has been the normal condition Of
human society, and that it has been found compa-
tible with, to have been even promotive OF power,
wealth. civiliz .tion, nay, even humanity. The
Scriptural natiuns, the very patriarchs, all were
shareholders. Sparta in the glory of its purity AMI
virtue; Athens, in the zenith Of its glory in arts,
arms and literature had vast ma Orty OF their sub
iects .held to labor" The Jewish law of Moses is
full of provisions for the making transfer and man.
omission of slaves. The Tenth Commandment tells
us not to covet our neighbours servant or his
maid servant, in the very same category as his OK
and his ass Rome conquered the world, md eieiL
ized It, under dispensation of slavery. The West
India Colonies fourShed while slavery prevailed
They went to ruin, both of white man and black
the day they emancipated. All the expert
ments that have been tried of the self elevation Of
the colored races or indeed Of even white races OF
aboriginal savases, by manumissnn or colonization,
have been conspicuous failures. King Lincoln calls
the negroes together to tell them that their contuty
is ordorous to his Subjects and that they must clear
out for Central America Measures Horace Greeley
that If the Union be saved by rivetns the chains
of the slave, he will rivet them.
As for the slaves themSelvcS-cruShed with the
wrongs of bred and Uncle Tom, most provokn -
they cannot be brought to burn with revenge. v
They are spies for their masters. They obstnately
refuse to away to liberty, outrage and starsa
ton. They work in the fields usual when the
planter and the overseer are away, and only the
white women are left at home The black regiments
Of insurgent Unionsts have proved failure, and
been dlsbanded We wonder how Professor" @
Olmstead and Horace Greeley look now that their
tours through the slave States are compared with
facts, and laid along side the dispatches aud the tcle-
grams of the bclgercnts. Stowe, Wendell Phillips,
Garrison insured us Servllc war the moment an
army of liberation was marched into the South but
the soda powder won't fzz; the lnciier match has
been rubbed but obStnately refuses to flare up
We were assured the Southerncrs were indolent and
their soil stricken with hopeless and growing power
ty. They have sustained, for nearly two years, the
shocks Of war tn which thosn Of Na,Olron wprp
skirmishcS, rolled back the tide of battle, and are
now laundering at the very gates OF guaking
enemy, that have brought thirteen hundred thou
sand warriors into the field, and equipped paid fed
ard furnished them as never army and navy were
sustained before. We were told the Souherners
sunk in listless luxury and selEindulscnt
suality; that they were depravcd by sell will and
RIGHTEOUSNESS below the capacity for administrative
government. What are the facts? Never we as
sert with the utmost confidence was there known
people able in public affairs, heroic brave,
so prudent so devoted. Whatever may he the is
of this war. planters and savcowners have rails
ed up by their deeds an impershable monument OF
their greatness and magnaninity.
In little more than month they eXtcmporiZed
and matured a government, 4 Constitution Leg
slature social authority, that have stood the test
of the most critical experiment with triumphant
success and are more workable, consistent stable,
ant! free. than the institutions they disowucd. The
Border slave States have lett them to their fate
have armed against them. Twenty millions Of
UnoniSts have attacked six millions of "rcbclS,'
and the free States men have been beaten back to
their very trenches by less than onethird of their
number of slave drivers. The latter had 10 navy
and to fight in every river, and struggle in every
town against powerful fleet They had not the
nucleus of a regiment, company, u squadron
scarcely piece of artillery They had to raise
regiments without any great centres Of population
they had no powder mills, no founiric$ no paper
for cartridges leather for shoes and harness. cloth
ing-industry and production were paralyzcd ant
their intercourse with the world shut out by block
! ade. They had to destroy their produce, abandon
their cities to the invaders. and their villages The
!. fames-theY were menaced with, and have had tt
provide for the continge cy of a serve war-theJ
! have been left without the countcnancc of Europe
and opposed by the border planters yet behold thu
result of slavery against equality and fraternity
1t is quite evident that the Of the Snull
must be prodgious-that the state Of society mus
be at least up to the standard of the greatest ant
: most emil htened nations-that the culture of TIN
! people must be severe, selfdcnying and refined
! to produce such fruits these All these proofs o
] wealth. strength, intelligence and virtue are mcr
than borne out by the dcccnnial census made by thu
| Federal Government ITSELF when no dSturbin!
/ causes threw suspicion upon the returns. In 1851
the breadsus of the free States given at 80
Ooo 900 of bushels, and of the "rebes at $50, 900,
/ 900; potatoes in the North 60,0OO0O6. and IN tn
! South $4,000, 600; mich cows 1000 900, and 2,
1000 respectively; sheep Is 900 900 in the North
against 6, 100000 in the South swine, 10000, 00l
in the North, and 100000 600 in the South North
ern bullocks 1000, 600, and Southern 6,OS5, 900
This proportonate producer is lss bushels bread
stuffs per head in the free, and - bushels in thu
slave States; Of potatoes, 81 bushels each of rice
IS pounds in the South and none at all in the North
! of sugar POI pounds in the South, and nil in tn,
! North. Besides all this, the South exports e45,
5000 sterling in cotton and tobacco for which
the North has no equivalent. In word, withou
the South the Republic will fall to the state of Rus
sia for its resources really not greater and thu
charity of Europe in emigration alone raises it above
the Muscovte level. Let but the South 20 on fight
ing pro arts ct ocis until its armies become as sea
! soned and thoroughly military as the cohorts o
Caesar, Napoleon or Wellington, and they will neee
| but secession
| We know very we'll the cant will be-s being
fired off upon us by those whom an exposure o
hard facts have argued to non plus. "What arr