The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-09-25
What the British Press Says.
STATE OF AFFAIRS IN AMERICA
From the London Times.l !

From the London Times.l ..
If the people of America would only sit
down and calmly consider the causes which
have raised them during the last half CEN
tury, from 600 900 to sc, 100000, and made
their country, unlike many other lards
fovored with the most lavish gifts of nature,
proverbial for its prosperity and progress,
they might derive from the reflection con-
clusious which would lead them irrestibly
to policy of peace and mutual eonciliation.
America owes much. undoubtedly, to the
wisdom of those great and enlightened men.
the fathers and founders of their Republic.
They devised a scheme of temperate liberty,
chez ked and controlled by every contrivance
which might prevent its tendency to de-
generate into lcentiousness. To the worn
out victims Of arbitrary power they offered
equal laws equal rights, a light taxation, a
freedom from the necessity Of foreign war.
No wonder that the world stood amazed at
the spectacle of so much virtue and so much
happiness, and gladly turned aside from the
vicious circle of war and tyranny In "nlcn
alone the politics of Europe appeared cap
able of revolving. to nation blessed alike
bv the wisdom Of man and the benehcence
of nature, and capable of realising, as far as
is possible on earth, the widest dreams of
the poet and the robest aspirations of the
philosopher. Not to any peculiar fertility
in the race which originally inhabited her,
but to the attraction she presented to emil
grants, does America owe the position which
she held but a year and half ago.
Does it never occur to her that the pros
perity which has been gained by these ana
similar causes is liable to be forfeited by re-
versing them? Let those who have broken
asunder every tie which bound them to their
native land and crossed stormy ocean to
bask in the sunshine of American lnstltu-
tons, to enjoy the fruit of their own labor
in unquestioned peace and unbroken secnri-
ty, say which of all the hopes they enter
tained the events of the present melancholy
wear have not utterly deceived and falsihed
They came seeking for peace, and they are
involved in a war which, for the enormous
scale on which it is carried or, the frightful
| loss of life which it has Occasioned, and the
bitter evaporation which ii has called forth,
NAV challenge comparison with the most
disastrous conflicts that have decmated and
degraded mankind. The Thirty Years.
War, reduced Germany to q desert, and cost,
! Schiller tells us, the lives of 100000 war
rors, but the American struggle has reallzed
| in a single year the desolation wrought oy
the Austrian, the Bavarian, the Swede, the
| Dane, and the Frenchman, and happy would
America be could she but estimate her loss
of Tily and Walensten. Nor is this a mo-
mentary ou,burst Of fury meeting to
wh ich significance and importance were
qiven by the presence of the President OF the
/ United States resolved on the 9th OF this
very m onth of August, in the capital Of what
used TO be the United States. that, rather
than witness an overthrow OF the Union
they would prosecute the present war until
their towns and cities should be desolated
and they, and all that are dear to them
should have perished with their possessions
This is the spirit Of the North. Mark tht
opinion of the same meeting with regard tt
the snirit of the Southl We are convinced
, they saw, that the leaders Of the rebellion will
never re turn to their allegiance, and there
fore they should be regard ed and treated a
, irreciaim able traitors. The practice OF Ma
, poleon is revived. War is henceforth t
maintain war, and the beautiful province o
$ Virginia is given up to indiscrminate plum
I der. This must, of course, lead to reprisalS
: and robbery and murder are evidently lie
p loose. to revel through tie land. Peace ma
= fed, and every day that the war commune
! instead of bringing it nearer to CONCLUSION
e seems 10 render every chance of accommods
5 ton more and more impossible. Amer'c
4 will not be sought hencelorth by emlsran
> in search of peace. Personal liberty. 20
# right to express ones own sentiments anu
regulates ones own action, was anotneF
Q the blessings that men wearied OF the asol
:. ltrary Governments and artificial sooieties
a Europe sought or. the sacred soil Of Amer