The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-11-15

A Graphic Picture OF a Southern Emplre-What
Would happen if the Rebels Become 1nde-
pendent.
The London Daily Ne,cs draws this
picture of the character of the South aud
what would follow its achievmcnt of sim
dependence -
GAS far as England is concerned, we may
judge from the past. Many people say, in
excuse for their state of mind about the
war, that they detest the Americans. Very
well, and what does this mean? 1t means
association of ideas made up of troubles
about search of slavers at sea, and brag
about the Monroe doctrine, and threats Of
Canada, and the slanders about our cruisers
in the Gulf, and outrage on San Juan, and
the bullyings of the General Harneys, and
and the sharp practice Of cabinets at Wash
ington, and aggressions upon our seainen
in port, and universal rudeness to our
representatives in the States, and to our
Government through American representa-
tives in England. All this, with impress
sions of fillibustering, threats about Cuba,
and unrepressed clandestine slave trade,
lynch law, marauding in Kansas, brag about
liberty, together with tar and feathers, COW
hiding, slave markets, human stock breeding
and all the rest of it-tbese impressions
combine to make up the sentiment express
! ed by the avowal 81 detest the Americans y
But for every element of this impression
Confederate society is answerable. 1t was
the South rcigning in Washington. the
South importing negroes, the South covet-
Il Sl,n mr.
Walker and Lopez into the territory of an
ally to stir up insurrection, the South
sending Gen. Harvey to San Juan, the
South getting up the Monroe doctrine, the
South lynching clergymen, and burning
travellers suspected of disapproving Of slav;
ery-the South as universal aggressor, bully
braggart, traitor, mischietmaher and thor
ough Jore-that society was getting to dctcs'
more and more evrey year.
What follows, if this same South, Inflated
with pride aud revenge, could actually
recover her dominions!
! "The pred Scott decision would be ac-
lively enforced, and the whole territory of
the Union made slave soil. The popular
vote would be overruled, or practically pre-
cluded, as hitherto in the South and
rights of education, of free speech, and 9
free press extinguished. Labor being dis
, credited By the extension of slavery, the
pauperism and degradation of the free
j work kcrs of the North would corrupt society
+ to the core. The concubinage Of the Sortl
would spread beyond the present dividing
, line, and the morals of the whole nation
would be in danger of becoming like those
of the Slave States, which are grosser thar
can be conceived Of in any other part o
Christendom. Every other nation woult
be perpetually on the verge of war, or en-
gagged in it, because the slave power canno
!, abstain from aggression, nor maintain 1t
: position by the arts of peace. We shoul'
see retrograde period arrive, more disas
trous to civilization than the advent OF tn
first Napoleon. We should see buccan
eering nation turning the progress of pollt
! ical liberty into mockery, destroying tn
freedom Of the seas, and security of terri
q tory, and the prosperity Of labor. W
!, should see the natural laws of industry an
trade ,ampered with, civilization turne
back, canting paganism set up in tn
!, name of Christianity, and the Old Wori
!. infested with the piracies of the New, i
+ every department Of politics. Of business
. of territorial possessions, and intellec:u'
h and moral intercourse. If the Confederate
!, could prevail, and reins,ate the spirit an
: policy Of the South at Washington, it woul
o be the greatest calamity that hiss befalle
Z the world for centuries. But it will not be
The American people will not permit it
y and the rest of the world, once aware of th
If danger, will not endure it