Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-12-01
YUr-pAY MORNING, DEC l.l'"s.

TuRpAY MORNING, DEC /. l".
Tile L ndon % rarterly Review tor April
HIS .n article ON American affairs, IN ~hien
:, notices n number Of publications on both
s;ies-nmnngss others, Mr.. Illusions 'se'onc
Var Of Independence and in which the
.pevi.w" declares decidedly that the Con!ed,
eraey has fairly won i's independence .
Be- way. of taunt to the London Times"
the % .artcrly" opens with an extract from
that journal Of the date Goth November lsoo :
Tho Caro'inians and Georgians protest
hon ,uch,-the hims ia. too sudden ana 20
vinIent Il, last Ing. L. is evident, on ire
sm,lles, reflection, that the South. even II
u,i,,a e'ud never resist, f2r three months
t.n great RECOMMENDING strength o. the
N,r,6 few hundred slaveh lders tram
J, in, pirl,,y with visions OF murder and pvt
J, :. ,mLe / bs d ssoluse population OF poor
,rb;tcs 'a,e no march ftr the hardy and reso-
lire n pulations sf the free Siates The
n r,herner< have hitherto treated the South
{. / ke perul ut. c,ild. and given into all ,ts
wave ,uF If ever the day of conflict should
CONF. il would lie shown that. the .Snu,h is>tu:
q child in its weakness as well as its reward
ness"
The 20 ,arterl j" finds now, 'batthe Car! lin :
ans an ,!eorgiars protested 10 more than they
m .ant: has even disc wered that the f:w hun
"a shareholders were not trembling that the
..u,,r whites" were not s, diss,lute alter oil !;
a,l that the secession VI the States was no
".rnwal,l" chilL's nav.
NV. if TIL, "Tu,es' should undertake to
res,rt ~ on the Review" nr'd"nbt 1t NIGH;
Gni quite as mich insolert d'nreclasinn II
the S,ut.,, and rs much stupid Alb llsi'plsm
j, the rar.s OF the @ sarterl y" "a the latter
IN. found in the Columns of the DAILY
F,r fnrty years the whole periodical l''ers
turs md pubic opinion (is it deserve, that
Damc) cf tie British empire havo been nor
ccd only, bit deep dyed and saturated with
Addition; and the estimate Of the South
+, States and the character of their popuia-
(; m, accepted and current amongst our "IAn
CIV, avon brethren" were precisely whatever
il suited the Ya,kee writer's If hoohs ans
n .w>prpcrs 10 dictate to them. 3hey spvk'
o. the wasted fields Of Virginia and fhe nerve
less and eife,c population of the sou't,
dr. wn.d in ign rance and vice, quite as IA
nil:arly a. the New Yak "rrlhuHe" Al
Z ,sl.ni ha. unanimously aprlnu!ed the sen
timcnt If the poet Cowpcr ~ho wished rather
to be q ucsr, than white man
IN, q ~ as re d m Il and ir'm~ hearts
Jut I'm ,'i,n sbo'e alp'ie>-
= d t,~r ih.r h. m's.h :. e t'-v.'.
Az. uccr II. chsins ,hsn fast-u Item o. LIN "
-Asit he had said he would rather BE- a
horse than horsem,sn. anu wear the biz ano
Gu b. than f,st,n them'on.
N.bo y in E'gla'd was ct all surprised, OF
dt in the ie.s: dissent, wien, only half year
b fore this war br"ke out. The same L'ndo'
"rimes" observed that the Prince Of Walts
anil his bcnr-lcadcr, Lord Newcastle. mil b
have expected nothing el.e than to meet with
Vulgar ard brutal p.ult at Richmond, whs'
thew chloe to come amongst q semi barbarou,
Community Of slavc.drivers."
In fact it was from England that the Yam
kee nation derived the whole Of its abolition
ism from the beginning, US well as all its
her sentiments and capts. Fnm England
it has imported its books, and therefore its
o,iaioas, rs we'll a1 its dry gro's; and what
ever books OF opinions it has taken the llber
t. a. prolac. at home, have been copied as
clref4l!y fum the originals rs Lowell fabrics
fr NJ, those ut NJ .ncLester. George Thomp
s,ln, the f at public pr"pasandst OF ab 'iI'i"n
ia the North, is an EnglIshman. Of course =
Every literary man il England is an A''oli
t,on;,r, " tn One splendid exception, who b.
reason of Lis e;centricity gets species OF
FOOLS pardon The exception also serves n"rt
con. picunusly t, prove the rule, that the whole
c ,urse AMI current Of British cpiaio" f'r m''rs
tina, half century have SET iii powerful
stream Ia the direction of Abolition.
Aud this is not t, lie wondered at, either.
The tyre Of fish civilization is essential,
enl exclusively c"mmerc'al-lhat is to say, 1t
,.b'ors the thought Of a"y relation between
..lu try an lAb,r ex;"pt that Of supply and
der.,,i, free com eriton, and the mis'n,nm
Of wages HAT the p"yertT and not the will
can rring lab ,rers is furccl t. submit to-
BY The ,ha,ry Of thar socie'y. Capital is TO
r,e the wnr AID dispose Of the souls and
b dies Of men L,hnr is to have no care, nj
ii l:.nce; only a fee M mkt. whose very
f,.el IN is the machinery by which it is e.
d,.d E., the lowest hire enough not to die
u,,n. Tne lie Mcr IS between m IN and MN
i. t, b. c;,s!,>paym mt, every oneis to get as
much out o, his fellow creatures as cunning
an capital enable him-anl the devil is to
tnk., the hindmost.
A society 50 organized cannot endure the
thought Of any Institutions approaching to
e., patriarchal it laughs at them; cam i
b sieve in them; has no n,'ion Of S,uther
planter h.ving aqy other interest in his slaIes
t,an.the ekact amount # pru6r he's ciu. hog
oar of their bones; and rig ards the pretens,n
L, any other or DC ter interest Us an imports
nens fraud, and an atfront 10 the intelligence
Of the age.
Hence English opinion is and has been uni
verenlly ainliti mist, and aid Not be other
w;se Il is in van f,r US TO imagine Il ct
there can he AIRY natural affinity bHween that
form Of ,cietya dours. II re, capital has an
interest in enhancing the value of labor, for
it has property in labor; and that enhance
ment extends ID those white men alss who live
nv their labor. There, capital is at eternsl
war with labor; and in thu war, labor is for
ever defeated, Notwithstanding all it's ssrus-
pl.s BY way Of combinations and strikes and
its blind, fierce theorieso of com annism, which
can never he seen realize on this earth: Al