Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-01-05
Nsv Eu5,apd and the West.

New England and the West 4
The reader eau hardly have failed TO NOTICE the re-
.r..hla Article from the Providence (Rhode lsland)
po,, which we published Saturday. The following
from the New York Mercury is no; less striking and
significant The Post admitted, uneQuivocaly that "a
majority Of the people of the North at last look upon
ssp.rstion THAT is the success Of the SOUTH Ger
siptyp The Mercury confesses "hat it is hardly prob
able" that the States which Yankee fanAtcisn and in
astce have driven into secession be forced back
the North has already put forth the great
est strength she will ever in his struggle
she has lost heart in the causehat the last army the
North will ever raise and put in the field in this is
now in the 6elI-thst if it fails 'fhe dissolution will
be an accomplished fact" &C.. &C. Both these Journals
unite in ascrbng to New Engsnd the responsibility Tor
the war and the loss of the South and both propose as
remedy that the new Union shall be formedfrom which
that pestient region shall be excluded, The PROPOSE
ion is too late by two years as We count time by whole
centuries, as we weigh events We may agree that New
England il the primal source aud chief of the
trouble but we can never forget how all the Free States
act loose their blood hounds US at the bidding Of
New England Nevertheless, accept the position OF
these journals and the more important indications With
which the times abound evidence that the night far
Dept and the day at hand Heaven be praised for the
auspicious omens Of the times.
We annex the article of the New York Mercury;
On the 10Th instant, Wendell Phillips made speech
m Boston on the war. In that harangue he said:
Let Mr.. Lincoln perpetuatc this war, and
hand II down TO his successors in anything Ike its pre-
cent guise and the hatbegns eighteen months
hence YOU will candidate on the other side OF the
mountain one plank in whose platform will be that the
West desert the East and join her natural ally who holds
the mouth of the Mississippi If the Democratic polti
clans of Albany have their way there is more danger Of
alliance among twenty States, leaving New England out
IN the cold than there is of alliance among twenty
States leaving the Cotton States out of the Union.
Commenting upon this the New York Mercury
says.
Inst 80. Mr.. Phillips. You and your friends are be
Ginning to- see IN what an awkward dilemma YOU have
1aced New England You made the war for the negro.
You were willing to let the Union slide" in order to
free the slaves Of the South under the cover of mill
t,ry necessity" You could not produce that ne
eessityn without first getting up civil war; and
YOU got up that ngsniousy as to make it seem
not your act but the act of the South Now you dis
cover that the work of "wipng out" the South is not
so easy job you supposed it would be. Your only
remaining hope is melting the slaves TO revolt Your
panacea for the terrible evils Of this Socaed rebellion
i serye insurrection. And you tell Mr. Lincolu poor
old man that if he does help you to set the negroes
of the South to cutting the threats Of the women and
children in that.sectiOn, you will not only fail in your
emancipation SCENE, but that the war will end by Sc
paraton Of tue Union, which will leave all fankeedoo-
diadum out in the cold :" That is Just what have
.n,cted from the beginning and that il just what viii
certainly occur If the States which Yankee fansticsm
aud Injustice have driven into secession cannot be forced
hack sgan That they can will be is hardly proba-
bic if we may Judge from the small progress that has
set been made in the enterprise after nearly two years
Of prodlgous effort.
We believe that the North has already put forth the
greatest strength she will exert in this struggle.
She is capable of more but she has lost heart In the
cause and she has lost it only because OF the gross man
ner in which the radical Abolition partisans OF the Adj
mnsraoa have msused both the armies and the treas
ures of loyal, but conservative people. We believe
that the last army that the North will ever raise aud put
in the field in this war is In the field and that II
must conquer the rebellion or fail. If it fails thea the
dissolution of the old Union will be an fat deeontPh,
and in that event the six States of New England which
together are not much if any bigger than Virginia, will
hnd theself left alone in their glory And they will
bsye no right to complain They viii really have earned
that guerdon of isolation Like arrogant partners rep
resenting very small proportion OF joint capital, they
have striven 70 bend the views wishes and interests Of
the firm to their special benefit and likely in the
end TO be kicked Of concern in which they have
sought TO enjoy dkproportionSe control ard Advaus
age against al the plain Spulaons and equities OF the
original contract
made in forming the Union, in the set in taking
New England into the partnership on any terms what
ever And quite AS sure that no confederation
of States Of which she is part exist in peace
harmony and prosperity this Continent She is too
selfish for any association founded in mutual compro
mise of opposed interest intellectually conceted to
subordinate her insane ideas Of "hgher law the col
lected wisdom Of great commonwealth, aud too med
ding in other peoples business for political system
which allows no one State 10 the Union to entrench
the reserved rights of any other New England there
fore, should be abandoned to her egotism.