Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-06-23
Very respectfully, &c.
A LONG WAR IN PROSPECT.

GENTLEMEN Having just returned from a six
weeks sojourn in the United States, permit me to
give to the public, through your columns, the in
formation | obtained respecting this war, and
which my conviction is based that it is to be Gerry
long one. | shall state the substance of what |
learned in New York, during stay of three weeks,
from merchants, bankers, and lawyers, in regard to
public sentiment throughout the entire North. And
this is 1T: The whole North is prospering growing
rich, in consequence of the war. The commercial
and manufacturing interests of the North Eastern
States are now more hourishing than ever before
Everything made finds a ready market
The North w est finds it more profitable to con-
vert its immense quantities of grain into beef and
pork, and forward these to the Eastern ports for
shipment to Europe, thanit was formerly to dis
pose of them in the markets Of the South west
Consequently, the port of New York alone, has ex-
ported during the first eight months of the present
year $3l, ,000, 900 worth more than in any whole
year of the preceding five They point to their
large and increasing imports evidence of their
growing prosperity Thus, while the staples of the
distant West must now be carried East for ship
ment, instead of sending them down the Mississippi
the products of other countries are carried back to
them by the same routes, furnishing employment
to every species Of transportation and to thousands
of men And thus as the West empties itself East
ward in turn, it is supplied from that quarter The
two sections in this way aid each other. The pros
perity of the United States this day is universal
There is another bond that keeps them united
against US. Even if the West were suffering IN a
commercial point of view it contains the throne
of abolitIonism and around this the entire people
rally Vermont Massachusetts and Connecticut
are not more hostile to institutions than Ohio
Indiana and Illinois. The conflict Of political par
ties now waging in the State of New York, and
which we unduly magnify and hope may be of bene-
fit to u.s. really amounts nothing so far as ending
the war is concerned This strife is like quarrel
,ooo4so Co.. q no
attempts to take it. they forget their quarrel and
unite to drive him off.
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic candidate said,
in late couyention of his party at Albany, that
though, as Democrats, they differed from the Ad-
minstration IN many things, still they were for
prosecuting this war; until the Constitution IS es-
tablshed over the Rebel States. Daniel s. Dickin-
son, the high priest of Democracy in that State,
warmly advocates the same cause. ..--
However much, therefore, political parties differ
among themselves, they all united against US.
True, there is no, hope now expressed OF bringing
US back to the Union. Not q word is said OF re-
storing "the Union as it was" All parties are
now bent on establishing one government over the
whole territory of what was the United States
i0hateUer that government is to be- The Northern
people do not desire repuolican government for
themselves, if we can fly off and set up an indepen-
dent one by their side. Other States may do so in
the future and what they say, is to become of the
countryP We should be like the German, or Mexi-
can States constantly the market for the highest
bidder. Against this they are determined to guard,
and for this result they contending to have
one government, Of soma kind, over the entire
country. They declare themselves. willing to couie
out of this war under the vllest tstlespotisM ever
known on earth; provided that prevail over the
whole land That we should establish govern
,ment by their side with sla sery at its base, is
thing they are resolved Shall neVei take place, and