Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-06-24
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 on
which my conviction is based that it is to be pery
long one 1 shall state the substance Of what I
earued in New York, during a stay Of three weeks,
from merchants, bankers and lawyers, in regard to
this is It: 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 ready market.
The North West 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, than it was formerly to dis
nose of them in the markets Of the South vest
ported curing the first eight months of the present
year Ss1, 900, 600 worth more than in any whole
wear Of the preceding five They point to their
large and increasing imports as an 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
perty 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 now contains the throne
of abolit,onsm, and around this the entire people
rally. Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
are not more hostile to our 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 us really amounts to nothing so far as ending
the war is concerned This strife is like quarrel
Of two domestic dogs for bone; If strange dog
attempts to take it they forget their quarrel and
unite to drive him of. :
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic candidate said,
in late convention Of his party at Albany, that
though as Democrats, they differed from the Ad-
ministratioh IN many things still they were for
prosecuting this war, until the Constitution is es-
tabfished 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 are all united against US.
True, there is no hope now expressed Of bringing
US back to the Union. Not word is said Of re-
storing the Union as it was" All parties are
whole territory of what was once the United States
.ehatsvsr that government Is to be! The Northern
people do not desire republican government for
themselves if we can fly OF and set up an indepen.
dent one by their side Other States may do SO in
the failure; and what they say is to become Of the
eountryf We should be like the German, or Mex.
can States constantly on the market for the highest
bidder. Against this they are determined to guard
and for this result they are now contending to have
,ne government, Of some ksnd, over the entire
country. They declare themselves willing to come
opt Of this war under the vllest despotism eves
known on earth, provided that prevail over. the
whole land That we should establish q govern,
ment by their side, with slavery at its base, is :
thing they resolved shall never take place, and