Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-03-05

how such future might rejoice the peonle
who can never pardon America her nros.
perity and her grandeur. History IL fnll of
these deplorable jeslousies. But I under.
stand even still better how A people accus
toned 10 liberty should risk their last man
and their last dollar 10 Keen the inberita nee
of their fathers. and | respect IL What T
do not con- prebend Is. that there sbould he
found in Europe people calling tbemselye
liberal. who reproach the North for her
coura peous resistance. and counsel shame
ful sbdicatiop. The war !, terrible evil.
but from the war durable peaee NAV
spring. The South NAV be worn out by an
exhaustine struggle. The old Union NAV
be again restored--the future NAV be saved
But what can be the issue Of sepsration. II
not war vitheut end and miseries vithout
NUMBER The timernberment OF the Vuion
The reading asunder of the country would
be degradation without remedy. A fate
so shameful is 10 be accepted only when
one is utterly crushed out and trodden un.
der foot.
SO far have argued on the hypothssis
that the South would remain an indepen.
dent power. But unless the West sheuld
join the 'Confederates, re-establishing a
Union which should exclude New England
this independence is q chimera. 1t might
last a few years, but iu ten or twenty years.
when the West shall have doubled or
tripled its free population, what will the
CoDfederacy be--weakened, per force, by
seryile cuIlure-compared to a people Of
thirty millions of men shutting her in on
two sides Iu selfdefense the Soud would
be forced to lean on Europe. Her existence
would depend on her being protected Nv a
maratime power. England alone is in a
condition to guarantee her soyereignty.-
This would be a new danger for free Amer.
lea and for Europe. There is no nayv in
the South. and with slavery there never
win be any. England at once would seize
the monopoly Of cotton, and would furnish
the South with capitsl and ships. In two
words, the triumph Of the South is the re-
establishment of Ensland on the continent.
whence she was driven by the policy of
Louis XVI. and Napoleon. 1t weakens
neutrals, it entsngles France again in all
those vexed questions of the liberty of the
seas which have cost Us already two centu-
ries of struggle and suffering. The Ameri.
can Union. while defending its own rights.
had assured the freedom OF the seas. The
Union DESTROYED, English supremacy would
revive again. 1t is peace bsuished from the
world: il is a return to a policy which has
SO far only favored our rivals.
This is what Napoleon telt to he true
this is what we forget to-day. 1t would
seem "a If history were merely a colleotion
Of nleasant storiss 10 amuse cbildren No
one is willing to understand the lessons of
the past. If the experience of our fathers
was not lost upon our Ignorance. we should
see that in defending her owu independen
and in msintsing the national unity, the
North defends our cause az we'll as her own
An o,r PRAYERS would be for the triumph
of our cd and faithful friend, To weaken
the limited States would he to weaken our.
selves. At the frat quarrel with England
wa shall rcgret. but too late. that we aban.
doned policy which for forty wears has been
the guaranty of our own safety.
In writing these pages do not expect to
convert those who have in their hearts an
innate sympathy for slavery. l write for
those honest souls who allow themselye. to
be euticed by the great words OF national
independenos. paraded before their ewes
nurnoselv to deceive and delude them The
South has never been threatened. To day
sbs might come hack into she Union. even
witb her slaves It's only demanded of
her not TO DESTROY the national unity. and
not TO subvert liberty. We can NOT repeat
II too often the North ;s not the appressor
II only defends. as every true Atizen should,
the national compact, the integrity Of the
country.
mort in Europe. and especially in France. =