The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-28
Nzw RnREL sCmEMEs OF DIsrNIoN.

NEW REBEL SCHEMES or DIsUNION.
yrorn ne Timer.
III u Is curious and significant circumstance that
IV ny time there Is any talk Of peace as the re-
Al Of compromise or negotiation, the Demo-
A journals treat the public to whole columns
I ssertation upon the feasibility of substituting
\ 4 % or more Confeder ices on this continent for
iOne; OF maintaining freedom Of Commercial in
tercourse and uuiUu in the transaction Of all bust
ness with foreign nations, while preserving the
most COmQeie Independence and separation with
ireeard y AL Internal affairs. These dis1ulsions
lac never put forth as The editors own sonh-
lmepisi nothing of the sort They arc usually
! elepQrafr eNpoiuOns ID S'Gtftru poHci and
opWousi Written by somebody claiming norc or
Iess ln'' nate aoquaintance with the hopes and
aSplra, ms Of Southern leaders.
Within the last few days an attempt has been
made to excite the popular imagination 20 a
greater degree than usual ny the picture Of a
grand "COntiuenal Confederation" embracing
Canada, and perhaps eventually Mexico and the
South American Republics This is the latest
!. Southern subs ute for the once bright and
| happy vision Of n grand "Southem COnfederaCy,"
vat was to swa low up Mexico and the IsthmuS.
4 even the West India Islands, and leave the
nth 10 starye and shiyer out in the cold. Three
years OF bard knocks have modified the brilliant
progremme aud rs the result OF the war, with
|, its rivers of blsod and mountain of debt we have
acquired a chance Of forming one of half dozen
members Of league OF States whose connection
and st. James by tlfe same Ambassadors.
The real meaning of all this is that the lead
ing Northern COpperne7ds are not only convinced
that split into several Contederacies will be the
inevitable result Of the existing imbroglio, but
they are anxious that IL should be so. They are
very careful not 10 make any distinct public an
ivad ..ent that these are their opinions and
Feelings, f0- this hey know would cOnsign them
in popular est alton g. the same limbo with VAL
landigham. But there is no one who has ever
had an opportunity e conveTsing with them in
privae N the probable or TO be desired solution
of our difiiculti~a who does not know how thor
Oughly and @nphatically they are committed to
this theory.
e first 81 p towards securing the public ac-
ceptance for il, is of course to make the public
mind familiar with it, There is no idea how
ever uisagrceabe at first, which does not lose
some Of its responsiveness by being often talked
Il of and turned over, and ali its possible advan-
tages brought ont in striking cOlOrs. There are
some good things even in subjecon to a foreign
despot, and there is no question that by dwelling
While on these, and mt the same time being
Constantly told thar this was our inevitable
Dom, we should soon cease to look upon it with
Ihat horror and repugnAnce which at the outset
\ II would assuredly inspire.
\ We tre certainly mr from imagining that any
considerable portion of the people of the North
Il can be seriously influenced BY any pictures of
clusters of happy, trading COnfrderaCies on this
continent, which the Rebels their Northern tools
have wit enough to sketch. But we think it not
unlikely that there may be some who, weary of
the fray, sick Of the inevitable disappOuments
of war, cowcd and alarmed by the occasional
glimpscs which we get even now, through the
smoke of the battlefield Ofthat great troubled sea
5of agitation and confusion, on which peace, when
1t comes, is sure 10 launch us for awhile, may be
beguiled into thinking that rest, peace, liberty
and prosperity, all substantial blessings of life,
Z II short, may be found by belonging to any one
v Of Ne two ,r half dozen COnfederaciCs which
mitut be constructed out of the ruins of the
United ates that, in short the loss of the Union
perhaps, after all involves nothing more than the
loss OF the barren honor of be ng the citizen of
monster Republic. On the muor dangers that
are wrapleoup in this miserable delusiou we
have nCither HWe nor space 20 dwell here
But there isNoue thing which all those who
ever find themselves fanting under the burdens
and heat OF The day, and who find themselves
sftned by tie Voice of Rebel charmers, would
mR9hl 10 remember, and that is, that two or
| . yConiedera,es-sOme slave, some free, some
occurring, some agricultural, some inland,
., '0Slltme-mean war, perennial war; war
| ,elz.' cd by the community Of language, and
religion, and race and traditions, and by the
Absence Of all natural bOundaries-a war which
every time IT broke ont, even after five hundred
years Of SEPARATION, would still be civil war, and
have "the primal eldest curse upon it,"
They would mean an endless series of efforts
to preserve "he balance of power" The Eng
lish press already Chuckles over its commence
ment, as ch, ok TO The ambition OF the more
4 powerful States, hv combna ions, on the part Of
the Others nmOng' hymselves and with foreigners.
The notion hat as we have not been able 10 live
in peace with the South IN the Union, we could
strange, wild dream; and if the Northern
people are ever induced by the baud of dcspe-
rate adventurers who are now pre- iChng it, to
place thc smallest faith in il, it will he very
conclusive proof Of our incapacty for self gov
eminent. Il cannot be too often repeated that
while tue evils we suffer from the prOongl'iOn
of the present war are well defined and may be
sad to be well known, the evils we should en-
counter by peace based on ANY thing ont the
restoration of The Union, are vast, various, un-
known, innumerable.
We hear great deal about the fanatcism Of
trying 10 suodue the South; but the widest
AbOlitionst who advocates 1t is Il seusib bic and
1 sober man compared to the dospt radOe5 who ask
us, wi the history of the world before us, TO try
,the experiment OF u congercs of petty Republics
Earl Russell gave as a reason for not aiding Den
oinark, the other day, the fact the United States
n bad risen into a sixth great Power, with for
fnioahle navy and an immense army. Let US
)nly Try The experiment If a grand Continental
y COnfederacy, and 50 far from fearing us, we pro-
1 phesy that in twenty years we should enjoy the
Apity and contempt OF every statesman in Europe.