Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-07-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ROEBUCK AND THE SOUTH, AND ME. STEPHENS AND THE NORTH.  To the Editor of the "Swansea and Glamorgan Herald." I was greatly pleased with your remarks on Mr Roebuck's advocacy of the Southern rebellion. The subject being one of such prominence at the present time, induces me to trouble you with remarks and extracts which may throw some light on Southern Recognition, for which he of Sheffield is so anxious. I am old enough to remember his conduct in 1837, when Parliamentary Agent fut the Radicals, and French of Canada, and how he managed to keep alive the torch of rebellion in that country for many months, entailing an enormous amount of expenditure, which we had to pay. Again, *hen the dissenters of Bath thottght proper to withhold their totes from hint on the ground that his conduct had not met their approtlal his bitterness knew no bounds. It it not long since that he was feted and made much of by the Grand Archdukes of Austria, which so turned his brain that he actually held that kingdom up as one of the most liberal in Europe. He forgot Hungary and Venice. Cannotibe turn his fertile brain to work for those places and ask the House of Commons to recognise Hungary as an independent nation. Is ahe not worthy of it ? The chivalry of the Confederates alone works on his feelings. Let us as Britons and lovers of liberty, endeavour to trace out, some of the grievances which these Southern friends of Mr. Roebuck have to corn. plain about on the part of the North. It cannot be , done with greater effect and more impartially than from the last speech made by the Vice-President of the Confederates, before the vote of Secession was taken. It would take up too much space in your paper to quote the whole of his speech. I shall therefore give the gist, condensing without weakening. The speaker is Mr. J. H. Stephens, who has since stated that Slavery is to be the corner stone of Sostbern Confederacy. " This step (of Secession) once taken could never be recalled; and all the baneful and withering consequences ' that must follow (as they !must see) must rest on the Convention for all coming time. When we and our posterity shall see our lovely South desolated by the demon of war, which this act of yours will inevitably invite and call forth ; when our green fields of waving harvests shall be trodden down by the murderous soldiery 1 and fiery ear of war sweeping over our land; our ternples of justice burnt down ; all the horrors and desolation of war before us ; who but this Convention will be held responsible for it? and who but him who shall have given his vote for this unwise and ill-timed measure, as I honestly think and believe, will be held to strict account for thia suicidal act by the present generation, and probably cursed and execrated by posterity for all earning time, for the wide and desolating ruin that a ill inevitably , follow this act you now propose to perpetrate ? Pause, I entreat you, and consider for a moment what reasons you can give that will even satisfy yourselves in calmer moments—what reasons yen can give to your fellowL sufferer, in the calamity that it will bring upon us— .