The Express. — 1862-09-20 (London, England)

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.  ALTHOUGH the Slave Power cannot in decency be defended, it must be aided. This, it seems, may beet be done by defaming those Free States which are most strongly opposed to it. The New England States have best deserved this enmity. Those States have for generations been the pride of every liberal-minded Englishman and the admiration of the world. Their freedom, their order, their morality, their liberal culture have been attested and celebrated by British and foreign travellers of all ranks, religions, and opinions. This alone would entitle them to the hatred of the South. Their civilization condemns its barbarism, their growth its stagnation, their regular and varied industry its aversion to labour, their intelligence its debasing and increasing ignorance. But above all, New England has committed the unpardonable sin of admitting the negro to citizenship and to a full share of the blessings of civilization. By elevating the black man, and introducing him to positions and functions in which be displays high intelligence and morality, it has shown the world how base is the conduct of the South in first keeping the negro in ignorance and immorality, and then making his degradation an excuse for continued wrong. These are some of the reasons why the New England States are dangerous to the South, and why they are hated superlatively by the friends of slavery on both aides of the Atlantic.  But if it was expedient to vilify the New Englanders by accusing them of a monstrous design, it was worth while to do it with more plausibility than was achieved yesterday by a contemporary who undertook the business. When we read that it is proposed to excite &servile insurrection, "incite " four millions of blacks to murder, lust and rapine " upon the unguarded plantations of the South," and " organize a series of Cawnpores," all we learn from it is that some of the advocates of the South are very audacious, and that it is hoped that some of their readerswill be very ignorant. We shall not insult our readers with any serious comment on this cock-and-bull story. The writer has probably heard or read that it has been proposed to make this • war for the abolition instead of • war for the restriction of slavery, and for that purpose to carry the Federal army again into the enemy's country. We do not know what probability there is of the execution of this plan, which it seems to us would have been far more likely to be attended with success a year ago than now. Neither shall we say a single word to stimulate the people of the Free States to further sacrifices of life. They have poured out enough of their blood to have earned the right to sheathe the sword. But if, remembering that only a few months ago the South was reduced to straits as great as those in which they are now placed, they are not disposed to accept the issue of the recent struggle as final, we sincerely hope they will take the course which so alarms our contemporary, and carry liberty to as many slaves as they can approach. Six months ago it was computed that a hundred thousand slaves had escaped from their masters and gained the Federal lines ; and the number would have been doubled had not some of the Northern commanders loved slavery more than the Republic. Had Mr. LINCOLN'S Government accepted the offer of some of his best generals to organize in regiments and brigades so many of these men as were willing to serve, placing them under white officers, he would have done what be is now urged to do, and in so doing he would have taken the best security against a wild and disorderly rising of the slaves. We do not, however, see any probability of the immediate adoption of this plan. While Generals Hanzeit and M'azi.tarr are at the head of the armies of the Union, we may be sure it will not be sanctioned. The Secessionists, indeed, tell us that those who devise such plans are reckoning without any real knowledge of the raoe ; that the negroes are warmly attached to their masters ; that all through the contest they have been working cheerfully ; and that wherever they have been brought into contact with the Federal it has only been to show their goodwill to the Confederate cause. We believe that no fact in the war is better established than this, that whenever the slaves had a chance of escape they ran for it. However, if the negroes have shown so mnch fidelity and attachment to their masters as we are told they have shown under severe trials, then the least