Year: 1862

/ The Traffic whoIiy "a Yankee BusiHers-
The North had better make Peace, etc.


From the niOa Times


/ This is the first fruit of secession. # there
/ had never been a secession, there never would
/ have been q slave trade treaty. If the States


had still been one and indiyisible, we never
should have obtained from the pHEctilious repub-
/ lie the privilege OF violating the stars and
/ stripes by SEEING cargo Of slaves from under
/ them. Under secession the slave-cemented Con-
s;itutiOn has dissolved Under secession the
Northern States, grown weaker, have been COM
/ PEELED to tolerate and even to bow 10 that anti
slavery feeling, which had been suppressed alike
| by the Constitution, the laws, and the public
/ opinion of the Union. I. was secession which


took the sting out Of the fugitive slave law; it


was secession which hrst suggested the thought
of buying with State money the freedom Of
black men; it was secession which rendered it
possible to wipe the blot of slavery out Of the
metropolitan district of the State, lastly it was
secession which has now given Us this anti-slave
trade treaty. q


Perhaps we shall be told that this IS al blow
dealt by the North against the South. 1t IS no
such thing. The slave trade is exclusively q
vice of the Northern States The Southern
States detest it, and one Of their first acts was a
stringent law against it. This / not a victory
over the South; it Is a victory over the North.
The unaninity of the Senate in this matter is
very remarkable, because there are men in that
assembly who snly have no very hearty love
for any measure practically effectual to put down
the slave trade. 1t seems to argue that society
in the North is reforming itself upon more
wholesome principles than obtained when the
State was ruled by alliances Of vicious interests.
The recent trials at Boston, and the terrible ex-
ample made in the case Of one man, had showed
that the slave traders Of the North could not ex-
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the South. It is large problem which has yet
to be worked out in the South but, if the ex-
pertinent proceeds, we have no doubt IS to the
result. The Union is impossible, unless upon
the basis of slavery; division IS incompatible
with the permanent existence of slavery.
We need not dissemble the truth about certain
prepOssessiOus current in Europe. 1t Is beyond
denial that, in spite of the slavery question: the
SOutherners have been rather the svOrites, part
| ly as the weaker side, partly as cong ueTors
| against odds, and partly because their demand


for independence was thought too natural to be
resisted at the swords point by q government
| founded on the right OF insurreclOn only. To


these merely sentiments snd not very cogent


considerations was added the more potent and
/ weighty reflection that, what the SOutherners
/ had done, no power, whether American OF Eu-
ropean, could succeed in uudOing. The dissOlu-
/ tOn Of the Union was an accomplished fact /;


nor could any statermsn Of any country forecast


the means by which government protesting TO


subsst only by the viii Of the governed could


be re-establshed against the desires Of one third


of the community after fierce and sanguinaTy


war We could understand separation, embar-


RAISING and unweleome as its conditions might


be, but we could not understand either the con


qnest of territory like that of the Southern


States, or tie adaptation Of such conquest,


even if achieved, to the purposes svowed by the


Northern invaders. In short, as all Europe de-


sired the end Of the war, and could see but one


way in which that end could come, the South


got the benefit Of the strait into which we were
| driven.


| If the NOrtherners could only SEQ their own


interests, or perhaps if the Atlantic cities could
have their viii, they would undoubtedly prevent


the conflicts we are now expecting, and stop


short now and treat. They will probably never


have so good an opportunity. The capitalists


would be fortunate 10 finish the affair while their
| Southern debtors are yet able to pay off their


mortgages even in that paper currency which i
| quoted at eighty per cent. discount, bBt


is legal tender to a mortgage; and Il


creditor would be wise to settle his accouzsls


while gold is yet to be had at a moderate pre-
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