Peninsular News And Advertiser (Newspaper) - December 13, 1861, Milford, Delaware VOL. DECEMBER 13, 186J. WHOLE KG. 237, What can the South Under this heading appears in the London Review an artide we have read with considerable That periodical has hitherto distinguished self above all the other English journals in hostility to the north not even the Times could compare with it in but has happened to it Have southern commissioners to ceased to write for or to bribe it or has Mr. Adams offered a better price and secured its services for the north Had the Administration paid a logician to show up secession and Its we doubt if he could have done it better than the contributor the can the south gain Hear what he says belongs essentially to the main of It is based on It looks calmly on the impulses and sions of the and excites or controls them for its It directs the energies of nations to the promotion of their own and of the general Not from passion but from policy the leaders of the south resolved on and Mr. Jefferson in his message to the confederate Congress on April explained elaborately the reasons on which he and his colleagues The aimed at were the good of the They desired above all things be let It is now to inquire what they have gained what they can gain by the secession which Mr. Davis and his associates and by the separate confederation they have un- to form and necessarily takes into the probable actions of opponents as well as of friends and From the absolute refusal Mr. Lincoln to acknowledge the self-declared secession of the and to receive its tors as representing an independent it was from the first evident that war was His policy in refusing to knowledge secession is warmly and supported by a large majority men who the south and all bound by one of the strongest sentiments of human prevent the extension of this slave and black community over any of the Hitherto the free north has increased faster than the confederate south in and and for the future is likely to increase still The the success of create a predominant antagonistic no longer restrained by union from carrying into effect the we may of all civilized to extirpate negro slavery from its wide Separated from the the con- federation will be on insignificant Some of its and some politicians in have flattered it by visions of a great southern empire but the from the instant of will become the determined nent to the formation of such on aided by and ceasing to be opposed by the north on behalf of the would prevent Cuba and every portion of the West Indies from ing part of snch an Following its of irom a false ex- of gaining on the one hand and Virginia on the dis- appointed in their expectation of tage by a firet try an- and the falling to would utterly lose the means of its peculiar institution against reason and The south is now teaching other tions the necessity of avoiding exclusive dependence on it for They are taking in for obtaining a to which the return of its supremacy in the cotton market be and it cannot hereafter ely on the countenance and support which it has hitherto received from ton manufacturing It will with all the disadvantages of an tional of heavy taxation to jay the expense of the and of y crippled to meet the tition of many cotton-growing people in the markets of the Secession will effectually prevent it from finding in Eli and in the of the population of the Union and as the policy of Mr. Davis was in like ner warmly and passionately supported by the population of the the overt act of the it cannot be de- was the first cause of this able and inevitable of the which the south de- it is exposed to the horrors of of being its ports are trade is entirely its armies and the the north are almost daily engaged in deadly con- The fields where for nearly ty years no sound has been heard but that of the clearing axe and the cotton the erash of falling trees and of the building the clatter of hoofs on the progressively the rushing of the locomotive and the screech of the engineer's whistle where no sight has been seen bat acre after acre reclaimed from the and home after home rising in quick forming the the the the abodes of scientific laboring on farms or in shipping in temples and studying in col- now red with blood of the and flare defiantly to heaven with the conflagration of their sacked and de- Till secession was de- clared there was with rapid gress in the Union now there is chiefly in the So it must be as a is a grievous It has brought on the as on the great In a military sense the sonth has the advantage It may find seme tion for the calamities of war in its It may balance the glory of tory the annihilation of It may ultimately compel the weary and worn out by vain efforts at to its Let us imagine this and let us endeavor to as far as our limited faculties will what will then actually be the position of the con- federation and its pains by having con- quered may ultimately be the in the first instance the success of the would compel the States of the north to remain united and form a more and firm They wonld have in the sonth an in comparison a powerful against which they must be on their Great in possession of the would be the confederation on the to j them into continual and firm union We disposed to from the spirit of liberty prevalent in the that it will not readily fall nor nn lor bat in a short time the restoration of it has now been for a ihc nnd home of ihe the the skilful find of this It- be the the have in the northern of tual to a compact both to nnd one in for ihe welfare of the of free while by n of all from the ingenuity and resources of its former col- the means of recovering its profitable Secession implies boundaries between the new confederation and the old eral It will houses on these il not hostile different revenue and a great if not complete interruption to the perfectly free internal traffic which has contributed to the gress of the south as well as the and been one of the most important ad- vantages of the The south will have stronger motives than ever for curing its slaves against the tion of It will no longer have the help of a fugitive slave and must guard every of its land frontier with as much jealousy against the inroads of freedom as South Carolina guards From tbc Sunday NATIONAL WAR to the and freemen Columbia The honr of peril's With banner and To the For her sons must all stand bv on to the Till our foes shall yield To the force of arms or May the Union And our loud free from the of Rebellion bold Shall ne'er uphold The impious war it wages It would remain A stain Upon our history's Shall freemen shrink While o'er the brink Of ruin nation When ever day Of weak delay May work its desolation We'll not Though through the air Rebounds the cannon's thunder This glorious By traitor's Can ne'er be rent Let tyrant And with a sneer Predict our They'll shortly find The world Can't shake our We all deplore This civil war As much as Europe's Although they Not very deep Are their We want no groans Froia Europe's Of foreign They'll We do not need Their help in our Then on to the etc. The Cotton Question in Europe Is beginning to assume more definite and there now seems to be less disposition in the British press to the Northwest have been slack in their If these have not been so forward as might have been cause lies in the uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed regarding the tion of the civil war in If that were to be an affair of only a few and if at the expiration of that time the Southern Slates wore to return to normal condition of cotton suppliers to only result of the enterprise of the native capitalist would be terrible and possibly The Calcutta Englishman Our reports from all parts of the try continue to predict favorably of the expected cotton crop of this year in- deed we gather from all bides that an area considerably in excess of previous efforts are being made in the districts of the Madras and Bombay Presidencies to enable them to meet any call that may be made upon them for their done more in this respect than any other district with the exception of The cotton growing districts bordering on the avery are also reported to have considerably increased the area usually devoted to the and the ties offered by the river for transposing it to the coast will render any increase from this quarter highly not only as offering a prospect of larger re- turns for money invested from the ness of water arriage to the but from the date at which it will be available for the same In velly great and successful efforts have been made not only to improve the ple derived from indigenous seed which much attention has been paid in recent but to introduce foreign These extracts are full of fully confirm the position taken by us at the commencement of the war that secession if persisted in would tend to destroy the cherished interests of the Southern The South has had no such enemies as Rhett and others of the same A Historical It will be remembered by our readers at the height of the discussions which prevailed in South Carolina during what is known as the of Gen. James Hamilton filled the chair of that Selected as the embodiment and representative of the Light and It is interesting to note the difference between the spirit displayed in the two Conventions now in session in Thp Rebel assemblage is performing its avocation at and the loyal the proudest Republic of all a the one nation of oil the where Liberty was ever at and where tlie oppressed and could over a refuge and darkness now contend over Virginia and over the whole and is it not our I duty to champion the former by every with a representation from in by every s from the the free western at The spirits of of Patrick of Madison and if they were permitted to look down upon the soil they would marvel nt tbe diverse scenes enacting within the old and they could not but be filled with that such a division could have sprung out of the unity and they left among their At Richmond a fell and barbarous darkens the The i tional Committee calmly discuss how the equilibrium shall be established between labor and they are determined that licentious system of free by which the children of the means in our and mountain to the Delta of the Mississippi Twenty million of loyal voices respond to-day in the affirmative Gen. Anderson's a few days looking tenance any attempt to break the block Ths Times says As the clouds thicken in the daylight dawns in the East. That we can open markets in the East whenever the markets of the West may fail we hare already shown but it now seems equally clear that we can find also in the East a substitute for the productions for which we have been accustomed to look almost exclusively to the properly can produce all pay a great additional price for necessities in the article of What has been long certain in theory is Charleston The shipping of the j is bestirring herself to north may not be employed quite so as at present in carrying away the produce of the but for over carriage it will still have to confide in It cannot be the carrier of its own slave-grown the ral and indestructible freedom of roving sailors forbids it. If it ceases to receive imports through the north it will have to most extreme phase of opinion then rent in South he took occasion in his Inaugural on to his before the bers of the to review the policy of the State as inferrible from the declarations recently made in the matter of the protective That tariff was then held to be South Carolina with her sister Southern and the right of each separate State for the obstruction or tion of its execution within her limits was now about to be as a resulting This was may be quite takes the very cheapest and best mode known of exchanging its exports for its and any alteration in this caused by its own political must be dis- The course of modern civilization is to connect by by one medium of one common series of weights and by on ing diffusion of common in- eluding that of different by a all the diverse no- l he tions of the into which people from all parts of the ding China and or are willingly seems it has been concluded from this to be an amalgamating home for all and the political secession of in opposition to this al cannot be as have in some than tn line If and injurious to The Federal let us as a concluding consideration for southern has a potential voice in the politics of the It has lifted itself tip Great Britain it has and obtained its own terras it has taught Austria to American citizens it is quite on a level with the Empire of Russia it has sub- dued Mexico; it from the At- to the Pacific of stronp and people lute n The of ihe by oilier by pernicious break this now free and most member of the com- of the but the fai Wat nation inll carr a or with American seed and European super- we may obtain any quantity of cotton from India that Manchester will pay India is becoming laborious and She is beginning to call for European and the English merchant is carrying to India his cotton floods in payment for the raw cotton which is just learning to America is a great bnt not a necessity to our commercial well The Liverpool Mercury bears similar testimony The accounts from are more en- than those from at thoroughly roused to the importance of the present crisis on the fortunes of India from the Federal What the political leaders of Sonth Carolina at that time thought of the modern heresy in the name of may be sufficiently gathered from the following language of Governor Hamilton in his Inaugural Address of 1830: are thus suffering under all the evils of a consolidated out even that resulting from its forms which a participation in the choice of the representatives who form this very majority would give But must we be compelled to take refuge in this odious j poor are educated at the expense of the shall be forever kept beyond the of the oligarchy tkey are erecting They denounce labor in the Northern States as too and avow that condition of has tended to divide society into two and to array ihe one against the 1st Colonel Charles J. Biddle and his aristocratic Democrats read the following extract from the of this as published in the Richmond the opinion of your no system of government can afford nent and effectual security to liberty and which rests on the basis of unlimited and the election of of- of department of the ment by the direct vote of the The tendency of such a system is to de- moralize the to encourage the habit of to foster tion at the and to place unworthy and incompetent men in positions of trust and are the vital principles of the as before their bitter fruits are ready in a course of rapid the Southern States more tive and rational principles still prevail This is due mainly to the institution of which constitutes a partial re- striction on the right of In the men of every class nnd tion of life are entitled to In the all who are in a condition of arc necessarily excluded from the exercise of political privileges and the power of the country is wielded by the more intelligent who have a manent interest in the well being of also constitutes an effectual barrier against that tendency to ism between labor and capital which ex- ists in the capital is the casual employer of and is ed in diminishing its cap- ital is the owner of and naturally seeks to enhance its Further on in the the tee propose to disfranchise the and set up a legislative authority which shall do the people's thinking and They say general rule it wonld be much into the the and tian patriot the of roused tlie to that gentle modest those humble worn and feeble I could little to for the nnd self-sacrifice connected with that hopeless but immortal The tones of the the language in- nothing and almost tempted one to think that this man was i neither born great nor had achieved but was only among the for- i Innate few who have greatness thrust upon But all at he and his eye flashed his voice rung like a his face shone like a hero as he spoke am not satisfied with the point which public feeling yet ed in this So long as any man thinks that any other man has a deeper interest than he himself he is not fully he is not adequately All there is the n hole matter in a Every man or ought to feel that he an infinite interest in the cause of constitutional law and republican Every man in the loyal States stands for a com- mon act as if the under their changed and whole rested on his with forty millions or nearly one should fight as if nobody else was half their usual cut off by the should die as if no blood but his could cotton they may now for the rave the Let first time begin to fill their and j that animated every Apostle and to draw away Hie supplies of other coun The Trade of tin The London of October 21st, says iu its financial article The resumption of gold remittances to the is a but wholly The certainty is just as strong as that if the war not merely we witness a drain of specie from that but a suspension of cash The expenditure is at the of a hundred millions sterling per and when it took only fifteen and with all their people engaged to the most in industrial the States were not usually found year by year to accumulate any exceptional stock of the precious metal The idea that tries is the most extraordinary tion that could be The actual course of the trade of the United is as puzzling to the as it is to the theorists of the Confederate S The confidence of both in old is too as to be shaken by what they see passing around Having made up their long that the j cotton crop was essential in the settling of our foreign that the loss j of it would be followed by a drain of j a suspension of cash payments by the and general they will not believe the evidence of their own senses to the It avails nothing with the gold end silver in the United States have increased already since the 1st of of that even at the city of New York our exports exceed our and that there is no balance of trade to curly and carried the cross of Christ successfully against the whole false civilization and religion of the Ro- man Empire and the heathen once seize our it will bear them triumphantly through all the batteries that for miles fortify the Gap of and close the disloyal We ore waiting for the and it is A few more noble Massachusetts men only the a few more illustrious Generals and captains from Minnesota and Rhode and New lead the way and mark it with to the whole nation to a pitch which would satisfy even the Hero of I PUET in its count of the brilliant naval victory at Port says is nothing in it or about we could have well We needed the to show that the Rebels were not taken be adjusted by These are merely I to test the strength of their for the people to in the mode form of and thus blut out from this Western Hemisphere that beau- as a cotton-producing A very step has been made by the duction of on the upper part of the river That great with its numerous tributary streams flows through the most extensive of all the fields of that of be cut by this last and quantity of cotton grown in this district is im- and very little of it has ever found its down the owing to the difficulty and cost of transport the quality is superior to that of the Surat and most equal tc dinm qualities of Mr. one of the American who was employed bv the Enil India Company to constellation of States which rose in so much and in so sad a mnst set in such ble darkness f I trust the sword the only remedy No. I trust the bond of this Union may never fatal ice take refuge in the of this is us as divorce in private a privilege the exercise of which because it irreversibly the dearest of human Are we then remediless No. If we were the would in- deed be the contemptible corporations our opponents wonld make them fit for prescribed by representatives in whose integrity and patriotism they could and leave to them the not merely of framing the but of selecting the higher officers to ex- pound execute But we hare no space for further ex- We simply remark that the en- tire spirit of this rebel Constitution Con- vention is and by the time they pet the State tion thoroughly the people will be hopelessly bound into slavery to a few who will ride them whip and spur until the eral army announces presence on the banks of James river amid the booming of Gladly we turn from the consideration the of the reM Constitutional of thp loyal assembly i tho A tone pervades dissolv es and with theorists facts are always of less importance than The of the English at what is is more extraordinary than that of the financiers of the have talked they have crazed themselves on the But the who have no cotton to and who have paid up all their balances of tride for centuries without to be able to conceive it to be that the United even without its ton have the industry and resources to pay their debts and even to grow The plam truth that the States not We needed the spiteful little antics of the with its doughty dore in well out of to give the world some just no- tion of 'the Confederate navy We needed the head to fix at its real worth the high talk of the about fighting to the We needed the miserable trick for firing the magazines when our troops should take possession and their own be out of to afford another illustration of their low and barons The flocking in of the so prompt and so raising have always paid was necessary to reveal to us what debts and taken care of their balances of a prodigious power we have for the sub- with their own without j of the if we choose to a dollar's help from the States which do i employ it. Even the poor solitary raise difficulty has been mon could not spare he is a true representative of the fit exponent of its present and Every or or sublime or its all combining to reflect honor upon our i n which is as purely and democratic as the air which over the It ad to furnish its quota o to vote to set o viu w wui i ju operation a free labor and internal im- j introduce the of the New j else than to Iny oil roads will i u If is n ot seed ot cotton ssys the cotton I have seen from is of very and better cleaned than if usual in Indian India ferries No their hish only to r the but see ilia I the It is a part of crn vocation not their the of compact is pre- for by nn nrr Iiv lilt nnd This the Verily limes nre we are th Great arrays of statistics from are given in the London papers to prove that Ihc people of India ore going into the cotton A letter in the under dale ofi September 23, The seems to been roused on q iiin from nil of the but more rch cotton districts on the banks of the speak of the area of hnd with cotton as far the proportion of any previous the lesd in ha I neither India Irdi m ikes and binds f as It is even Carolina of 1530 rebakes the Sooth Carolina of iC his flirty ff The ri s-o bring cini i the vin of A ins thus of the ruling idea of the Convention 11 We do wUh to be connected cny longer h the policy thai las us all days of far That policy is find It the of and We have had Find want to clear of a few to be- that this last class of States have not or even paid even their own debts with their but have left a portion of their debts to the ruin of confiding creditors at the The cotton Stales never parted with a bale of cotton for which they had not received an generally in advance of its and frequently in advance of its If cotton has been necessary heretofore to adjust the balance against us in our foreign is a balance arising from the consuming capacity of the cotton and that they figure no longer in our trade either as consumers or there is no adverse balance to be met by or there is a able balance which we are receiving in Tarions have not happened which were predicted as the consequence of the loss to twenty-five millions of free of the rude labor of something less than three millions of and engaged in raising cotton Not only do the banks refuse to stop specie not only does perversely flow into the instead of flowing as it ought to do according to all the theories of DC Bon's and the Southern commercial conventions for the last thirty but the grass refuses to spring up in the streets of our Northern cities Not a blade of it is visible in either New or Men bsy and very much as did a year and now that they have pot their fright well find that the world is not nearer its end than cotton was raised nt nil in ibis on a J Republican EARLT was early Happy Uic roan hobbles both of it. c ft i set she parine it for inducement to f fill r have ii tt i n nnd p jv je ns cr d nre ibe s and to tlie infernal re- one ito form aid rra racy the is. always an is fv morning day to him with a foil of and and freshness The youth of Nature is the gladness of a harpy I nan can be railed PO us he is BE early RR eark ray word for in ovtr at is a very which the fnn 1 over tlie upon arms and ignominy upon the case of the MEN or in his had no A in his first and no B in the and so in the other books with the letters of the bet one after the Lopez de Yega wrote five novels in prose the first without an the second without a the third vithout a and so This custom existed Persian Ono of them read to the poet some verses of his own was not so struck with as the author ex- the author it was without doubt a very curious for the letter Aliff had been omitted from all the Jami can do a better thing Take away all the I letters from every word you have A monk named wrote j a work entitled the de I The peculiarity of this work is that all the words begin with a C. Lord in the time of James wrote a set of I ench beginning with a successive I letter of the alphabet the Tear Round Two STATES The tional 3ac now floats over the soil of seceded State Alabama and Arkansas In Virginia it floats over one-third of the State in North at Inlet in Sonth at Port and a half-dozen neighboring inlands in on Island in at Key Roea and other points in at Ship Island in at Chandeleur Island in El Paso and in st other in the east era the A COMPANY of colored col- are to leave for settlement in I said to he about the court of
