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ABBIiYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY MORNING,- JUNE- 7, 18GK
YOLUME X.?NO; 6.
ADDBE88 TO THE VIRGINIA TBOOPS.
TtjJK?'Scot? *?ha bac wi' Wallace bled 1"
Followerqfof Madiaon, t
Freemen taught by Jefferson,
Countryman of Washington,
On to glorious victory 1
Now's the day and dow> the hour;
See the front of battle lower;
See approach proud Lincoln'* power,
* ' Northern hosts and knavery
Who would be a traitor knave t
Who would fill a coward'# grave!
Who would bo n Lincoln alave t
Traitor 1 coward! turn and fleet
Who for Southern Righto and law
Freedom's sword strongly draw,
Let him wage unending war
'Gainst Lincoln, Scott and tyranny
Hy our wrong* and by our pains 1
We will drain our deepest veins
Ere our sons shall wear their chains,
Our ?oii cease to be free !
J.ay the proud oppressors low !
ijiuum ian in every joe i
Liberty's in every blow !
Onward ! aoldiere, do or die !
C. W. C.
Lj'nclibtirg. April, 28, 1801.
To
TUB DIIEAHS.
1 drc/imed that I was a breath of air,
And my love with heat oj>pre??*d:
Oh I fondly I fannM her bosom fair,
And wander'd round her brenst.
I dreamed my love was a rose that
The garden to adorn,
And I was a drop of morning dew
On '.he rose without a thorn.
* uroBiueu niy iove was a sweet, wild tree,
All covered with purp'e bloom,
And I metliought, was ?n uraoious bee,
" That lov'd the rich perfume.
8weet draughts of nectar I sat to sip,
On a jessamine juat below ;
I breathed her brenth and I kissed her lip,
And she was aa chaste as snow.
THE WAR _IM_ AMERIC A.
What the English Papers Say.
Progress of the American War.
[From the London Time*, May 10.] 4'
It is just possible to discern, dim and in
distinct, tho coming conflict- in America.?
The fteherman in lite Araliion tale wlio
broke the seal of Sulomon saw the column
ui biuoko, which asceiulpU from his jar,
gradually take the slmpe of n monstrous
Genii. So the confusion and debate which
succeeded the first meetings of the l<egis)a
lure of Sooth Carolina, six montlii ago,
mfv now consolidated into the form of tno
opposing armies on the line of ;the Potomac,
Disputation is at an end, wfrr lias begun,
and'the-course of events has so much <le
ftuet itself ,that the eye way even pene
trate a little way into the darkness of fu
turity. ' The" most important news brought
by the steamer isthat Washington is likely
to be secured to the Federal Government
Although the advices are only two days
later than the last, it appears that in that
<tn)e me capital hud been reinforced to '
eucli an extent that a sudden attack from j
M?e,Virginians wns not to be dreaded.? ^
Whether tho Southern Generals seriously j
jr.editatoilie seizure of the Federal metropo j
lit it id impossible 10 say. The couununi
Cfttions between .North <ml l'???
been entirely eu^fHixltnl, $n<l it i? oiugulnr
to fiiul^tlut in fl?W I ami 6f railw?ys and
tefegratn* people at the North were uncer
tain wJietliQr President Davit was quietly
ijfjw administering affairs at Montgomery-..or
' **?? recoonojtoVing Wellington from . the Vir
ginia ahojre ?>f tfce Potomac. Much less
f can we determine what are the Confederate
i..il .mi "
touvtuB. mere ?rc ivvo courses open lo tUe .
Southerners?either to advance and give
' ^attjirto the North in mxta, or to content
themselves with Attacking itnHf reducing*
tfco Federal f<?Fla which still remaiu in tGlHr
territory. One of these, Fort Bqiith, in;Xr*
kjgotav Jm* jiwtf been UUn by the State
? -X?q?>p*, from w Jiieh we raftf-eortiUldtd that
wl'ieh a few weeks since declared
far the Union, has now definitely seceded.
^ J *V. <. . * w .?
15ift (Here are others formjdfcblo enough
which have to bo reduc?ii, and which may
cull for all ihe couragethe
Southerners. Of ibftee is
EVfct "Picteos, whfcti^ia? jost b?*p reinforc
ed, Fort Jfronroe, ,o*?r JSforfa^
to* ** liWf k> b*a***tt*m>?a?. ??&*
disappointed nil (heir. calculations. The
very success of their polioy has imposed a
military enterprise on them which it* is difli
cult to carry out and inglorious to shrink
from. The proclamation of Mr. Lincoht
has been followed l>v the secession of Vir
ginia, tho possession of Harper's Ferry and
the Southern bank of the river on which
Washington is placed. Every Virginian is
naturnlly tempted to make a dash at a
prize which lies on the very border of the
enemy's country. The consequence has
been that both sides have been -drawn on
to make tho District of Columbia their
battlefield. The Virginians collected in
numbers which appeared to threaten the
Capital, and the danger roused tbe North
to a military.enthusiasm \vb;ch has aston
ished evf-n those who know tbe excitability
of tho American charater. But tbe moat
important result of this movement is the
present condition of tho Stale of Maryland.
The troops which were poured down from
the North, and particularly the N?w J?"g
landers, were looked upon as invaders,
ready to destroy tbe plantations, liberate
tbe slaves, and ruin, if not maltreat, the
white people themsetves. A greut part of
the State, including the large and turbulent
cit.v of Baltimore, rose in iiiisiiirpoiinn nn,l.
Gov. Ilicks was obliged to, head a move
ment which has* by this time, probably
?nded in sencession though, as might be
jxpected, a large minority of the people
ire firm Unionists. It is perfectly plainf
However, that the Federal armies will pay
10 attention to.any ordinance of a Mary
and Legislature or Qo)iven lion. If subju
gation is to be their policy, there must be a
beginning made somewhere, and it will bp
made in this dcbnteable land, where slave
ind free soil intermingle. When the last
mail left it seemed possible tljat the Mary
andera might succeed in stonDtnp the
march of tlie Northern volunteers froin
Annapolis to Washington. We learn (hat
the troops have been pushed forward to
:he Capital, where already four New York
regiments had arrived; that the route was
sept open by Federal troops; and that the
Capital was strong enough to resist an at
nun*
Hence, as it seem* to usr the Southerners
ire in a difficulty. Their policy is as be
lore, to kpep within their own territory ;
iiul now ^Vashington is in their own terri
tory. If Maryland ims seceded, or^ven if,
hough the Legislature be coerced, thei>ody
if the population be in arena against tlie
LJnion, it will become a point of-honor
with the Confederate Stales to come to the
rescue of their friends. Perhaps a success
af the^ Virginians and Marylanders at
Washington would even be a caluaiity to
the South, as committing it more* than'
sver to n regular campaign heyo'nd the Po
>vw<iv, ? a buuuu y cusny commanded
Prom the sea, and in cleee neighborhood I
tviiU (he most populous Northern. State|.
On the other hnnd, should the Marylntiders j
resist the passage of troops, they ntay cause
ihe Federal Government much trouble.?'I
J-Jie N?rth sends.njpn in aufljeient qum-7
bers; but tninHport .is scarce, -provisions
Hre few and may^b'e cut off by the insur
geuls, ai'l jhg trqops qjay ?uff?r all tliat U
invQiy&U in lighting in an enemy's <*A|n
y''
Sontelhing jlike a regul nr campaign in
t)|>? region i? now ubh voidable. < Tltafc it
wilt be ci?rr?vfibd, at lewsffd^ A-time, lo tbe1
ftastefn part,of tbe Continent, seem# likely.
Cfle neutrHliljr of Kentucky ao.Jar is.ia fax
vor of. tlie'B<?ut,h/' Not only^ate^the CXrfH
federate States secured from tlio ^tlnck of
the Western Siateson their fl*nk,t?ut
inn* ohtiftrt' supntfes
Ulan if Kentfel^>ei^.eng?geJ$!* *$?.
Wiili Ohio *n0 Illinois. At tlife *?me limp,
there is nothing ffi. prfiVea^M^ cporefiefy
spirits of the State front qut}iji?^ % 4xi
r<w?ge tfjeM)?el*ev*w?tf jUeif
brethren. <**-* : fnr tllJlifiSw
Unit U'tt tlia gtiiierv.l {tfsh of tilejjerftuefc
ians to Mtf lh(j C?.i>feclt:rntes. So i?r ns we
Ann learn from, llie speeches and rew>lu
?on? report?4i tl!e.people *>f tbiitState-ap
peter to judge ^the original nocesa'omst's very
<flr?rely, *o' b?Rct^'ih%t theij had jio real
grotlfntr for Broking up a tTetieYntioii whjcb
bud lasted to long. fnatiy
benefits on mankind. |&?,event8 mow
quickly, and we cannot help thinking that
axfta?gsa5
any Pre*We?t or OoftpeM or mint*!? com
gamier. ^r^Jy Uie two u*ilom aiftnr
fayed.> atfMMt ?Mb .?tlor ^
seceded States, to hold or reciipture the
forts, to collect the customs by rdveDue
Vessels cruising outside the hu'U?T3? n,nd
thus tin lime, to bring erring citizens to
reason, were schemes wotl enough h moth
ago, Put now that blood is sited, and the
most irritable and vindictive people in the
world are in arms ngainst en<5fi* other,
such half hostilities will fin<l little fayor.#?
Wo are so absolutely cut off fioro all news
of what is p*\sVmg at the South that, we
cnnupt pretend to speak of the popular
impulses there, excepted so far as we
rhay divine them from the wc>ll known
character of the Southerners. But irt the
North there are signs that the Secede rs, ij
beaten, may expect liule mercy. It may
b,e said that we ought not to take extreme
^Iterances for lUo opinion, of the mass-;
but in these conjunctures it w the extreme
counsel which prevails ; wh,at is extreme
t> day is looked upon-as. moderate and
necessary to morrow. We cannot, there
fore, hear witty>u,l apprehension, the threats
Of the Republican and Abolitionists party,
to the effect that the slavo-owners must be
rooted out; that a hundred John lirawns,
instead of cue, will no.vf invade Virginia;
that aa thfl " InriM" tliot !o il>?? T?n?l
1_ ?. - ? -?m, *?ijW +jyjt\>
ists'of the America war?were exiled,
and all their goods confiscated, so the land
owners of Virginia and the Carolines must
be swept away to i^ako place for the
brave fellows who have fought under the
tars and stripes, and who, on, the princi
ple of " spoils to the conquerem," ao long
acted upon in politics, $re tc*-be put iu
poasassion of the domains of the ncceders.
Who- can say that in another week or two
s{?ch doctrines, instead of being confined
to tho zealots of the Northern nuilir wilt
not lw general among the levies that nre
poaviug into Maryland ? The alurm and.
hatred of the South will then increase ten
fold, j>nd a war may bo carried on un
surpassed in ferocity by anything that Eu
rnnp Ima Irimwn 5n n/?Ao
'"i" "H1""'
The planting States, the original Sece
ders, are secure in tlie remoteness from the
scene of war, but the borderland will per
haps witness horrors 4o be remembered
for generations. All that we can do is to
keep ala.of from the dreadful etjcounter.-r
We feel thnt couusel or meditation might
as well he offered to the hurricanes which
sweep over the Gulf of Mexico. We may
receive a little satisfaction from ^he assur
ance of Jkord .Fiilmerston, tlint no direct
injury to our own finances is likely to re
Milt from the v??r; but it is greater1 pleas
ure to- be able to think that only positive
law, hut the moral feeling of the commu
nity will forbid .any British subject to en
gage iu the conflict for the-pijrpose of pri
vate gain, 3fl?e flume Secretary's ..dec
ininuun mill rewjHJUl IO priVKieentlg Will
have the full assent of tbu country \ -and
when this strife is over, we will biufeHhe
? v_ -,r -?
comfort of knowing that not one drop of
blood was shed by u?,
i'%
[From the Lou<k>? Timet, Jfay 1(V]
A Wa* Without an Objejf.
What have we to do but to watcb ' and
see the issue of ihesp 'full incensed points
of 'mighty opptaUesl' Since it *?t}st foe, let
US note the providential uses bidden in Ibis
;calamity. Is not this a necessary passage
in the history of. the nation! Tberearefew
grent rivers uiai nave noi m some penotj'qf
4hrf|t coursci lq struggle through Uw gorges
of a mout>?ain cliairr, ip w.hi
linbst to ife?i
^hnaii^Ah Ktii ?r<f?Ani
&
(Mld.moriiabun
?nid that every,
feod#fc*u?dr
"7 imperfect
, nuy 11^ uaa
? *> mmH S? be? i*?f^ u#fe#*p
nations
mTn[o?lt^^r^,e" ^aW"
school of manner*/
He field has chgi&bfijglK^j^liOn even of
Eqiperots. Votf who line
boon in A greatt?lk ol
wnr, of wounds, of dread VrriUcry, an J the
*#ortT? edge qttite fco glibly as othfrmk
* ** m w **
'doltectiotffc Jfiwi: Jj> itjiofc sp?ct*nl
images rivet bkgw, Tbl? imot the m?r
to j^rrypbopt with hwBMapet armory -ol
MMHtfW, **& to r^Tnto'tmr ooflVret
1[*impiTbic*u? be ut $*?*4/
brav? ?n?o * *nlA,*rt 4 1
i for herself this missing part of Uer educa
tion.
Thus far the war is one out of all prece
dent, and beyond all calculation. At tbis.
? moment it is impossible, to say what is its
object, and how it i$ to be conducted: -. The
reduction of the ^ccediog States is an al
most inconceivable idea. The territory is
immense^ the countiy diC^-ult, the climatQ
unhealthy, and the population twelve mil
lions. Even if we could suppose a Repub
Iicao army of 50,000 men, making good
its passage from Baltimore to the Golf of
Mexico, in the face of every diftiujty, several
such armies might accomplish the feat, and
yet leave tho question as they found It.
The effect, and even the possibility of a
blockade, a stoppage of supplies, or an em
bargo upon duties, has yet to bp seen. As
for the slave population, there is not the
smallest symptom of their disaffection, or
their wish to leave their masters enmasxe. j
Here and there it is lively enough that a
sullen slave, who has quarrelled \yith his
master, or one who i;eally is io the hands of
a tyrant, or one conscious of a 6gur? and
QUalilieB worthV of frpflrlnm tyiom V.O
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to seize an opportunity to escape. ... But the
present is an affair, not of individuals, but
of millions. So what chance is there of
any result to bo obtained from the war, un
lets the possession of (he Capitol be a re
sult worth considering? That, in fact, is !'
contest at ibis moment. It is a contest \
the deff&body of troclus: for the floij
Places; for a name, for a prestige, not for a
reality. If we suppose the Northern States
victorious"" in several battles, they are left
with 30,000 meoin possession of a worthless
site in an enemy's country. While these
30,000 are .locked up there, and sustained
by immense efforts and at considerable ex
[ | ense, the Southarn States may be steadily
pursuing their own course of secossion, self
government, and consolidation. ' Willi the
single exception of the Capital, not n fort,
not an- arsenal, not a yard, not (i ship, not a
bit of wood or clone will be left the Fede
ral Government in the seceding States. If
too, their commerce should be at the mercy
of the Southern privateers, that is a gamp
in which' the Northerners have the most to
lose, and the balance must bo ever Against
l.~ rr?i n
me wittier. * ue government now at Wash
ington, if still there, nnd, if it be there, sup
posing it still free tq act, roust Iinye these
considerations before it. We know not
how it can escape the conclusion that sqph
? yar is contrary lo the very rules of war
seeing that it bus no object, A day way
throw light on tbe struggle, fend show that
the vast efforta'of the Northern ' States are
to be lavished in .vain and all that noble
blood spent like water. We only reason
upon what we set and knoyr, apd we are
driven to the conclusion that thus far these
thirty, millions of our own flesh and' -blood
ate fighting for a shadow.
[From the London, Time*, May. 8 }.
T9JS ENGLISH VDEW OP PUIVATEEHfO.
In 1856, tbe Pleuipptentiaries ..of Great
Britain, Frece, Austria, Russia, Sar^ipifi,
Turkey ami-Prussia made a^olemndeclara
tlon op tW subject; in order to pat an end
to the uncertainty pftbo law, or rutljer, of
(be pracliafi. Tbis declaration w?s in the
following Words:
"J. Privateering is, and retrains,
lsuen. . ?
*'2. Tbe' neutral flag covers en$mie?l
goods, *ith tlje exception of pOQtra?i$D4 ?f
'war. -J *$ ';% : .y; '
_**3. Keutr^l gooda,witU (l?e excej>tU>o of
contraband of par,, are not liabe to cfiptpfe
t Tii*dkr an enerayVHafc. ,- (?/ "
-j?vun<w>?>- ? viMor ?i <wo- uyiuing,
mu8t.be tliftHa to ?ay\jro?irit?1n-.
\ iv fored *ufBuient renlly to Wpvfn^iie*
> ^cefls. toJjhe coaatof t^?f fi'nepnjr^ xho present
? <fe^ri?tio0^liipi.and ?1> nil not. bo, binding,
T<> this dacUratTon ' the United ,Stato<
ildncr It ? * T>-yC-t -"
! 18?T,l!!P.l % JUlmoUy,
rerofted thoir mwnt to
vfttceri^ig.
The declaration itself, whe* We' wjk),
r draw the clause which abolishes prfalfe?.
1
17 M.'?? JVV. ? *.? *. *^ :
to extend, the rigli ta of ueutrals, and to
contract the lights of belligerents. She
even went to war wilh'us to resist the right
of sQftrQlt which we claimed as a belligerent
right. She has always bitterly denied the
niglft to visit any vessel sailling under her
flag for any purpose whatever. Still more,
therefore, would she resist a rigbt to take
any cnrgo out of any ^Iiip actually belong
ing to lier under the pretence that the oar
go belonged to an -enemy^ It was not to
thin part, therefore, of the declaration of
of tho Powers that wore parties to the
treaty of Paris that she objected ; it was
simply to the clause which abolished
privateering. This right to send forth
privateers she-clung to as the resource of
a nation which did not choose to keep
up a large, nay.y, and wfliob,being a distant
Power, had- no dangerous neighbors to pope
with, and need flot fear any sudden attack.
To this clause- alone she objected ; all the
rest whs in accordance with licr own policy.
A^et;lea's ? .resent . position is one which
she never could have forseenand never con
templated \ it is the dircct contrary of that
she has ever marked out for herself, and
she has consequently been industriously
vindicating principles -and making' prece?
cedents, all of which will'now go to the
, contraction of her own Beligerent rights.
Sh' W saved from perishing the vile trade
vrttecriog'; and tho existence of priva
.cnttered over every sea will ncccssi
the dividing her fleot in or<Ter to pro
tect her commerce. She lins stretched the
rights of neutrals to resistance of the once
conceded right of search nnd visit, and she
has thereby given us immuuity for every
character of goods which we may carry in
our free neutral ships. She hns even.,wo
believe, gone further thar\ this. If we mis
take not, she, in a very recent cnse of an
American ship seized by Neapolitan cruisers
ofTSicilly, raised and insisted upon the
point that a State (annot blockade its own
ports. We believe we are correct.in say
nig iiuii. iue unuco states demanded and
obtained restitution and compensation from
tlie King of Naples, upon tl;e ground that,
as be claimed Sicily as part of bis domin
ions?just as Mr. Lincoln now clainis tlie
seceded States-be could not lawfully block
ade the ports of Sicily, llowever thi* may
be, we have said enough to show tliat there
is really some complication in the~questions
which the Government declined last night
to dt6CUSS.
The Coll* pi* of ^nniotn Union.
[From the London Times, May 6.]
So shdrt lived lias been the deatiniea-of
tile American Union tlmt men wlio saw it
rise . rany fee Its fall, Lord Lyndhorst
who is happily spared to us, was born in
Boston a British subject, for Massachusetts
was then one of the Uriitqpl Provinces,
fndppd, we ftf? ?till pensioning the loyal
Uls of l7*?5.^when the connuercra iu llmt
war are destroying the work of their
own ba^ds. But the collapse and ruin of
this political edifice is in itself a thing
of insignificance compared with the
proceeding* l?y which the thing has been
lir/tnMit oliAni n:?:i -*1?
??vvi??* vi?ii wiir, ur? if* Oilier
words, war of the vr^ast frightful ftnd bar
haroqs l^n^, hip hcen accepted and un-,
dertaken by ft people among llio most
, enlightened best educated' in- the
Wftrl4?
To gat to tlio days of *civfl war* in
Europe wis must sro back to the dnrlt
pages. o( iiittqry. No parallel to tiie
A-?nerican jr?r cjttl. be found in merfe dy
nnatic aUu$rgle& or lpcal insurrections.?
This is a deliberate division of A prent
people into tw*> hostile CBnmi. rupIi n?
- >?.? >. V fr- k ' ( " 1 ' Tr-~"
not been seen in.Western Europe since the
4lig^e|t questj(ft)9 of religion nnfl polity
Jirere flrrt -fWMntwll 1* l|ie. half
ipfihls of.. Chose ages.' 'N^Kvtfan^jj}0 pro-^
eeediuga Arherieans, indeed, sustain
.4 io^ggri$9J> wUU tWjinoisj^ contests.
; -? - ?- - ? ? '-* *
w*eo ureriQmngp. lougJit
XftfOfcc iri^^QiUooBtdijf,!
F^g^aSri-"' ?3 i-' *' 1 J* 1 > ? S
for the North, but nothing that we could
sajt would l>e a justification- of ciyil war.?
The anachronism is dreadful. Battles be
tween such combatants, and in such a
cause, will be the most unnatural agd in
credible of conflicts. Er.ep^ enlightened,
self educating, and self-governing /\m.ei;i
<jnijs will bo tlnying each Cher liko lite
*efj-Indians whom they supplanted onlhe
toil?like the very savages whose bores lie
buried under barrows the monuments of
'eiV4l war,' in days when nothing. bet,ter
was known.
It is a mournful thing to reflect upon?
too mournfuJ indeed to allow air)' ipalicious
moralizing. Wo cannot afford to discourse
on the ship-wreck of Democracy, for more
than Democracy is involved in the ruin.
Every appliance and advantage which
could render a community wise, every
institution which wli? reputed, t9 teuder
men prudent has been found utterly in
sufficient to preserve them from even the
worst of follies. Thero is not one of the
much praised institutions of the Union
but appears in this day of trial to be op
erating in a wrong direction. The Amer
icans have comparatively no standing army
and no warlike estimates , but the result
of their usages in this respect is that
every n,an, being a soldier on his own
account, takds naturally to fighting, nnd
that armies-are raised for the most shock
ing of purposes with a celerity that could
hardly he paralleled under the most abso
lute military governments. The Ameri
cans are habituated to self government,
but that onlv renders lh<?m lf??a omnn?l.i?
to control, and communicate the passions
of a popular insurrection the. proceed
ings of a regular campaign. They are
wealthy, but that enables thern-tO support
a war, and the merchants and money
dealers of tlio capital have been foremost
in their apprpval of the President's proc
lamation. They are given to those pur
suits of trade whio.li lio1<1 t?w1ivA?i
from itJens of* strife, but they outstrip nil
the tuitions of the Old World iu warlike
fury. Tliey have no aristocracy to 'de
lude1 thera into w^r, and yet ihey hnve
plunged into war with such a tremendous
alacrity as leaves the scrupulous and drift
ing* policy of European nations fyr behind.
These enlightened D.eixAferiits have sent
across the ocean to purchase fruni us those
very itnjfletnentB and munitions of war
which yfo were revile^ for providing, and
will probably ip'fi 1 fjatripidal
struggle the gre?t ship we have built ag
the mo6t wonderful instruments of com
merce and pence. Resolutions from which*
the QUI World statesmen would rer:
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kuncu 111 . uurror, nave peun proipptly
Adopted by magistrates of a republic.?
Our own great soldier, wjth qll bjs ifon
mind and inflexible will, was fqin to. wy
tliat there was nothing which should not
be done or borne rather than the country
should knew nu ^bur of civil war \ l>qt
president, liincolq and President 'Davis
have closed, abruptly with an alternative at
which tile Duke .of Wellington. stood
aghast. It is tfiis contrast pf position and
practice which renders the proceedings of
the Americans at pnce so allocking and so
incrcdible. Tliose free aiilsMi* of (roa
State?, to wliipl) V.e are bidden tQ lopk
wHb envy fto<Liul)niration,nre resoling to
extremities far more terrible tliftff ' the'
'Xirtst Appenl of Khngs.* They are./om
mencing, not'foreign conquest*, but cam
paigns against countrymen. Tbe i^fnerir
cans may rest assured that England yyopljl
desire nothing so much aa to see tliem once
more united. They come of oqr own'
8tocfcvj(J>ey speak our o.wri jfoflgiingq, (hey
and ojp. to 4bis time,
tlie^nppenfp^ tg ?optiuuinir our na
tionn* grftfldoor. We 'cannot without the
* p*?p?ol.
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P?8r?M&
tracts for Armstrong' guns, and all, otber
warlike stores of tbe r^iost recent invention.
Both parties will como into the markets of
Europe, and will bid for u\en a$d ?bips.
So far as*. pr.i.vntQgri^ yj co^c^ftd,
Spulh vy.ill V.a.X? lV? advantage.
No adventurer would care to. take sar?
vice with ilie North, becnuso there would
be little or no prey. Tbe South has no
commerce, nijd pjodiiod Would b,? car
ried Ifl nguUal. bottoms. TJ'he North, how
ever, lists ships upon every sea, and it a
victim that will pny a plunderer. There
arc silk cnrgos to. be intercepted, in
the Eastern seas, and the treasures of Cali
fornia ar;^ to bo met with afloat. To pro
tect this commerce wijl require no ^a^l
j-v. HX M VI fclio (KnilHUlU KJ IHkLU tJUIKni
Navy ; mid il is therefore not quite certain
that Mr. Lincoln <;nn respond to the re
iterated 'demands of lite merchants of Neif
York to, blockade all the -ppftf 6t the
South."
Looking at thesp matters in A strictly
English, point of viewf our interest is Brat,
if pcssiblo. that this melancholy mpJurfl
should be repaired, apd that either by rer
union- or by amicable separation peace
should bo restored. But if this is iippotg.
Bible, then it becomes our next object that
our cotton supply should not be cut off,
and tbat the market for o\\fi manufactures
in tbo Soutb should not he forcibly shut
ngajyst ys. "With tins view we sbnll.be
compelled tp qpvutini&e the legality of ov^ry
blockade established ypon the Roasts of tjjp
3ecedii?jj State*.
The-Government at Washington has It
self rulieved us from what rpjght otherwise
haye bee;i a grqa^ danger of b^ing pnadj)
ine principal victim 01 una unhappy quaf
rel. At tho treaty, of Paris, England nod
France it w^> proposed that all nations
should renounce thftb.elligrrent right of isau
ing letters of marque. Xhe State?
then refused to join in this convention, and
required for their merchant ships an iroma?
nity from the men-of-wnr, a? well as froin
privateers. If America ba,d -Jtiiep jjoine^J
to make this propp*it\oo an i(ni\^raal Jaw
of nation^, p^iva^erq v?o.u|d noff ftp (iyn
Bidcyed pirates, and the South would be at
tlie mercV of l^e North.
flint proRosftl lytyiqg, Jiowqv&t, beea
rejected! the belligerept parses, bo|d ^eir
ancient rights, and the coaiiQt%sio08 O.f Mr.
President Davis are as good as those of Mr.
President Lincoln. A* to, thft ^plytton of
(he I^ew York ip$rctiapla to treat the pn?,
yateers of the u^rebogni^ed $o\^ as pi
rates, it cannot be maintained* Every
jurist musfhold that, so ^ong aa J?r. Presi
dent D&vis is President of a Confederacy
qf Sovereign States, he lias thj? same fight
to issue Jptte^ of iparque vyhjcfo qpy phief
Magistrate of a Republic either in Uprth of
South V^raericq woqld have.
Evils or Mektai Precocitt.?The
nell's late work*, enti^d 'Haw to Enjoy
Life,*". jpresenU a subject. whicl> should fa* -
understood by parent*and teachera of pter
(so^'io^s children:' ' * ;j|- ' " *
'The prepml?fj& development of raio^
and neglect of body, hays long been prOittir
ncrit flvila in o?r?>1npiilinnttl Tim.
oftep very plpasapt tfUpod- U> ttg
bo?t bright, mtelligenrand with thoir chil
dren are, and ibfrf'often find ?reat satisfac
tion iii showing to olhprs tb^Jjrilliaticy ancj.'
niGiual sprighlliness of t^eur^MtpdiOjp dlk^r
tino'ft. SUtnfi novaiiftft I^aw ??aI.
are doieg*. Ail ibepraiad Uttis1ie& by tacit
pftreptel folly, and fond mints and doling
grand-pfjrep te, snd irrjudicioua friends, ton$
to ibp^ribus in jury Qnd aim oat certairf
destruction of tbeir ^ffifwrcn.-.. Their keet> j
flwhes and cpaiklingfiwifliiciooas are but lhat
i n d icaiie pa- of so everatretehed p?Ujd,
oegtectecK body. Obr wrfny irileni ot
education thus destroy mauy cbHdfen evam
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