FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83  
84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   >>   >|  
up slavery if the growing prosperity of the South should require it; their emissaries abroad in every _salon_ have been vowing that manumission of their slaves would soon follow recognition; and it was their rage at failure after such wretched abasement and unprincipled inconsistency which, very naturally, provoked the present ire of the South against England and France. They, the proud, chivalrous Southrons, who had daringly rushed to battle as slave lords, after eating abundant dirt as prospective Abolitionists, after promising any thing and every thing for a recognition, received the cold shoulder. No wonder that ill-will to England is openly avowed by the Richmond press as one of the reasons for burning the cotton as the Northern armies advance. The only basis of peace with the North, as the South declares, is Disunion; and they do most certainly mean it. No giving up the slave question, no enforcing of fugitive slave laws; no, not the hanging of Messrs. Garrison and Phillips, or any other punishment of all Emancipationists--as clamored for by thousands of trembling cowards--would be of any avail. It is disunion or nothing--and disunion they can not have. There shall be no disunion, no settlement of any thing on _any_ basis but the Union. Richmond papers, after the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, proposed peace and separation. They do not know us. The North was never so determined to push on as now; never so eager for battle or for sacrifices. If the South is in earnest, so are we; if they have deaths to avenge, so have we; if they cry for war to the knife, so surely as God lives they can have it in full measure. For thirty years the blazing straw of Southern insult has been heaped on the Northern steel; and now that the latter is red-hot, it shall scorch and sear ere it cools, and they who heated it shall feel it. We may as well make up our minds to it first as last, that we must at every effort and at _any_ cost, conquer this rebellion. There is no alternative. This done, the great question which remains to settle, is, how shall we manage the conquered provinces? There are fearful obstacles in the way; great difficulties, such as no one has as yet calmly realized; difficulties at home and abroad. We have a fierce and discontented population to keep under; increased expenses in every department of government; but it is needless to sum them up. The first and most apparent difficulty is that involved in the form of
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83  
84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

battle

 

disunion

 

Northern

 

question

 

Richmond

 

England

 
difficulties
 

recognition

 

abroad

 

determined


earnest

 

heaped

 
sacrifices
 

deaths

 

scorch

 

surely

 

thirty

 
insult
 
avenge
 

Southern


blazing

 
measure
 

effort

 
fierce
 
discontented
 

population

 

realized

 

calmly

 
fearful
 

obstacles


increased

 

apparent

 

difficulty

 

involved

 

expenses

 

department

 

government

 

needless

 

provinces

 
conquered

heated

 
remains
 

settle

 

manage

 
conquer
 

rebellion

 

alternative

 

Phillips

 
Southrons
 

daringly