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Show 7G HOElluOK. cure impeirtant rb:ht~, which nL\.Y ·be resp~ctecl bcre:1.ftcr, 1> :'ran."-.' e \\'C cn•l ''",,' l'C·, tcly to <lC'fC11(l them With the SWOJ"ll. If Yirdnia ntlllcres t.o the Union the States w!1iclt haveR> ce led 7nny, under her ex:ttnplc a.ml mediation, return to it1 aml there mn.y be n. peace honorable to all. . . ,, Tllat the war, if prosecuted .to extrenuty, will result in our subj ug,1t.ion, a.ppcm·s to my mind painfully ccrt<tin. 'The fin·htiJlO' })Ol)Ul:l.lion or the Nortll is n.s three to one of our ow0 n n.t. 0 the l>eginnin~, and witll every hour o f wnr tlll'S . disparity will be widened. Emigration from Europe wilt r eplenbh tllc North. All tllC adventurers, paupers :l11d VttfTttlJom1s or tllc Ohl 'Vorl(l can be hired to fight aga,iJBt us~ C<tsualties and the curtailment of our territory uy in· vasion, will diminisll out· numbers and no foreign supply will r estore them. \V c shall lose Del a ware, ~:Iaryland, Kentucky and :Missou ri certainly. \Var is iu a large measure a work of money and machines. The North llas b oth. \Ve have neither. The N ortll can soon set afloat au unequalled navy. Tile aouth can have none. Commerce will continue to enrich our enemies. \V e shall be cut off from all the world beyond our own shores. The li',..;tlcral government has uulJol1nclecl credit. Oar government mus~ establish itself before it can enjoy the crcLlit tbrougll wl1ich it should be established. Our vast rivers will di vitle our power and aclmit the forces of the enemy into the heart of • our territory. 'Vith a population thinly scattered over nn immease n.rea, we have no adequate means of conccntmting our wealth, onr men or onr policy. Natur;t.l and artificial means of concentration, the most varictl aml complete, wJll be in posses-ion of the enemy aucl despotism will COUCC!l· tn\.te their policy. \V e must cot r ely upon dissensions in the North. Politicians there have encouraged us to rcsi t., and h:we tle· clarcd that the nnuy which marctes to conquer ns musl first pass over the corpses of themselves and tlleil' partisans. Tru ·t them not. \Vhcn war r;tO'CS we shall not have a 0 corporal's gu:1nl of tlcterminecl fricnLls iu that country. Yon will sec that even so b:1hl a pretext as tllat tbe Soutll lla~ fired the first gun, so shallow l.l. trick as tllat whicll drew .. ROEBUCK. 77 th~ fire of Confederate lm.ttcrics on Fort Sumtc;-, will consolJclato the ~orthern populn.cc in furious support of the wnr.. The North is cliviclcd into tn·o part ies, trnculC'nt n ,_ pn bl Jeans ancl 1 nwkling D emerrats. No party there will ur.t npon the obvious tru~h, th:1t when liberty i~ nttrrckecl wuh the sword it can be defen:lccl only with the sword A ftcr it shnJl be lost, throngh their ;icl o1· n.pathy, ~om~ Nm:tlwrn men mny solicit your n.ssistanc r.- to rcscne it from nn 1:·on tyranny by windy speeches and ineffectual votes. Tiut 111 the real Struggle ) ' Oll will S(n.nd alone. "_Expect no nitl from Europe. Imagine not that cotton Is kmg, or that the nccrssi~ics of commerce will brino- England. or France or n.ny olher power to jntervenc f~~· our lle nci1t. Int frvcntion must ue wnr, or it must be futile. The old nntiong, taug ht by exper ience, dread war antl v alue pc:1CC'. EngHsh cotton mannf:tcln rers, having (~xc cssivc stc:cks on llancl, nrc now in a con clition to be sa.ve<l from nurt by any event that will in terrupt the exporln.tion of cotton from this coun try fot· the n ext three year.. E n(rlisJ1 commerce will flonri h by any war in which England t~tk cs no pnrt. Eng!Lh policy <lcmnnds the abolition of ·lavery nnd the conscqncnt abridgement of the cotton culture on this rontinent-cntls to be accompli:;hcd by the triumph of tl1c North. Though a c1ivi ion of the Uuion may he <lesir~ ulc to her, ns reducing a formidable power, yet the i:::pover~ sl11ncnt of t.hc South l>y war and the n ecessity of cmployI~ g Northern force to keep a conqueretl people in subjectiOn, mny be deemed allllost nn cqnivalcnt. Engbncl will stand aloof, and wiLhout Iler, no ot.ller power will interfere. "I will not nttempt to n.ppnl you by depi cting the lwrrm ·s of war. I t is not to cowardice that I wot!l tl ap')"'tl uut, to " 'iStlom. Indeed I wonld invoke yon to w~I~O l:l~ n~l the e\·ih; of th.<" .m o~t lvrrihle war, if through them y ou ctn l1e assu red ol md ' IJl' tHl encc of the Nor!.lt. D nt we should nnd e rs!.i~lh l, in :Hhnner, th ·tL this war wi ll prdl..ul>ly be wngetl ng:u: st ns w the nwst atrocious spirit. 'l'llu Fecle_ral govcrllm ,·nl, treating U.:l as rebel.:.;, will deny to us tlle ngllts of war n.:.J 'l the rights of humanity. T heir hos- .. |