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I (1 i HI 111 til illll I. a t4 ,, III 11 THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS THE GUARDIANS OF OUR LIBERTY Vol. XLIV. HILLSBOROUGH N. C, OCTOBER 7, 1863. No. 2215. ENGLISH OPINION. Secretary Seward iitu ill., a long diplomatic circt announcing tht speedy d the work. A single battle tautht them tht a ' .u Hi extent of this miscalculation; and though im lo i lh7liI1 limited the tine to ninety daye." Ct rii r ' "J Pndd the armament to 700.000 wniail ol the re- .u:.r- tl. nn aia ... .k.. , . fc r " . - - ...-.. f WV.VW W.W .1 If DIUIC lll.ll Sc....., ...B .... v.r ... ,h, 70,000-in faet. thej were defeated in successful resistance... &e.;all tone osea lhe Ea(tf 1Ild 8fen, m,Jehed in the Wtgt. aoro.y t ... j-r. .w,m " All that can be s.id at this moment of Mnuorijienenenioi lanaeeuem anaine Nrthtrn uit.tibB i ,u.t th. F,derila mjury or the Lou ederacy. 'Its purport toktt tw, Uce lhe Mississippi ud its effect abroad m.y be gathered from ,fter tl , thre; Um ted:ou, Mfs me leiiewwg Diiiiin comments costljr as they were expected to be, and that they nave net had their own capital eccu pied of ike enemy, as seemed highly pro bible two moiths ago. Mr. Seward, while coloring his history as favorable as he can, is compelled to talk of drawn battles as ... . ..... - I . ... . . England and France hating conceited lt creatraoie io ine reueraiarms; an the beginning or the American war a belief "7 P'P" wn,cn " ueaignea io snow P ..... Ilk ..l ...kl .....J.... .flL. ft! . . L that the restoration of the Union was t ' u'? ''"V" from the Loodaa Tinwa, Sept 4th. if r. Seward'o diplomatic circular, which ve published yesterday, consists of a pro- position, an argument, and an application. Ilia proposition is that the statesmen ol impossibility, persist io that belief to the tteVV V "enn8 present bour. His argument resoltea ii- " capital," and the absolute equality elf into a long narrative of the campaigns of the belligerent forcee in its immediate ilk last twelve months, and this histuri- v,',.?,tf ... . .. . k r..mnt.Jirin i tk... .nf.l..l t. th, rar. ra'R" some purpose in Mr. pose of correcting the prevailing belief. S'"' present epsity.r. if either we in ' i : ... : .l. iv..... d ... I inn counirv or me Americans in me red aau lfwicinr i lie iwf mcikiu vciii . .. . . mere lavoraoie to thelv '-" jrBifjing nk ramirluinl Federal cause. In its object this btate !ilr M V111' "th'-,bU ,ht Vr r is certainly intelligible. Mr. Se- ""7 10 pnwrtctecr on eventermsior a long series m years, i nit, nowf ver, was and we are therefore not paper is certainly mieiiie ward is perfectly accurate in his presnmp tion that the Statesmen of Frnce and Korlaod he might hVe included, indeed, tto f the rest of Eurvpe do connider to this very day that the old American Union can never be reconstructed. It is natural. not the case, much im pressed with the moderate balance of success which Mr. Seward cla'ms for his vn side In point of fact, taking one field with another, the South has had ... .... . , . r . . . too, tl.at he should be desirous of removing g'ier snare Vfc!"r7 ,nf P9n?' 1 thm irriaifitt mhith l.t i""'J K'"P'iin"rT, ecu, wai io i molovs for this nurnose is both ineSect. ' nnng-ine war io a rioae or we f . .. .. this rvsvictioa, but its an - r . i k i . h ..llfc-.n,dl.. ,r.n.. .11 capiore oi me ionaern capuai. cveo ow lira. i,re is or an accounii more la krrrhand tlrrt ttarticl af Lis klu I ry, and.ioetTectivebecause.ete.il we ic ''kf7 " c ept it eiactly as it is presented to us, it l"a lhoM,8,, V t hear thsnhe leaves our conclosUns just what they were. J'"'" re preparing immed.ately to in- Tk. iK. r.un..i .k. i.r.r.n de the lerntrie s of the Cnftdertes, we gives not the slights st sign of concession, ...L:i. L.. 7.. wnue even me lonunes oi me war are not, upon the whole, very unevenly balanced. Not, therefore, without reason do we per sist in our original opinions on the iibject nut though Mr. Seward has thus lost his pains, we can console him with the assu rance that, so far as we are concerned, they were needlessly expended. If his object was merely to deter us from inter vention, it is safe in spite of the failure of mis srcumeei. in me "oomesiic contro versies," which have cost upwards of 500, 000 lives and at least Ave hundred millions of money in two years, we have not the leant design of iaterfering. The " adjust ment ' of these little mattera we are ready to leave to Americans themselves as ."ei closivelv" as Mr. Seward can desire: and if we aui another remark open a point so certain, it is merely to suggest that people who thus busy themselves even superfluous ly in deprecating our intervention, might be a Jittle less forward in threatening ns with the extremities which would drive ns to intervene. war has taken utoy surprue. rviien e Crat arrived at the conclusion that the Swuih could never be coerced into reuniup at the point of the award we still anticipit d hear that the Confederates way be ex pected at ant moiorfit in the country of the rederals. I his u not much of a case for a Power pretendiag to distinctly to supe- . I rl&rif ma I to. ti i ikal lh ksesrtnp til of prompt roHMary aucceis on the put ol I ... . "7 ' the North. Tteinlt reserve affecting our bellifsrent u scc.rded to its rival. On jodgnjeat was a do.bt ab.mt the earte.t- hlt IT01 ,nC?l l Mr oe.; and unanimity of the South in claim- J"- ""'r"". ing independence: That condition being c-ment. of the vtfenjth the i.u.bers.and satisfied, we ennsidered that though t went 1 b"r'D5 f t .i.f.iK?rate arm.es, and m.lUons of men were certa.nl v atroner'r then sayif the South be not entitled te the rrftirtlv .IrnHiri than nine millions, they were not so much rr,,n'1 " " ... 1 . r.l ( .hA httff. .1 A nfi.lim mm w mmrl strooger as to have aoy chance of lubjoiat- , "r ,7 " iog these nine millions, di.persed a. ttey Secret.rvu .ct.llj compelled to expatt- ereever an almost illimitable territory. te tBe ideaticsl -ual.t.es of the con- Wo hardly doubted the immediate superi- ,end,B, farc'" dt!,-J lh ..riki v..,k .. .t.. .u n,. em soldiers ere then proved, for the first 1'iiiv vi ssow i aaawaiavisaviioB lamss.cssvesjei exiectatiea of Englishmen was that the ?isih would soon be overrun, that its sea porta wnuld be all captured snd occupied. and that stroog fediTal garnoons would hold its chief towns. In shoit, w antici pated that the first sis months, or at any time, to be not interior in heroism and valor. Practically, then, the very tut and es sence of Mr. Reward's argument is fatal to its object. If all istruethst he tells ut that ail is infinitely short of what e ware rate the first tear of the war. would see the nrepared to take for granted two years ago. prostration of the Cenfederatee thus far without being any the more anguine of completed but it wss then that we thought .Northern succm. We thought the Ivorth the honeteMnes of the work would beiia would overrun the South iu a brief cam- to be felt. I PS" hat would then find the difficulties If at that time we could have forecen begin. Mr. Seward tells us that after to that the successes of the North alter more years of mortal sirutgle the North has not than two years of deperate fighiiftg would overrun a quarter of the South having the amount only to the achievements nw re- rl difficulty still in prospect as belore. counted with so much comolicencv bv Mr. We only conclude from this that the Fed- Seward, we should have thoaht the tak of era's hive . not even that superiority for the Washington Gerniufit more imprae which we gae them credit ; and that the a:l.t ikak o. a.a.. 1 J A ol. fsstatifal tenetls akfnli f nsi f Ai1r tisi it bv 1 iVsl vie nelosx'?;i r iiuiuiC v lU I'lli w i v o unjoin vi wv vvww - 1 Mr. Seward himself would ha been very o much the grratrr. If Mr. Sewerd real' n.urh of the same opinion. Wc think it h w'uhra to make converts of French and mat be saiJ with seme truth, that if the Knslbh statesmen, he mnt adopt a very Federal Goverament had, at the beginning Jdiftvrcnt form of argument. He must show h the year irtbl, Urescen that in the mid jus euner mat tne soutn is evincing a rea. e of the tear I8G3 the swredinjr States d.ness to yield, or that the North baa a pol Id still be free, Richmond and Charles- icy hicia will admit of the restoration 0! Wavhinctcn io some lit I the Union without this submisfiua. Bui . . . . It . l ...... 1 r .1 r .u. tun ..f .ad tie danger, the war would never have been I be shows neither of these things. On the ndertaken at all. That Mr. St war J, at contrary, he tells us that the Southern thia period of the strife, should be reduced President has just proclaimed a levy en toeing a piean ever the deliverance of the umm, while of his own Government he Nertb from the invtsieo of a Southern ar- says nothing, exsrpt that It is preparing to my, is about the strongest possible proof of prosecnte the war aa before. Rut what is the hopelessness of his cause. to be the end ? Europe thinks that the re The Federals thought to sweep the South- construction of the Union by force of arms rn Stites with their irresistible forces. in itapossibility, and a very great num. At first the? actually imagined that three her or Americans are of the same opiaioa. months and fO.OOO men would suffice lor Europe also tees distinctly that the ffeuth Fram the Richmond Dipttch. A SIGNIFICANT PAMPHLET. One of these pamphlets which so often precede the consummation of a contem plated measure by the Emperor ot the French has lately made its appearance in Paris, and has thrown the correspondent of the London News into a fever of apprehen sion. The wrher is M. Chevalier, well knowa in literary and political circles as sn author of great power. The correspon dent has no doubt that the pamphlet is in spired by the Emperor, from the fact that it is in perfect harmony with the " known leaning" of that Monarch. In its general sropc it argues that Mexico will be of in- inite value to trance, and mat the expect ed value is only to be realized by an early recognition aod intimate alliance with the Confederate States. The Southern cause s pleaded with so much fervor, and the in stitution of slavery defended with so much r a. . a ingenuity, that the corretponuent oi the News thinks Mr. Midell himself could not have doae it better. At the same lime, he thinks Mr. S. would net have urged the overthrew of the Monroe doctrine, (in which, we take if, he is much mistaken,) or made ssch a preachment about the Latin races. The pamphlet says the present condition of Mexico is the personal work of Napoleon : lor while everybody lse was . . . - ... considering the expedition as a mete mill- tary affair, he had already setuea, in nis owe mind, 'tne oasis 01 an entirely new policy." The imperial instructions to Geo. V. . . !i r 11 ! ;c rorey rontainru tne louowiog very aigaiu cast sentence: la the oreol ototo of civiliutian the protperity f America i not iodiftreut U Europe j for it it America which foJa oui msoufactctw and com- ... . . . 1 : .t. J mere. Him inierritre 10 evu iu unitea Walra powerful tod prtrae but U i oot far our inteml that be noull gf l poMMtian m me rnmc Gulf of Me tico. and fram tht bam of oparaiiaat domioMr or Iba Aoiillas and the Couth, and be- eoiofibe aola di-pennlor of the producia of the Aew vTorld." France is not only determined to resist tle absorption ol 0Uln oy .vurni aiucnca, but she will support the Lstin races in the Weaiern llem'nliere. Forey'a expedition is to be followed by an "army of mer rhanta." and the recosnitioii of the Con- rl.r.t stat. a will be the consequence of lit titri fnliln. " The fine climate of Mexico, its unrivslled fertility, the variety and exuberance of its productions, are ttr onnn with soinethiog very like rap ture. Universal suffrage is recommended, n the pround that, in Mexico, the PUbs are the friends ol order, while the upper or aristocratic classes are the worst ntcntsis Emigration on a large scale, under French protection, is also recommended. XS hither Maximil'mo accepts or nor, emigrants wu k fir.ir(d bv French influence. So far, so well. But thera U one idea broached is the pampniei wnicn we wisa tm kn'nif nrominentlr beforo the public. After intimating that the leaders of the rn!titian would be 4iuo ready to yield its leading principle (slavery,) in reference to France, tno psmpawi s;s - tun urs power which recognizes the Confederats States will have a right to obtain, in faver ot nrgroes, much larger concessions than the Federal States would make in case of their restoring the Union by victory' It is as well to put a stop to all calculations of this character at once. If Napoleon means to interfere with the naestion .r slavery in anjr way whatever, or to tsk anything else in consideration of recogni tion, we can have nothing to do with entitled to it from every nation on earth, and we will pay nothing for it. We would as a gratuity, give France great advanta ges in trade for a term of years; bat w will never submit to have the rams ot Nice played open us., The pamphlet goes on to say that a soon as France recognizes nsall the other States and finally England-that oar force will b qu.ntup ed by the adhesion of Austria on Maximilian's scconnt. ofSnain on of Cuba, and lastlr it speaks of the French f P0,rea' trgumenf to dissnads the North from prnsecutimr th . arther. There can be little doubt that this pam phlet is one of the Emperor'a feelers. Ic cenainiy indicates an early recognition, If we are to judge of people's intentions br Whatever may be the issuer-whether the pamphlet prove to be the verhahU rrn- gramme of the Hrench Emperor or not it is certain inai me I an tees are very mucb, alarmed. Already they have invented a tnrf fk.f ff Rll.l.ll k. .B-.. J .vi j .. 1 uas uucrcil lexaS as a bribe to Fraace to seqire her recognition, as if Mr. SlidellV anybody else had ths right to make any such offer, and as if ths Emperor does not know that be has no such right, tacn Mate beyond the Mississippi is sovereign -and independent is a natum in itself and" can break off from this' Con federacy and form any sort of connection with France or aoj other power it mar think proper. This is the theorj of ur Constitution the very groundwork of our revolution. But neither Mr. Slidell nor the Confederate Governraent.Jiorany other power on earth, save the people of thoss States in convention assembled, can trans fer them to any other power. For these Mates tnemselves, it is proper to say that they evince notihe least disposition to separate from us. On the contrary, at the late convention of their Governors, those high officers representing their opinions and wishes, declared their firm resolution to sink or swim with their sister States on the east of the Mississippi. This Yankee story, therefore, is simply a Yankee lie. anu neming more or less.. , Doos. The Virginia Legislature is con. sidering a plan to increase the supplr of leather aud reduce the price. A practical tanner has furnhhed one of the members' with information in regard to the value of dat tie i a a and tmr mi I If. ..... .L.. p v... ma j 1 lull mum of the most valuable oils for dressing feath er is the ntaji footer cow-foot oil, and from experience he regards the oil extracted from the carcass of the dog as equal in ouality lo the cow-foit oil. He also save that dog-skins make first rate ladies' ahoaa and gentlemen's summer boots. From a medium sized dog nearlr one and a ball galluns of oil can be extracted, and the green skins are worth about eight dollars. Besides this, the carcasses, will afford s valuable ingredient to the nitrt beds of the government. It is estimated that there are oiu.wuu uogs in tne state or Virginia, which, if turned into oil and leather, at present prices, weald produce the hand some sum of thirty millions of dollars, to say nothing of the saviog of bread aod neat now consumed by then thousands of worth less animals. Now, who is not in faver of squeezing all the dogs into oil and tanning their hides for leather? There are as maaf doss in North Carolina as in Virginia, aad, apart from the oil anJ le.ther, tleir destruction would prove a great public benefit- Fur our own part we confess that we are an en my tt dogi of all kinds. . cWfcs Drr.
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