The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-15 00:00:00

EUROPEAN INTERVENTION IN

AMERICA.

The following letter appears in the Tames:—
Sir,—As Mr. Roebuck and your well-informed
Liverpool correspondent, " 5.," have concurred in
recommending to the public that the civil war now
raging in the dis-United States of North America
should be extinguished by the immediate interven-
tion of the Powers of Europe, I beg, in opposition
to their recommendation, to be permitted to submit
to your readers the following observations on that
important subject.
For nearly half a century there has existed

throughout England the Christianlike, and, in truth,
I must add the commercial sentiment, that on no
account whatever should we embark with the
United States in a war, in which Great Britain
would have everything to lose and nothing to gain,
more than Cain gained when he rose up and slew
his brother Abel.

Instead of appreciating this fraternal, or rather
paternal feeling, the Americans astutely determined
to turn it, as they turn everything, into dollars ;
and accordingly, firmly relying on Old England's
desire for peace, they continued to make upon
her a series of groundless demands for territories
fisheries, apologies, &c., each ending with the six
stereotyped monosyllables, "We must have this—
or war !" Moreover, they proclaimed it to be their
" destiny," firstly, to obtain for their Washington
Confederation everything on the continent of North
America which, in their own opinion, belonged to
it ; and, secondly, under their Monroe doctrine, to
capture, by force of arms, everything that didn't
belong to it.
Now, when it is considered that the above was
the fixed policy of the 34 United States,—that the
hatred and jealousy especially of the people of the
Northern States against England were implacable,
—that with the will to quarrel with her, or join
with any European nation in quarrelling with her,
they possessed the gigantic powers (lately developed)
of suddenly raising for war 1,500,000 men, and
within a year, say, 300 millions of money, surely we
cannot be too thankful that it has pleased the
Almighty to permit the people of the United States,
not only with their own hands and of their own
accord to break into pieces their own Union,butto
exhaust upon each other the passions and materials
for that furious war which it would have been be-
yond the power of our statesmen to prevent
.thesms
_ewes happine ,
much longer waging against the p
and prosperity of England.
On the bursting out of fearfulthisoo
struggle, it would have beennon md ess f o r fratricidal
England
r to re-unite and re-
to step forward and endeavour
c vitals instead of upon
their own. But,It
excite them to prey hnopon u
gh there were not wanting
.
false philanthropists to advocate this suicidal mea-
sure, it was fortunately
rendered impracticable by
the 23 Northern Statesth.reatening to declare in
nation of Europe that should
stant war against
1
dare to
has nstany
interpose in
. their quarrel.
Under this restriction, which either belligerent
has
a right to impose, it must surely
that the oimple dignified
. course of England to put_
sue is to abstain from interfering in the American
contest, until, under the guidance of Providence,
the cure of a great political public evil shall have
been completely effected.

Mr. Roebuck, a few days ago, in presence of ,his
constituents at Sheffield, stated " that in the ardour
and enthusiasm of his youth he had looked upon
the wondrous fabric which had been raised by the
great heroes of the American Revolution as a
drous effort of human skill—as the millennium of
mankind," yet he honestly confessed "I have lived
to see that all shattered—split asunder—America
divided into two, and I think likely to be divided
into five, and for ever ceasing to be the United
States of America. My first feeling was grief.
MY present feeling is one of rejoicing. I say an
19
irresponsible people, possessed a of irresponsi
people thatbcannotle and
almost omnipotent power,
be trusted." Mr. Roebuck accurately
describes
the fallen condition of his former clients, and yet
he instantly drew from his own pzemiBes
a wrong
conclusion.
No person is more competent than Mr. Roebuck
to assist the proprietor of a large estate in legally
subdividing it in whatever manner he may think
proper to direct. But if Mr. Roebuck were to find
the said proprietor, possessed of irresponsible and
almost omnipotentgi power, to be a man that
not be trusted," could
and if Mr. Roebuck, moreover,
could not inform even his own mind whether the
estate was to be divided “into two parts or into
five," would he not boldly declare to the great man

that the moment for his pro
had not yet arrived ? And if tills be trug\im net '.
grounds could Mr. Roebuck, at S2lofield, in contra- ‘-4
diction to his own assertions, end li.i:S clever speech
by the following appeal :-._,, 1 entrot the noble
lord (Palmerston) to weigh well the 4 sonsequences
i of what he calls ' perfect neutrality.'"
At the present time, as regards the 0. °test ire
question, "perfect neutri.::" - ' -iot only a virtue,
but a necessity, simply because neither t, b'e dis"
United States themselves, nor the nations of E,,irope,
-know the terms upon which the existing strnggle
could possibly be adjusted,
Indeed, at this moment, the people of ,the
feisti
onac_iik.<3re:ll..t,io2l
Northern and Western -States are so ignorant of
fataltraunthd
mupuwstarreduseihs
heir
I:inpdesr.
their own affairs, that in their estimation the va.lue
of their paper and pasteboard bank-notes for a 2..ai' (-
pennytheir amount in sterling gold! in a few weeks the,
that 1
: must
September an invadir, arm • of tax-gatheron
inevitably produce among 3'further 4 sion
g them l3ec ,
with a sweeping repudiation of ail Federal do bts.
Without their fuel—money—the flames of vi ar
must quickly subside. And when defeat, sickness.
desertion, dishonour, disappointment,.
despair, hu-
miliation, and insolvency . shall have conjointly"
created among them an earnest desire that Europe
should condescend to settle for them
principles,
and.
`llllieeshsum Istbloyr
eusnpaebcliea I l
toy
settledetails, a
m whichonamong
themselves,
they
find
ttheycheeollntn
~ are utterly
submit, the hour will have arrived when England,
with dignity and friendly feelings, may consent,
either separately or with other nations of Europe,
to consummate for the dis-United States of North
America a permanent disruption of their Republic.
—1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
fr
Croydon, Aug. 13. F. B. HEAD.

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ARISTO-
C.RACY.

(From the New York Times.)
Two events have occurred recently in England
which are significant of the state of public feeling
toward America. On the annual commemoration
day of the founders of Oxford, the students are i n
the habit, before the usual address is delivered, o.
cheering and hissing the different names of popular
or odious public men as they are proposed. The
name of Garibaldi had been cheered, and that of
Napoleon both cheered and hissed, when .some one
shouted out the name of "Jefferson Davis
r it was
received with tumultuous and unanimous applause.
"President Lincoln" was proposed, and it WA
greeted with hisses and groans.
The other incident to which we alluded was the
public meeting, already described in bur columns,
of the operatives in Manchester—the hard-working,
pinched, hungry masses of men in the cotton end
other manufactures of tEat city. They were called
together to hear a proposal from a member of Par-
liament, that the English Government should inter—
vene in the American civil war—nominally for the
sake of peace, but really to establish the Southern
Confederacy. These men had been the great
sufferers from our war ; their wives and children
them.wo ul d pour
They
were crying vainly at home for bread to feed them,
while all their aristocratic teachers assured them.
they had but to acknowledge the South,
and cotton
inhai
dt s
heard stream
continually
labour
raonm t
d wealth
higherto
classes that the only objects of the North Were
power and territory, and that the South were b,ut
asserting the rights of the declaration of indepea-•
deuce, and struggling for liberty. With these fal-
lacies before them, with hunger and want behind
them, the operatives of Manchester reversed the
whole object of the meeting, rejected the proposition
of Mr. Hopwood, passed a motion, with immense
applause, in favour of preserving the American
Union, and supporting the policy of President

Lincoln.
We would not exaggerate the importance of
either of these events—certainly not of the first.
Still they may be considered as straws on the sur-
face of English opinion. The instinct of portions
of the people has struck through to the essential
character of our civil war. The sons of the aristo-
, canes--these whose fathers and ancestors have be-
come rich and powerful, either by burdens laid on
the people, or by wealth taken from them ; who
dread, beyond all things, the equal elevation of the
masses with themselves, who have the very name
of democracy—these naturally feel for the so-called
aristocrats of America—the nobility of the slave-
pen and the plantation. They feel unconsciously,
or they have heard it at home, that the same
struggle is raging on American soil which has con-
vulsed Europe, and will convulse it again—the
struggle between those who would raise np the
lowest classes to the rights and privileges of
humanity, and those who would depress them for
their own base purposes.
They see well that the stupendous conflict which
is desolating a continent is no causeless and un-
meaning struggle, but is indeed the clashing of
principles ; that this, even as the first French revo-
lution, is essentially a war of democracy against
privilege ; for the rights of man against the immu-
nities of a class. The triumph of the North would
be the triumph of democracy, and they
olu dread A—
very reasonably—almost as they would a revtion
of the British masses themselves. The success of
the South would be the ruin of the Americtm re-
publican experiment, and would throw back the
popular party in Europe for a century, therefore
they pray for it, and cheer its rebellious leader.
The victory of the North would give a shock to
m w
aristocratic privileges in England, frowhich they
would never recover. Reform, popular suffrage, the
abolition of a state church, the elevation of the
working classes, would be, in future, the possible
English results of our success. No wonder that the
boys of the universities shout for a slaveholding
confederacy and the great repudiator.
On the other hand, a portion of the working
classes—those who think for themselves---feel at
once that the national cause in America and. the po-
1 pular cause in England are one. Though
tempo-
rarily we deprive them of bread, with a noblein-
stinct they feel that we are really striking for them
and the rights of mankind against caste and power.
As Mr. Lincoln said in his message, "They know
that the destruction of the American republic,
whatever else it may mean—means no good to the
common people." Whilehoodwinked
an
‘viarmy of the middle
classes are hoodby the aristocracy, or are
blinded by national jealousy and selfishness, not
looking under the surface of events here, and seeing
the real struggle of great ideas beneath party cries
and official
proclamations, the heart of the English
masses discern the truth as by instinct. They see in
the South
ern leaders not merely oppressors of the
negro, but oppressors of mankind.
The victory of
our Government is to them the victory of universal
suffrage, of republicanism, liberty and justice to the
poor—all for which the people have struggled SO
long in Europe. The triumph of the South is, to
their clear vision, the triumph u of a privileged few
—the basest aristocracy every formed,
conspicuous
for ferocity, cruelty, and meanness—grown rich on
the sale of human bodies, and fattened by the blood
of the poor.

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prisoners sri
lebat u 7:, and n
TIIE ALLEGErrilairllaTnßnAiGbaEl BY FEDERAL
(
following version of the shootin(MgiBbB7Fi'e)d
of NlSSOratl.—'
lihwemtdel
appearancee/a.
heard
were arrested.
tbh e SOLDIERS
Iferealralsdogliiivieerssatoef
three unarmed citizens of that state. It will be observed
that the Herald puts altogether a different complexion on
guises taapthrt.raerßemaryenl'ile—elas,
the affair from the reports previously published. The troops
who were emplwoye,e:,:ouonid
ivie'rh e particu-
larsßridge
fo
1.
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fythi
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were shot, near Iffolotewell'
the
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ltd, Abt
witha tPe k i
hheroonttmiuw'lael loe,
, as near as
liwto)ahfi,hiletCieep:asbe:ll3:trintiolotnis,eotml3hf°B:ifrnhdtaweerremsoet'woshmr:ceeriesnire: started
Taking with them
then start'd on
f 'Jose two individuals, the i'9ldiers proceeded
to the house
a the third man, whom they found
three prisoners they
immediately atthei home. with theo
stohoenwasay
twheereshfioretsd
e rush by 't secret foe. As
, ' ko for the
abet, One was
bush. They wereand not
ordered to ' '
obeying the order, the
instantly killed, the they were immediately
other lived but a few minutes, and the
yesterday. The
names one Was left supposed to have been mortally wounded.
The funeral of two of them took place
names of the rebels killed were James Lasley, Joel itidg-
r way) Mid James Frio."

F U N, "

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Programme —l. Air, with variations, in A major, Ad.
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