Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-03-19
From the Savannah News.


SeIf-Preservation.
1t has long been the settled policy of the United
States not to interfere with the external and inter
nal dissensions which have been raging in Europe
for SO many years; and we may even assert that it
has proved beneficial to her interest at home as well
as abroad Yet, by the natural succession of events
we will soon be compelled to change our political
course and to accept boldly the challenge given to
all democratic commonwealth by the confessed des-
pots of the Old World. We do not pretend to say
that our Government will proclaim itself the cham
pion of republicanism declare war against the Eu-
ropean potenates and send to the other bank of the
Atlantic, soldiers sailors, and money to enforce
alone the Law of Nations, so shamefully violated
we merely apprehend that armed Intervention will
be forced on u.s. by the probable invasion of ngand
1t may not be our interest to interfere at the pres
ent day, in favor of Hungary or italy, but is obv
Gus that the United States cannot permit European
coalition to attack Great Britain, without taking
part in the contest.
England is essential to and are essential to
her, both morally and physically, and if she falls in
the struggle the blow will rebound and he felt in
our orum we'll as in our fields We are power
full it is truc-a wide ocean secures against for
eign invasion We have nothing to fear from warlke
neighbors the valley of the Mississippi is fertile
enough to furnish food for the whole world and the
factories of the North may supply our markets with
all the necessary goods required for American con-
sumption but our prosperity is not derived either
from the printed stus of Massachusetts. or the
| OF the ONO. we owe the riches OF North America
only the staples of the Southern States On the 9TH
err hand the source of English wealth does not spring
so much from India as from Manchester and Blr-
mngham. This is so true that the value of cotton
manufactures annually exported from Britain, is up
wards of che hundred millions of dolars-in weight
$50 millions of pounds Of the staple, and the
poratOn in calicOes, measured by yards. is more
than Mrty times the great circle of the terrestrial
globe-whlst the export Of all the various manufac
lures, cotton included, amounts in official value
ly to about 81 millions of pounds sterling. We may
safely say the British looms support the commerce
and nourish the greatest part of the dense popula
ton of England. Our products set her factories in
motion. and the world returns in specie what it re-
ceieves in comfort and calico Consequently, If
Great Britain cannot find market for her manufac-
lures she will not buy the Northern city will not
export, and our Southern States will not sell our
cotton.
Europe makes use of cotton not through necessi
ty, but because it is cheap. In great many coun-
tries they mostly employ linen for clothing. and in
some our justly praised GossYium is not even known
1t be found in all large Cities but in the agr-
cultural districts of France, Germany, Spain and
Italy, they generally prefer hemp, wool ard silk
Most of the immigrants we meet on our wharves are
dressed in broadcloth and linen.
A great many European factories tributaries
of the United States, but the manufacturing of cot
ton is not the essential condition of their existence.
France manufactures silks mousseline de LANES and
broadcloth Germany and Switzerland linen, wool
the numerous articles for which all these countries
are justly celebrated Sugar is cultivated in France
and Belgium with great success; coffee is the only
American produce without which the Europeans
cannot absolutely d. and we do not raise it our
soil 1t necessarily follows that the European
tons the continent would not suffer much from
the prohibition of certain goods as the Eng sh or
Americans
Should France invade England, without any other
material aid Of the despoc powers it is certain that
she would be seconded with a continental blockade
from the Cattegat to the Dardaneles. The British
feet would make probably an opening in the North
ern and Southern Straits burn of the import
ant seaports of Europe but she could not thus open
an extensive outlet for her manufactures, because
the En- glsh sailors would find outside of the walls,
strong armies backed by multitude of custom-house
officers ready to enforce the DEGREES issued by their
sovereign But. if England is sustained by the U.
States the combined fleets of these two mighty COM
monwealths would make such havoc both at sea
and on land, that they would bring the to
a close.
The facility with which England can be invaded
at the present day, would not be of mmedi-
ate submission persons are inclined to be
lieve. The French may occupy the important cities
south of the Thames even London, Oxford and Bris
toll but this could achieve the conquest of Albion
The English would transfer to Scotland the seat OF
Government, and establish it in those inaccessible
mountains until levy in of the people should
have destroyed the invading army doomed to ruin in
the British Isles by the destruction of the fleet that
o had brought them across the channel. This how
ever cannot be accomplished unless we gloriously
unfurl the European shore the star-spangled ban
ner of the American Republic.
Free nations, when they struggle for their liberty
their affairs, and their homes, capable Of the ut
most heroism and the English, the only free people
in the Old World, would certainly resort to this he
roc means of saving glorious freedom, rendered
g still dearer to them by centuries of unblemisheC
prosperity. H.