New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-07
WAR sPEcULAT1oNs.

| The London Times Acknowledges that in the wars
with the first Napoleon the suspension of Englands
maritime commercial supremacy would have ssealed
her ruin" disaster which could have been com
passed by the formation Of European combination
that would have excluded her ships from every port
But this was not effected the profits of her enormous
trade continued to pour into her Golfers and she was
enabled to tire out her enemies in every struggle.
But now things are changed and the supremacy of
the French naval force could almost entirely check
the commerce of England, were it dependent on Eng.
sh ships, and starve the Island Kingdom within its
own ocean walls. The Times allows this humiliatng
as the acknowledgment may be, but nevertheless
contends that under no conceivable circumstances
could the commerce Of England be seriously disturbed
thanks to the point definitely setted-the doctrine
accepted during the Russian war and confirmed by
the Paris Congress, to-wt: that " free ships make
free cargoes.D
Under this ruling principle, the Times argues the
business of British commerce would be conducted by
the United States when it no longer could be by her
and the interchange Of goods would go on with nearly
as much steadiness as ever, even if the whole of
Europe were arrayed against England. American
ships. under their neutral flags would bring into the
Kingdom cotton. corn and all other staples and, in
turn, distribute its manufactures over the world and
thus it would go buying and selling through this
neutral agency, and making money, while the enemy
would be suffering every exhaustion consequent on
the condition of war.
The Times entertains yet more decided and inter.
esting views of the community into which English
and American interests would be forced, asserting
that in the event of the Powers attempting to inter
rupt this AmericanEnglish trade by dsregardng the
great modern principle of warfare-that free ships
make free cargoes-they would do so at the peril of
immediate war with the United States, for the mo-
ment this international understanding should be vio |
lated by interference with an American ship, unless
running the blockade of English port, the causa
beli would be of character requiring an instant de-
mand for satisaction-woud be question of offense
so potent that the Government at Washington could
not set aside hardly pause for its discussion. Then
would England and the United States be allied DOW.
ers. .Nn.
It sounds a little odd to hear the independent and
Numbering Times talking about the protection to
be afforded by the United States Government to the
commerce of Britannia" which j" rules the wayes,n
Ind is Queen of the Ocean,, according to the song
hat has been echoing over the waters of the whole
world these hundred years. But the audacious Brit
sh lion has big scare" on him just now, caused.
= 'AAS uiASS"s'iuSty othtcs, Wy dreams
which Napoleon nourishes of fulfilling to the letter
he traditions of the first Empire to the end of form
ng coalition to shut out and destroy the commerce
If Great Britain
Thus does the best informed the most sagacious.
authoritative and at the time illberally national
# Journals the London Times, the very voice of the
British people nation, contemplate the ominous
spect of European affairs, and recognizing the por
entous and dangerous phase which they have as.
umed and the fact that Great Britain is ruled out of
he family Of transatlantic powers look across the
cean to America for countenance and eventual aid
'hen the crisis shall come--not the aid of armed
,rce SO much as the mighty leverage of commerce
7hich we can command; a lever with which, like
hat which existed in the mathematical calculation of
Irchimedes, we can move the world To fantasti.
ally carry out the figure, might say that England
upplies what the Syracusan mathematician wanted
nd that the lever, braced across the sustaining full
rum OF her armed force, the commerce and trade in.
uence and strength exerted at this end would enable
ne combined enginery of vital interest and material
orce to pry out the despot power of Europe by the
cots, and bring her to any terms of submission.
The Arizonan, published at Tubac, Arizona, con.
AIMS the proceedings of meeting at Arizona city.
expressing strong disapprobation at the course MIR.
aed BY Congress towards Arizona, and urgently re.
nesting cooperation throughout the territory to
stablish and maintain an independent government
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