New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-29
TEE SOUTHERN COSREDEBACY AND
EUROPE.

EUROPE.
If the plans. the policy, and the cardinal
principles of the future Southern Confederacy
NAV be Judged from the tone of its advocates at
the South, and its mouthpieces of the Northern
press. then Slavery extension and free trade with
Africa in slaves are to be its c0rnerstones. Slay-
cry extension signifies the conquest OF Mexico, OF
Central America, Of Cuba, of Hayti, aud other
West India Islands; or in other words, the porma
nent establishment of flhbusterlsn. No gift OF
prophecy is needed to assure us that England
Spain, and France, will unhcsitatingly deal with
such pratical attempts at conquest as England
lately dealt with that arch-agitator, Walker
No gift of prophecy is needed TO iOrcsee that, in
the event of disunion, as the North will have no
direct immediate interest in the Gulf of Mexico,
il will probably become an English aud Spanish
lake. Those two navies, united or single-hJuded,
will be sufficient to nip in the bud any tlllbdster-
ing attempt of the Southern Comederacy; nay,
even to prevent the formation of any navy under
Palmetto or other Southern slave-trading flags.
The slaye.trade is already held as piracy by
moral conviction as well as by legal enactment
in England, and it is not an English characteris-
tic TO recede from a principle once proclaimed
and established. But, according to the Southern
theory, Europe wants their cotton, and therefore
must and will submit to any terms dictated by
the planters. The notion finds rei.her IN history,
nor in political economy, the slightest just hcl-
ton. Leaving out of the question the possibility
that in the course of the next quarter of n CEN
fury, Asia and Africa may produce cotton sutfi-
Gent in quantity and cheap enough in price to
compete with the product OF the Southern States,
We beg leave to remind the future fathers of
the Cotton-Slfe-Federacy of the ,act that
country yielding only single raw product,
whatever may be its value, is rs much under an
unavoidable necessity Of selling as any other
party is of buying. Absolute free trade will pre-
c!ude the possibility of the development of other
branches of industry, even if there were no other
reason for the mpossibity of their existence in
a slayeholding community. The South will be
compelled to sell its cotton TO any buyer who
will come for it; for how otherwise can she sup
port even the feeblest Government? how she
live? how can she clothe or feed either herself
or her slaves
Commercial intercourse between nations does
not necessarily include an absolute political rec
ognition according to thc laws, usages, and Gle
ments Of international rights and inter
national comfy. Commercial intercourse
and relations may easily be regulated
by Consular Agents. Such are the relations OF
Tahiti. the Sandwich Islands Of Madagascar, Of
Al ID.
and even some Of the European Governments.
For centuries the Darbary States were not recOg-
nized nor admitted into the international comfy
of Europe-not because of their Moblnmedan-
ism but because Of their bad fillibustering, kid
mapping, and slaye-tradng habits Nevertheless,
commercial relations existed with them. Consuls
were appointed, although they were mistrustcd
and carefully watched. The conquest Of Algiers
by France originated in a quarrel between the
Dey and her Consul. Turkey, during her past
power was never under the shield of European
international law, but was admitted therein only
by the last treaty of Paris.
We do not know what consideration the dipo-
mats at Washington may give TO the question
nOw agitating the country, nor do We much care.
Diplomats are not always the true thermometers
of the real feelings and sensbility of their nations,
nor even Of the intentions of their respective Gov
ernments. But we know that the feelings OF all
England-natiOn, Queen, aud Ministers--On Say-
cry are such as to justify the emphatic assertion
that, though she may buy Southern cotton and
sell goods 10 the future confederation she never
theess will not take fbustering and slave
trading nation by the hand az an equal. The
same may be said as To the national feeling of
France. Two years ago. the Emperor, the Pre-
feet Of the City of Paris, and the National
Guards, congratulated and ieasted twO Haytian
youths who had Won the hon0rs in one of the public
schools in Paris. Russia, emerging nobly from
the barbarOus condition Of cnslaying labor aud
labOrcrs, viii not reach IFS hand 10 a State founded
expressly on "A system which the Russian nation
and Car have just pronounced a curse. No Rus
sian, whether high or low, il so foolish as to assert
that the African is predestned to Slavery.
Pushkne, the greatest Russian poet, spoke with
pride of the African blood mixed in his veins.
Germany, whose intellectual end scientific mind
towers over all other nations, aud nurses them
with it's inexbaustible iountains-Germany con-
demns Slavery, white or black, on moral, social,
aud scientific grounds through her hosts of poets,