The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-13

iB, that ministers can expound anu ue-
fend their own measures when proposed as
bills to Congress. A Cabinet is thus made
more directly responsible to Congress A third
Improvement is, that the executive appoint
.ments. under the grade Of Cabinet officers, are
to hold Office during good behaviour, and to
be removed only for cause assigned in writing.
This is the greatest Improvement OF all, and is
also judiciously initiated from the practice of
the English government.
Recognition OF the Southern Confsderacy
by European Powers.
We publish in another column Of to-day's
paper significant article from the Paris Pays
upon the subject of the crisis through which
our country is passing. 1t proves that large
portion Of European sympathy is given to the
Withdrawing States of the Union and not to
the North. 1t indicates the course that is likely
to be pursued by England and France, when
the "new confederation shall be knocking at
the doors of Europe, demanding the recogni-
ton of it's independence, and claiming place
among the nations of the globe" Hints have
already been given by Lord Lyons, and the
French Minister at Washington, that no block
ade Of Southern ports would be recognized by
their respective governments, and that free
dom of commercial intercourse must not be
impeded by any act of the national administra-
ton. The press of England, France and the
Continent now 60 farther. They begin to per-
ceive the folly and madness of the abolition
party which is destroying our prosperity, and
TO treat it as it deserves. "The Southern con-
federacy," says the Pays, " is destined to be-
come natural ally, capable, if need be, of
giving to Europe, if circumstances should ever
require it, a powerful aid in exchange for a
simple recognition, which will very probably
suffice to keep the fanaticism Of the North in
check and preserve from almost certain de-
struction the Southern marts, which Europe
could not do without just now"
Selfinterest is q powerful enlightener, and
our Paris contemporary may well exclaim-
.sWe no longer live in an age, when 1t can be
declared from the tribune, Perish the colonies
rather than q principle" Entertaining the
closest relations, as England and France
do with Brazil and Spanish colonies,
which owe their prosperity to slavery, it
would be suicidal indeed to refuse the cot
ton which gives food to nearly eight millions
of the people Of the two countries, even if it
were the product Of q labor system of which
1t disapproves. 1t is beginning to be doubtful,
however, whether great numbers of the more
enlightened minds abroad, do not regard Afri-
can slavery as a benefcent institution. The
Pays decides emphatically that the morality of
the slave population is higher than that of the
free blacks of the North; that their condition
is preferable to that of agricultural laborers
in many parts of, Europe; and that the South
has industriously labored to promote the civil
cation of those they hold in bondage. Respect
ing the influence of the system upon owners Of
such property 1t says:-"In no part, perhaps,
of the continent, regard being had to the popu-
lation, do there exist men more eminent and
gifted, with nobler or more generous senti-
ments, than in the Southern States. No coun-
try possesses lovelier, kinder hearted and more
distinguished women. To commence with the
Immortal Washington, the list of statesmen who
have taken part in the government of the
United States shows that all those who have
shed lustre ON the country and won the adj
miration of Europe owed their being to that
much abused South. And-strange coinci-
dence-while Southern men presided over the
destinies of the Union its gigantic prosperity
was the establishment of the world. In the
hands of Northern men that edifce, raised with
30 much care and labor by their predecessors,
comes crashing down, threatening to carry with
in its fall the industrial future of every other
nation"
The conclusion to be drawn from these en-
phatic sentences is inevitable. "Let the inde-
pendence" concludes the article we have
quoted from, "of the South be recognized,
that servile instruction openly and boldly
preached in the pulpits of the North, may cease
to be an ever present danger" Nor are pre-
cedents wanting for such recognition, even
were the interests OF the courts of Europe less
strongly interested in the matter than they are.
When Texas discovered its connection from
Mexico, England at once acknowledged her
separate nationality, although at the risk of
incurring the displeasure Of both the United
States and Mexico, with whom it was vastly
more for her benefit to maintain amicable re-
lations. Now with prospective starvation for
millions of people, in case of suspension Of
trade with the cotton States, 1t is next to i'm
possible that the confederacy they have form
ed should not be respected, and if requisite
fostered. The Massachusetts, abolition school
have counted without the cost in supposing
that the world would rejoice in the fruits Of
their incendiarism. The exact opposite is the
case. While the South Is sympathized with
and will be recognized, they are everywhere
sepudiated and condemned
ELABORATION STATrsTIcs.-In another column
will be found an oficial return Of the number,
places of nativity, occupations and ages Of the
passengers who have arrived in the United