The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-18

ihpping and manufacturing interests
means which convinced members of Par
Jament-here will stop; though | might
go still higher up. Here stop to tell
you what did thus powerfully operate and
20 deeply move all the selfish interests Of
ihis people. A few days since, when
conversing with the editor of -, most
reliable man, on the American trouble, |
expressed my amazement that with all the
demonstrations of anti slavery sentiment
in England, there should be such sympa-
Thy for the South, and so much of cool
ness towards the North, and that there
should be such confidence in the success
# the South. lie fixed his eye on me
for a moment most searchingly, ard then
raid, /" [ can explcin it all. [ tell you
that the programme Of the secession was
well known here in England before sin
Gle blow was struck in America. "This
] caa hardly believe" Believe 1t or not,
as YOU please, but Ikno,c 1t. A Member
If Parliament, in this very room where
we are now sitting, detailed the Whole
plan to NE last winter, and he assured me
that ii was known to rumber Of the
Members Of Parliament. He then stated
that the army and navy would be dis
persed-that the treasury would be emp
tied and brought into debt-that the arms
aud ammunition would be removed to the
forts of the South-that these forts would
all be seized by the troops of the Confed-
erates-that they would rush upon Wash
ington, holding it by military force, and
thus break up the Government aud de-
strov the Union-that the South were all
united, and that they had the entire Dem
ecratic party North as allies, so that there
would be no hope for the North. They
must submit to the terms the South
should dictate" am much obliged to
YOU for this information, but how on earth
could you get it 2" The Soatth had
their aqcpts kere, authorized to commu-
ricate and to act. These, under pledges
Of secrecy, and perhaps with special ap
piances appealing to selfinterest, reveal
ed she plan. When any man cnquired Of
the en- bassador for Information, this ora
Gle was dumb. When they applied to
the consul, it was all confirmed. And
when the secession began and progressed,
as the programme stated, with nothing to
impede it as long as. Buchanan's term
lasted; and when Lincoln was with diff
cllty inaugurated, and the capital threat
ened-when Baltimore and Virginia play
Sd the part marked out for them in the
bill Of fare, dc you wonder that the feel.
ing was that the secession would be sue
cess? Do you wonder that editors spoke
as they did in their columns, or that men
Of business and manufacturers felt as they
Gid or that Members of Parliament were
forward to make motions, or that Lord
John Russell made haste to- recognize
them as bellgerent power? But the
programme has not all been carried out,
and probably will not be. Things are
changed, and there will be correspond
ing change in public sentiment, but it
will take a little time" These were the
revelations. | had suspicious that the
active agents Of the South had been at
work but that they had poisoned 50 many
fountains aud had pushed their way so
near the throne, did not suspect. These
revelations Of what was done in the dark
explain the strange things that did ap-
pear ia the light. / have spoken of this
conversation to several Amencans, and
from one who has often been in this coun-
try, and who is intimate in high circles,
I received the fullest confirmation. He
assured ME that idenlicaily the same facts
ho he'd from an entirely different source
"a source that could not possibly leave
him in any doubt Of the fact that the
whole plan was known here, and the re-
suit waited for. Hence the confidence
with which the papers spoke; hence the
feelings in the commercial and manafac-
1urinc circles; and hence the urgency OF
certain. Members Of Parliament to have
Immediate action.
The promptness with which loyal
American citizens here have spoken and
written, the determined patriotism which
they have manifested, and the fearless
ness with which they have defended the
United States and honored its flag, has
produced happy effect, think. | do
not sag that it did stay the current; it
was sample of what might be expected
in quantity, and it had its effect. There
is still much to be done through the press
and in public meetings, by the pen and
BY the voice There is now a greater read
mess to hear and be convinced. Already
the tide has turned. England will GER
tain!y come all right, and when right,
having gone through this fermentation,
she will continue right. She is now a
little moved with the war-spirit toward
her, and has chartered the Great Eastern
TO send over 3, 1000 troops to Canada. The
Tines thinks this an ungracious and un-