The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-02

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don, In announcing the late war sgains
Russia, 1T will be remembered, said tina
there was ga happy Gccord" between th
British and French. goverumenS, which EN-
braced not only the affairs of th
Eastern, but also those Of the Western
hemisphere. This "happy accord" VI
now perceive, still exists in relation 10 Ameri
can affairs, and will probably be- used to couu
terbaiance any Inequalities touching sae con
troll Of the affairs Of Europe, Asia and Africa
as between England and France.
The jealous wstohfulpess and intrigues Of
England for thirty years and more have been
especially directed TO the Acknowledgement and
destruction of this overshadowing oonfedera
ton Of ours and its republican institutions.
The United States of America were becoming
too prosperous and powerful for they raenaced,
at no distant day, the overlapping of Englands
commercial supremacy, and the overthrow of
her feudal aristocracy. Hence it became, and
has been for thirty years, the policy and the
purpose of England to remove this dangerous
rival from her path. Hence her abolition of
slavery in her West India Islands, her pious
manifestations of abolition philanthropy at
home and abroad, her abelitioa emigsaries to
this country, and her idolatrcus admiration of
Uncle Toms Cabin" Madame Beecher Stowe
and the Black Swan. In all these instramen.
talities her object has been that fatal alienation
between our Northern and Southern States
which has eliminated in this stupendous civil
war. Now, to quiet her dangerous neighbor
across the Channel, England proposes with
France to share the profits of our dismember-
ment, and Louis Napoleon, willing to make
catspaw of England, promises, for his own Ill.
terror purposes, that some day the "great Euro
pean Powers" will recognise the republic of
our Southern States.
Now what are we to do! We have al army of
three hundred thousand men in the field for the
purpose of suppressing this Southern rebellion.
We have put our Southern seaboard under
rigid blockade, from Norfolk to the Mexican
boundary. We have, apparently, everything in
readiness for an overwhelming and crushing
campaign. The administration at Washington
we are assured from day to day, will listen to
no compromise until this rebellion is crushed
and disarmed. The armies of the Union are
ready and impatient for action, and there is no
more time to be lost. Mr.. Lincoln must now
proceed to fight or prepare for compromise.
England and France" may be waiting only for
pretext upon which to recognise our South
ern republic; and when they begin to fall short
in the article of raw cotton we may expect to
hear from them. For our part, looking to
these foreshadowed European compile atoms,
We think the time has arrived for defeating
them by speedy reckoning with our rebels in
the field, or by falling back upon Mr.. Stewards
grand American continental programme of
annexation.
We can anticipate and circumvent our Euro
pean enemies by turning against them onr
Northern and Southern armies, now arrayed
against each other If this coalition cannot be
effected, it will become the duty of this July ex-
ira session of our Congress to prepare the ways
and means for decisive Southern campaign
before December. or our choice may then lie
between the recognition of the Confederate
States" and wasting war of indefinite dura-
ton, from their hope of an ultimate deliverance
through the intervention of England and
France. This little paragraph from the Paris
Patrie and Moniteur, in it's moral effect, will
undoubtedly strengthen our Southern rebel ar
mics. Let our government, therefore, prepare
for prompt and decisive action, or for sea-
sonable compromise. We must make this
short war or we must change it to Union war
against our foreign enemies, or we shall sink,
North and South into the chronic condition of
Mexican anarchy.