New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-12
rHREApENINss EUROPE.

The New York Herald, fearful that the SYM
pathies of Europe may be extended to the Confedr
crate cause, threatens the nat'ons across the
Ocean with terrible. punishment unless they be-
have themselves. Says that paper, with an i'm
pudent swagger altogether peculiar and nimitable {:
| At the close of this war we shall have in the
field over three hundred thousand veteran soldiers
and our navy will comprise over five hundred ships
of war, and we shall have naval brigade ofabout
fifty thousand men. Let European Governments
be careful, then, how they treat us during the
continuance of this war, for when we have settled
our domestic troubles the slightest word of insult
Or .proVocation may let loose upon Canada and
Csba this terrible force and sweep the last yesdge
OF monarchical rule from the continent
We do not think the Herald need be uneasy
about the conduct Of European powers Euro
pean powers seem very much disposed to let us
fight this fight out among ourselves, without
bothering themselves about it one way or the
other. Their sympathies ought to be on our side,
for we are fighting for commercial independence
as well as politcal-and that Europe will be
beneiitted by our commercial independence is too
plan proposition to admit of dispute. Moreover,
the North has destroyed and overthroWn every
thing like free Institutions thing which Euro
pean powers ought to feel interested in prevent
ing. But those same powers have shown remark
able Indifference to the result, and have given no
official indication of any care as to which Of us
whips. So far as the South is concerned this
gives US no particular anxiety, as all we ask is
'.nen-intervention as to the war, knowing that
| it can have only one result. .i
| But the idea of the Norths threatening England
Spain, France and all other european powers y
that have colonies on this continent, is rich indeed
Canada, Cuba and the West India islands generally
are to be wrested from them, if they are not par
teular how they treat the North during the war;
Probably these European powers would say in
treply-supposing it possible they would conde-
scend to reply to such senseless braggadocia-that
the North had better whip the South before it
talks about whipping all Europe In the face Of
their notorious and disgraceful failure to conquer
the South, notwithstanding their superiority in
men and money, the threat to wrest their Ameri-
can colonies from European nations becomes the
very climax OF sublime and unapproaehable bonn
bast. ~. r. So s.
They would say further perhaps, if they were
called upon to say anything, that it would be as
well to destroy monarchical rule ., at home, be.
tore the North undertakes to "sweep the last
vestigs Of it = from Canada and Cuba There is
more apsolutlsm Of authority to-day at Washing
ton than at Montreal or Havana--less respect for
-N"f MSS ACSaAi loE tuS freedom ana personal
rights Of the citizen, and fewer of the muniments
OF liberty. Extremes meet, and the North has
shown the truth oft by an easy transition from an
almost unlimited democracy to the rigors of an
unchecked despotism.
The menace is, of course, utterly impotent and
ridiculous but if the threat could by possibility
be executed, it would be an evil day for the coun
tries which shonld come under Yankee domination
That Yankees are not fit for empire; that they are
not governing race has been proved in the old
Union, and still more since they went into power
at Washington If they were to get possession of
cuba, Tor instance, Introducing there all their
special absurdities in morals and social economy,
1t IS easy to see that there would be constant re-
beon and revolution, or else all the better part of
the native population would quit country dis
graeed, as it would be in their opinion, by Yam
keeinvasion. The beautiful island would become
q waste. But I'VE dare say the " European pow
ers are notin any extraordinary state of alarm
from this threat. We do not suppose they will call
council together to consider Of the danger The
" terrible force Of which the Herald speaks must
be OF other character than those fugacious war
riors who heeled it from Manassas on the 2lst of
july before the cabinets of Europe will begin to
tremble for the safety of their American colonies