The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-06
NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1861.

JUNE b, 1861.
the paramount Issue Of maintaining the Union,
but in England the sympathies of the people
will be arrayed upon the issue as between our
free States and slave States.
But to feed the Manchester cotton mills Lord
John Russell has thought it expedient to defy
that English public opinion which, If aroused,
may prove as powerful to-day to play the
role of Cromwell as 1t was two hundred years
ago. Lord John will not agree to apply the
European law of piracy to our Southern pri-
vateers. He will look to his Southern cotton,
at the hazard of war with the United States.
Does he comprehend the inevitable contin-
gencies to England of such war; The results
will be war which will destroy not only the
cotton crop, but the cotton culture in the
South; war which, in cutting off not only
cotton, but all our other exports to England,
and the hundreds of millions which, in Eng
lish manufactures, we get in exchange, will
soon bring famine upon the British islands, and
drive the starving people to the terrible game
of an sgrarian revolution.
Such are the consequences foreshadowed in
war between the United States and England,
and if Epgland would avoid it she will respect
the warnings and the evertures Of our govern
ment. There will be no more Southern cotton
for Manchester should England become con-
federate of Jefferson Davis, and she is very
much endaDgering her chances of the growing
crop in her present course of shortsighted
selfishness and hypocrisy regarding our So
called Confederate States.
IMpRoPRrErrEs OF Our FOREIGN MISIsTERs-
SANFORD AT BELGIUM AND CLAY AT RUssIA.-It
appears from our European advices that the
ministers sent abroad by the present admins
tration, instead of being at the Court assigned
to them attending to their legitimate business,
are lettering by the way and interfering with
the duties of other representatives of the 60
verpment Thus we find Mr.. Sanford, who was
booked for Belgium spending his time in Paris,
and pretending to be assisting the government
by laboring to prevent the recognition of the
Southern conspiratoys by the French govern
ment: he has succeeded in getting our affairs
most woiully muddled, and if he remains much
longer the interests Of the United States al
the Tuileries will be 80 completely befogged
| hat Mr.. Dayton. our regular representative,
| will net be able to set matters right. Cassius
| NJ Clay, whose station is Russia, has reached
| London, and there unpacked his trunk and
commenced writing letters to the London
Times, and otherwise interfering with the duties
| of Mr.. Adams.
These are improprieties which should not for
moment be tolerated by our government
They cannot be looked upon otherwise than
insulting to our regular representatives at
hose Courts. Charles Francis Adams has been
selected by the present administration to look
after the interests Of the United States at the
Court of st. James, and is at his post with full
instructions from the home government. Let
Cassius NJ Clay be ordered to leave matters in
his hands, where they belong, and to proceed
at once to ST. Petersburg. William L. Dayton
has likewise been designated by the govern
ment to attend to its affairs at the Tuileries,
and has arrived there with full and complete
instructions. The less interference he has from
such pompous personages as Mr.. Sanford the
better it will be for this country. He, too
should be ordered to pack up and leave for
the nation President Lincoln started him for
A few years since this same Sanford sue
| ceeded, through the assistance of his demo.
cratic friends, in securing the appointment of
Secretary of Legation at Paris, and whilst
there, with the ostensible object of attending
to those duties, he spent his time in discussing
the style of court dress, writing columns after
| columns of letters, sort of essays on de-
mocratic and aristocratic dress, in which
he proved that the only position he was
really qualified to fill was tailor to some impe-
rial family, and wholly without those compre.
hensive views that could attend to the affairs of
a nation at foreign Court even as simply a
secretary to the regular representative. Re-
turning to this country full of Importance OBJ
tanned through bis "black coat controversy,
he was sent South by some company to look
after guano interests; but it was soon found
| that his boosted influence amounted to nothing,
and they were obliged to recall him. He next
turns up as Minister to Belgium, and leaves
post haste, but instead of going directly there
we find him strolling around Paris, and is
bidding fair to make himself fully as obnoxious
as in his 'sblack coat and court dress essays.
If the administration has desire to disgust
Emperor Napoleon and his ministers with the
United States, then let them allow Sanford to
desert his post and remain at the Tuileries in
terfering with the duties of Mr.. Dayton; if not,
then give him orders to leave for Belgium
forthwith, or set him up in tailoring business,
where he can indulge his peculiar genius.
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| FoRTIFICATIoNs IN THE HARBORs OF THE
NORTHERN C1rEs.-Our government has during
the last ten years expended large amount of
money in erecting, enlarging and completing
the forts on the coast of the Southern States, but