Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-08-14
OPINION or OUTSIDERS.


By.standers, says the Richmond Enquirer, see
more of the game than those who play It In TINS
view we attach much importance to the following
judgments of the English press. They have seen
our strength and our determination; and they say
we cannot be conquered, and that the North may as
we'll yield at to fate and acquicsce in our lnde-
pendence. When they passed this opinion, they
had not heard of our victory at Bull Rum Inc
London Times had not learned that its correspon-
dent in this country "had rode race and won 1t,
too" on the 2lst of Juy-beng under the necessity
thereof because he was found in lightfoot company
When news of that magnificent victory Of the South
ern army reaches Europe, the opinions already
formed in our favor will be doubly confirmed
The London Star says:
1t is mere folly in Mr.. Lincoln to talk
Of the people of the Confederate States as "a few
discont ed men," His call for an army of 100000
men, and treasury Of $400,0O0,O00 to conquer
Them gives the lie to that phrase for, as is known
these Confederate States are united and powerful
enough to oppose military resistance to great
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The London Times declares:
"Mr. Lincoln persists in dealing with a move
ment which has given birth to q Constitution, q
commercial system a vast army and unbounded as
prations, as halfhearted demonstration forced on
the good people Of the South against their WILL and
doubts whether there is to day majority Of the
legally qualified voters Of any State, except perhaps
South Carolina, in favor Of iisunion." We will not
say this is mere trifing but we do say that it goes
some to show that Mr.. Lincoln and his advisers do
not feel the full force of these considerations ,ohich
kace long a6solred all others in the mind Of Euro
pean o6serrers -
"WHEN WE PREFER FRANK RECOGNITION OF
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE BY THE NORTH TO THE
POLICY AvowED IN THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE, IT IS
SOLELY BECAUSE WE FoREsEE AS BY-sTANDEKs, THAT
THIS Is THE ISSUE IN WHICH, AFTER INFINITE LOSS
AND HUMILIATION, THE CONTEST MUST RESULT"
The Liverpool Adrertiser says:
"Our sources of information have supplied us
with early and reliable intelligence Of what was
passing on the other side of the Atlantic, and We
therefore fatter ourselves that our words will have
some little weight with the commercial community,
and especially with those who are most deeply in
terested in the prosperity of the cotton trade when
we warn them that a dearth of cotton, such as was
period of its history may overtake US in the course
awaken to a sense of the awful consequences which
would flow from such an event, and institute more
actire measures than any sohieh it has hitherto
ployed to induce the United States Government to
yieM to tute, and acknowledge the independence Of
the Confederate States. 1t must come at last to
this. We can see no other solution of the diff
Guilty"
1.-The Northern States have the power to prolong
the war indefinitely. The Southerners, if defeated
in the field, cannot be finally subdued. The folly
of the contest thus waged is consequently as appa
rent to us in England as the folly Of that contest
which we waged with our American brethren to-
wards the close of the last century was to some of
our then wisest statesmen.