The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-23
The AMERICAN .WAa in EUROPE.
Our London and PAS Cvf-
rsspOndence.
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British and French Fleets for
the American Waters,
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The Confederate Commissioners In
i LOndOn and Paris,
The COTTON TRADE AND WAR RISKS.
The st. Domingo AnnexatiOm
Question,
&c. &c., 10.
The COTTON TRADE AND WAR RISKS.

LONDON, MAJ IL, 1851.
Europe % Awakening u Knooledge of tie CONSTRUCTIONS
vf9m Of Am1rca-Americons Abroad not Fully In.
Turned Of the Policy If the Neo Gorerameu,-Ifoc ne
English People Regard lnSitassons- N,liia,, Msa
Think Of Emgrctiny to did Us Whai is Taougat of y
frson Da,1s-His Prfrat eriag Profits is ProspetI,-
tense Anriety Regardisg Ncics from Anlericz-A JOHN
Bull Rush for the Neao FORK Heyald-7he Confederate
Commissioners in the Cty, dc dc
The European public are waking up. They now begin
10 see that America Is not going to be behind the Old
World In the great ard stirring events that figure with
dramatic interest on the page Of history. Instead Of
doing nothing but grow and get fat produce cotton
and c'othe the naked, they find you going assert
your belief and exert your energies behalf Of con
stitut.onal government
Among Americans here the fear is growing daily that
your administration Ia going to lag behind public opinion
instead Of standing TO the emergency conquerng
disgrace and what chronic ills would grow out OF feebly
conducted and prolonged war
Where the good Of your vast superiority over the re-
bells unless you exert 1t to crush the viper onces
BE who Ia not for me is agsns. What Ia the use,
and where is the legality the patriotism In a State
like Kentucky Missouri refusing send troops at the
call OF the President when the liberties the govern
ment that all Interested in with destuc-
tion. There quite q number Of Engshmen of mill
the Of American liberty go down prematurely in
the fire and smoke Of rebellion and who talk OF going
over there to have hand in. They viii break no Law
by emigratDg for such purpose and l hope you win
give them q CD ance
But will JEFF Davis offer you batteY We begin
to fear that he will not come up to the scratch.
II viii answer him but a very poor turn
to lord il Montgomery, Charleston and few similar
onehorse towns, and steal few old guns q fort
in Texas. Little good will 1t do him to have his
piratical cruisers take innocent merchantmen.
and find no port in the civilized world TO take
their prizes irto. Ard very little good will his
miserable rebellion do him his deludei followers
if they assume the character Of enemies Of the
people Of the United States aud them Of their pro-
perty on the high seas in field the mbatants
have nothing in common and thereby bring upon them
selves terrible retributon in the shape Of q negro n
eu-Iection.
We are lying here for the news. The herald Is In
such universal demand that mine out by-end
ing them There are IoS editorials nearly every cay IN
en- the leading London papers en- the eTens Of the Amer
Jefferson Davis Commissioners make progress here
Why didn't those vIrgoians attack Washington and
drive the old hero OF hundred battles and the few reg
meuts Of New York and Massachusetts before them