Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-08-14
opJNJoN OF OUTSIDERS.

Bv.stapders saws the Richmond Enquirer, see
more Of the game than these who play IT, IN thiS
view, we attach much Importance to the following
judgments of the Eaglish press. They nave seen
our strength and cur determination; and they say
we cannot be conquered and that the North may as
well Weld at once TO fate and acquiesce in our indie
pendence When they passed this opinion, they
had not heard Of our victory at Bull Run. The
London Times had not learned that its correspon-
dent in this country ''had rode race, and won 1t
too" on the 2!st Of Julybeing under the necessity
thereof because hc was found in lightfoOt company
When news Of that magnificent victory OF the South
ern array reaches Europe, the opinions already
formed in our favor wiz be doutly 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," lis call for army of 4Oe,O Go
men, and treasury Of 500, 900 to conquer
then gives the lie to that phrase, for, as is known,
these Confederate States are united and powerful
enough to oppose military resistance to great
ormy
The London Times declares:
"Mr Lincoln persists in dealing with move
ment which has given birth to Constitution, a
commercial system, a vast army and unOounded as
pirations, half-heartcd demonstration forced OH
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 diSunon." We will not
say this is mere trling, but do say that it goes
some to show that Mr. Lincoln and his ddCiSers d0
not feel tie full force of these considerations Whtch
haee long absOlccd all others in the mind Of Euro
man oLs,rrsrs = =
"WHEN WE PREFER A FRANK RECOGNITION OF
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE BY THE NoRTH TO TIE
POLICY AvowED IN TIE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE 1T IS
SOLELY BECAUSE WE FOREsEE, AS BY-sTANDERS, THAT
THIS THE ISSUE IN WHICH, AFTER INFINITE Loss
AND HUMILIATION, THE CONTEST MUST RESULT.
The Liverpool Adrertiser says:
"Our sources OF information have supplied MS
with early and reliable intelligence Of what was
passing on the other side of the Atlantic, and we
some little weight with the commercial community,
and especially with those who most deeply in
terested in the prosperity of the cotton trade when
we warn them that dearth Of cotton, such as was
never experienced in this country in any previous
period of its history, may overake us in the course
of the next six months, unless our Government
awaken to a sense of the awful consequences which
would flow from such an event, and institute more
actire measures than any rhieh 1t has hitherto en-
ployed to induce the United States Government to
yield to ttte, and acknowledge the Independence Of
the Confederate States. II must come at last to
tbs. We can see no other solution Of the diff
Guilty"
The Northern States have the power to probing
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 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.