Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-02
From the London star Of October 14l
ShansEnEIand go to War with Amer
lea!

ShauEnEIand go to War with Amer
icRE
There are signs of Il coming conflict in
which the consistency and even sincerity
of the British people may be severely test
ed. It is too evident that desperate at
tempt is about to be made by interested
parties to wrest our public policy into
course of fragrant injustice and dishones-
~. Our private information agrees with
facts open to common observation i'll point
ing to a conspiracy of political sympathirs
and commercial interests against the neu-
, tralitY of this country in relation to the
United States and the rebel confederacy.
We use the word conspiracy not altogether
in an impersonal aud Ggurative sense. Ii
we are not much mistaken, there is now
at work secret agency for perVerting Por-'
tons of the English press to the promo
ton OF a purpose directly contrary to the
national sentiment and the professions of
all our public men. The recognition of
the Contederacy has found open advocates,
both in and out of Parliament; and has
been emphatically negatiVed by the gem
eral voice-or rather, frowned down by
almost universal disapproVal But some
thing much more than this is now suggest
ed, if not proposed 1t is beginning to be
asked whether there are no exceptions to
the principle of non-intervention2 whe-
Their the maintenance of domestic tram
guilty is not of greater Importance than
any rule of International policy
Their n famine of cotton is not we'll nigh as
intolerable rs a famine of bread?-in
short, whether we may not "break the
blockade" in order to procure supplies for
our mills and operatives?
Let it be clearly understood that we are
asked to go to war with the United
States for the purpose of re-opening with
that country trade now interrupted by
rebellion. The proposal is nothing less
than that. There can be no middle place
between our present position and one of ac-
tive warfare. That Government
would be very glad to exchange a million
bales of Southern produce for m equiva-
lent in gold, or even in commodities. The
difficulty is not of their making, nor within
their power to remove. They can only
OMEN to us the ports from which we are
accustomed to draw supplies by an act of
self-destructIon. They renounce their do
miniou over twelve millions of people, they
surrender eleven fertile States, they break
{ up the Union and dissolve the Common
wealth, if they permit the cotton of the
South to come to US, except beneath the
! guns of their cruisers, aud bearing the
I stamp Ol JuelT TehSuuo
/ If the slaYe-grown produce be indeed our
! bread, and must be had let us understand
/ that the price is blood-our own as we'll as
( our brothers blood.
The price is too heavy-for it is that of
guilt We have no more right to force our
way into American harbors, than has a
hungry crowd to pillage corn store or a
bnker's shop. : Happily, for our
national character, the crime is as nearly
impossible as it is wholly indefensible.-
We should obtain by it nothing but new
and more lasting difficulties. We should ar
ray against US all the forces of the North,
and probably find that the South, una
BILE to raise cotton while in camp or garri-
son, had little to yield to us. We should
have upon our hands 4. stretching
from Canada to Mexico, and lay ourselves
ut the mercy of our European neighbors
The unemployed operatives of the manu-
featuring districts would have not only
leisure enough but motive enough TO rem
der any amount of trouble to the rulers
that had so madly aggravated distress by
crime And whatever of moral or reli-
gious feeling there may be in the country
would assuredly be reused into rebellion
against policy that made Britain the ally
at once OF slavery, aud rebellion, and civil
war.