New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-19
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OUR CAUSE IN FRANCE,

Il
Of three different pamphlets in France, all taking
the side of the Confederate States in the struggle
between us and the North. His whole letter is de-
4 voted to them. Not a word of news or gossip, or
4 anything else, except these three terrible PAM
phlets. He affects to consider them of force or
Importance, and in fact declares them to be weak
and silly. He wonders how the censors of the
French press ever allowed such tissue of falla-
cies and absurdities to be placed before the pub
lic.s It is strange that this writer should devote
so much criticism to publications that he seems to
| think not worthy of notice-and the conclusion
| may not unreasonably be drawn that he devotes
his entire letter to them for the very reason that
| they are having some influence in France. The
Times correspondent in this respect, presents the
case of the huttering of wounded pigeon. These
pamphlets have wonderfully hart him.
] The first of these pamphlets has title which,
| translated, means '' The American Revolution I'm
Veied." The publisher states that it was written
bp :" diplomat" The Times correspondent in
order to show the absurdity and fallacy"of this
production, quotes from it the concluding para
1 graph, which is as follows:
The struggle has commenced. If the South
trlumpls, her victory will liberate her forever from
/ system OF commercial yassaage ruinous to her
| growth; but If the fate of arms should replace
her under the Government yoke against which she
4 will struggle to the last extremity, and to which
she is decided never to submit, her defeat will be
the signal of the destruction of her agricultural
productions; it will drag with it her ruin, and the
rebound will be felt in Europe with most dis
astrous results, since it will dry up the sources
from whence she draws her raw materials, now
II become an element of labor of the first order,
the indispensable base of the fabrication of objects
of the first necessity. Can France and England
afford to find themselves suddenly deprived Of the
cotton which ailments their mills =? Such is, how
ever, the fearful problem which will rise up the
| day after the victory of the North. Providence
| will not permit it; and the lopg-seeing mind Of
4 Napoleon Ill will not fall into an error on the i'm
portance of question which interests in so high
degree the prosperity OF his people, and of which
the only practicable and equitable solution, accord
ing to us, is to be found in the independence of the
Confederate States of America.
We confess, for ourselves that so far from seeing
anything absurd or fallacious in the above, it
strikes us as containing great deal of sound sense
and truth. 1t is for this very reason no doubt the
Times writer is much exercised and set back''
by it.
The second pamphetis entitled The American
Question: with an appendix on cotton, tobacco
and the general commerce of the former United
States. The author N. Ernest Bellot des Minieres
The Times correspondent says of him:
lido not know the author of this book but pre-
sumo him to be a Lousianan. On looking over
these pages one wonders how the censors of the
press ignorant as they may be of American affairs
ever allowed such tissue of falacies and absurd
tiles to be placed before the public. If the book
had been written in some backcountry printing
ofce in Louisiana or Mississippi, and for country
readers solely, one could have comprehended such
a publication; but to be written at Paris, where
plenty of light is to be had and where many of the
readers of the book may happen to know both
SIDES OF the question, the thing becomes inconpre-
hensible.
I Nro.J o+r 4f,n+a ~;
cause written by Louisanian. On the contrary,
the writers Of Louisiana, a class, whether histo
rians, poets, political economists, or what not
will compare favorably with those of any other
region, no matter where. But 1t so happens that
N. Bellot is nota Lousianian. We wish he was.
We know him personally, and have had the pleas
ure of meeting with him on several occasions. He
is native of France. and resident there, and is
man of great wealth and high position He has
visited this country and remained several wears
here, in the North and the South, keeping his eyes
open wherever he went. He is prepared to tell his
conntrymen the truth about both sections-andt the
statistics in regard to the agriculture Of the South
which he publishes in the Appendix to his book.
are not only official but he knows them, of his own
observation, to be correct
The Times correspondent quotes, also, from NJ. |
H.
ties ~ of the same-and, among the quotations
that he makes, we find the following: /
The resistance of the South surprises and dis |
concerts the North. ..z
The Southern isa better soldier than the Nertb- |
ern. 5l
As soon as the fright and first excitement of the
North shall have given place to reflection it will
be easy for her people to see the absurdty and
the folly of the war.
Nearly all the officers of the Regular Army are
from the South and have returned there
The fleets of the North can do the South no
harm.
The North is tributary to the South, and owes to
The South is our natural friend, the North our
natural enemy on account of its afinities for Eng
and
In the South men are more honest there, con-
liberation is only accorded to honesty and moral
Falue.
The Southron is superior intellectually to the
Northern. l= .5
Southern women are more like French women,
France is naturally called to intervene in favor
If the South.
The North depends upon the South for all that is
Necessary to her marine.
A pacific solution would conclude everything
The Intervention of France would be received
With transports of joy.
Mr.. Lincoln and his BRACES cannot prevent the |
ecognitlon of the South by the European Powers
europe will be brought to this by the force of
hings. Let not France be beaten in the race by
lngand.
Is there anything very absurd or fallacious about
hese assertions 1t is the vast amount of I'M
easant truth in them that SO stirs up the bile of
his Partisan correspondent
The third pamphlet is entitled " The American
Confederation. Review of its Past Conject-
lres. Suggestions. By n. Millironx." The Times
nan thinks that he also is an American, and rates
lin soundly for washing our dirty linen," as he
Elegantly eallsit, before the eyes Of France. He
ays the writer " everywhere betrays his Southern
'roclivies, and terminates in favor of recogni- |
ion of the Southern Confederacy by France
his, no doubt, is the head andaront of his offend
ng. II he had come out against the South we
Tould have heard nothing of this abuse of him, S
ut his praise would have been sounded far and
'ide It makes all the difference in the world
those OK it is that is gored -
The simultaneous appearance of three pamphlets |
n American affairs in Paris, by different authors,
nd all taking sides with the South we regard as a
cry encouraging circumstance. 1t shows that
france feels a deep interest in the struggle now
'oing on. The more the subject is discussed there
ne better it will be fer the South because then the
emper OF the South and her resources and capaci-
les will be better understood Foreign nations, | {
ong accustomed to forming their opinions from
eading Northern publications. and reasoning, per-