Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-03-22

will be cruelty felt in Europe for then
four million bales of cotton will be want
ing every year to trade, and the tobacco
crop will be annihilated. If, on the other
hand, returning to sentiments worthier
great nation, the North permits the new
confederation to be mistress of the pleni-
tude of her rights, then the picture chan
ges at one. Commercial liberty becomes
the fundamental law of the Southern Re-
public; her ports will be free to the COM
merce.of Europe, whose merchant marine
will be quite naturally substituted for that
of the North. Europe will double her
own exports, and the South, the population
of which exceeds twelve millions, will ex-
change her productions for objects of Eu
ropean, and particularly French, work
manship. In feet, they have not forgotten
that France was their mother country; and
faithful to the traditions Of their fathers,
they have preserved their manners and
customs, and are we'll aware that France
alone can furnish those thousand and one
notions which crown her industry with
renown.
1t sufices to call the attention of pub
licists to these facts, in order that they
may endeavor to moderate, in Europe, the
too ardent desire of changing suddenly the
position of one particular class-of the
human family. A nation cannot, with
reason, desire the realization of its philo.
sophie aspirations at the cost of sacrifices,
the very nature of which would at once
compromise the individual well being of
its citizens, and the commercial prosperity
of the country.
The press which represents European
interests will perhaps hesitate to lavish
further its bsundless eulogies and appro-
val on policy, the practice of which
would but hasten the ruin and destruction
of Southern marts, which are, after all, its
proper markets.
Let us not be deceived the North ex-
hibits SO much rashness and audacity only
from the belief taughtit by the European
press, that the inhabitants of the South,
too weak in numbers to resist its attacks,
will not find on this side of the Atlantic
a single generous sentiment much less a
moral support. Will philanthropy so far
bind European commerce as to make il
forgetful of its own interests We do not
think SO and already England, profound
ly moved awakes at length to the reality
she begins to measure the whole extent Of
the disaster which menaces her manufac.
lures she no longer disguises the fact in
spite of her abolition tendencies, that her
commercial interests depends in great
measure on the prosperity of the South
which Europe has deep interest in seeing
preserved, at least temporarily, her insti
tutions, now attacked with SO much vehe-
mence.
The question is plain one; we have
previously said that the South, far from
being The aggressor, as Il seems to be general
" supposed, avas the victin, of Northern pre-
2 tensions, The recent words of the Empe
ror also find an echo in the bottom of ou,
hearts :-"France has no desire to meddlt
in any way where her interests are not a
stake in fine if she has any sympathies
for what is great and noble, she does no
hesitate to condemn everything that vic
lates justice and the rights of nations. -
Public opinion will appreciate them or
both sides of the Atlantic, and will fine
for the great interest at stake in the Anne
rican crisis, a solution which may be sat
isfactory to all-namely an amicable sep
aration, without conflict and without war
instead of secession by violence, or (
Union maintained by force.