New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-03
i ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

hisSAk<ANo tA4sG FAhSAHSANe
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A Paris correspondent Of the New York Herald
gives it as his opinion that there is probability
of d rupture fthe Anglo French alliance so far
as it refers to afairs on the American continent.
That alliance has existed for six or seven years 1t
was proclaimed, as long ago as 1855, we think, by
d British Minister, who declared that a. happy
accord y existed between the two nations on all
cisA Atlantic qnestions-that their policy had been
determined upon, and was the same But this had
reference to affairs in the Gulf. that time there
were revolutions and disturbances in Central
America, and things were generally SO naked up"
that nobody knew exactly what would be the up
shot. MIR. Marcy, who was Secretary of State at
Washington, commenced backing and filing on the
Monroe question, and Gen. Cass, who succeeded
him under the reign of the Old Public Functionary
did very little better. The Anglo-French alliance
was proclaimed, but what that alliance meant in
respect of affairs on this side of the Atlantic was
never exactly ascertained, in consequence of the
excitement dying out and the return of the politi
cal currents to their old channels.
" The thappy accordn between these two great
European powers had then. no reference to dis
solution OF the American Union, but applied to the
treatment of the imbroglio in Central America.
Nobody anticipated, five years ago, that the Union
would be SO soon broken up, and many did not be-
lieve it would ever be broken up at all; because
they thought there was g conservative element y
at the North and even if there were not, interest
alone would prevent the Northern people from
being fools enough to drive the South out of the
Union. Now that dissolution is an accomplished
fact-now that the old Union is mashed and
smashed all TO pieces, with no possibility of recon
struction-it is not improbable that the happy
accord y which prevailed between England and
France in regard to other questions has no exist
ence with regard to our troubles here; and the
policy Of these nations, for the present, at least
may be altogether diverse and opposite. 1t may
be, as this correspondent alleges, that France de.
sires to recognize us at once, and that England
does not. :"
But neither Of these great powers, in our opinion
has done what it ought to have done with regard
TO the Southern Gonfederacy. They cannot have
failed to see, long ago, that our Confederacy was
an established fact that we had asserted our indie
pendence, had nobly sustained it from the begin
ming, and were amply able to sustain it, as against
the North, for all time to come. At first, perhaps,
they might have been excusable for regarding our
movement here as mere "rebellion,'' not sus-
tanned by the great mass of the people because
the North said SO, and there were even few in
the South who tried to create the same impression.
But eEen the North has now abandoned the trans
parent faisehood, and England and France must
see that there never was an instance of a people
50 united and determined. When State like
Louisiana sends half her voting population thou
sand miles ofto fight, and the other half are ready
to GO at moments warning, it is the superlative
of nonsense to say that her people are not united
and we repeat that foreign nations must now
admit the fact, even if they ever doubted it,. The
question resolves itself into this, whether twelve
millions of such people can be conquered-and
there is not ansAtlantic statesman who is fool
enough to believe they can be. They ought to
admit this fact at once, and they ought to 90
Iartheri They ought to declare that, under the
circumstances, the South ought not to be- con-
Iuered, even were it in the power Of the North to
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Now, then, why this supineness and hesitancy,
and apparent Indifference to this great struggle on
NE part Of the powers Of Europe 7 The South
does not ask recognition as fayor-she demands
tas a right. There is not nation of Europe that
would not be benefited in respect Of its material
interests by the establishment Of the Southern
Confederacy, but we put our cause on higher
> w NV aPpGdl ~ tuS CuplQlLY OF
other nations, but we claim equality Of position
and privileges among them on the broad ground
of our abstract right toit. We have declared our
we have maintained t.at the point
of the bayonet and we have shown that we are
capable Of maintaining il until the sounding of the
asst trump. Why, then, the delay in according rs
our right? 81 1E
II France or any other power choose to take
notice Of the Southern Confederaey in advance of
Great Britain, there will be wisdom in the STEP
We can get along without these nations Just as
hey can get along without us, and great deal
oetter-zbut The comfy implied in an early recog-
,ition of the palpable fact of Southern ndepend-
'nce7 would not9be lost upon the Government or |
be pa ple Of the South. We do not ask for recog-
itlon from any apprehension that our independ- |
nee would be less secure in default of it,. but |
ecausefw are entitled to it, and every day:of |
clay i simply time lost, for to this complexion,
aost asspredly, will It come at last. 3s
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