Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-10-09
HGreat Britain and Francc.,'

The Mobile Advertiser Is Register discoursos in
novel tone on the subject indicated. It's remarks
are not without reason, and VIC append them, that
our readers may ponder the possibility of the
combinations alluded 10 and the trcmeudou. con.
sequences that would ensuc. knowing litosally
nothing Of what is prepared for Us in the book of
fate, let us man ourselves to contemplate fore.
shudowings of evil az well as Of guod. The end
is not yet ; and, should there be truth in the fol-
lcwng reflections, no man will say when it will
he or what it will be:
The impression seems to have got abroad, in
some undefned anu mysterious, way, that France
is as Mvurahly disposed toward the North as
Grent britain maniEostly is to tho South. TIE
idea doubtless had its n,igin in the general under
Standing that France an& Great Britain are natu.
rnI or hereditary enemies, and that what the one
favors the other must jealously oppose, unless
hrngs them together in a hollow friendship for .
SucriIc ruri,u,e The impression 50 suggested is
doubtless strengthened hy the runor Of pending
European difficulties between France aud Great
Erit.im. We confess to IN unavoidable suspicion
that If these ruraorcd di;Iicutic. thicken Franco
will ho disposed {" cultivate relations OF alliance
with the NvrtiI in oreT :" operate against Great
Frilain's Cannian tcSscss:ons from the vantage
ground "f Nurli:cr;i territory: and such brcOming
the relations of Erglunts enemy with ours, we
wSs!d be very likely to conc to an arrangement
with "pcrfiious Albion which would make orr
cpomy hers. VIC would have the best of the bar
gain. for we have IN abiding faith in Great Brit
aims supremacy on tho scu, no matter how strong
a navy Napoleon may have created 1t would be
Il tremendous complication, indeed, il England
and France, each with .hcr European allies, aud
the Sorll. and the Sonth, should get at the work
of war The wlipc civilized world would be in
vovr,l IN Inc hrocS of cHnvul$io;.s such Gs it as
never experienced.
"Elscwhcrc We suggest Tie IDEA TINT the arrival
of French man-ol-war in the Mississippi may be
nuspicious Of afriendly disposition ON the part
vf Napoleon; but diiiurent and, perhaps, moro
plausible, interpretation may he pnt upon tho ell,
cumstsnces with no great cxer,ion of ingenuity.
We can scarce believe TINT the vessel. came in with
out the l,e: mission of ;hc blorkalcrs of the chief
FOR. Of the Confcderaey, and if ei;e did romc in
with t:cir consent it betrays that friendly unSS
lcrsanding exists rs 10 her mission, and Tint it
is one which our enemies would rca'iily further.
It IS not unlikely that hcr sole business is to bring
the correspondence Of French citizens resident in
the Confederate States, aGd possibly official dis
patches to the French consrls. So her business
Eay amount to nothing Of import hu! The fact
of her being permitted to pass the blockade is Q:
import. 1t seems to bctray quito too friendly
relations between Lincoln and Napoleon. Great
Britain would scarcely have asked or accepted
such privilege Of the Lincoln Administration as
this which has been accorded to France and cxer-
eised by her officials. Permission to pas. the
blockade is anything else but significant of i'll
feeling between the parties who grant and those
who practise. We arc not so "harpy" over the
event " The n. 0. picayunc. There is, a. yet 10
hole ria which ne may soc through the milIstoae"