Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-07-25
.8W England Was Deceived In re.
gard 90 tile Secession:


n. Y. now travelling abroad, writes as
follows:
| said that the first convictions were
that the rcb Hon would be Il success, and
that the destruction Of the Union was
inevitable. Now this conviction was
not innate; it was produced by TIL ope-
ration OF appropriate mems means
which. rp,p!n. Nd RI 'r2 Tan Times and
p;na. ppp'r- informs which convinced
leading shipping aud manufacturing in
terests-means which convinced mem
bers of Parliament--here will stop;
though Knight go still higher up. Here
| stop to tell you what did thus power
fully operate and so deeply move all the
selfish interests of this people. \ few
days since, when conversing with the ed
itor of -, most reliable man, on
the American trouble, | expressed my
Amusement that with all the demonstra :
lions of anti-slavery sentiment in Eng
land, there should be such sympathy for
the South. and so much OF GOODNESS to-
ward the North, and that there should
be such confidence in the success of the
South. lie fixed his eye on me for a
moment most searchingly, and then said,
4 can explain it all. ItclIyou that the
programme of the secession was well
known here i'll England before single
blow was struck in America. This |
can hardly believe Believe it or not
as you please, but l K"oc ii. A Mem
Der of Parliament, in this very room
where we are nov sitting, detailed the
whole plan to me last winter, aud he as.
surcd me that it was known to num-
Der of the Members of Parliament. He
stated that the army and navy would be
dispersed-that the treasury would be
cmptied and brought into dcbt--that the
arms and ammunition would be removed
to the forts South that these forts woud
all be seized by the troops OF the Con
faierates--that they would rush upon
Washington, hodingit by military force
and thus break up the Government AMI
destroy the Union that the South were
all IN FL. ami that they had the entire
democratic party North as allies, so that
there would be no hope for the North
They must submit to the terms the South
should dictate. ! am much obliged to
YOU for this information, bnt how on
earth could you get TT With smile on
his face, and knowing twinkle in his
eye, he said, 'The Smith had their agents
here, authorized to communicate and to
act. These, under pledges Of secrecy,
and perhaps with special appliances APP
pliances appealing to self interest, re-
vcaled the plan. When any man in
CURED o. the EN- bassalor for information :,
this oracle was dumb When they ap-
Piled to the consul, it was ali confirmed
And when the secession began and pro-
crossed, as the programme stated, with
nothing to Impede 1t as long as Buchan-
ans term lasted; and when Lincoln was
with difficulty iuaugurited, and the cap
ital threatened when Baltimore and
Virginia played the part marked in the
bill Of fare, do you wonder that the fell
inr was that the secession would be a
success? DO you wonder that editors
spoke us they did in their columns, or
.lat men Of business and manufacturers
felt rs they did, or that Members Of Par
liamcnt wore forward to make motions.
or that Lord John Russell made haste tc
recognize them as 'belliGcrent power!
But the programme has not all been car
ricd out, and probably will not be-
Things are changed and there will be
Il corresponding change in public sen
tmcnt. but it will take little time.
There were revelations, ] had suspicious
that the active agents Of the South hat
been a. work: bat that they had poison.
ed so many fountains and had pusheC
their way 5, near the throne, | did mo-
suspect. These revelations of what wa
done in the dark explained the strange
things that did appear in the light,
/ have spoken of this conversation to sew
cral Americans. and from one who ha
often been in his country, and who i
intimate in high circles. received thu
fullest confirmation. He assured me
| that enticaIIy the same facts he hat
I from an entirely different sonrcr-a sourc,
that could not possibly leave him in al.
I doubt of the fact. that the whole plal
was known here, and thu result waitc(
for. Hence the confidence with whici
the papers spoke; hence the feelings il
the commercial aud manufacturing cir
cIcs; aud hence the urgency of certain
Members Vi Parliament to have immcdi
ate action.