New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-17


We find in the New York Herald of the 9Th re
port, taken from English papers, of speech madt
on the 22d of May - Mr.. Lindsay, member of the
British Parliament. From this speech we make
| the following extract:
Speaking of the civil war he said that, in travel
ing through the States of America he sa5c that SEP
1Tatton 2cds mere question Of time. TWAS clear
to his own mind, that, however well a Republican
form OF Government might answer a limited mum.
Der OF people, and in limited Territories vet when
nation amounted to upwards of 3O,O000OO, and
spread over thousands of miles, consisting of thirty
three different States, each in Itself sovereign
State, with separate Legislature with interests
opposed to each other with feelings different in
many respects-hoWeVer we'll Republican Govern
ment might answer on limited scale, it was i'm
possible to govern vast tract of country such as
eminent.
In the present Struggle our policv. he thourht
ought 10 be Of strict n011-interUe15ion a.
Lord John Russell had made one step bg acbno,ck
edging the Southern Contederacy as beLligerents he
teb that acheh the proper time arrived, lCouM be
desirable that he should take another step in ad
udnce, and acknowledge the Southern Cofltederacy
as an Independent polGer. 1t must come to that in
time; and he thought that if England and France,
at the proper time acknowledged The Southern Con-
federacy as a'e independent Polcer, ii might stag
THIS cry for tengeance, 1Cieb, he ecas sorry TO See
came from The North against he South It might
stay that desire to march those armies into the
Southern States for the purpose of subduing those
States 1t might tend to save much boOdshed and
it would be adopting course which, while it
would be OF great benefit to the people of England
and to the people of Europe, would, he conscien-
tously believed, be of great benefit and great ad-
vantage to the people of America themselves.
Many excellent friends he had were in the North
ern States; but he was bound to state that the sys-
TEN Of td1dtion acl,ich they long carried out had
oeefs systen, Of great injustice to the people
OF the southern States Of america. Now,
when they looked to the exports of America,
and where these exports came from, they
would not be surprised at the Southern States
resisting what they thought to be a pressure.
Last year the exports from the United States
amounted to $4,000 600, in round numbers. of dol
lars. # they analysed that, they would find that
o1 of those $3.50 100000, $3.50 900 600 consisted of
me 9r0dNce and manufactures of the South. He
learned from high authority that the Southern
states could turn out an army of close upon
million of men well trained in arms Their whole
policy seemed to be to stand on the defensive. He
had reason to believe that they never had and had
not now, the remotest idea of attacking Washing
Ton; but they would defend, he believed, their
states and their homes to the very utmost.
It is a rather curious fact that as a general
thing, the statesmen of Great Britain understand
the character Of this fight and the temper of the
Southern people much better than the politicians
of the North do. If we read the leading foreign
papers, and the public utterances of their chief
statesmen, we find more good sense, clearer ill.,
sight into the true condition of Southern affairs,
and more thorough acquaintance with the re-
sources OF the South and the purposes of our Gov
eminent than any Yankee AboIitionist has vet dis
played, from Shiny Seward down to Picayune But
ler Perhaps this may be according to the old
rule that lookerson see more of the game than the
players themselves, but we rather think it is be-
cause the Yankee is so blinded by fanaticism and
SO pulled up with coneeit that it is only by rare
accident ray Of light and truth ever beams in
upon his benighted soul.
Mr. Lindsay, whose remarks we have quoted
above, has travelled in this country aud it is plain
to see he kept his eyes open while he was here
he understands us better, to-day, than any of the
Ourang-outang Ministers of his Majesty, King Ape
He could doubtless give valuable lessons in Ameri-
can affairs, even to Mr. Adams, the Yankee Minister
10 England, P" or any other man" that has been de-
puted by the Gorilla Government to represent at
the Courts of Europe.
What we desire to call special attention to is his
recommendation that Great Britain go beyond the
step taken by Lord John Russell, who has &C.
knowledged US as belligerent, and acknowledge
she southern Contederaoy as an independent
power He wants England to do this, and he
"ahts france to do it also. And this, no doubt
WI oe tlie next stop. The French have proverb
that 1t is the first step which costs Or, in other
WORDS, me hFst step in the great difficulty, and.
aitef that al the rest Is easy. Great Britain has
taken the first step and the second also. She has
by one of her leading statesmen, declared that we
are helligerent She has declared that block.
ade, to be respected mustbe etfectual--knowinp
as she does, that an efoctual blockade Of the nT
tended coast of the Southern Confederacv ia a mol
paole absurdty. The next and last step is that
winch MIR. Lindsay advises her to take--the recog,
nlaon OF US as an independent power. And that,
as MI Lindsay said about secession, is " only
question of time"
head Mr. Lndsays remarks carefully, and there
WIN be no difficulty in deciding which way the wind
sets among the enlightened statesmen of the Old
World.