Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-06-11
ALTERED CONDITIONS OF REUNION.

Prom the London Globe
Statesmen in Europe will probably form their judgment
from their observation and not from the manestos
Of either party in dispute which has attained the d.
mensious of civil war. An Union which requires to
maintain 1t the calling out OF an hundred thousand vol
uneers and uprardsan increase of some tweBty thou
sand in the regular army and some eighteen thousand
in the navy-cannot but appear most European eyes
an Union past praying or fighting for. We are at all
well convinced that 'this Union" las Mr. Seward
terms it, will not come out of the codctjus az 1t goes
into it. If that conflict is little eIssperated or
protracted it draw much altered conditions of
union after it We do not think the prescott
secession Of North South the result of any sort Of
Understandings either side the other. But
We think it very strange misunderstanding OF the real
depth of its source which permits parties to il to fancy
for moment that the close Of the struggle leave the
organized ideas and interests engaged where they stood
at its opening.
LORD PArMERsToN CHANGES HIS OPINION IN A DAY-IS-
DEPESDEsog OF THE SOUTHERN GovYRSNEsT ACKN0wL-
EDGED De FAcrO.
tProm the London Post, May 32l
Mr. Seward in dispatch which n GENTLY appeared in
the American papers, has announced, with equal clear
ness and emphasis the determination of President Lin
cola not only the Federal Union as still exist
ing compact but to enforce the authority Of the central
government at the risk and Of angry and
long protracted civil war.
Facts stubborn things. and when We learn by the
ae advices that nine States have actually seeded
taiDly something is requisite to prove the indsso
ubity Of the Union than the brave words of Mr. Sc
ard The document TO which allude Is u dispatch ad
dressed by the American Secretary of State the Anne
ricln Minister ct Paris
Recognition of the Southern Confederacy by the great
Powers of Europe would give amount OF moral sup
port to the of separation greater than the effects
of the most brilliant military successes.
For the purpose Of avoiding any danger of this kind
the American minister at Paris spoke to NJ Thouvenel
the subject who, in reply stated that application
L 4 49, l.
milton of their independence and that the Government
of the Uoed States nigh. rest assured that no hasy
precpate action the subject would be taken by the
Emperor. ~
Rut NJ. Thouvene most properly added that 'the prac
ce and usage Of the present century had fully estab
when proper case was made out for the decision oil
foreign powers If refer to the OF Greece and
Turkey, and Holland nd Belgium. we End that both
these apply to nations which had been united In COM
pact more close than any federative compact.
The recognition of the thirteen North American colo
MES by France and the recognition of Mexico and the
South American provinces formerly held BY Spain, fur
nsh rule which the Government of Mr.. Lincoln cannot
with any regard to consistency, afford to disregard
Neither in France in this country, will any hssty
con be pronounced but the time Is rapidly arriving
when the question be considered for no one at the
present time doubt question the de Jdcto indie
pendence Of the Southern States.
As exposition Of the warlke policy Of the Federal
Government Mr. Stewards dispatch worthy of deep and
careful consideration but it would have been better
timed aud more likely to have produced some effect II il
had been written the 4h Of March, and not on the
4th of May, when separation to human speculation sp
pears to be melancholy but accomplished fact
Prom the London silppIns Gsssus. Nay IS
THE EUROPEAN POWERS WILL SOON DECIDE.
very important announcement Is made in the news
just received by the Araba-nsmey, that the Federal
government have notified to the European Powers that
they viii hold intercourse with any State which
seenises The Southern QonniSonsra Il rsuaias 70 b