Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-10
sGLAND AND rHE soUrHERs covrrDrRAcY.

ENGLAND AND TIE SOUTHERN C0NFEDrRA cY
Cores Advertiser, Published 10 Liverpool one of thu
principal organs Of The Britsh Commercial ress con-
tains in recent nunber long article In reply % Ca
ius H. Osys recent lester 70 The 2ims. We mako the
following extracts
Ia such contest vsged BY the United States Govern.
ment agans. ind pendent and sovereign States might
not right" must be the motto Of the Northern
and the sympathy Of this government 10 vainly invoked
In their favor But England asked In very tall" let
Ter sddressed TO her by the United States Ambassador 70
the Court Of st. Petersburg, If she sord 70 oead
'the great nation which will still be the United Slater
even should they lose part Of the South" Yes, 10
stits of the ose hurdred millions Of unborn men,
which Mr.. Clay msrshals In battle array Against
us, only fifty years before their birth, our great
nation, formed Of no incoherent particles weak
ened BY no cliims Of independent sovereignty In
any of her geographical divisions but strong In Der
ndivsble unity can afford do that which she believes
70 be right and to acknowledge the DE- asfo Government
Of the Confederate States without departing hairs
breadth from that Line Of strict neutrality witch In this
deporabe war she has chalked for herself Least
all should her aid be invoked BY those who have oss
enacted .stils tariff With the deliberate and svosed
intention Of excluding from their markets the staple pro-
ducts Of her industry. S Mr.. Cay appeals " 20 aid
the United States on the ground that they are ow bs
eu'tansr". We presume be 70 aid that country
by active operation In enabling to violate the great
principle Of liberty that oil power u derived from the
consent Of the governed"
II this be not the OIL ct Of Mr.. Clay, We are ct los
TO discover what be has written for aud feel be will
not be more successful n answering this than be has been
IN answering that other question with which be CON.
mences his letter-"Wbat are fGhtpg forT We have
no intention OF entering uto "a prsical wal vito our
race and ally" We never dreampt of capturing and
selling In ports the properly, or Of endangerpg the
lives Of pescesble citizens of America oil the world"
We have proclaimed neutrality add authoritauvey
commanded every British sutsct 70 abstsin from ell In.
reference In the unhappy quarrel shich has made The
men OF our own race AZ the other side Of the Atlantic
the deadly oed Of EACH other. WHIST hen has the letter
been wIittop for, Il not to coax or scare us from
our world-ipprov.d policy Of neuiTLitys Where, To-
deed, should british hoaor place Great Britain In this
contest but in the very place she occupies 1t this mo-
ment-that OF neutral that Of friend Of both par
ties, who will cteerfuy and promptly sckuows5Ss the
government or governments which shall oullive this
everto be-rsgretted war wti,h must Is Il progresses
tend to dsLumanzs these who engaged in 1t, ard
for the advancement Of great holy cause imbrse
brothers nards in brothers blood gss ,As venerable
Brougaan-tte :reatsst enspion Of freedom, the great
Get chain beskef of the oppressed and especially Of the
oppressed nfgro race thar the world ever saw-even
he has stamped with hi, siicere approval the policy Of
neutrality adopted BIZ Cur cdYeinAleyt
The le:se WHICH has called for tbesa observations is
more remarkable for It's tzh sounding phrases tban for
solid arguments, and the writer rot be offended II
We tel him that the United Kirgdom-not Rincdoms-
of Great Britain and Ireland il the best conseryator of
her own honor, the best uss Of her own interest," and
that s she right Loyalty salues the Stars and Sripoa
so che reserves tbe RIGHT % salute the almetto shd
the shd.en " Toe osta scSsed il retaining tic uds.
pendent position Which they have assumed In forming
themselves into new union OF Confederate States We
have to deal not only With the political but with the COM
mcrcial bearing Of the quarrel and were not certain
line of policy forced upon by honor In opposition
to our interest," in the more commercial sense of the
word, We should Immediately dispatch feet which
would efectualy open to our commercial nav; eve.y
haIbor Of the Sonth