The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-04-22
our TERMS
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
Opiniop Of Lord PalmerstOn's Or
gam
Editor and ,Pyopylelos.

On this subject the London Morn
ing Post, Of the 22d, also remarks:
The time has not yet arrived when
foreign nations can either be asked
or expected to enter into diplomatic
relations with the new confederation
which has sprung up in the Gulf
States. The negotiations OF Mr.. jet
ferson Davis and the Congress as
sembled at Montgomery, are at
present confined to the object of
obtaining from the Federal Govern
ment that recognition of the right of
secession which in reality would con-
vert Il once powerful national union
into a mere league ofsoyereign states.
each member OF which would be JUS
tilted in Withdrawing, at any moment,
from the association. In the pre-
sence of the exciting and, at the
same time, melancholy intelligence
which every mail brings from Ameri-
ca. it is curious to observe the care
full manner in which all parties in the
British Parliament have wisely and
generously abstained from the eN-
preston of any opinion which might
in any sense elnbarrass the action
either of the Federal Government or
it's leaders OF the Southern Confede-
racy. With the exception of IL
question respecting the collection OF
import duties at Charleston, and a
notice calling upon the British Gov
ernment to recognize The indepen-
dence of the new republic, no I'm
rHsh Minister nor member OF Par-
lament has said one word which,
either directly or Indirectly, caia bear
upon the unhappy and apparently
irreconciiab!e differences which at
tlict thc people Of the United States
The reason for this abstinence is OBJ
vious. The English people and their
representatives in Parliament know
that any expression of sympathy OF
antagonism to either party would not
only be interpreted rs an unjustitia-
bic interference, but as an act OF tol,
ly certain to provoke the Jealousy
and the indignation of sensitive
people.
But whilst the North, with its hos
tile Morrill, tariff, is recurring TO anc
extending that system Of protection
which has estranged the South, ane
must tend to ALLEVIATE the sympathies
Of this country, whose commerce 1t Is
so certainly calculated to injure, tht
new confederation has endeavored tt
place itself in the most favorable hgh
towards foreign nations by repeating
the navigation laws which confined
the coastins trade TO American ship:
and bv providing for the free naviga
ton Of the Mississippi. Every ont
who is acquainted with public Law
5 knows that riverian conventions usu
alIy occasion more trouble and diff
Guilty than any other species OF inter
national arrangement. The case o
the Danube affords an apt illustration
The policy of the free commercial in
tercourse which in these two particu
lars the South has inaugurated Is II
every respect creditable to the wis
dom of Mr.. Jefferson Davis and hi
colleagues, whilst. on the other hand
the federal Legislature, by adopting
perfectly opposite course, has justified
If anything can, that movement who!
has led to successful Instruction and
in all probability, permanent separa
ton. When the proper time arrive
for the adjustment OF the foreign re
larions of the new confederation, in
dependence will not be the less ikel,
to be recognised because it is accom-
panied by an evident anxiety to asser
those principles Of commercial free
dom which in themselves are equal
just and polite.