Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-11
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Will Great Britain interfere by force, in
the war now going on in the United States?
Why will Great Britain and France inter-
fereP
England-and also Franoe-needs cotton.
England has five millions of her population
engaged in the cotton manufacture; France,
perhaps, half as many. These people must
either live on the wages of labor, be sup
ported by the Government or starve. The
vast mercantile marine which the trade in
raw and manufactured cotton directly or iu-
directly keeps in service must suspend its
operations-the capital invested cease to be
productive, and the sesmen go unemployed.
The interest is vast one, and the question
momentous.
This is the reason why Great Britain
should interfere in favor of the South, to put
an end to the blockade. Likewise France,
But per contra.
Great Britain is the great Abolition coun-
try of the world. Her spinners and weavers,
cotton lords and their operatives, constitut~
ing the great middle class of the realm are
fanatical in their hatred of slavery. The very
party most affected by the privation of cot
ton is the one that sympathizes most strongly
with war by which the relation between
the Southern slave and his master may be
broken up; and this sympathy to a consider
able degree pervades the aristocracy and the
governing classes.
This is the reason why Great Britain should
interfere in favor of the North, to put an end
to slavery.
These two motives for forcble interference
do not, as some of our writers for the public
seem to suppose, sustain and support each
otEer~-are not cumulative in favor of action.
On the contrary they present Great Britain,
also France, as between two opposing forces;
each, it is true, impelling to interference; but
each also impelling to it in way opposite
to the other.
There is something like balance of mo
tives.
Great Britain and France will interfere, if
at all, either to assist the North against the
South, or to assist the South against the
North, or as enlmies to both, or as friends to
both-umpires.
The North has not asked for assistance,
and probably will not. How can they inter-
fere for her assistance without an iuvitationl
All that we have asked is sympathy--tears
and pray ers and phrases of coudolement
The South has not asked for: assistance
and there is scarcely an imaginable contin.
gency in which she would be likely to re.
ceive it if she did.
AS Great Britain and France have nj
cause of grief against the North and Soutl
collectively, there is no reason to dread thei
appearance as a common enemy.
If they interfere at all in our affairs, i
will probably be as friends of both parties
umpiIes; and this, perhaps, they have il
contemplation.
It would be extremely natural to say the
least.
The thinking classes of Great Britain and
France-the statesmen, whether in or out
of public life-they who know mankind and
history, and war, are fast arriving at the
opinion that the conquest of either one OF
the two sections of the American Union
by the other, is impossible that the
sutjection of either, to the laws
and constitution of its adversary, is thing
that can never be accomplished. Whether
or not they judge correctly, is another mat
ter; but that this is the direction which their
thoughts are taking, is a fact which it is
idle to overlook as it would be folly to deny.
They assume it as a maxim, that no reso.
lutte and determined people can be conquered
upon their own soil without a disparity of
numbers greater than exists between the
parties in the United States; and while they
know that the North possesses the advan-
1age in mears and numerical force they are
not ignorant that the South has a strength
not to be despised in her unity, energy and
desperate resolution.
Interested as Great Britain and France
are in the peace of this continent, and feeling
the pressure of the war in every department
of their material interests, the frat thought
of their governing powers would lead to the
employment of their influence at the first
favorable opportunity to bring about peace
between the contending parties; and fol
their interposition they would find for them
selves an excuse in the conviction that great
as is their interest in the return of peace
ours is infinitely greater.
That Great Britain and France WILL a
what they deem the proper time, offer the
mediation, and urge it by pretty stroni
representations, there is every reason t
believe. Their own interests will impe
them to do it. Their conceptions of our
will be not without its influence. They ma,
be doing it already; and at any rate if the,
are delaying, is only until some decisiv
battle has been fought, or some importan
event has occurred, to afford them an op
portunity to begin. What propositions vii
constitute the basis of their mediation, b
what considerations they will be urged, Q
how their Overtures will be received, it 6
yet too early to speculate.
TIE SOUTH MUST DEPEND UPoN HERsEL
The New Orleans PieayIns has been favOre
by merchant of that city with the follow
ing extract from letter from his corr
spondent in Manchester, dated July 80:
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