The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-07
From Me london Shirping Gdzette Mdy 25l
THE EUROPEAN POWERS WILL soon DE

be traceabIe In the event Of the contest is ouas
tiOn which time alone can determine
From the London Shipping Gazette Mry25l
THE EUROPEAN POWERS WILL SOON DE
eide.
| very important announcement is made in the
news just received by the Arabia-namely, that
the federal government have notified to the Euro
pean Powers that they will hold no intercourse
with any State which recognizes the Southern
Commissioners. 1t remains to be seen how far this
threat of diplomatic rupture will operate. The
Southern Commissioners have already reached Eu-
rope and only await the decisions of the various
governments to which they have been accredited.
The course taken by the Cabinet of Washington
VIII naturally bring the matter to issue, ard
iorce every government having diplomatic
engagements with the United States to take de
| cided course.
~ From he London Post Mqy22I
| INDEPENDENCE OF THE SOUTHERN GOV
| ERNMENT NTACkNOWLEDGED As DEFAGTO.
:" Recognition of the Southern Confed-
| eracy by the great Powers of Europe would give
an amount OF moral support to the cause of separa-
tlan 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 on the subject, who
IN reply, stated that no application had been made
by the Confederate States for the recognition
| OF their Independence, and that the Government
| oi the United States mig rest assured that no
| nasty or precPiate action on the subject would be
| taken by the Emperor. But NJ. ThOuvenel most
properly added that 'the practice and usage of the
present century had fully established the right Of
de Jdcfo Governments to recognition when proper
case was made out tor the decision of foreign Pow
| ers II we refer to the cases of Greece and Tur-
| Key, and Holland and Belgium, we find that both
| these apply to nations which had been united in a
! compact more close than any federative compact
] The recognition of the thirteen North American
colonies by France, ard the recognition of Mexico
and the South American provinces formerly held
by SPAN, furnish a rule which the Government of
Mr. Lincoln cannot, with anv regard to consist
ency, afford to disregard. Neither in France nor
| m 1T,tr
nounced; but the time is rapidly arriving when the
question must be cJnsdered; for no one at the pre-
sent time can doubt or question the de facto indie
pendence OF the Southern States. As an exp0si-
ton ct the rke policy of the federal government
Mr. Stewards despatch is worthy of deep and care
ini consideration; but it would have been better
timed and more likely to have produced some effect
II 1t had been written the 4th of March, and not
on the 4th Of May, when separation to human
speculation, appears to be a melancholy but accom-
plished fact.
1t has been supposed by some at the
North that only the "aristocratic classes" in
England were siding toward the Southern
Contederacy, but the following article from
a journal which represents the democracy,
or radicals, goes to show that the North has
no more to expect from St. Giles than it has from
St James
From the London Telegraph, 22dI
The despatch (trOm Mr.. Ssward) to Mr.. DAYTON !
dated at Washington on the 4th of Nav, betrays |
the extreme anxiety of the American Government |
to make the European Cabinets believe the main |
tenance of the Union be bevond any possible |
chance-beyond so much speculative discussion |
But, while asserting that bnundless confidence he
labors to prevent even such de facfo guion of
the Southern Confederation Lord John Russell |
has already announced, and as no European gov
ernment, responsible for the safety of a mere mer-
camille marine, could possibly refuse. This ankle
ty in itself is significant fact. We have al
ready seen how The public in America is told
though unotiically that the representative Euro
pean governments have ''consened" 20 tie South |
ern blockade; how falsely know, and all Ameri-
ca must equally know the truth from the public |
declaration of Lord John Russell, and the obscrva
tions of NJ Thouvenel to Mr. Faulkner.
The London Standard is equally unkind:
We hold ourselves, in spirit as in deed, aloof from |
both sides, in a hegun with too much bravadn |
on the part of the statesmen of the North. We |
are at once unconvinced and unmoved by the some |
what impertinent letter of Mr.. CIav, which was !
hardly worth a column of the Times. 1t is nom |
to talk of fighting for liberty and nationality
1t is not the part Of good and brave men to boast
that they are certain to conquer. The argument |
that England must help the North for fear lest the
South should conquer West Indies, was hardly |
worth putting u paper. just idle is it to threat
en- us with the future vengeance Of a possible hun
dred millions of Americans Il century hence-whO
1t ever they called into being will probably |
be divided into half dozen republics and as many |
empires.