The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-06

Under this caption we find the following
editorial in L'Opinion Nationale of the Sd
of April This journal Is generally held to
reflect the opinions of the French Govern
ment. Our translation is Intentionally lit
eral and close to the style of the original.
The last news from the United States in
forms US that the Provisional Government
established at Montgomery has commis-
stoned Mesers. Dudley Madd, L. Yara Y,
and P. A. Rost to England and Franc
order t. ehI ain tie -ecog1itiOn of the s.
ern Confederecy rs an Independent Sta.>
and to conclude the commercial arrange
ments 10 o mutual interest.
Before discussing the value of the COM
mercial advantages offered with so much
empressemeRt by the slaveites (esciaUagiStes) J.,
it is important for Us to examine by what
! title they claim their independence as a ma
ton.
The American Republic is composed of
thirty-four States, united by virtue of a
compact consented to by all No privilege
! is conceded to one which may be refused to
another. There is not in their midst any
distinct natiOnality-no conquered people.
! These thirty-four States are independent
of each other in all questions purely local.
| They have their special Governments, their
Legislatures, their judges, and their militia !;
but in their relations with foreign powers
under the name of the United States, one
single nation, leaving one single Govern
! ment, established at Washington.
If then, minority of these States enter
into open rebellion against the Federal Gov
ernment, established by the majority, that
rebellion has not the character of a struggle
between two hostile nations. France and
England may protter their good Offices to
reconcile the adversaries and prevent the ef-
| fusion of blood; but, if a minority of the
States take fancy to erect themselves into a
distinct nation, foreign powers can, in JUS
tice, only recognize their independence after
the majority of the States themselves have
done so.
fisk or seven cantons Of the HeIvetic
Confederacy should separate tomorrow
from the other cantons, and form distinct
confederation, would France or England, in
spite of the protestations Of the majority of
the cantons, consider themselves as having
the right to recognize the separation imme-
diately as an accomplished fact?
1t would then become necessary to recog-
nize the independence of the principality of
Wales if it should take fancy to separate
from England
1t would be dangerous to establish pre-
CGuGuL VI lulS hf1tli AOt IL NOGltl DG SIfInR
encouragement to rebellion, and discontent-
ed rninoritia7 u-OIIIsi i--.o. F.zzlrard consider
Themselves as Holding the right % ttS5
themselves with violence from rules estab-
lished by the maorities.
The Confederate States are not merely in
the situation of q factious minority-they
are themselves oppressors they withdraw
from the Union because the North has lib
eral tendencies, and endeavors to constitute
a nation of equals while they desire re-
public composed OF masters and slaves, of
the privileged and the parian, the execu-
toner and the victim.
Impelled by a strange and fatal blindness,
the Confederate States prohibit the enfrau-
chisement of negroes, just at the time that
! Russia proclaims emancipation to her serts.
| They will not even allow the manumissiOn
| of a slave who had saved his masters life.
! They ordain that every free negro, if he be
! a stranger, who enters their territory, shall
/ be sold as a slave, no matter what his pre-
| text may be.
| In 1859 the authorities of Louisiana,
! disregarding all considerations of interne-
tional treaties, issued two writs against NJ.
de Meian, French consul at New Orleans,
because he had received in his inviolable
domicile, and sheltered from ill-treatment,
a French sailor, who had the misfortune to
be negro.
An article of the Constitution, adopted
by the Southern Congress, prohibits the
slave trade but the ancient federal laws
prohibited as well, under pain of DEATH
and yet it was carried on upon a large
scale.
A society has existed for some years il
the South, known by the name of the
" African Labor Supply Association" o
which NJ de Bow is President, and it en-
braces several of the members of the gov
ernment of Montgomery, and most Of th'
members of the new Congress. The Trl'
Southron, of Vicksburg, Miss, published
18th of June, 1856, the statutes of this so
ciety, founded with the avowed intention O
encouraging the importation of negroe
from Africa
Mr.. jefferson Davis, President of th'
Southern Confederation, has always shown
himself favorable to the re-establishment Q
the slave trade; and the Vice President, MI
A Fl. Stephens, said recently in a meeting
! held in Augurta: " For the last ten years
: have constantly said that it is necessary t
q increase the number of slave States; but t
coIonize the new territories we must hav
new importations of African negroes"
Encouraged so openly, and by the mos
influential men, the trade is carried en- with
out any secresy. A Texan Journal, th
: Richmond Reporter, published in its nun
d Der of January IA, 1859, the following al
: nouncement:
e "FoR SALE.-4O0 African negroes, latel
: disembarked on the coast of Texas. Tt
a said negroes will be sold on very reasonab
terms-one third down, the rest at one, tw
and three years. bearing interest at s p'
!, cent For more full particulars, address
% . X. c., Houston, or L. R. G., Galveston"
i These States, whose past is so deplorabl
and whose present position is so false, no
come to implore the moral support of En-
:, land and France. They forget that Fran
a a and England have imposed enormous sacI
l. fees upon themselves, in order to aboli
slavery in their possessions beyond the Sc
a They forget that England claims to be t.
an most liberal nation on the globe, and tn
ly France bestows her blood and treasure
Il aid the oppressed people in recovering the
liberty.
It is known that the liberal powers
Europe preserve friendly relations with CT
tain countries, although slavery is still e
forced therein, as was the case with t