Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-05-23
PaoenH.s or EHE soUTHEHN

TEs tone % the British press iE by no means
ur.s1r1 in It's views upon American politics,
Oa-lsous are expressed quite as sRtagoniEtic
a. are those Of the northern and southern
journals. Y We can perceive a growing pro
elivisT IN their columns toward the cause Of
freedom and against The reign OF desPotism
which has been inaugure!ed b The LINCOLN
Governneat.
Ils -eneral disposition, IS manifested 30
far, Is OF course IS it ought to be, for neutral
ity as between the two c0ntsnding sections.
TIE telegraph Of yesterday reports his as the
position - ths London Timer, according 70 The
ell cs received By the last arrival from En-
rops. Such an attitude simply enunciates the
doctrine Of uon-inteTventlon, and signifies that
foreign powers win take 10 hand in the con-
fics with either party against The other. It
en- By no means, however, be construed into
a determination not to recognize the Confede-
rate States as an independent nation, for such
recognition would not be incompatible with
the s]lrictest possible neutrality" The late
United States Government Acknowledged the
Independence Of the Spanish American and
the Grecian colonies during their revolt, yet
that Government cannst be ssidto have inter
fsrsdIn TIE d HculHsEFti issue between the con-
tending parties.
While Great Britain might be led to side
with the North urdsr ordinary circumstances,
her absolute dependency upon the South Tor the
principal s-siels Of her has .
tendency 10 change the direction OF her
-LuNH- w~lsH=A--E-r-- -,-A aT-a~a
triumph over circumstances. English
anti-slsvsrv cznnot combat The sbomina-
tons Of protective tarifsm, as exhibited in
TIE MoEzILL BAH. The prevailing opinion is
that British interests must be protected, and,
to effect that end, the proceedings Of The Wash
ingtsn Government must be strictly gagged By
the measure Of cons r. ional and International
restraints.
The principal aspect taken Of the American
question, az would naturally be expected,
bears upon the blockade and the cotton sup
ply. The London Herald (Lord DEHBT's or
GAM sayE thEt nothing but the Imperative
da4a-otecling British Interests" would
ias ~ them iB any way in interfering. It also
calls attention TO The fact that when the Rus
sian war was inpsading, the United States
and France ds5lrss that the right to coufscste
snsmv's goods On beard neutral ships, aud
neutral goods on beard eRsmy's ships, shsuil
be waived, aud, on the faith that the United
States would be a colseuting party to a re-
vlsiaa o. El --5ilc law 81 nations, the right
wab tot only waived bot given up forever.
'To He noncompliance Ct the Usitsd States
in this esse,7 ssys lie Herald, abe pressst
Ssarr Of uar f-ifh that csuufry IS mainly ow-
ing, for tbe UlIa3 States may either accept
or reject he Paris declarations Of the gree
power and toe rejection involves an inevita-
bic suspension Of the Gotten trade"
This Journal is still stronger in the follow
ing remarkably significant sentence az
cotton T. not 10 Be got BY fair meaas use mast
H5i szuPls to uss JOal MEAS, or the daily
brad Of fogr or foe millions Of The vorkiag
populafioB sill Be at sEcs stopped" To
blockade the cotton ports, 1t further scknOvl-
edges, is 70 destroy the British cotton trade, to
involve, not In remote, but 10 imnedists dest-
triton, several millions Of the British people.
Ths London SfaasaTS calls attention 10 The
advanced riaks charged By underwriters on
ali shipments TO America, and says that
"surcly the government will not Be behind
The underwriters in speaking out, that the
business q the country UUy not be unneees-
s1rily impsdsd or impsriled.o of British
ships,7 It cozIages, care to carry cotton un-
moleslsd fron the Southern s,a5oard, the
sooner TIE fact is knox ne better; but r. on
the eortrsry, British saius carrying cotton on
tue Atlantic are to be liable to capture, The
sOonsr Manchester and tks country prepare
for bad lines the bettsr.'
The Liverpool Timer says that tbs effects Of
the "Iamsntsble strife1 are already beginning
to reach tasrs, and it ir clear that they have
sely diseoursgiug prospects to look in the
face arising ont Of the unhappy position %
affairs this sido OF the Atlantic. It adds:
ave have noW only twenty-thres weeks con-
sumption o. American cotton ih thiE country
snd a. sss, which mus. speedily compel TIE
spiDnfrs TO lessen thsir produc.ion-sn event
only Inferior in The misery It will cause to The
civil stTifs now passing 10 America .
there are, il addition to there commercial
views, numerous other protests against the in
sane war policy OF The Rump Government.
lis unconstftutionaIty is- ss fully appreciated
BY some OF the English papers as by US Of tue
soTIT-- Lzn3on Chronicle, while confess
sing its hearty sya5Es 3sfFsss5fism
OF TIE North, boldly asserts that "the United
States is not q military sosernment-it is not
constructed for tue coercion Of any large mass
OF fts own people-and though the South was
wrong, acco ling to the letter q The Law, yet
the spirit % American Institutions sanctioned
the suecessivs sscessions.v After indulging
in some slHfct1res on the rashHsss Of he tede-
raj authorities, ere Cronfels says: "Ths con-
duet q the southern Government has, on tie
contrary, been marked By moderation ahd
good senss. They chung to no hetiOns, and
we're hampered by no legal ignorance Of plain
facts. They wanH1 l-s7s the Union, and
tbsv ;sst 2. They wanted 70 take Fort Sum
Ter and they took Il. They wished The border
States 70 ioin them, and, BY prselpitating
a collision, they seem to have got them-un-
less. Indeed, sons unexpected good sense at
Wssbineton prevents them at the eleventh
.hous."
qne Liverpool H,reurH an cid and inhasn-
tisl paper noted FOR iiu antiptthy to slavery,
saws On the same subject "The North may
CONQUER the South, bat conquest Is not federal
union. The voluntary union Of free ana equal
republics lie at an end already. and nothing
that heetu and rmie can do viii have any
tenssncy to cement it sfreth. The American
Constitution includes 90 provision for the ad-
ministrstion Of dissfscted dsPendsnciss- 4
great military monarchy may rule a Poland or
a Vsnets by the sword, but New England ara
New York cao never make a gauisonsd pro-
vince Of South Csrolina. In short, as we have
more than once pointed out, the work Of de