Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-09-25
From tho Richmond Examiner.
The South and North.

safad To the Southern Confcderacy, comes ap.
/ rrorristely from her Catholic NIajesty's Cap
ain-General in Cuba. The Confederate flag
! is to be treated With nil the rerpect due to q
national flag, and foreign Consu!s are prohi-
bited from interfering with Confederate Tcs-
sells engaged in legitimate commerce in that
island. If our flag Is to he recognized IL
! Cuba, it follows, o: Course, iAat it will he re-
coeni1cd ii. Ill the poIt ot tue Spanish Queen.
II recognized in Spain, the :irnc cannot be
distant when it will be recognized also i'll the
ports of Great Britain and France: for the
policy of Spain, France aud Great Britain is
too closely as.ilniatrd, in virtue Of the inti-
mate confidence subsisting between the courts
OF the three countries, for rule to prevail in
the ports Of one of the countries which will
not soon obtain im those OF the rest.
Recognition by such power as Spain is
no: thing 10 he held in light estimation, so
fer as the source from which il proceeds is
concerned. No country during the last ten
years has made such rapid strides in prosper
ity, wealth and power as the Spanish PENN
sula. The United States itself is not tc be
excepted from the general remark. Spain,
in lnte years, has entered upon . acw era OF
existence. Order begins TO reign in a land
that was long subjected 10 the ravagrs CT for
cisn invasion and the ,lcsola,iun Of civil var.
Her complication for SO many centuries in
the rival politics of France, Austria and Great
Britain, hes reduced her until lately to con.
di,iuu Of hclples&ncss, poverty aud rrostra-
tinn, as laincntahle as that Of Italy Itself.
IIor resurrection from the moral and political
death which was go lous her lot has at length
been accomplished, and she is rafiilJ rising.
% her Gurlncr dignity and Importance among
the powers Of Europe. licr internal pros
JertY las hecolre 50 we'll csts blished that she
begins again to look abroad after interests
that have been languishing ii1r centuries, and
there is no power in Europe which is more
rapidly developing an American policy. We
ri! know will, what ind ION she received
our opposition ior the purchase of Cuba u
few years ago. Instead Of ced;ng present COL
unirs, she is looking forward TO the acqniSi.
nf others and she not long ago surprised, and
in their secret hearts glati!icl, the world by
the seizure Of Spanish San Domingo, withlle
intention of Tedncing he whole Of Tho! island
HITLER her oH:rl jurisdiction.
The li!api'latei condition of the political
a..l social fabric in Mexico renders the All
cXarlOil q iIiat country 10 aon!c' stronger
power great political necessity ard an early
;,olitical event; and all Intelligent observers
Of the times are Of opinion that that unhappy
country will soon, with the consent ol Eng
anl and France, become again adcnen''ency
Of lie Spanish crown. Tic close alliance
ssbsistiug between Great Britain, France and
Srain.-not only extending, as u British
statesman remarked few years ago, to Euro.
pcan affairs but embracing all parts of the
earth in its contemplation-is one ofthe lead
lag features Of European politics. So well
understood is this alliance that the action of
auy one If those powers in any quarter Of the
globe, is universally received us Indicating
tae rylicy Of AL three.
TIE proclamation Of the Cuban Captain
General would, in i,scls, br o? subordinate
Importance bn! he acts, Of course, upon in
struc:ions from Madrld and 10 step would
he taken aG.:;"cti::g ;hc relations CT that King.
| du;a 10 he >rAat conflict in .lme'ico, a con-
test which tyci;rs ti,a solicitn!e III European
powers in lnast in!easc degree, without fall
consultation and Thorough Understanding
! with France an,i tiseo: Britain.
We do not know whether the snhjcct ut
recognition BY these tl:ree great powers should
excite any great solriiule il the South. VIC
arc masters Of our position; and s1o'cr Or
later that fu! recognition Of our inl=rnndcncc
must come, which, meantime, cancot lose
much of is value by baing deferred. The
Norl. is cnsuring our recognition b7 main
tanning the blockade Of our ln:ts. II the
blockade were removed, we Should Le Obliged
ourselves to establish an cmbarYo il order To
cx,ort recognition from the European powers.
This measure would be attended by very
great internal discomfort and might, ly the
intensity of this discomfort, epdanser the sta.
bility Of our new Government. 1t is the
North, by its blockade, which is eytor.ing
from Europe recognition Of our iudepeu-
dence. teaching them, as it does, by tho ez'
perimcntun. crucis, the necessity Of our great
staples to their own existence. France de,
Tives IN annual revenue Of 5s,o0o,0o0 from
her monopoly Of tho tobacco trade. The
Yankees, by blockadins the shipment OF to-
bacco TO that Empire, enlist Napoleon in the
interest of our flag, Great Britain and her
people derive revenue of $3.50 900 900 per
annum from American cotton and it is that
mammoth interest which the Yankees arc as.
sailing by their blockade.
The political power Of Napoleon, the man
ufacturing wealth of Great Br'Hin ard Franco,
orc founded upon our two great staples OF
cotton and tobacco. Arc ne not, then, mas
tecs of our position? Is there need for any
impatiencc or haste in securing the rccoSni-
ton of these nuwers The blockade is
better ncgotia,or Eur us than hundred min
listers plcnipotentiary. Cotton anu tohacco
are of more worth to us, as evidence OF ON