Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08
The Policy of European Powers Toward
Secession.

Secession.
The position which the great European
Powers will take toward the Confederate
States, is indicated by the communication of
Lord Lyons to the Government at Washing
ton, that the British Government will re-
cognize no blockade of the Confederate ports
that is not made actual by adequate force,
as well as by the tone of the British press,
and by an article in lie Pays, of Paris, the
organ of the Emperor. 1t shows the shall
lowness of almost the whole press of the
North, in supposing that anti slavery prin-
ciple would influence foreign Governments
on this question.
1t will be seen by the following extract
from an article in the London Herald, that
the phraseology of Secession, which talks OIL
Estate sovereignty" and delegated rights"
and a "confederacy of Independent States"
which has theoretically changed the nature
Of our Government at home, and brought
back the old broken. down Confederacy, has
demoralized our Government in the eyes Of
foreigners. These terms, which here are the
u%nmeaning driveling of ignorance, or the
sharp practice of knavery, are there accepted
as genuine things; and it is argued, ofcourse,
that if it is a Confederacy ofsovereign States,
and there is no right to use coercion to retain
States in the Union, Great Britain has a
rightto enter into commercial relations with
any of the seeded States, and to make any
alliance with them.
All this was virtually conceded by Mr..
Buchanan's annual Message that is, it fol-
lowed from the doctrines there laid down, as
we showed at the time; and we also called
attention TO the same style of Secession
lingo used by Mr.. Flourney in a reported
conversation with the French Emperor on
our troubles. The London Herald says;
"The United States, so long as they CO.
hered, felt strong enough 10 stand alooffrom
the public law of Europe but the Secession
movement, besides opening up a door for the
without exception, the law of nations, is
likely to raise questions of international
right, in which we shall have the deepest in-
terest. The United States Government was
originally founded upon certain delegated
powers by a community Of sovereign States,
who have still exercised their independent
sovereignty, and it is held by the seeding
States that the delegated powers may now be
withdrawn. If we must assent to this right,
we may claim admission to the Southern
ports to carry merchandise on the American
principle of free ships making free goods
while, if we deny the right, we shall, no
doubt, exclude ourselves from abe Southern
trade"
The London Post the organ of Lord Pal
merston, apprehends that in the case Of civil
war between the States, the cotton produc-
ton would cease for the time, and the ma.
tional prosperity of England would be en-
daDgered and it continues:
1.-THE cotton trade would be paralyzed,
and the sword without and terror within
would tell with equally disastrous effects in
Lancashire as in South Carolina; and En-
gland, therefore, independently of all higher
considerations, has q selfish motive in pre-
serving the peace"
lie Pays argues the question from the
stand point Of the current ignorance, which
supposes that because a preponderance of
the agricultural exports to Europe are of
Southern produce, the South consumes the
imports of foreign goods. AS this is the
prevalent idea here, where anybody who
will open his eyes can know better, it is per-
haps eXcusable in a foreign journal.
lie Pays supposes that the free States manu-
facture every thing that they use, and
therefore that the only interest which France
can have is in the trade with the South.
This is very similar to the magnitude with
which the Southern trade looms up in some
imaginations here, though it is still more
absurd. The laborers of the South, and the
poor whites consume ne French goods; nor
do the small planters in the interior, gener-
ally. Cut off the Northern consumption of
French goods, and it would reduce the trade
more than three. fAhs. But lie Pays is in
as blissful ignorance of this, as most Of our
American newspapers.
The article will be found in another
column.