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TrOn the Paris Journal des Debat,. Aug. 4
President Lincoln has advanced-in perfect good
taith we have not the least dOubt-in His last
message that the uprising of the South was b1t a
reDeHlon f0mented by the ambition of A han dful of
Aglatofs IL t were 80, if in fact the mass of the
white population Of the South were Indifferent 10
the independence of the Copfederate Stsfss . e.
reverses on the field of battle added to The enor
nous losses which such 3 war occasions. would
sufnee to provoke in the South a reaction on The
neeis OF Which peace would be undoubtedly made
Due fever confidence We may have in the loyal
" OF President Lincoln, find it impossible to con
slder his assertion well founded. Doubtless the
armed rising Of the South has been aided and Or
ceuraged by leaders; but it is never otherzisa in
~ unuertsKlbgs to which nations commit them
serves. AND what the leaders, whom Mr. Lincoln
eliminates have done IN this instance eorreSnon5s
eNaeuy with the public sentiment with the on;ninns
and passions of the immense majority of the inbsb
IlHnts OF tnst portion Of the United Ssates All the
private leters received IN Europe depct the Soptb
as having but one thought-that of separation al
as desiring Il with feEerish energy which ear
not bear discussion
These letters assert the determination evervvb.-a
IN the South to maintsin every cost the fpn4,,rs
which has separated those States from tbei,. f,
brethren Of the North. Il is reasen whv hostiIi-
ties are not near termination, however denIora /
bic they may be.
The correspondence from the North is not less sig
nincant than that from the South in the sense that
it reveals, among the people Of the North a septi
ment " nleh explains and to certain extent gives I
grounds for and justifiss by reaction the deteTun
alton Of the Seath All the letters from the North
bear witness to the wish In that Dorfion Of re |
Union, to treat the Southern States as Mr. LincoIn
INTENDS that Is to say as rebels who must be forced
70 surrender at discretion. They wish 10 subiupats
them, intending, no doubt, r. show theselyes Glenn
ent after they shall have submitted. But every one
who knows the American race and who has had an
opportunity Of observing it. at the South especalIv
VIII agree that nothing more needed t. exasper-
ate the South and drive il TO extremes The South
nay be yanquished on the battle field it has lust
been lsluding 20 Garnett's defeatl; il viii be again:
we would not wish however to guarantee that r. I
will not have lts turn. But U7Rq1lished Bo2 ,qt,
BE- cR neceT submit to The North, Il zig accent no
mercy from The capitals Of Virgininis and south
Carolina nay lAl u morrow Into the hands o. the
North and be garrisoned by militia from New York
and Boston, the South will not be put down for sll
that. When proud and energetic natlon has taken
determination to be independent there is no way
. make " DOW is head, unless recourse be had to
hose atrop GUS syste natsed seventies which East
srn despots have successfully employed towards .
populations without moral force but which civil l
zed governments repudiate, and to which the Wash
ngtOn government win never seriously appeal !
Hence il is that the Question stated a. IL has q
,een by President Lincoln is incapable of solution
Furthermore, who can say that Il :
he present contest IS much prolonged TIE SolaA 1ao1td =
.ot find ReslOise soma po1peTfI aKV among hs great
teIePean ssa1esy Does any one
would be content to reeog ize, for an indefinite pc
iod, the blockade established BY the North at Y
southern ports through which cotton flows to- .
wards the European markets; blockade which il Y
me Of the principal features of the system "
4 warfare adopted against the SJuth? 1t
nay be doubted that they would 1eyuect A
{ long, eUeB though the coTdhiqn Of effective
ess o0ere PERFECTLY fulfilled The more efa,-
i've it will be the less will Great britain bear it for
would infalhbly out Hthe means Of supply from b.
he most important Of her industrial branches that d
which gives her exports value of than biz IS
ion Of francs. We shall see it in four or five Vi
1onts when the stock Of cotton at present sto.ed is
j the warehouses Of England will draw near ex- Ia
ausfiOn Now, then, if England declared to the s.
Washington government that she ceased to reeog- n
lie the blockade Of the Southern ports and if b
'hich would be only means of giving force to the Il
were to add, that if the North did u
OF raise the blockade Of its accord she would
end fleet to put an end to it, what consequences
ould follOW2 f pl