Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-03-07
FRANCE AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF
NORTH AMkRlCA.

The following article from the Paris Pays has suif
Gent significance to Justify its insertion in our columns
II copying it, the New York Herald says lie Pays "is the
organ of Louis Napoleon, and edited by the who
writes the EmterOrs pamphlets" The Herald con-
cludes that the article foreshadOws the part Louis NJ
poleon is soon to pl,y on this contiaent:
Translated from lie Pays OF Paris, Feb Is for the New
York Herald
Will the revolution of the dangers Which would
10 Europe from breakup the other side OF the
be pow rul enough to modify the too hastily aud gene
rally exI ressed impression in favor of the Nor hern
Sttess Without much hoping it sincerely desire it;
for the public opinion OF Europe could by pronOuncing
itself i'm time arrest a catastrophe which seriously
compromise its commercial interests
lis scarcely year since the Emperor with the bold
ness which springs from profound conviction Inaugural
ted a new commercial policy, by adopting an economical
system destined TO give agriculture and trade an i'm
pulse which would place France in the front rank among
commercial nations and develop her maritime relations
in all quarters Of the world Prohibition has ceased,
and the commercial treats OF January 3, 1850 opens
way calculated TO e-esabsh the natural order OF things
and conduct France gradually but inalby, TO reform
the most complete and above all, the most radical
Everything coaduces teead hither. Her nature her
conformation and her features show US the principle OF
commercial liberty written in indelibe characters
These ideas naturally lead to examine whether Eu-
ropean predictions and interests not on the wrong
tr ne Of the Northern States.
The Northern section cannot change It's commercial in
stincts they consequence OF Its very nature IL
will be after, well before the dissolution OF the
Union in future il has ben in the past country
adapted exclusively 10 the raising Of grain, with COM
mercia and manufacturing population, who struggle OBJ
snaely to obtain for their merchant marine the enre
OF the traffic and transportation between Europe and the
So thern States her policy would lead her even to thro"
her manufactured productions on the Southern Market
IN VFnV
productions of European manufactures from entering
In other words the North does now, and will henceiorth
more and more compete with European industry Tor al
ready in deau; OF the monopoly of manufactured pro-
ducts towards which she is tending she becomes oil ne
cesty an intermediary between the European manuac
turers aud the Southern consumers.
la $50 aud IS years dearth in Europe the NORTH
ern States able to supply markets with gram or
two yeas relatively low prices in spite oil the increase
in freight IT, then the development OF their trade ana
agriculture supported BY the sympathies OF Europe con-
tnued to progress their prosperity would be very Sc
rous danger 10 for sooner or later II "ouiu eau "
the invasion OF our own markets.
The South on the contrary, produces two great staples
which are Europe, objects OF the highest necessity
and tobacco. She is producer o neeesSares anu
a consumer Of manufactured productions has u ever
been seriously contempated the eommouon which the
failure of single cotton crop-wbich supports so many
branches Of trade and, directly or indirectly anorHs
employment 10 more than ten million Of hancs-woniu
prOducey Hive we, at the same time thought Oh Tue
disturbance which would be created in the habits OF tie
working classes by the suppression of that other are
which Is 10 them so great a source OF comfort!
AIn regard TO tobacco without mentioning the deficit in
the State budget which would result from it, annihla-
ton could our populations easily forego pro iuct
which more perhaps than sugar. coffee and cotton con-
sttutes for them as imperiOus necessity. There Is no
need disguise H. the deprivation Of those two staples
would assume amongst the character Of public c.
lsmity And yet such would be the inevitable end spec