Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-07-04

contrary was cruel islander, and should be accordingly denounced.
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 ARKANSAS WAR BoNDs.-The commu- nication of A. P. M. in to-day's paper is rather too peppery to meet our full in- dorsement. There is some force in what it says. We respectfully suggest to our contemporaries thoughout the State to ex- relation to bonds, and, if they think it pro- per, to warn their readers not to let specu- lators make money by shaving those which may fall into the hands of the poor.
 Lincolns Policy Beneficial to the South
 Lincoln and his cabinet have, after all, proved themselves very useful friends ot the Confederate States. Every measure they have resorted to, has tended to our profit and increase. But for the war pro- clamation we should not have had the two most powerful States of our confederacy- Virginia and Tennessee. spirit of con cession. a promise of settlement and the delusions of the peace conference would have long delayed, if they had not event. ually prevented, the accession of these two powerful States. And as to Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, where there now exist powerful secession parties. previous to the proclamation the submissionists had undisputed sway Eventually these States must either attach themselves to the Con- federate States, or send their slave popu- lation southward, which will give our con federacy great accession of wealth. Mis- souri is at present in arms. Her people are with us, and if properly sustained and supported by Tennessee and Arkansas, there can be no uncertainty in regard to her ultimate political connections.
 Next in their plan of furthering and aid ing our cause, comes the Lincoln blockade. The South has no shipping and raises an abundance of all the supplies of life. An entire interruption of our commerce will beggar the civilized world, without serious 1 ly iniuring us. We can we'll afford to store our cotton in the warehouse and live very comfortably. We shall have less money, but an abundance of everything necessary to support comfortable existence. Our corn and wheat crops of this year are more than sufficient to feed and fatten our whole population. Exporting nothing, provi- sions will be cheaper than they have been for years. Our planters can well afford to reduce their sugar, tobacco and cotton crops, in order to produce more of the ar ticles needed for home consumption. Of iron, and all the metals and materials for manufacturing, we have an abundance,- But meantime, how will it be with the manufacturers of the North and Europe deprived of our cotton? How will it be with the ship owners and sailors of New England, deprived of our export trade?
 Another, and an immediate effect of this blockade, which might otherwise been post poned for some years, will be the aliena- tion of the principal powers of Europe from the old government, and a consequent sympathy and cordial good feeling for the Confederate States. The British and French people, when they see their capital unproductive, their mills silent and their laborers filling the poor houses, and per haps threatening their peace and social or. der, will have no difficulty in attaching the blame for all these consequences to the really guilty parties. If such feeling do not lead to open confict between these pow CTS and the government of Lincoln, the spirit and policy of their governments must have undergone great change. If they do not hasten to recognize the government of the Confederate States, they will com init greater folly than has ever yet been committed by the rulers of these nations. When our government is recognized, we shall be sadly deficient in diplomacy if we fail to use our opportunities in the nego- tiation of treaties which will greatly harrass and eventually ruin our enemy The con- federacy has but one great need to main tain itself against, and that is strong na.. val force. This can be supplied by Great Britain and France. Whilst no move at the South could, at the risk of conferripg any power or of forming any political re- lations with these powers, consent to accepr any aid from them, 1t would be wise and practicable to form certain commercial al- liances, by which the aid we need might be procured. The feeling engendered by the baseness, babarism and brutality of the | North, must forever exclude the people of that section from all favors and kindness, and will justify us even when peace is re- stored, in extending to other nations and , people privileges and favors which we shall deny ts them. New England procures from the South about sixty millions of our produce, and has found employment far forty millions of our capital invested in shipping in the transportation of southern products, It would be very easy by treaty stipulation to transfer this vast carrying trade to Great Britain and France, and these powers would obtain such privileges at cheap rates, when iii consideration of them they afford the use of their powerful navy in defending our commerce from Lin coln's piratical squadron.
 EFFIt ia ssid that the French Minister in Washington has received despatches from his Government declaring that it will pay no respect to Lincoln's blockads.