Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-12-20
VIZ d. wALLACH.


TIE RESULTS OF A FOREIGN WAR.
The English news this morning is made up
oi one part reasoning to nine parts of bluster.
dne English papers seem delighted at the
tao1gnt that they can at last fan a mere cues.
non OF negotiation into war between Great
Britain and the United States and while the
minor rih-raf Of weeklies threaten us with the
awfal vengeance OF an angry lion, the London
Times gravely speeulates about the results tn
this country Of war which ii has 50 long en-
deavored to bring on. The immediate con-
sequence held over US in terror by the chiefs
% the bnusn press are: the recognition of the
DAVIS oenfederacy; the raising of our block
sdei and the blockade Of our northern ports
Ihs commercial editor of the Times adds also
tne dement's likely TO accrue TO Great Britain :
IL would at once set free our industry from
the anxiety of cotton famine, and give pros
Per1ty to Lancashire through the winter. At
the same time We shall open our trade TO eight
millions In the Confederate States, who desire
nothing better than to be our customers"
1t Is useless to deny that a declaration of
war by England just at this time would add
materially, for a little time, to eur embarrass-
ments. IL is quite possible that, by shrewdly
availing herself Of our difficulties, she could
Tor while deal Us some hard blows, Rut ft
Is certain that in the long run she would be
as she has been already twice before, the
severest sufferer. Let us consider the real
meaning Of the threats which the London
Times holds out to terrify the Yankees into
submission.
England will "raiss the blockade" She
VIII sweep our little feet from the seas as the
London Times modestly said, forgetting that
this was already tried in 1872, without success
England has formidable navy Bat she has
also vast naval commerce; she has disputed
with rs for ten years past the carrying trade
OF the world. 1t is her beast that her liant
ships dot every ocean and sea; and we have IL
nm 8 . Ill
informed shipmasters in this port, that in two
months Wecan have at sea twenty five hundred
PrlVateefs able and eager to "sweep from the
ocean not little but a very great fleet
%rest Britain has o great navy; but she has
also a great many assailsble points; and in
osse ~ ot war Wltn naval power would require
nearly every armed ship she could man, to act
as convoy to her merchant fleets, and as guard
to her exposed dependencies
from the blockade Of our own ports we have
nttle 10 fear We are what the southern rebels
imagined Themselves to be-tolerably indie
Pendent o. foreign nations. We have exported
preaost, tfs-we can manufacture cotton-we
nave machinery, and men who have made
mac Ainery for the British government itself.
Ard We have been drawing gold from EuropA
Tor nearly year past. "a blockade of the
northern ports" is not such child's play as the
Times writer's suppose it; but with most of our
merchant ships turned into priysteers and
our enemy, it is probable that we could bear
1t without suffering.
Finally, the Times supposes that In case Of
war England would at once get a suppIv of
cotton, and would be enabled to open a trade
with "eight millions of people who want to
trade with u.s." Suppose "the blockade
ralsed; suppose our San Jacintos driven OF
the coast; suppose New Orleans and Mobile
opened; suppose the cotton heet-such part of
ut as has escaped capture on the outward pa..
sage-laden and safely out Of port, sailing for
England under heavy and expensive CON
Voy. 1t is q chance Of getting cotton at
cheap rate which Yankee cruisers wonld he
out too ready to avail themselves of; and we
advise the Lendon Times people, in case thew
orlng their government so far as deolara-
tlon OF war against US, to be very careful how
they risk their means in the southern trade.
its quite true that the rebels would be glad
to trade with Great Britain. They would be
glad to give their entire cotton crop to England
II she would engage to take it away within
three months. But it is also true that the
North has always consumed an infinitely
greater amount Of England's manufactures
tnan the South; 1t is true that Ohio and IIli-
nois consumes more foreign goods than all the
Southern States together; that one county in
new YORK consumes mot imports) more for
elgn goods than the whole State of South Car
olina; and that, as we remarked some months
ago: the market which is Of real Importance
10 hngland is not in the South, where con-
sumption is less than one-half per head COM
pared to the North, and where but one-tenth
OF this one-half is Of foreign products-but in
the North and Northwest, where nine-tenths
Of all our imports are bought and used.
1t Is absurd to say that the American people
desire war with England. They say, with
the President, one at a time" Mr.. Sew
ards recent dispatches are eminently frank
and implicit on that point. But ii is as foolish
to imagine that war with that country can
do rs serious or lasting injury. If we were
conscious Of bringing it about by our own mis-
conduct the national heart would, perhaps
rouse to it with less slacrity; but if she pushes
as TO the wall, and forces hostilites upon rs on
such silly pretexts as those enumerated by the
ministerial and other journals of London, we
shall not be the worse for it in the end 1t
will only infuse new energy into eur soldiers,
our government, our Congress, our people. Tho
news OF British feet approaching New Or
leans would hasten on our own Mississippi gun
boats. II we have foreign foe to fight at sea,
We s6all the more concentrate our land move
ments against the domestic enemy; and, count
ing those traitors who invite foreign aggres-
SION, At least as much enemies as the foreigners
they ask for help, we should probably unite
70 carry on war with all the means in our pos
session, and use the four millions Of biack
Unionists who are ready to help US against all
enemies, as Madison suggested they should be
used IN our nrst war against England. be
wrote from Philadelphia, Nov. q, 1880. to a
member Of the Virginia legislature: Would
it not be as well to liberate and make soldiers
at once Of the blacks themselves, as to max 70
them instruments for enlisting white soldiers?''
he continues: "With white officers, and q ma
jority Of white soldiers, no imaginable danger
could be feared from themselves, as there
certainly could be none from the effect of the
example on those who should remain in bond
age; experience having shown that freed
man Immediately loses all attachment and
sympathy with bis fsrmer fellow-slaves." F"
This Msdisonian policy would make short
work with rebellion, and leave US with hands
free to deal with foreign foes
1t Is limited in the English papers that France
will unite with Great Britain in any aggres-
sions the latter may plan against US. We
doubt this. We believe that our Government
can hold out Inducements to France which
would make the Emperor think twice before
committing himself against rs. But French
and Bnglish alliance, could Il be brought about,
would probably revive certain Crimean mem
Ories in the breast Of Russia which would bring
us an ally who has always been our friend in
deed as well as word.-N. Y. Post, 16th.