Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-09-20
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

VIEWS OF AN INTELLIGENT AMERICAN. -.
The Intelligent correspondent of the
Boston Post writes from London, Aug.
Goth. thus
England is not with US i this struggle.
The truth will break upon you one Of these
days, that neither in her Government nor
her people, neither in the mercantile or
laboring, tbe manufacturing or religious.
the aristocratic or professional classes. is
England our friend. When Napoleon pro-
nounced England to be nation of
shop keepers he simply meant that she
was thoroughly selfish. You have the key
in this to her present feeling towards the
United States. If no avenue Is opened
before the 31st of December next by
which the cotton-spinners Of Lancashire
can rely upon duly receiving the present
crop OF raw material from the Southern
States, national bankruptcy is upon this
country. The talk about Indian cotton is
nonsense. Not one spindle in thousand
can twist It. And if they could, 1t will
take four years, with soil and climate and
labor and skill, as much in favor Of the cu!
/ tivation as they are against it, to bridge
over the chasm. -Four years WREN four
weeks of short 1cork are sufficient to impev-
erish, and of 10 work, to starve four nil
lions of her factory operatives. Look at
the Coventry ribbon weavers last winter,
and then multiply their number by three
hundred, if you wish to understand what
hangs over this country in almost as near
proximity as the autumn rains.
Nevertheless, England will not interflrs
with our blockade regard this as GER
tain Not only would this not help the
matter, but in view of that large section
of her people, most interested in her sta
pie producti n, whose unanimous wish 10
Ministry ventures to thwart, it would IN
extricably couplicate. whatis already bad
enough. The English people, and the
Government too, have thorough convic-
ton that even with our present difficulties
on our hands, we should declare war against
England on the slightest real cause, and
with that conviction there exists fear that
in case Of hostilities the old grudge would
act as bond to unite all the States in
striking the heaviest blow against our an
cient zoe. Added to al this is the never
dismissed thought-an element in English
policy almost paramC unt-that the friend
ship with France will yet prove but hol-
low, and that the Emperor ouly waits OPP
portunity 10 avengs Waterloo. A war
with the United States, which would Grip
pie commerce, stop the importation of
breadstufs, wholly close an already glutted
market, and bopelessly fer years shut the
doors Of every Gotten factory, opposed as
it would be by millions of starving Iaborers
and becgared mil!oWners, would, In the
opinion Of the holders Of three per cents
\ and the landed aristocracy, furnish in a
distracted and impoverished country, such
an opportunity II may be regarded,
therefore, as certain that England Will not
interfere with our troubles
Mother will France. Owing to the per-
sonal influence and plausible misre presen-
tations of our late minister. nearly every
: leading member Of the French Chambers
avows strong sympathy with the seeding
States. It Is not FIVE weeks since the
French Minister Of Foreign Affairs advised
distinguished Italian officer. who went to
him for letters to Washington with the
view Of entering our service, to rather en-
ter the southern army. l do not know
that this feeling Is shared by the Emperor
now, though there was no doubt about his
| proclyities when Mr.. Faulkner left. Not
withstanding all this, and in spite Of the
. soreness felt in regard to the rev tarlt1 act,
France is not Likely. either alone or IN con-
! cert with England. to interfere france
must have bread. and this the United
States supplies. This single fact is an ab-
solute guarantee Of pacific policy On the
g part oftbe Emperor.