The national Republican., 1861-10-29
LATE AVID IVrEuE STING FROM LON.
DON.

VIII Do read with interest:
LONDON, September 2s, 1861.
Imusttell you what the politicians are now
saying over their dinners namely, that If this
war Is not brought to speedy termination,
England and France MUST combine 10 raise the
blockade of the Southern ports! England
says that she must have cotton; how she can
get 1t; that five millions of her operatives are
in danger Of being thrown out of employment
and into famine. Her Liverpool and Man
chester merchants-a powerful class-are be
coming excessively restive; they have great
influence in the House of Commons, and will
drive the Government to this extreme measure;
and France is like hound held in the leash
by England, ready, anxious, eager to be slip.
ped England cares for the alliance of no nation
except France; France fears no power except
England. Commercial interests bind them to
gether for the present, and they will hunt in
couples watching each other closely the while
with mutual distrust. There have already
arms been sent out to the rebels from Glasgow
in Scotland-an Armstrong gun among the
rest And there have been several hip-loads
of arms sent from Havre to the rebels. Wheth
er they have been yet able to dodge the block
ade and run ashore at any Southern port, Is not
certainly known. but il is thought probable
that they have. Didnt you wonder where the
South got all her arms from? Now you know;
for this is true.
The sentiment Of England towards the Fcde-
raj Government is really not untriendy. Her
conscience is with our holy cause; but her
commercial interests arc at stake, and when
did ever England sacrifice interest to princi-
pie. We look in vain for any page in her his
tory that records such fact. But Il igland
likes to observe the propreties OF life; she
would rather France did her dirty work an"
France only waits her permission. Oh to
think that these very same people six months
ago pretended to say that it France inter
fered on the part of the Confederates, Eug.
land would create q revolution in Paris in two
weeks. Bus that was when they looked conf
IDENTIFY to the speedy crushing ont of the rebel,
lion. But after all, England is on the fence
and leans to one eide or the other as she hears
of victory or n defeat But If England and
France do unite in this heinous wickeduess
God help our holy cause, for unless the God
of Battles strike on our side We are-NO! we
are NOT lost, though hell should rise against
us and hcavepytse Indifferent! hope that was
mpious J., 1twas not so inIended-I meant to
say that God had already Infused into every
true Americah heart, such burning and uudy
ing love of cogetry, that in the event speak
Of, every man. woman, boy and giTl would start
up anew, prepar d to do or die So there
would be no need Of a miraculous interference.
| have told you pow the talk of the dinner
tables, for whatever it is worth. Now there is
another thing to which | wish to call your at
tention. In speaking and writing OF the war,
the terms "NOrth" and "SDuth " are Had
vised-they jar painfully upon such Southern
States and Southern individuals as have re-
maincd true to the Union; and they are often
sive to those who really and honestly do not
know whether they ought to keep to their sec
| ton or TO their country; but who, if other
| terms than North y and South " were used
might quickly understand that they were to be
true to the Federal Government against the Re
JeViOp. The war is not between the North and
South, but between he Union and the rebels
1t is u rebellion IN the South, not of the South
There are thousands of Southern people true to
the Union.
SUNDAY, September 80, 1861.
To day | have been again wounded by tn"
comments made in my hearing upon American
aft hrs. There were present, as usual, some
political aid literary writer's, who said: There
is but one resalt that can come Of this war.
The Southern States must be erected into Il
monarchy, aud then the North will be beaten
| was too much moved to trust myself to reply
until | was directly appealed to, and then !
nuswrred -" No, never, and none who have the
slightest kuOwledl;" Of American affairs would
ever think Of such a result; the cause of the
Federal Government is the cause of God, AMI
it must triumph, and none but perverted be arts
and darkened minds could hope for or think
of any other end" And great deal more OF
the same sort, with more warmth than was ne
cessary, perhaps But the English are honest
at heart, and they cn be made ashamed OF
expressing unworthy sentiments. Mr.. Stiff
sympathizes with as. The English Government
don't like the letter of mediation sent by the
Emperor Of Russia to the President of the
United States; which, MS they so much desire
the end of the war, seems q little Inconsistent
But they are certainly JEALOUS OF the interfe-
renee of Russia. Since that, Russia has sent
a special envoy TO France upon some errand
of which this Government is very suspicious
and profoundly ignorant. And now observe.
You will remember that in the late Crimean
war the people of the United States certainly
sympathized with Russia, as a Christian nation
should, for after all, Russia against Turkey was
the Cross against the Crescent You know
also that the present Gar il one of the most
| enlightened anl liberal-miuded monarchs
| that ever sat upon the Russian throne He
has abolished serfdom in bis own dominions
| I think Russia bears grudge against England
| ard would set her at variance with France il
possible. And | have hope and present.
ment that if England and France do help the
rebels, and thus make q worlds war of it.
Russia will come to the aid of the Federal
Government. There was more in that letter
of mediation than met the eye, especially in
that part Of it which reminded the President
that Russia and the United States were the two
greatest powers Of the Eastern and Western
hemispheres. hate monarchs, but my heart
warns to the Gar. And yet know that there
is precious little magnanimity left in Europe
and whatever any nation may do for, or against
the United States, will be done primarily fol
self%hterest. We must not rely upon any helr
from any quarter-we must rely only upoI
| God, our cause and ourselves
And now from nations to individuals. A.
to --, | could have cried with rage and
grief, after reading what you said of him Bu
you know that our duty is simple enough.
you know that - isl will not say
traitor-but in the least degre, disaffected tc
the Union denounce him! would do it, If il
were -. There must not now be an in
stant's hesitation between our friendships and
affections and our duty to our bleeding country
We have, fear, too many disafected officer