The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-21
The Four Instrumental by which
Peace May be Won for the Confederate


The "Four Instrumcntaittics by which
Peace May be Won for the Confederate
States.'
In another column OF our paper, we give q
singular article, extracted from recent mum
Der of the Charleston Mercury, which was cap
tured from the rebels at Fairfax Court House,
is directed General l.. Bonham. and bears
rv.uiug, "Cotton is Peace" The writer de-
clares that negotiation /; fighting on the seas or
privateering fighting on land; and, lastly cot
ton, have been the four means by which the
rebel States have deluded themselves into the
belief that they might achieve their indepen-
dence. The two first OF these, it is acknowledge
cd, have failed. The object for which Messrs.
Yancey. Rost and Mann, went to Europe lis
lost;"-" foreign nations" in fact, not only de
cline the friendship of the Confederate govern
ment, but even refuse them rights of courtesy"
With privaecring it is still worse. France
Great Britain, and Spain, have prohibited the
entry of prizes, and Southern Larbons are all
blockaded. Under these deplorablc circum-
stances, the Mercury finds that only the two last
instrumentalities for coercing peace remain, viz,
land warfare and King Cotton, and of these it
evidently trusts no other than the king. "Judg-
ing" it says, "by the manner in which the war
has been hitherto conducted"--and here come
in sundry illusions, by no means complimcnta-
~ to jeff Davis" cotton is the most reliable.n
What fall this is from the naughty bombast
of the Rhett u Co. clique, three, or even two
months ago! What thin piping, compared with
the high sounding illusions of the same paper.
just after the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
We do not much wonder that General Ronham
threw down his newspaper and ran away, at
the approach of the federal troops. 1t probably
occurred to his mind that ii fighting could do
no earthly good, it wsuld be quite as well to
save his bones unbroken, and he may have con-
jectured a fifth nstrumentality for procuring
peace, to which the Mercury failed to
refer-namely, submission. He may even be
on his way to Richmond, at the present mo-
ment, for the purpose of throwing up his com
mission and advising the insurrectionary Con-
gress to get behind cotton bags, or else con-
clude the war honorably by laying down arms,
and submitting to the laws and TO the consti-
tuition.
Cotton an fundamentally OF pcacc The
failure of the Southern Commissioners abroad
clearly proves that England and Spain, bitter
as their enmity is against the United States,
have made up their minds of two evils to choose
the least Great Britain will rather depend en-
tirely on its East India supply than involve
itself in hostilities with the North, which
would result in revolution and ruin at home,
and the government of her Catholic Majesty
has already burnt its fingers with ST. Domingo,
and will pause before having recourse to Ill
terror proceedings France has acted wisely
! and with forbearance from the outset. and King
Cotton is the last rival to whom Louis Ma
poleon is likely to submit. We advise our mis-
guided Southern friends TO look stern facts
honestly in the face, and cultivate that rarest of
| qualities among fre-eaters-pain common
sense. BY doing 80 they will serve their own in
| terests, and the cause of humanity far better
than by salving over their vanity with such ef-
fusions as disturbed the equanimity of General
Bonham, previously to his fight from Fairfax
Court House.