New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-19
Atlantic blockade and Cen sbernans Dvislon e.
, Port Hcval
TN C0UBsE OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE
IN REFERENCE TO TIE REBELLION.
BY EDWARD EVERETT.
From The ". Y. Ledger.

d IDh AID ININLTT.
From The ". Y Ledger.
IA American affaA's are now attracting greet al
teniion in Enrops, 20 she course which may be pun
sued by the leSding ETors,2n Powers with refer
ence TO the uunsturl rebcilon.f Gle south IS eut
Jet of no little interest this sia,' Of the water
Tie Government of TIE United States does not ex
.ect heir corporations; it has the right 10 eNpec
their sy mpathy. 1t has right TO expect in ite in
te.est OF al stable government IN the inte~St O
truth aud right and of cor mon humanity, that The
enlightened Governments OF Europe, which have
intimate relations with this country, should az FIR as
the law Of nations permits, discountenance and
frown upon tie attempt which is now making to de-
s,Ioy its naiona existence. OF the five great Pow
ers II Europe Austria believe, has not expressed
aerseh on The subject. The peuerOns aud eulglt-
ered view of the struggle taken By the Russian
Government formed tie subject Of my LIST paper.
Prussia, az still earlier period, eSrres ed he sell
SUBSTANTIALLY 10 tue same elect. Tie C0urse 10 be
pursued by The French and English Governments,
with whom our raiaioHs are more ultimate, and
whose rocy, Us it may be friendly or hostile to toe
linked States, would Affect us more directly, has not
been 20 ossiiucly i,oiaie5.
IN TIE haste with which the British Government
announced an entire absence # pIeierenge between
the two par les to the Struggle and IA Intention TO
recognize tho Con.ederacy bolligere -, the Amer
nan people certainly have been oiappCinted. That
q rebellion had It's origin IN Slavery Just as GER
taia 20 the war OF the American Revolution bad
T., oIi1in in Tire Ga N OF tie British Ministry of a
lght 10 tax America. Attempts have been made
saroa1 TO throw doubt upon Tie point, and 20 make
tie mai uactugiug interests OF FrIcc Bnd England
believe that he lroec,i1e policy and rot Slavery IS
tie cause of the war. Ne ~ tbs country know bet
ter. We know that though the pubiic mind az The
South has II times tetn in'amed OH the subject Of
tie lliI, yet that lwaJ had frierce there that
the cul aro # cotton WAS OIL nllly introduced un er
the oYeraion of protecting duty; that the sugar
euliule war not ol int odaced bat aimed by pro-
te>lOH; that tie ID duties az tie close Of the war
OF Io2 oraced under tie influence Of the le 3D.
Ii Southern Members Of Congress; and that the
discomfort OF the south On tits subject iomeed by
ambitious men, bad culm Glet and yielded TO Con-
siitutiOUal moces Of adjustment generation ago.
Even when II seemed O OFT OunOus Of EiscAlef, IN
Inc day Of notification, we knew, IN the language
o. Pre.ident jackson Ia May, lS53-bimself no friend
OF high roiec ion-thdt - the tariff wus but the lre
text; that dsuuion and Sjuthern Conleleracy
WIS tie real Object" We did not then know with
what prophetic foresight IS was added by him, that
D." The next pretext will be the Negro or Slavery
question:
The point, in fact, may be allowed TO rest on the
adm eion of the Ficelre sic,n Of tie Southern Con-
feoeTacy that tier constitution up0n Slavery
tie ooDer-stcIie H. his Fl eech at Newcastie.ol
Tie Tyne, on tie Is Of October, Eei hus ell
tending lot ION the subject Of the Slavery ques-
tioa, adds, though thar believe is the original
cause OF Ire conflict" He afsrN ard (as reporedl
lius Lie meaning to be that one party is cOue -
ing Tor Empire aYd the other for power. Ii IL Is
defended by this thit the United States are rug
llug 10 maintain The Sovereignty u the Union,
a ,iDsl wi ked rebellion, prompted by the aspira-
Ons Tor power Of certain Disappointed Southern
pOhicians ~ Affirmed 10y the Confederate NIcePresi
deni tweyemouth uoel, ihe iealrk Is just, but il
10 D.j be true that those leaders have Oten aDle
20 rlly he South mainly the subject Of slavery.
Every OIL OF subject 81 irritation, Oh Which there
have bee4 several (ioi il is ever the craft II dema-
gocues TO torn everything iutO gIievance) has
oeeu, and i merely auxiliary. The rebellion has
teen brought about by a.. hi ious men Gsliing 10
power, who have su ceeded by years OF agitation, IN
inL4uiul tie public lid Tue subject u Slavery.
Tie I'M hsl luIusge could not ca IIess the truth
more clearly or more teistly than II was done 10y
GeUeisi Ja, k-on, 10 the WORDS slresy quotcdi
a. Ale tuih bat TIE protest Disuuiun aud q
Southern C0nfederacy Ue tie red objecli tie next
peek viii be tie negro or Slavery quc,tion."
such beiu. the csss, tie Cover meut and loyal
people o. the United states eXi ected, and rad lgt
10 EXPECT, tie wsrIn sympathy Of England. Wtiie
our iaheIs were subjects Of IBe Brush crown, they
By the Ani-Slayery sentiment which developed itef
with steugth aDd r4liCity In England, IA Tie last
third OF the eighteenth Cepiury. Nhen the slaves oil
tue NOrtl States, before and during tie RevOlu
iiOn bfOGe actions Against Their ma tere Tor aesau
N battery and Tor ~ages due for labor, 1l1e greats
est stress Was laid by the counsel t. dCid
lhe,e actions the doc Iiues inci .cated ~ Lord
Manifold in Sonuersetts case. IL imitation of the
societies formed la England sor the abolition of The
siayetrade, siiniar associations were !osIned here
Graz Niiie sharp was 10 oorrespoudp e With e diug
zen III ms ,ou.try Mr. JeIs.sOn wrote letter 10
Dr. Pnee, thanking DIP Tor tie publication OF an
Auii-olavery pam liet. The sgeecies Of Nilber-
wa M -
pobho Op'nioh IN AUeIi "a, which began BY follow
my, Was not long be ind tia; Of England Oh this
subject, and III forming he COpsIiiulion OF the
Chi'eo States provision for tie prorp eciye abol
lion OF The African save,rade YVES Incorporated iaio
the fundamental law. The suppItssion Of this
;rrInr, NI,h the pro bion of Slavery in the Terri
tories OF tbe United Sta,es-a measure a. that time
approved BIZ both sections OF the country-wOuld 1t
was believed, at no distant peIiod, result IN the
to'al abolition of Slavery, 10 which the patriots and
statesmen OF America, South ss welt az North.
looked forward a. a coLsummstion cevoutly 10 be
wisheo.
Notwithstanding fbese circumstances, coupled
wiki The faets that Slavery bad been originally /
Dl4nted in the country under Briiish authority ard
hat tie colonial enActu enis against the African /
lave-trade had been persisieniiy negstived by The
crown, tue continued exi'tenoe OF slavery ID the
United States WAS the theme Of neyer-hiing denun-
ciaiiop Ia England On all occei0ns for the dlscus-
on Of the state Of society in this country; III all the
vehicles OF pubic sebtlnehli III tl INC htOT"IS anu
polical journals, alike she liberal and the conner
yaive as much in the Edinburgh as Ia the Quarterly
Review; in Parliament and in Exeter Hail. the
exslene. OF Slavery 10 the United States was the
isyoi,e topic Of ceIsufe, often litter aud unsparng
espeeiay after its abolition ia the British Colonies
Not content with the usual agencies by which pub
lie opinion Is influenced, and by laying The entire
literstuIe Of our language under eoniribn-
ion for Ills purpose, able speakerS aud prsctced
aaiators were cent across tie Atlantic 10 carry the
war agninst Slavery "ipto Afyiea;" while domestic
libels ON public men IN tue United States guilty OF
conservative opinions ON this most dlcoh OF Amer,
lean questions, were syftema'icf ny TRANSMITTED s.a