The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-05-29

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1.-THE English Press on the Crisis.
Opinion On the Blockade of the South
ern Ports.
From the London Herald DERBY organ) May 8.
| The opportunity presented for several
months of giving it to be understood what
the course of England would be under
certain circumstances has not been i'm,
lproved. and the result is that at no time
since the War of 1872 have the relations
between this country and the United
States been more critical than they are
at present. Most people have been as
tonished at what is now taking place in
! the United States; but it is neither cred
1itable nor as it should be that Her Majes7
tvs principal Secretary of State for For
leigh Affairs should neglect his duty or be
! taken by surprise. President Buchanan
claimed that there should be no more
bfockades; and Mr.. Lincoln, from the
! White Honse at Washington. net o ,ly
4 declares a blockade of, the Southern sea-
board, but ore of the good old fashioned
'1 kind, which confscates ,enemy's goods
4 wherever found, and the ships that carry
them. A hint few weeks ago from the
Foreign Office that this would not go
downin Eagland, and the ordering Of the
Norih American tqnadron to the Chesa-
I peake or the Gulf, would have prevented
This; but Lord John Rassell, as we have
lssid already. has left British interests In
the United States to mind themselves until
he eleventh heur, and for so doing he and
the Cabinet Of which he is member
nustbe held accouDtable should war now
anhappily and uuex. ecsedly arise between
ourselves and our own kinsmen.
To put down Federal .priystee:s would,
! We need scarcely say, be an act of war
against The Fedora! Government; but no,
to do so threatens an alternative still more
disastrous thon ever such war. This is
the dilemma into which Lord John Rns.
sells American policy has brought himself
aad athc country. lfscotion is not to bt
yet abystairi means, At must not ,sernpls t.
Nsg toul meaas, or the daily bread Of .tou,
or .Jfrs millions Of the acorkins population
4 ,ciH be at once stopped q y go x To block
e ade he cotton ports is to destroy The
Z Britisaseotton trade, I'd involve. not in re
Z mote, 5saI IN immediate destitution, seysra
i miilioas .Q9t,tae British people, ind it wou't
$, be biterrcaection for the present gen
e eration q we'll, perhaps, as 10 the one thu
| follows it, that to the shortsightedness O
'e Lofd John Russell aud The present Gev
d errfnftit it was entirely owing. Had the.
done as caere common sense would hav
:, suggested, the present dmyer would no
" only have been ayerted, but Gotten woul
ie have been supplied without let or hin
~ drAnce, asd we might have remained o
st coed terms with both belligerents
at Fortunately il is not too tate to put on
ID question to the Government, and to tax
es steps for the protection Of whatever cotto
es may be at the moment IL institu by th
1T Upper Mississippi and the lakes. 2 y I
to = Il may cot, be too late to protect. sue
ue pro eerSys nor tso late to speak of on
n great national imperied interests in wa
n which viii lead the uplifled hands of kini
to men 10 drop down harmlessly. The i,
e. queuce Of the mother count,y at such
P. moment as the present, used ,oiM .frmne
and get spih trfsndliness, might not on
lead to .,econcsEdtisn 5etwsen the Mort
, ers States and the sostk, 6at1assrt a ot
'r- usth sarselves, from auafch flesh ard bloc
recoils. and which, if entered. on, will fastt
Lasting obloquy on those who have failt
is SO signally in the discharge Of a gre
:, N tp1blic dufy. :. - s''i',ss ''s'
). From the London Standard May 4.
wa That stage has now been reached in Il
nd relations between the North and the Sou
no thatsnething but q State clearance can
- obtained from a cotton port, and sh
r; going to, Boston or New York with su
j. aclearance becomes the lawful prize
20 1.-THE Federal officers Nor can the chi
81 of any other nation engage in the traff
g while nething can be easier than the pl
ventioH of the movement of q single bs
iby the border railways rthe Upper M
]. sissippi,. Thus cotton IN any consider
, ole quantity is not now to be had in N
York, and as the Erie Canal will scare,
'e'' yet be open, breadstuffs and provisio
will be still more limited in supply tn
pa cotton. As, therefore, We said befo
as. unless0the Great Easters on her arrival
de- New York can change ports, she will ha
ain gone on fruitless errand.. a
hey But it is not only the proprietors Of t
OF Great Eastern and she spinners and opeI
ursI tives Of the manufacturing districts "
led, would suffer. Whatis 10 become of Bf
lish. vessels blockaded in. Southern po.
less or on the voyage from foreign ports
self the United States? There can be lit
doubt that blockade of the South.
are seaboard will be at once declared, q
kes The United States are .alone free from
lyel obligation of maintaining blockade