Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-02-28
Tho Southern Confederacv.

 feat it in either house of Congress. It is war of taxes and high prices to the South and of premi- ums and protection to the North. The foreign legations are changing their tone. They see that the North attempts to exclude their commerce by high tariffs, while the southern confederacy offers them greater privileges. The North rivals them ill shipping, commerce and manufactures, while the South supplies their wants and proposes to give them equality against the North. The North sym. pathizes with the revolution in Canada, which robs England of territory, and also threatens to block ade the cotton ports of the South, which will de- stroy the maiufactories, and the happiness of mil lions in both England and France.
 6 The English and French Ministers do not hes- tate to speak of these things, and they say England and France will acknowledge and treat with the southern confederacy promptly, with any other de tacto government, and that they will not permit the North to blockade southern ports, as such proceeding would ruin their commerce and manu. factories"
 The above Is an extract from a hastily son, who is still at his post in Washington city. It was not intended for publication, but its information is of such great mo ment that we consider it duty to place it before our readers.
 The above extract, taken in connect. on with the following article from the Times, one of the leading abolition papers in New York, is very significant. The nertherners are becoming alarmed. Heretofore they ,baye looked to the knh itionists of Exeter Hall for the public sentiment of England but in these troublous times Exeter Hall is silent, and Manchester speaks out Cotton is king Even Exeter Hall, with all it's emancipation proclivities recognises king cotton's supreme power.
 The New York Times says:
 CHANGE OF ENGLISH SENTIMENT.-The last mail from Europe (by the Arabia on Saturday morning. indicates rapid change in the views and impres sions which our unfortunate domestic difficulty is making on the public mind of England and France and the danger to American credit now seems that whereas the first response was adverse to all sympathy with the southern secession, the second thought is that the movement has assumed such proportions as to render the immediate recognition of separate southern power by the two great commercial States of western Europe inevitable An article on this subject, indicating sudden change in the temper of English sentiment from the London Times, copied into our paper on Satur- day morning, attracted much attention and remark on the stock exchange during the day. and increased the anxiety In business circles generally that some thing should be done in the convention of the middle and border States at Washington, this week, to arrest the further progress of seces ssion, ana to avert the alternative of constituting two confederacies out of our present common Union That the change in English sentiment, foreshad- owed by its leading press in London proceeds from Manchester rather than Exeter hall, and grows out of the alarm in regard to the cotton supply as opposed to the manifestations in this crisis of the y1np ti-St, oct tl... ID --..sl does not the less imper the credit and considera- tion due to the acote of this country from Europe nor remove the sting of the invidous comparison instituted by the London Times, in the leader referred to agaiust the commerce and trade of the North and Northwest
 The article in the London Times referred to predicts for the southern confederacv a most glorious future, and for the northern contederacy future no ways superior to that of Canada. The English press speak with contempt of the northern confederacy, its power, commerce and manufactories, after it shall be severed from the South.
 The southern States are not the friend less outcasts that northern abolitionsts and southern submissionists have represented them to be. The North especially has de- ceived itself, while southern submissionists are blinded by their excessive love for the North. The whole civilized world is the friend of the South, and is dependent upon the southern States for their agricultural productions.
 A blockade of southern ports would in- evitably involve the northern confederacv in war with England and France. A three months blockade of southern ports would bring ruin upon the French and English. They could not endure it. They would prevent such blockade even though the power of the northern States was ten times greater than it is, and their animosi- ty towards us ten times more implacable. The southern States are happily circum- stanced. Their cause is the cause of the whole world To attack them is to attack the best interests of every other govern ment on the earth.
 The North already begins to discover this fact. The foreign press all over the world are taking sides with the southern States, while the foreign ministers at Wash lngton do not hesitate to say that the inde- pendence of the southern confederacy will be promptly recognized by their govern ments. The black republicans have done the work. They have broken up this Un- ion, and driven us out of it, but their power to do us harm extends no farther. The