The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-06

-REPORTs OF THE RECOGNITION or THE
| SOUTHERN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO BE
APPREHENDED FROM ENGLAND.
Correspondence of the New York Times.
PARIS, August O. 1861.
Adversely makes enemies. Everybody
now finds kick for the defeated party at
Manassas. To all, or nearly all, the &C.
counts that are sent to Europe of the de.
plorable affair, the North is talked of as q
used up and defeated party. In Europe, so
much is thought of the first battle of
campaign, that whoever gains it is regard
ed as the probable winner of the last. The
journals are not sparing in their taunts, but
none of them quite reach the crushing irony
of the London Times, in its issue OF Wed.
nesday last. 1t is a well-known fact
that people prefer to read attacks rather
than defences of cause, whether good or
bad and on this account the public in
France and England have been fed lately al
most entirely on falsehoods and sarcasms
against the North. With the noise, there.
fore, that has been constantly made against
the cause of the Union, it is not surprising
that we hear now of Bourse reports, both
here and at London, to the effect that the
Southern Confederacy has been recognized
by France. The reports are absurd, of course,
but they are valuable induces OF the cur
rent of events. The friends of the Union,
strong in the justice of their cause, have
taken little pains to stem the tide of misrep-
resetation and abuse which has been poured
forth lately through the European press,
to prejudice and poison the public mind,
for they felt that the Union army at prop
er time would give better reply to all
these ISLANDERS than any they could make
The affair at Manassas has now placed
new arm in the hands of the Southern par
ty and their colleagues, the European ha-
tiers of Republican institutions, with which
to attack the Union party. Fortunately,
we have the most positive assurances that
the Emperor of France is determined to
stand neutral observer to the fight till it
is finished and one or the other party re-
nounces the struggle; and since that is all
the Government at Washington asks of him,
we cannot see any occasion for alarm or
uneasiness as to the recognition OF the
Southern Confederacy.
1t is TO England that you must look for
danger, not On the subject of recognition,
for that only occupies secondary ground,
but on that of cotton and blockade. If
New Orleans, Mobile or Charleston be not
opened by January to the expectation of
cotton, you will have trouble with that
power. And if England sees herself obliged
to provoke further the displeasure of the
Union, she will see that it is her interest
that the Union is permanently dissolved,
and crippled in all its parts. The London
papers are boldly discussing the subject Of
the blockade in connection with the next
cotton crop, and what is more significant
still, Englishmen in this quarter 10 longer
disavow the sentiments of their papers as
not being those of the English people. We
already know what the sentiments Of the
English Cabinet are A.; if the people OF Eng
land only halt way sustain the Cabinet, the
question is decided against US.
Would 1t not be strange If you could de-
rive all the way from Paris, the plan and
campaign of JEFF. Davis and his Generals?
One OF the Paris correspondents of the Ia
dependence Beige, who is evidently in rela.
ton with the Southern agents at Paris,
writes to his paper since the Manassas af-
fair, among other things relating to that
event, the following:
BY private letters from America relating to
the terrible fight at Manassas, we learn that
the Confederate Government is not disposed
to compromise the fruits OF its victory in as
Stunning the offensive against its beaten enc
mics. 1t will content itself with guarding its
extensive lines of defence, and will only de-
eide upon diversion on Washington in case
the National Army shall attempt to penetrate
the Southern States by the Ohio and Missis.
sippi.
Since the article from the Journal des
DebatS, which | sent you ten days ago, that
paper has published two other articles on
the American question, both against the
North, and both very ably written. We
may, therefore, class the Orleanist paper
among the converts which the Southern
agents have been able to make to their
cause. The Potrie has also lately gone over
to the enemy, while the Constitutional is
also there, not from principle, but because
accident has placed its American columns
cessonist. To these three may be added
the legitimist and Catholic sheets, the
Union the Monde and the Gazette de
France, who oppose the North of course,
because they detest Northern institu-
lions and Republicanism under any form.
We can only claim now as decidedly
ours the Opinion rationale, the Steele, and
the Presse, tue three liberal ard democratic
papers of Paris. Fortunately they are the
three papers of Paris the most read, and we
can well afford to see the Patrle, the Coast.
tutionnet and the Jou, nol des Debats, Bona
partist and Orleans sheets, join hands under
the slavery flag of JEFF. Davis with the ul>
tramontane and reactionary sheets, like the
three cited above. Things have at last
found their proper level; the company is
now properly sorted; we have the Emperor
and the liberal, progressive Press; they have
fallen into companionship with the mouar-
chcal, anti republican, reactionary press.
We wish them joy of their society.