Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-30

L anu k-GoP4S
Rebuked for their sympathy with
| tho Rebels.
gMr. Bright and Mr. Golden have both
Expressed to the people of Rochdale,-the
former in an ample speech, md the latter
in concise letter,-very moderate and pa
cifc sentiments respecting the American
difficulty. Mr..Cobden appears tOtlean to
the Northern side in legal discussion, but
especially urges deliberation and imparti-!
ality; aud still more strongly urges the
irnpossibility Of settling the question that
has arisen BY war. He.saYs: st-
Whatever be tile issue Of the legal con-
troversy, this is q question which we can
not hope to bring toa more satisfactory is-
sue by anappeal to arms. WeehdeaYored
to impose our laws by force on the Ameri-
| cans when there were over three millions
of colonists, and we know the result
Again. in 1912, we were belligerents, and
tue United States, with eight millions OF
people, were neutral, aud after weyhad for
years subjected their vessels to search and
seiznre-whicli will now ptObnbly he adj
duced ns pSecedents TO justify tie recent
proceedings on their Part-7a war broke out
on tlIis very question of belligerent rights,
slaughter aud pillage, was Terminated byta
treaty of peace, in which, by taeit agree
ment, no allusion was made to the original
cause of the war. With these examples,
can we reasonablyhope by force of artiisto
compel tho twenty mi llioHs5 of Americans
who are now united underg the Federal
Government to accept ouriexclnsiVe inter-
pretat,on Of thelaw of nAtions2 ols
The folIowfnglis another verya'im portants
passing: sFsissH7 sas sEss
Twill not atte pit within hespacef Of a.
letter to touch upon the other issues in
yolYed in this deplorahle civil war There
lis one point only on which1 wilfHddsa re-
mark An opinion seems 10 be entertain'
| ed by some parties here attdl0n theEconi-
nent that itlis in the power OF ths govern
E.ments OF England and Franeeto control, it
not to put amend, to the conflict. enter
| tain the strongest conviction, on the con-
| trary, that any ACT OF intervention Ion the
part of a European power, whether by
breaking the blockade, or asprsmature ac-
kuowledgmeLtOE the Independence VI the
South, or in any other way, cnn have NO.
other effect tinn to'aggravate ami protract
the quarrel. History tells us now greatly
the horrors of the French Revolution
sprang from the intervention OF the for
eigner. Were asimi!ar element thrown n,
to infuriate the American contest, every re-
strnining motive for fUrbearance,y every
thought OF compromise or concilinlioni
would be cast to the wInds-tle North
would avail itselffot the horribte weapon
always ready at hand, and by ealliag ia the
aid of the negro would carry the hre and
sword of servile war into the South, and
mako it u desolutiOn aud Il wilderness. So
! far from expecting that tue raw material of
| 4. 1aR
! in Consequences of such an intervenlion, /
tbelieve the more probable result would be
the destruction Of the ottnn lib!nt itself
throughout the Southern States of the
Union. 94RVs1 = sl's,'ii7sti s54a So - a'iN'''
Mr.. Brighrsspeech occupies heatlyesix'
closely printed columns of the london
Times. The following extracts will be
read with interest: 2ss an