Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-03-22
France and the Confederate
States of North America.

its insertion in our columns. In copying
it, the New York Heral says lie Pays "is
the Organ of Louis Napoleon, aud is edi-
ted by the man who writes the Emperor's
pamphlets" The Herald concludes that
the article foreshadows the part Louis
Napoleon is soon to play on this CONT
nent:
Translated from LIE Pays, of Paris; Feb.
18, for the New York Herald
Will the revelation of the dangers which
would accrue'to Europe from break up
enough to modify the too hastily and gen
orally expressed impression in favor Of the
Northern States? Without much hoping
| it, we sincerely desire it; for the public
opinion of Europe could, by pronouncing
itself in time, arrest q catastrophe which
must seriously compromise its commercial
interests.
! 1t is scarcely year since the Emperor,
with the boldness which springs from pro-
founnd conviction, inaugurated new
commercial policy, by adopting an eco
nomical system, destined to give agricul-
ture and trade an impulse which would
place France in the front rank among COM
mercial nations and develop her maratime
relations in all quarters of the world
Prohibition has ceased, and the CONNER
cial treaty of January 3, 1860, opens a
way calculated to re-estabish the natural
order of things and conduct France, grad
ually but infallibly, to reform the most
complete, and above all, the most radical.
Everything conduces to lead us thither-
Her nature, her conformation and her fea-
lures show us the principle of commercial
liberty written in indelible characters
These ideas naturally lead US to examine
whether European predictions and inte.
rests are not on the wrong track in aban-
doning themselves unrescrvedly TO the
doctrines of the Northern States.
The Northern section cannot change
its commercial instincts; they are a con-
sequence of its very nature. 1t will be
after, as well as before the dissolution OF
the Union, in future as it has been in the
past, country adapted exclusively to the
raising of grain, with commercial and
manufacturing population, who struggle
obstinately to obtain for their merchant
maratime the entire of the traffic and trans
portation between Europe and the South
ern States; her policy would lead her even
to throw her manufactured productions on
the Southern market into which she en-.
deavors by every means TO prevent the
productions Of European manufactures
from entering. In other words, the North
does now, and will henceforth more and
more, compete with European industry
, for. already in default of the monopoly o.
: manufactured products towards which she
is tending, she becomes of necessity an in;
, termediary between the European manu-
facturers and the Southern consumers.
In 1856 and '59. years of dearth in Eu
rope, the Northern States we're able to sup
ply our markets with grain for two years
at relatively low prices, in spite of the in
crease in freight If then, the develop
t ment of their trade and agriculture, sup
ported by the sympathies of Europe, con
tinued to progress, their prosperity woult
8 be a very serious danger to US, for soone
5 or later it would lead to the invasion of ou
own markets.
The South, on the contrary, produces
two great staples which are, to Europe, OBJ
jects of the highest neccssity-cotton ant
tobacco. She is producer of necessarie
l and consumer of manufactured produc
= tions. Has it ever been seriously contem
y plated the commotion which the failure o
e single cotton crop-which supports 8
r many branches of trade, and, directly o
t indirectly affords employment to more thai
S ten million of hands--would produce P
d Have we, at the same time, thought of tn
s disturbance which would be created in tn
J. habits Of the working classes by the sup
d preston of that other article which is
d them so great source of comfort?
y In regard to tobacco, without mention
d ing the deficit in the State budget whic
n would result from its annihilation, coul
d our populations so easily forego produC
d which, more, perhaps than sugar, cofe
n and cotton, constitutes for them an impt
of rious necessity. There is no need to di.
70 guise it, the deprivation of those two st;
IL Piles would assume amongst us the charat
1t ter of public calamity. And yet, sue
S, would be the inevitable and speedy resu
10 of the separation Of the United States, III
OF less that event should take place peaceabl
III and not under the menace and blows
Northern aggression, approved, with tC
OF much levity, by writer's who do not appe;
to to understand that seryile would be Il
inevitable consequence of federal war.
d. Neither must it be forgotten that it
" those two staples which pay, almost entir
In y, for french manufactures sent to Anne
to lea, and which amount in value to MOI
IN than 300,000,000 francs.
- But let US continue. The South, Fl
g, from having, like the North, rival interes
20 with Europe, has, on the contrary, the san
is or rather co relative interests. Con6ne
is in short, to the extensive cultivation
n those articles which Europe cannot
p without, the South has been compelled, I
We to the present, in spite Of constant protest
er TO pay ali enormous tribute to the Mort
W, in the shape of Custom House duties, f
Al Al a.