Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-16

NAuu buCOeo1S5 III bula WAR nuELAuu AAh8o
upon our back like an old man of the sea.
Whatever has happened, or when nothing
has happened, We have turned instructive
lily to England to see what she thought of
IL. This has naturally grown out of a
Pdread of interference in this struggle for the
free institutions represented by our Gov
kernment, aud doubt as to the intentions
of England.
After Bull Run everybody was engaged
in deploring the efecti would produce in
England. 1t had an effect of course. It
made the secession sympathisers and abet-
'tors, led by the London Times, noisy and
threatening. just as their coadjutors are
everywhere. They thought they could get
up hue and cry about the rights of be-
ligerants' and hurry England out Of her
propriety without time for reflection. But
they didn't do it. They forgot that all
England was not wrapped mp in cotton,
and failed TO convince even those who
were, that the quickest and safest way to
get supply was to break the blockade,
and involve themselves in n war that
would be infinitely more damaging to
their commerce than the war Of 1912.
They failed, too, to calculate for the invet-
lerate hostility Of the mass of English
people, to the political institutions Of that
portion of our county in arms against
this Government, which institutions every
discerning Englishman could plainly see
were at the bottom of the American re-
bellion.
More that three months have transpired
since that disaster, and England is yet un-
convinced by secession sophistry. The re-
/ belliou is NO higher possession of the
Capital than on the 21st of July last; and
instead Of the American Union being lost
! inevitably, as the Tines and other croakers
tried to make their readers believe, it is
4 to-day stronger, as every loyal man feels,
and as the rebels are beginning to realize,
than any day since the Inauguration OF
President Lincoln. Then the great con-
spiracy was just developing itself with
alarming rnpidity, and none knew what to
expect Now II has reacheda period when
lit greatest efforts have been put forth, and
! have signally failed. 1t has neither the
Capital of the Nation nor single foreign
ally-both of which it promised itselflong
go, and without which 1t can have neith-
er prestige nor success.
secessionists in England have failed to
convince either that people or government
that their interests require them to inter.
fere in the American war, and under such
admonitiOns as that of the Earl of Russell,
have simmered doWnSto comparative quie.
tude in regard to the American question
AS we have heretofore turned to England
depreeatiugly and deploringly, we may
ow turn with sort of triumph, If moi
xultation, to watch the effects produced
over there by the news of our recent vic.
tories in Kentucky and South Carolina
and still more by the evidences of greater
&C Movements yet TO follow. The New
Yo rk Herald says, sit will fall like bomb
sh ellis among the British AristOcrncyn-
W hieh is strong way of putting it, to sa!
the least. The British Consul, who wit
n essed the engagement at Port Royal from
safe distance, experienced sensation
that will be duplicated in the heart OF al
England, when the news of the Fleets sue
cess reaches them,
The grayest fears that have been enter
tanned in this contest, have grown out o
the threatening attitude of England; bu
now that she has discovered, after a goot
cal of consideration, that her people can
not subsist on cotton, hut must have breaC
and meat, and further, that our success
will very soon be achieved, and so com
pletely as to leave us in good trim 70
Furnishing impcrtinent interference, dis
erection, which is said to be the better par
OF yalor, may compel a neutral If no
friendly attitude during the conclusion o
the war.
Considering these things, and in view o
the contested inability Of the rebsllioul
South to carry the war to successful is
sue without foreign intervention, and tn,
E feet our recent victories must have ii
strengthening our friendly relations viii
the maritime powers of Europe, We mus
say that the prospect of early success ant
honorable and lasting peace, seems mucl
nearer now than It has for many months
We will not say that the backbone of Sc
oessiOn is broken for that has been sale
something less than one hundred times al
ready, but It would be safe and modest u
say that the spinal column of the monster
is seriously damaged.
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