The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-16

were TO q fair extent.
The Southern Treaty C0mmfssioners 20
England and France and Their BIis-
sion-Fearful Times Ahead.
The new federal government. at Montgomery,
Alabama, of the seven seeded cotton States,
has appointed Hon William L. Yancey, Of Ala.
bama; Judge p. A. Rost of Louisiana, and
Col. A. Dudley Mann, as special Commissioners
to England and France, for the purpose, first,
of securing the recognition by those great
Powers of the Independent government of the
Confederate States; and, secondly, to propose
such Southern commercial reciprocities as Eng
lish and French statesmen will not be apt to
decline. The Hon. Thomas Butler King, OF
Georgia, has also been selected by the cotton
States to visit Europe, to make arrangements
for direct trade from the Continent to the ports
of the South.
Upon this important mission we understand
that Mr.. King has already sailed, and tl.at his
associates will soon follow. What will be their
reception in London and in Pariss According to
the oracle Of the new NortherR regime at Wash
ington, these Southern Commissioners will be
CONTEMPORARY ignored abroad, as the vagrant
representatives of a new Power among the ma
tons which has no actual existence, but which
is only the mere jack o. lantern of afleeting exha
lation. But the intelligent observer Of European
affairs in their relations to this continent will
have discovered that among the statesmen and
politicians of England and France, the rise, ex-
| pansion and developement of our Southern Sc
int .oI
federation are more and more regarded from
week to week, as m0mentous revolutionary
events challenging serious consideration.
"King Cotton" in this matter, stands be-
fore my Lord Palme,ston and his Impe.
rial Majesty of France as veritable
potentate, whose demands cannot be set aside.
The necessities OF the cotton mills of Manches-
ter, when put to the test, will supersede the
abolition love ieasts Of the Duchess of Suther-
land.
From the commercial necessities of and
advantages to England and France, thus sug-
gested, it is by no means certain that these
treaty Commissioners from our new Southern
confederacy to those Powers will be as cava-
lerly treated AS the Montgomery ambassadors
to Washington. On the other hand, upon the
single issue between the new high tariff bill
adopted by the government at Washington,
and the low tariff schedules of the Southern
confederacy now in force, French and English
interests will appeal strongly in favor of the
South. On English iron, cotton and woollen
manufactures and on such French productions
as silks, laces, wines and brandies, the differ
ences in the duties range from ten and twenty
to fifty and sixty per cent between our new
Northern and Southern tariff laws; and as
upon those imports from ten to sixty per cent
duty can be saved by taking them into Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile or New Orleans, instead
Of dischareing in Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia or Baltimore, the reader will comprehend
the force of the argument in favor of direct
European trade with the South.
The saving in tie mere choice of seaport
of ten or fifteen millions OF money upon fifty
millions of their goods, destined for
the same consumers, must exert power
full influence upon the governments Of
France aud England in favor OF the Southern
confcderacy; but when its Commissioners shall
propose 70 enter into still more inviting COM
mercial reciprocites by express treaty stipula-
tons, they can hardly fail OF successful hear
ing. Approhensive, as matters now stand, OF
serious losses 10 its treasury from the diversion
OF foreign imports 10 the South, the govern
ment at Washington is mastering formidable
home squadron of war vessels for the purpose
Of enforcing in Southern ports our Northern
tariff law. To overcome this difficulty, the
Southern Commissioners will say to Lord Pal
merston and Louis Napoleon, you have only to
recognise the independence Of our new con-
federacy. Then the blockade by the United
States OF our ports will be nothing to you, until
the government at Washington shall have de-
clared war against US, and, as In that contin-
gency, seven or eight other Southern States
fear Of the final issue, or Of the suspension Of
the cotton culture by the march of hostile
armies over our plantations
Upon the case thus presented, we think 1t
probable that England and france may choose
not TO pay thirty, forty or fifty millions year
in the differences in the duties upon their
goods, North and South, to sustain the govern
mcnt at Washington and our Northern manu-.
factur ers. Let our Northern manufacturers,
me rchants, fnanciers and men of capital aud
real estate, and our industrial classes Of all
descriptions, prepare, then, for the full prac
tical development Of this Southern political
revolution in the transfer Of an immense amount
Of our Northern Atlantic trade to the South di-
rect from Europe. In addition to this, our
Northern manufactures, under Southern
tariff taxing alike Northern and European i'm
ports, will be absolutely excluded from the
Southern confcderacy, and thus home mar
ket Of many millions in value to our Yankee
notions will be closed 10 US; for England,
France and Germany will supplyit
Wa hayo thuo rratfv hroa1lv nut1ino1 haforn