Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-21
EUROPE ON OUR AFFAIRS.


EUROPE ON OUR AFFAIRS.
Well grounded fears have been en-
tertained, that the Governments of
Europe, and especially England, would
take sides with the rebels and assist
them in the overthrow OF the free in
stitutions of this country. While the
great mass Of the people of England
have friendly feeling for us and our
Government, it is not to be denied that
the Lords and Aristocracy would like
nothing better than to see the United
States, as their great rival, dissolved
and weakened, so that England's su
premacy might be assured.
1t is well known, too, that the leaders
in the effort to destroy the Union relied
upon the aid of England. For years,
the leading men of the South have been
laboring to secure such a result, and
they firmly believed they had accom-
plished it. 1t was everywhere pro
claimed that the agents Of the Secession
lists had secured the pledge of assistance
from England, and the haste with
which the British Government pro-
claimed her neutrality between the
United States and the rebels, was but a
confirmation Of the statement.
1t has been the misfortune Of our
country that the Administration Of our
affairs for the last eight years, has been
under the control of the conspirators.-
They have had their instruments in the
courts of Europe, in the persons Of our
foreign ministers, while every influence
which could be, was employed to ad-
vance the unholy cause. The miserable
falacy that our Constitution was only
an article of co partnership to be can
celled atthe will OF any of the parties,
and our Government liable to be dis
solved at the word Of single State, was
80 industriously inculcated, that the
statesman Of Europe came to believe
that we had in fact no Government, and
that any State might destroy it at pleas
ure and form such alliances as it chose
with other nations. With this represen.
tation, and the promise Of the distruc-
ton Of the United States, as a great
power, and the hope held out that the
separate fragments Of the broken Union
would look to these European powers
for protection, if they did not ask to be
received back again as colonies, it is not
to be wondered at, that the hope Of our
overthrow took form in the minds OF
the rulers Of the old world.
But the energy of the Administration,
the uprising of the people of the Free
States to maintain the integrity of the
Union, the recall of our Secession Min
listers and the appointment Of true men
in their places, the unmistaka bic Ian
guace Of the Administration to the
representatives of all foreign powers,
that no Interference in our quarrel
would be permitted, and that, while
crushing oat the treason at home, we
would submit to no insult from abroad,
has opened the eyes Of Europe to the
fact, that they will have to deal with
another sort of Government than they
had been lead to believe existed here
The last reports from Europe bring
the pleasant intelligence that the firm
stand taken by the Admins tration, and
sustained by our newly appointed min,
listers, has blocked the game of the
rebels, and sent their emissaries homo IN
despair Foreign powers will learn tc
respect our Government when we re-
spect ourselves, and while they would
rejoice to see the Union diss olyed, and
our power crippled, they will hardly
have the folly to assist in the attempt
when it is sure that the Government ol
the Union is inspired by the undimed
patriotism of eighteen millions Of peo-
pie, determined to maintain their insti-
tutions against all assailants.