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EFFECT or SECESSION ABROAD.
Spain and the southern COME dsTn-
cy--LelIcr from Horaiis Perry.
Correspondence N. Y. Evening Post,

Correspondence N. Y. Evening Post
WARRINGTON, Feb. %, 1861.
Mr.. Ho-atio Perry, the United States SEQ
rotary of Legation at Madrid, whose resist
unce to the scheme set on foot by Soule and
othera, to annex Cuba, during the admins
traton or Pierce, has given him prominent
place in our diplomatic annals, has written
long and interesting letter to Represent
alive 10 Congress on the subject Of secession
and ito effect on the relations OF this country
with the nations Of Europe.
The reader will take pleasure in perusing
some extracts from the testimony Of 80 intel
ligent and patriotic an observer Of our ma
tional affairs, as regarded by him at dis
tancs from the scene Of the disorder.
MADRID, Spain, Jan. 8, 1861.
have fought secession in It's first danger
Gus form. Behind the black intrigue OF
1886 for annexng Cuba by means OF
war made without the aid OF Congress, in
which the power OF the North was to follow
the lead Of the South for the South's aggran-
dixement, lay concealed the plan OF secos-
sion. Ii was to conquer Cuba BY the Union,
and then PROSTATE tho North or sever the
Union on the question Of her admission, set
ting up q Southern Republic with Cuba and
the Sierra Nevada, Central America and
Mexico to be afterwards annexed and deliv-
cred up to slavery. President Pierce and
Attorney General Gushing acted as instru.
ments Of this Southern intrigue, without, /
am persuaded, knowing its extent. How
much Mr.. Buchanan knew OF it ut Ostend
am not aware.
The power OF nations 10 not alone meas
urad BY their material resources, but BY the
sympathies they iDspire, or the amount OF
hate which can be concentrated upon them.
We have had to bear . Rrievous load for
many years. load with which the question
Of dem ocratic institutions has nothing to DO.
Purge US Of slave violence and aggression,
and our road abroad is smoothed and our
true power increased.
The United States could undertake any
diplomatic enterprise with any nation in Eu-
rope with ten fold the confidence Of aaccess
after the separation OF the Cotton States
Cotton 10 king, but wheat and corn, and beef
and pork, and fax, and hemp, and wool, and
| iron, timber, ships, steam, manufactures,
and gold and tobacco, II you please, are .
democracy more powerful than bis majesty.
They are invaluable in their own borders,
and car, II need be, send abroad better
| army than cotton ever dreamed Of.
As to Spain, am competent to say that
her whole restrictive system 90 our CONNER
cial intercourse can be easily removed. The
Cuban -four duties may be abolished by an
intelligent negotiation, and our -four, corn,
beef and pork will drive every other article
out Of the Spanish colonial market whenever
We choose,
Mr.. Perry remarks further, that II thu
North, abstaining from . war OF coercion
allows the Cotton States to be the aggressor
"the South is isolated, deprived Of every
sympathy and every resource in the good
will OF other nations. England will spi
upon her; the Emperor Of the French can
not lift finger for her against the unmists
kable sentiments OF that people; regenerat
Italy abhors her; Spain recognizes 10 her tn
enemy Of her colonial pence, and in her for
eign policy, will certainly play into the hand
Of the North"