New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-21
49, s1rTTH AtsRslAn.

We nave oil along expected and frequently
predicted, the cause of the South is viewed with
an eye Of favor the other side of the Atlantic,
while the eodsshoulder is always turned to Lin.
coins Government; and on numerous occasions
his policy has been denounced and ridieuled in the
most uasparing and sarcastic manner.
The latest European malls bring innumerable
expressions of contempt and disgust for Lncoln's
vaciliatng and ridiculous policy. From none OF
the leading Journals of the Old World can the Linz
eoinites obtain consolation, On allhands they are
tabooed. Even those who sympathize with the
4 Free States have words of friendship to inter
/ ii behalf of Lncolns imbecile Administrations
having sunk so low that, although their prejudces
are against the South, their self-respect will not
1 permit them to justify, much less praise it. Well
may leading Black Republican paper of the
North after reading the European journals brought
| by the last steamer, exclaim: The tone of these
| papers is rery signica6t, as seeming to possess,
almost pittou eacepioss strong Southern bias.h
The strength of this g bias, arising out of the
| justice of the Southern cause, may, perhaps, be
better appreciated when we state that none of the
most ultra and ingenious of the Black Republican
Journals Of the North have yet been able to find in
all their English files, one solitary article which
supported, even by plausible indrection, their side
Of the question! No sympathetic response has
come from the mighty port of Liverpool. Con-
domination, plain and direct, has been heard from
the city Of Manchester, whose cotton manufactur-
/ ing interests are gigantic. The money kings of
/ London frown when the Washington Government
| is mentioned, but they are inclined to smile favor
\ ably when the Montgomery Government is spoken
| Of Lord John Russell says in Parliament that the
Confederate States must be regarded sc belliger
ents, Y which is quasi recognition of our nation
ality, before our commissioners had made any APP
| plieation whatever, which will be followed by
formal recognition in less than sixty days; and he
also said, at the same time, in regard to the issu
ance of letters of marque and reprisal, that the
matter had been referred to the law officers Of the
crown. He didn't intimate (here we ask the Abo-
| lition papers Of the North to make note) that
priVateering was piracy. Nothing of the sort was
even limited by the Minister, speaking for great
Government, about momentous question. He
only observed that some legal complications might
grow ont Of the subject, and hence the reference
to the legal advisers Of the Government. Bnt, for
the consolation Of the New York Courier and En-
quirer, whose editor desires the levees Of the lower
Mississippi cut, in order to drown, he says, some
scores Of thousands Of white and black men, women
and children, {te malignant old coward not know
ing that such thing il impossible owing to natural
causes,) to make Greeley. who proposes to divide
the property Of Virginia among Abolition cut
Threats happy, and to render the controller of the
Westehester Pennsylvania) Democrat, who. en-
couraged some regiments of ragamu1ins TO deeds
of outrage, by stating thatth women of Baltimore
and Richmond were s renowned for their beauty
rejoiced exeeediDgy-we will state the we'll
founded belief that numerous Yankee ships lawful
prizes of Southern priVateersmen, will be in
British and other European ports within thirty days
and that they will there be protected until they
are disposed of in accordance with general usage
But we are depressing somewhat, as we started
out with the purpose of drawing attention TO an
article in late Landon periodical, which is the
highest authority in the department to which it is
devoted. We allude to 4 Mitchell's Maritime Regis
ter" an organ of the shipping interests of Great
Britain The tone of the article unmis takably in
dictates that the powers of England regard our free
trade system as decidedly appetizing Says the |
journal to which we have referred:
we were amongst the first to assert our conyjc !
ton that great commercial question was really |
the issue between the North and South and that |
slavery was only the pretence under which that |
question was advanced. The progress Of events
has strengthened this conviction. Amongst the |
very first acts of the Southern Convention were the
"a
ton of the Mississippi. These beneficial measures
have been followed by the expressed determination
to open the Southern ports to the flags of all ma
tons. We may be quite sure that come what
may, there will be no reversal of this salutarv
policy. The diversion of even portion of the
magnificent trade which has hitherto been mo-
nop0lized by Boston and New York to the ports of
the South, will give TO the Confederate States
commercial Importance which they will never re.
sign, except upon a compuison which will never
be brought to bear upon them. The problem
then of the opening of the American coastng trade
is admittedly solved along the vast intercept be-
tween the northern limits Of North Carolina and the
western limits of Texas. The South conscious of
the necessities of its trade. has suddenly taken
course which has astonishedgt the world and hafded
the antlclpations of the most profound statesmen
and politicians of the West. Happily for the
South, and we may add, for Europe that course
has been in the direction of the liberation of her
maritime commerce. By this stroke of policy the
Southern States have at conciliated the good
will OF the powerful nations with whom they have
tradal relations and laid the foundation of q com
mercial Importance to which they have hitherto
been strangers.
Really, we shouldn't be surprised if the English
were perfectly willing to do all our carrying trade
for us, and would tender ships in such numbers, of
such capacity, and on such equitable terms, as
would enable US to dispense with Yankee shipping
altogether for all time to come. Indeed we
shouldn't be utterly astounded if France, Spain,
Russia, Germany, ETC., etc, all pitched in after
the same trade at the same time.
Is We would like to know how much the Yankee
shipping interest is worth. Then we would be
able to make an accurate estimate Of Yankee
Abolition shipping interest losses J. That is all
Won't the Boston Advertiser supply the desired
Information?