New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-02
POLICg oF sRnAr nnyrsTy-

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she Toronto Leader, a paper published in Canada
to the effect that England will promptly recogniS,
the southern Gonfederacy as soon as it shall bt
established a declaration since repeated by til,
same paper with confidence that shows it wa.
not made without authority. We have now the
entire article Of the g Leader, on this subject
and 1t is of sufficient importance to justify its re-
publication. Here it is;
Il Jn the course of speech delivered at Sonthamp
ton, Lord Pamestonreferred to the difficulties be
i tween the Northern and Southern sections of thf
United States, and expressed fear that the Unior
i would be dissolved. His Lordship added a hope
that whether the Union were dissolved 81 main
tained amicahle relations would be established
4 and that there would be no war between brothers
From the curtness Of the telegraphic phraseolory
| 1t is not possible to say whether Lord Palmestor
INTENDED 70 refer to the relations of England with
| lhe Amerean considerations, or only to the rela
lions between the two Confederaces into which
the United States are rapidly forming themselves
be ttls as It may The intention of England to 40
E1.o'osedge the independence Of the Southern Con.
federdcg as soon as 1t is formed no longer admits
/ OF question This announcement ece are IN a posi-.
ton to make in Hae most positive terms and who.
| ever will take the trouble TO watch the course OF
events, will find that we are correct. The policy
/ OF England has long been to acknowledge all de
Jdcto Governments, and that policy will not be de-
parted from in the present case.
/ From France similar procedure may safely be
expected; and as soon as the Southern Confedera-
i ton has formed provisional Government It will
be treated by the two leading powers of Europe as
entitled to all the privileges of sovereign State.
The greatest inconvenience would arise from the
adoption OF any other policy. England. having no
other control over the domestic politics of other
nations can acknowledge whatever form Of Govern
| ment they please to set up. To refuse to do so,
would involve her in endless wars, and ruinous
commercial embarrassments.
Secession may not be constitutional right: but
| IT taf Of fhaT T,ia
INSIST IT. there are no means of preventing its
consummation
When we bear in mind that this journal is the
Government organ of Canada West, we will know
what Importance to attach to its statements. 1t
asserts, in the most positive terms, that England
VIII acknowledge the independence of the South
efn Confederacy as soon as it Is formed and
that her policy Is to acknowledge all de tucto
Governments, which policy will not be departed
from IN the present case Furthermore the
Leader assures US thatit is in a position TO make
this announcement in the most positive terms.
The tone of the London Times leads us to the
same conclusion. Not quite so explicitly as the
toronto Leader, but by easily understood indi-
rection, the Times welcomes the prospective es-
tablishment Of the Confederacy Of the South. IT
Is not, however, from any sympathy with the South
on account of her wrongs in the Union as con
nected with the institution Of slavery, but because
shat journal foresees immense benefits to the com
merce and manufactures of Great Britain from
the more liberal commercial policy which the
Southern Confederacy will adopt. Thus, some
time ago, the Times limited that the South might
not find justification for dsunon in the anti.sayery
sentiment Of the North, but could find it in the
wrong and injustice inflicted by the restrictions
FRO dai +lase /
ctared, emphatieahy, that the protectionstl egis
alton OF the United States is disgrace to so en-
erprising and intellectual country''-that" com
nerclal ffeedomh was matter of infinite impor-
ance to the agricultural States of the South, and
hat 4 Southern Confederacy, enjoying free trade
Tith England and France, and exchanging the
roducfs Of its soil directly with the great manu-,
lcturing and artistic nations of Europe, is not The
nratatfdt dream of Southern economists
subsequently, the same paper declared that
lere were more valid reasons for disunon il
le commercial question than in the question OF
avery We may dispute this proposition, but
e DO not wonder at it, because the Times knows |
ext to nothing of our wrongs as connected with |
avery, but is fully posted as to the question Of
ommerce. But the fact that we wish to establish
plain enough-and that is that, aside from the
sttled policy Of England to recognize every de
tcto Government, she will gladly avail herself of
te opportunity to do SO on account Of the import
At advantages which the Southern Confederacy
il offer her in respect of removing, to a q eat
stent, the present hurdensome restrictions upon j
II commerce. I
As for the apprehension that the institution of 4
avery in the Southern Confederacy will be an 9
'stacle in the way, either of our recognition bY =