Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-20
The sOuth and Rnropo.

* From the Richmend Examiner.
The first formal act Of recognition vouchsafed to
the Southern Confederacy comes Appropriately
from her Catholic Majestyss Captain General in Gu
81. The Confederate flag is b be treated with all
respect due to nat ional flag, aud foreign ConsEs
are prohibited from interfering with Confederate
vessels engaged in legitimate commerce in that
sislan. Il eur Tag is 70 be recognized IN Cuba, it
follows OF course that il viii be recognized in all
the Polts0f the Spanish Queen. If recognized in
Spain the time cannot be distant when it viii be
cognized also in the ports of Great Britain and
France; for the policy Of Spain, france and Great
Britain IS toe closely asgimated, il virtue Of the
intimate confidence subssting between the courts Of
TIE three countries, for rule to prevail in the pqrts
o. one OF the countries which will not soon
obtain IN those Of the rest.
Recognition BY such power as Spsin Is not
thing to be held II lighe est nation, 50 far Is the
source from which 4 pFoeseds Is concerned. No
country during the last ten years has made such
rapid strides in prosperity wealth andpOWer asthe
Spanish Peninsula The United States itself Is not
10 be excepted from the general remark. Spain,
in late years, has entered upon new Of exist
e1ee. Order begins to reign in & land that was
long sub iected TO the raxates Of foreign invasion
and the deselation Of civil war
Her comp6cadOn for so many centuries in the
rival politics of France, Austria and Great Britain
had reduced her until lately to condition of help
lessness, poverty and prostrati0n, as amentable
: that OF Italy itself. Her resurrection from the
moral and political death which was so long her lot
has at length been accomplished and she is rapidly
rising to her former dignity and Importance among
the powers Of Europe Her internal prosperity has
become web established that she begins again to
lock abroad after interests that have been lanuish
ing for centuries, and there is power in Europe
which is more rapidly developing an American
policy. We all know with what Indignation she
received our proposition for the purchase of Cuba
few years ago. Instead Of eeding present colonies
she is looking forward to the acquisition Of others
and abe not long ago surprised and ia their secret
hears grat6ed the world by the seizure of Spanish
San Domingo, with the intention Of reducing the
whole Of that Island under her own Jurisdiction.
The Glapidated coalition Of the political and
social fabric in Mexico renders the annexation of
that country to some stronger power great poiti
cal necessity and an early political event; and all
intelligent observers Of the times are Of opinion that
that unhappy country viii seon with the CONSENT Of
England and France, become again dependency OF
the Spanish crown. The close alliance subsistng
between Great Britain, France and Spain-not only
extending, as q British statesman remarked few
years ago, 70 European affairs, but embracing all
parts of the earth in its eontemplatons one of the
leading features Of European politics. So well
understood is the alliance that the action of any
of those powers many quarter Of the globe, is uni
yersaly received as indicating the policy Of al
three. s 2 iHaa-s aNN
The proclamation Of the Csban Captain General
would, in stsef, be Of subordinate Importance but
he acts, OF course, upon instructions from Madrid;
and no step would be taken affecting the relations
Of that Kingdom tosthe great conflict in America,
contest which exeites the solicitudes Of European
powers in most intense degree, without full con
sultaton and thorough understanding with France
and Great Britain.
We do not konvwhetFer the subject of our recog-
nitienby these three great powers should excite any
great sOcitude inshe South. We are masters Of our
positions and sooner or later that full recognition Of
our Independence must coma, which, meantime,
eonnot lose much Of its value by being deferred.
The North is insuring recognition By maintain
ing the blockade Of ports. If the blockade were
removed, we should be obliged ourselves 20 estab
hAh embargo in order 70 extOrt recognition from
the European PoWers, This measure would be at
tended BY very great internal dscontent and might
BY the intensity Of thu discomfort, endaoger the
stability OF our new Governments IL Is the North
by its blockade, which is extortlng from Europe
q recognition of our independence, teaching them,
as it does By the experimentation CTlcis the necessity
of great staples 10 their existence. France
derives annual revenue of SIS, 600 600 from her
monopoly of the tobacco trade. The Yankees, by
blockRding the shipment Of tobacco to that Empire
enlist Napoleon in the interest Of our tag. Great
Britain and her people derive a revenue Of $780,
100000 per annum from American cotton, and il is
that mammoth interest which the Yankees are as
sailing by their pockets,
The political power Of Napoleon, the rnanufactu-
ring wealth Great Britain and France are founded
upon our tive great staples Of cotton and tobacco.
Are not masters of our position Is there need
for any iDlpatieDee haste IN securing the recOg
milton of these powers The blockade is a better
negotator Tor rs lnan hundred ministers plenlpO-
tertiary. Cotton and tobacco are OF more worth to
us, as evidence Of national power, than an army
Of three hundred thousaal men and navy Of
Thousand sail.
We are lighting this war successfully without
borrowing 8 dollar, CT procuring pound Of any
sort Of material from abroad. Our country pos
sesses every resource for war or peace and We
should flourish and prosper even if we should re-
main for hundred years isolated from the earth
as the inhabitants of the moon. We can do better
without the world than they can do without US
and, happily for cause, it is the Yankees who.
are teaching this fact by their blockade. We should
be happy open friendly relations with sister
nations of the world; and we receive the inteni
gence from Cuba with qualification (; but We can
await recognition for year, or five years. with
much more composure than the nations maintain
if they defer it.