The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-21
England and Our Southern Rebellton-
The Reaction Proxresainx

The Reaction ProgrcssiDg
Our English adviccs By the Africa Indicate
healthy progressive reaction in the tone Of
the Londen press, and in the proceedings of
The British Parliament, against that hasty and
ill-considered step of her Majesty Cabinet re-
cognizing the spurious and ephemeral govern
ment set up by Jefferson Davis and his rebel
lious confederates as de .facto, standing upon a
footing OF International equality with the 60
vernment of the United States.
In the House of Commons Mr.. Gregory, the
enterprisirg member from Galway, mas indei-
nitely suspended or withdrawn his motion for
the recognition of the separate nationality of
our reyolted Southern States. Since the intro
duction of that radical motion his mind has evil
IDENTIFY become sufficiently illuminated to COM
pIeheDd the fallacy and the dangers of any such
proceeding. Here, ihen we have significant
retrogads movement from the untenable land
marks so hastily set up in the outset by King
Cotton in his British provinces. The British
metropolitan press, it will be next observed
while deprecatipg the emphatic structures of
the New York press upon the treacherous cot
ton neutrality of Lords Palmerston and Rus
CELL, would have us understand, never
theless, that England. bona fife, desires
| to maintain aid to cultivate, as q
neutral, those indispensable relations Of
amity and good will with the United States
meIce have so largely prospered for the last
half century. In more homely terms, the
leading journals of Epgland earnestly protest
that their government and people have no dis
position to quarrel with their bread and but
ter" or to risk the loss of it by misunder-
standing with our government
These protestations of good faith are enceur-
aging, for they hold out the idea of still better
things to come Nor is it very surprising, un-
der the circumstances that British officials and
the British press should be somewhat slow
in recognizing the strong vitality of this ma
ton, and its wonderful recuperative energies
From the secession of South Carolina in De.
cember last down to the close of Mr. Bucha.
mans administration, the consprators in the
work of this Southern rebellion went on un.
obstructed, az if secession and all it's acts were
sacred State rights, superior to the rights OF
the Union and the supreme law OF the land
Thus when Mr. Lincoln, on the 18th OF March
came into power, he found seven Of our South
ern States acting under an independent con
federate organization, and that in these States
excepting beleagucred fortress or two, every
scrap Of our federal property had been seized
and every vestige Of our federal authority had
been superseded by that of the Confederate
States. The future historian Of these event.
will find 40 difficulty in the declaration tina
this rebellion might have been arrested will
the secession OF South Carolina, had our Presi
dent at that time possessed the moral courage
and the decision of character which the occa
sion demanded.
! Instead, however, of transmitting to his sue
cessor a virdicated government and Unto,
intact, Mr.. Buchanan's legacy to Mr. Lincol,
was this Southern confederacy in full blast
and under the prestige of success which wa
rapidly poisoning all the other slave States
| Mr. Lincoln takes the helm at Warrington ap,