Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-04-16

Tor its own armies NJ Will, independently OF the
State Executive and Legislature, and you will have
purse) that may be termed an attribute OF inde-
pendence" -.---s.... .--s.. GEoseiA.
Foreign Views on American Affairs. I,
In recent discussion in the legislative chamber
Of France on American affairs, the following amend
fient was offered to the address in reply tola COM
municaton from the Emperor:
"The civil war which desolates America is Sc
rious injury to French manufactures and commerce;
We offer up the most ardent wishes that those dis
sensions may speedily terminate and that the great
principle of the abolition of slavery may come vic
toriously out Of The struggle entered into on that
SUBJECT"
In the course of the debate
N. Cranicr de Cassagnac as member of the COM
mittee wished to say few words on the amend.
ment. The maintenance or the abolition Of slavery
was question Of administration of internal poll
cy and if France were to express wish that slave.
ry should be suppressed in America, it would be an
act Of interference with the affairs of foreign coun-
try. After having done so in America; France
might next do the same for the Spanish possessions
next for the Dutch, and then Brazil, Siam, and in
Short for every part Of the world where slavery still
existed. France had emancipated her own colonies,
and the other powers were free to initiate her if
they choose, but she could not interfere with them
fHcar, hear.
Viscount Anatole Lemercier observed that, in
presenting the amendment under discussion, the
authors of it were DESTROYS of respecting the senti-
:nents expressed in the address, and they merely
added wish which they thought to be that of the
whole Chamber. They now desired to add after
the words "speedy termination" the following
land that the great principle Of the abolition Of
slavery may come out victorious from the struggle
entered into on the subject" By so doing they
only expressed their adherence of slavery, and the
Chamber would do'wel to adopt the ameryment.
Count DE Tromclin could not admit that slavery
the sole cause that had led to the crisis in Amer
lea; the motive was also that the South wished to
manage their own affairs without being interferred
with, and in his opinion, European commerce could
not fail to benefit by the realization of that desire.
lie feared that, although civil war might cease, the
numerous volunteers who had been SO long accus.
toned to camp life, would not readily return to their
peaceful avocations and that troubles and dis
| orders would long exist.
NJ. Norm (le la Drome) could not agree with NJ.
Granier de Cassagnac that the abolition of slavery
was only question Of administration. 1. was one
which essentially interested the right of nations
Slaves were Christians.
NJ. Granier de Cassagnac-The African slaves
were not so.
VA iuCStlOllo HAVE Occu uliACu
this discussion and am DESTROYS of saying few
words each. One of the honorable members has ex
pressed doubts as to whether the blockade estab-
lisled by the Northern States is effective, and ap
| pears to see an opposition between English and
French tendencies on the subject. Such Is not the
case. The principles laid down by the two govern
ments as to the conditions necessary to render the
blockade effective have been actually accepted Earl
Russell has laid down the principle that the block
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t prudence is necessary in this American question
and that it is important that the Powers interested
should act in concert These powers do not think
that the effective character Of the blockade can b.
denied and they respect it. The French govern
melt cannot feel surprise at the sympathy which
has been expressed the great question Of the alb
clifton Of slavery, for it shares in it. When thu
scourge of slavery afflcts a country We may aoSis'
suppression but We cannot 20 farther. Adhesion.
! Do you. who advocate neutrality, think it woult
be prudent and polite in an address in which yot
express wish to an end put to the disturbances
in America to add words in favor Of the abolition o.
slavery? Certainly not. We express wishes in an
eqnal degree for the North and for the South, 70,
we desire to see an end Of the civil war, and that
brand of discord extngnished which has set fire t.
| the country. Hear. hear. :, II: -.
| President Lincoln's emancipatien message had
been received in England and attracted much atten
u0H. Luz l|ihcSpoot ttieit CaN Oe III
doubt it will have an lncalculable effect in Europe
and that effect will be most favorable to the North
ern cause.
The London Times, III an editorial on the subject
says: 1t is the most important news since the
split. The Presidents avowed object is to recover
to the Union the border States The proposition is
important, not for its intrinsic likelihood Of accep
lance, but because it is proposition, and is the
first bid mule torards putting an end to the scar
We may hope others may follow, and that the North
may gradually rise in Its offers until something &C
ceptablc has been put forth. The only reply of the
South to President Lincoln has been resolution Of
the Confederate House Of Representatives to burr
all the cotton and tobacco that may be in danger o.
falling into the hands of the invaders. In every
point Of view the proposal Of the President gives
grcatscopc1or speculation, and perhaps some glimpse
of hope; but it is for what it may herald, and moi
for what it is"
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