Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-16

some persons are surprised st tbe psrsis-
tence with which we sustain the cause of the
North, and, impressed, doubtless, BY the sever
ltE OF the sufferings caused in Franco and
England by the want of cotton, imagining
that the recognition of the South by the two
great western powers of Europe would rean-
innate the calture of this plant thev accused
Us OF eelng aceomplices in a war productive of
| such terrible ealamites 1t woald seem. to
| hear them talk, that the South was an oppressed
nation striving to throw off the woke oe con-
querors, and they are astonished that, fsithless
to our predilection for enslaved nstionalities,
| our wishes and sympathies belong without re-
striction to the North. According to them,
there IS contradiction here which surprises
them, and the reason of which they want to
know. 5r4
Let US take up first the question Of interests
we shaiI then approach more freely the ques-
| tion Of principle and Justice.
1t would be, we think, a great illusion TO
beileve that the recognition of the South by
| France an0 England could remedy anything.
A simple recognition, not followed by concur
1 renee and military assistance, would irritate
the North, without bringing any material help
TO the South. Do they wish that we should
carry our sympathy for the South SO far as to
| give 1t the assistance of our arms, and declare
! war against the North2 This would be, in
our opinion, very great folly, and fraughb
/ with terrible risks. But at the very best,
supposlng that the armed Intervention of Eu-
| rope should put an end all at once to hostili-
ties, and that the North should not turn against
US, still 1t is evident that the end of the war
/ Will not cause the cotton to grow which has
not this year been planted, and that tor more
| than year from now, this decision SO full Of
! perils, would be fatally barren for the great
Interests and for the keen sufferings of our
laboring classes.
But let Us go further. Admitting that
France and England decide to intervene, we
are obliged to admit that they would never In
| tervene without conditions, and that these two
| great nations which have abolished slavery in
| their colonies, could not honorably take Il un-
der their protection in America. They would
be obliged to make the emancipation of the
| slaves one of the conditions of their interven-
tlon that is to say, to strike with mortal blow
an institution without which, in those States,
the culture OF cotton is not possible, and they
would be forced themselves 10 disorganize the
slave labor, which alone can procure them to-
day this precious article of commerce. .re
But it will be said, il France and England
| stiruate for the enfranchisoment Of the slave,
it will be for period some distance off, and
from now till then slave labor can operate
anew, and produce Jaw material for the use Of
Rouen, Mulhouse and Manchester. s.e
This would beat least we think so-a great
Illusion still. Labor is to day disorganized in
the South. The Federals are armlng and
drilling regiments of blacks. 1t is an i'm.
mense event. Do you suppose that a negro
who will have held musket for year only,
and who has used il with success against his
former master, will bend his back willingly
beneath the whip of the overseer2 The slave
VINO has tasted liberty is irremediably spoiled
for slavery and, admitting that be could be
brought back to his former habits, would it be
reasonable to count upon his submission, when
The principle of enfranchisement shall have
become the BASIS of treaty with France, and
when the excitement of the irritated and i'm
placable North shall be perpetual dissolvent
for an institution ruined in practice by war, in
in principle oy peace2
If Europe is wise she will wear mourning
for long years for the cotton Of America She
} will encourage the culture of the precious
plant in India i'll Egypt, in Algiers in Sicily,
IN Naples, In Andaiusla, and even in the south
} Of France, where the Steele told US yesterday
| that an attempt of this Kind has completely v
succeeded. But she will not rest her supply
of article of the first necessity, and the sub
J sistence of several millions of ouurters, upon
the uncertain destinies of country engaged
! at once in the com mbined chances of civil war
t and of social revolution.
4 By an armed intervention In America it IL
; ing cotton. 1t is nearly certain that she would
=. expose herself to q furious war, u war fraught
! With certain disasters and void of useful re-
7 | suits. When nation has arrived at q degree
| OF evaporation manifested to-day in America
2 we must take care how we touch it, and dis
, trust profoundly all the calculation of forces
available in ordinary times, but the power Of
which IS overthrown by national passion. Ii
3 1892, when sixty Department. rose up against
81 ha lNly, h. Al.
equal to an army, when the emigration Of of
:, fcers disorganized our navy, Europe imagined
0 that France would be an easy prey. We know
how it resulted. s...4.s
Let US profit by this remembrance For OF
intervention in America, France and England
5 have only doubtful motives of interest; while
!, the whole of America, North or South, ha
t reached the last paroxysm of rage. Let u
e not provoke her. When an entire people sac
rIhces it's interest," reverses its habits stakes it
entire existence we must treat it with respect
and abstain from irritating these passions
which are too far removed from as to beun
derstood.
And then, if we must say it, we think tha
y France is pretty we'll fatigued with these for
e eign exhibitions without any evident utility
which absorb her economies, impoverish he
budget and paralJ 70 her action. The Empe
ror told as at the opening of the last session
tnaS during three years the expedition :
China, Cochin-China and Syria had absorba
two hundred and thirty-two millions of franc
Wethink we keep below the truth in admit
ting that the expedition to Mexico will rails
the number, already so respectable, to abov
three hundred millions. Suppose, now, ths
a step hazarded, that an Intervention unde
y taken somewhat lightly through impruder
Or excitement, should lead us to a rupture wit
re Northern America, it would be by niillio;
s that we should be obliged to countthe expenl
I'd OF war undertaken to procure cotton, which
cs after all, we should not succeed in procuring
IT This, if people wish to know it, is why v
h are opposed, with the whole force of our cor
viction, to all mediation, intervention, or an
sort of mixture in the civil war which no
o, desolates America She can do everythir
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