The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-16
Startling Intelligence.

We take the following highly interest
ing extract from the Washington cores
pondent of the New York Times:
"a member of the Foreign Legations
lin Washington arrived from Europe, re-
lates of this distinguished rebel story
which is now widely circulated in this
city.
''One of his cousins, who holds an of
flee in the Department of the Interior, in
France, having been invited to one of
Slldell soirees, availed himself of the OPP
portunity-frst, to see how a Southern
rebel looked; second, to know his opinion
about slavery. As it may well be imag-
ined, the French official was the object
of the most delicate attention on the part
of Mrs Slidell and her husband, who
strove to persuade him of the holiness of
the Southern cause, and to make him be-
lieve in its ultimate success. After hav-
ing exhausted all their arguments, the
Frenchman, politely addressing Mr.. Sill
dell, asked whether he was not of opin-
ion that the moral attitude of the North
in this contest was an impediment to the
success of the South, and if the mainte-
nance of slavery did not delay the work
of independence. "You are perfectly
right" answered Mr.. Slidell, "Europe is
adverse to our institutions, and we know
it. But please mark: they have not been
inaugurated or created, but inherited by
us. However, whenever the day mark
ed for the sacrifice of our social privi-
leges will come, the .slave-owners in the
South xr-fl 10 L
your ancestors did, nearly an age ago, in
the National Assembly of France. They
will sacrifice them as a necessary offer
ing to their countrys peace and welfare.
But now this sacrifice is impossible. 1t
would look as an act of inefficiency on
the part of the South to maintain its in
tegrity, and would weaken rather than
strengthen US. Be sure, however, that
the time is not distant when the institu-
tion of slavery-cause of our present
misery-will be forever moved from our
statute books. The French Government
can greatly assist us in this; if it acts
with its proverbial prudence and sagaci-
ty, it may place us in the necessity of
shortly declaring gradual emancipation
at home; an act which would be as salts
factory to many of us as to the spirit of
Christianity and Civilization abroad
Similar reports from England and
France for some time back leads us to
believe in the truth of the above state
ment 1t was stated as far back as the
1st of February, that the Confederate
Commissioners, Yancey, Rost, and Mann,
have proposed in hehalf of their Gov
ernment to the British Cabinet to estab-
lish gradual emancipation on condition
that Great Britain would interfere in
their behalf There can be no doubt
that 10 secure political power by British
arms, and the final independence of the
seeded States, JEFF. DAVIS, and other
rebel leaders would willingly sacrifice
the interests of the Shareholders. 1t will
be remembered that the Commissioners
in their letter TO Lord RUSSELL, said that
Mr.. Lincoln's Administration was pro-sla-
very, and had no claim on the sympa-
thies of the anti-slavery men of Great
Britain. flour Government dallies and
hesitates much longer, the revolted States
will be ready to do anything to secure
their independence, and slavery will be
wiped out by the very men who went to
war to protect it. Hon. ROBERT DALE
OWEN, in letter takes the same view.
As appearances now indicate, there is
much more likelihood that the Rich
mond faction will sacrifice slavery than
that it will be done by the Federal Ad
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