The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-01-08

tun EoVrfnucnt, tntFrlnTc, C0uiu nave Onu1nt
salrpetre cheaperini South America than they
could have bnughtit here. true, the transit
10 that case would have occupied longer time
than IL would in this. Yet4ihey could not
have required three thousand tnhs for the
purposes OF their present civil war until they
had had time TO send ships TO South America
and receive them back again at lest ten times
over. M
We must remember also that this order for
saltpetre was dispatched frnm Washington
before the exploit III Captain Wilkes had be.
come knosn. As soon as u did brcome
known, fresh agent. a. we have seen, was
at once sent here with orders to purchase RI
frs. lead. and prrcas~,on caps. an a scale. il
w"uld appe u, al corresponding magRnude.
Once AMI for all j. certainly not the usual
course with those who can cut and come q.
gam. We do not desire To give these con-
siderat,ons undae signifcancr. but they Ger.
taInIy imply disposition 10 draw our teeth
and then To tell u to bite IL We can.
w shall not less rejalce At this prompt in.
teryrntion OF our own Government, even IL
our difficulty with the Northern States shoald
be happily smmounird, and the civil war
should BE- left as brfnre to drag on IL weary
length. We have simed at the mai,trnsnre
Of bona fie neutrality between the two
cumbatants.
A royal prnclamation, a considerable peri.
cd ago, warned, British merchant captains 10
carry neither arms nor tronps Tor ei,her par.
y. Even in our Official language we have
sbstained from ANYTHING more than regret for
the existence of lhe contest. Northern and
Southern ships have. as far as we are con-
cerned, enjoyed the sane facilities for the
shipping OF warlike stores IN British ports.
Bot. 10 point Of fact. there has existed the
grnssest inequality between the advantages
Of the Two cumbatanis in this latter respect.
The Nnrth have been supreme AZ sea, and
they have sl,0 maintained more or less ct.
fectual blockade Of Southern pDrts. Thu:
the one party have enjoyed a practical i'm.
maniIy IN the shipment OF arms from this
c"untry, aud The other parry hase been near.
iy excluded from Our markets. A Southern
ship has first TO run the blockade AZ Charles
fun or New Orleans; h hss then 4, make
Liserpool.in spite Of Northern cruisers; az.
terwsIds il has the same peril TO encounter
on the return voyage; and. haallv, IL ma. IA
run the blockade again and Ia enter its owl
port IN safety.
The trath. therefore, Is that the lib,raiits
and equsllty Of our laws have operated "a
feed the war IN the greatly prrpond.raiing
interest Of the North. By the present proc
iamalions this tendency i now at a. end
and neither belligrr,nt will receive arms OF
ammunition hencriurward from these shores
This Is mrtIng out even justice, al least. I,
both parties. Bat whatever were the de
signs Of the Federal Government. II is i'm,
pnssihlr to imagine any pawer more com.
pletels beaten IN policy by It's late outrag
on our dag. II il were its aim in thrse pur
chasrs .merrl, 70 provide for its campaign q
galnsl the SnuIh, Il has rlosed the doUr TO ii
own iactiti"us advantages over Is sutagnnis
10 British ports; aud Il Il were its aim 4
exasust our own resources. Il has put rs de
sign 10 practice jest IN time to be decIsTely
defeated by the TWO royal prolamal,ons.