Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-14
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 9, 1862.

|, the Washington cabinet, without. Wnos
slvice, ascent or permission not even Llncor
himself dares to do nything-has, in all OF his
state papers, manifested more fear on the
subject of recognition than from anything else
lat might happen in til, list of supposable
things; hence his bullying threats towards
England, through all his letters of instruction
and commands to Minister Adams at the court
of ST. James 1t will be recolected that in
his first epistle to that functionary, recalling
his predecessor, he gave tokens of alarm on
that particular subject and took occasion to
indulge in threats of what he and Abe would
do if England and France should so far forget
their duty as to listen to Yancey, & Co., and
In an evil moment acknowledge the indepen-
dence of the South. That letter had no other
effect upon the cranum of crowned heads than
to insult and determine them to do the thing
forbidden only the sooner, which determine
ton has only been strengthened by each sue
ceeding affront to terrify those powers. But,
in his late letter to Adams, in which he lavish
es so much praise upon him for concoctng and
telling to the Lords at London that, Of all
falsehoods the most glarlng and wilful, that,
" but for the hope of recognition by England
and France the rebellion would not last three
months" be caps the. climax. In this letter
he assures Mr.. Adams and the British govern
mcnt through him, that no human power, not
even the power of the Eternal, can prevent war
between his government and all other nation
aties and powers who shall commit the rash
and foolish act of recognizing the Southern
Confederacy. But alas poor Seward He
has sunk himself and his government so low
in the scale of infamy and disgrace that bis
bullying threats weigh no heavier on the mind
of the great powers of Earth than the bub-
be Of the Ocean upon the back of the whale
lie and his government are towards and Bril-
ton knows it. If they would fight at all, they
would have fought over the Trent affair
The northern mind, through the mania so
long INDUCED upon the negro question, has
become deran9ed upon all other subjects, and
the people are drifting mass of lunatics and
idiots upon an ocean of civil discord and con-
fusion lashed by the raging winds ofa political
tempest, and to crafty the pride and vanity of
their despotic rulers seem willing to submit to
any dergee of degradation and ruin.
The Lincoln-Seward government have, all
the time, held out the idea that neutral pow
ers cannot acknowledge the existence, nation
ally, of the weaker power of two or more while
engaged in war, without surrendering their
claims to neutrality and assuming that of a
beigerent themselves; but to show that this
idea, like all others that emanate from that
wicked and insane source is false, We give the
following views of the French nation upon this
subject, which we get through the Norfolk
Day Book from Galgnon's Messenger of Dec
18th
A week ago, availing ourselves of the oppor-
tunity offered by certain very just observations
of the Morning Post on the attitude of the Inn
perial government, we copied them, and ex-
pressed our conviction of their justice Here
showing that the English, and French govern
mental policy are identical in the Americas
civil war. AS to the particular situation of
the disjoined members of the old American
Union we don't think that our meaning has
been clearly apprehended. In our opinion
France has no reason to take an active part
against the United States in any war that may
possibly ensue; we repeat that she has re-
ceived no offence; her commercial interests
would derive direct advantages from the main
tenance of neutrality and moreover, between
the South which supplies uS with cotton, and
the North which consumes our manufactures
and wines, the balance is at least equal. But
as that any reason aohy France should refuse
to dcknowledge the tSuuthefn States us soon as
they presented the condition required by the
M1o Of nations to justify their recognition p
We do not think so ; sensible man will ever
60 so far as to say that such and such new
State shall never be recognized. In politics
it is not usual to make such engagements. 1t
would be futile to pretend that recognizing the
Southern States would be taking part with
them. and consequently departure from neu
trality. In the diplomatic traditions of Eu-
rope, the recognition of an accomplished fac:
even of subjects revolted against their sover
eign, is not regarded as violation of the duty
of neutrals. Moreover, such event, if it is
to be will eventually only be accomplised
when opportune and after mature considera-
tion of all the circumstances, and, as we have
already hnted, aoho can be SIRE that month
hence the Northern States mag not 7Snd them
selres unable to continue the struggle sohich
they hare unaoisely undertaken against their
former associates.
There remains the question of slavery AS
far as we are concerned we believe it is useless
to protest against the strange mputation that
We favor that detestable institution.
If the event of which we speak should one day
be realized there would be no more reason to alb
stain from recognizing the Southern States than
there would be to break up the relations OF
good and cordial friendship which we entertain
with the empire of Brazil where slavery still
exists as in Louisiana or the Carolinas.
But until the necessity shall arise of taking
more decided part, and calling to mind the
affinities of race and traditions of origin which
are found even in the names of various South
ern provinces, zoe 5eliere that France ought
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