New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-15
Foreign Intelligence.


From the New York journal Of Commerce.
The foreign news received during the past few
days cannot but lead to the gravest soicitude for
the future. The tone of the French news is even
more unpleasant than that from England, while it
Is evident that strong pressure will be brought
upon both governments to induce them not only
to recognize the Southern Confederacy, but to in
terfere by force to raise the blockade. The gene
raj principle is now strongly urged that the Ameri
can war has been of long duration without practi-
cal results and that the means of warfare adopted
such as the stone blockade, for example, are con.
trary to the moral sense of the great powers OF the
world The urgency of the Abolitionists to declare
the freedom of the slaves, and thus create the hor
rors of serye instructions, is now regarded by
their old allies, the English as an evidence of the
tendency of Americans to barbarism, and is used
as an argument to induce national interference il
our AFFAIRS
We cannot but feel the melancholy fact tina,
America is regarded in Europe as a weakened
power, with whom it is possible to deal as with an
interior. No Government has yet taken this view
but public sentiment is Strengthening in that di.
rection, and it will require great caution and mod
Grafton to prevent such action on the part of Eng
land and France as will make it necessary for
America to assert her dignity and prove her
power
The London Observer is entitled to no credit
aad we are not induced to place any reliance on
the --latest intelligence " which comes from that
Office where the Southern agents seem to hold
council. Dispatches are easily made up for a de.
parting steamer, to produce an effect on this
country. and the dispatch appears to be of that
kind But the entire tone of the European mind
is not to be mistaken. 1t is now q question OF
great moment for France and England, whether an
armed intervention will be justifabe, and if justi-
liable whether it will pay for the coat.
This Will be discussed for some weeks If at the
end OF a year from the commencement of the war
We shall remain in the same position, the urgency
OF the pressure on these powers will increase.
Meantime we are now approaching the oppor.
tpnity to exhibit the force which General McClel,
Ian has been gathering That force surpasses any
thing that European powers have supposed. Its
beyond anything that Americans imagine. We
speak not without authority when we say that the
artillery forces of the Union army to-day sur.
passes anything the world has ever seen before,
No such result of military SKILL foresight prepara
ton and drill has been realized in any nation up to
the present time.
When this is brought into sight by the move.
ments which are to be made, the force of European
criticism will change, and it will be acknowledged
that they had no conception of the strength of the
American Government. 1t is now question
whether we shall display to Europe sufficient
torce to be the best argument against their ideas
OF interfering with US. If they are convinced that
we are great nation, unimpaired in our vigor
they will remain quiet Otherwise they may at.
tempt to settle our troubles for u.s. and no one can
torsee the results of such an attempt.