Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-02-15
England and France Interfering In Behalf
OF the Rebels.
By HoRAcg oREELRT.


That Great Britain and France, with
The possible cooperation OF Spain, are about
TO intermiddle in our domestic struggle IN
behalf of the Pro.Slavery Rebellion, is rem.
dered morally certain by the advices Of last
week. la fact, it is certain that they have
already done So The Moniteur (officia
organ of the French Government) has a
| letter from LoDdon on the stone blockade
of Charleston harbor, in which that measure
is characterized in terms which no govern.
ment of civilized stole permits itself TO
use toward Power with which it desires
to remaiu at peace The Times, The Morn.
ing Post, and other leading journals in in.
innate relations with the present British
Ministry, dtnounce the blockade ia terms
equei y unmeaSured. "Barbarily,' de. trIc.
tiou,' 'atrocity are a few OF the choice
epitheis applied to the sinking of vessels
laden with stone upon the bar at the mouth
of the harbor which iDelose Fort Sumter
| Each OF them assumes as unqueslionable
that the port is for ever obstructed and
ruined, and that such was the object Of the
stoue blockade. Yet the truth is very
different from this. A harbor through
which LwO considerable rivers pour their
waters into the ocean can DO more be shut
up by sinking fifteen or twenty old hulks
on the bar a, its moath than the waters OF
| Niagara could be permanently retained by
dam across the Falls. Indeed, the sink.
ing OF distractions on its bar is far more
likely to Increase the depth Of water avail.
able for ing ess aud egress ia time Of peace
than to diminish u. What The stone
blOckade does effect--whut il was doubt
less intended 10 effect is the prevention
vi further running in aud out clandeslinely.
under the cover of dense fog or extreme
darkness, by! craft intent on evading he
vigilance OF our bloekadDg squad. on. II
wUs thus that the Theodora ran out one
dark night, carrying Mason, Slidel, their
secretaries aud fsmilies. aud passing, with
every light hidden, every sound mufflsd,
nuGer the guns Of our feet Thus dog.
Ell valuable eargoes have been smuggIed 10
during The last six months This game is
now eGectually stopped aud the journals
that have be:n clsmorous for the breaking
of the blockade as inefficient and O sham,
are now still moro clamerous for like iu.
reference because that blockade has been
rendered entirely TOO rigorous and impreg'
nable.
Charleston is to,day in the contempla
ton Of law and justice port Of the U s
Great Britain, France, aud Spain, have
each q consul there accredited TO aud re
cOgnized by The Federal Government, and
which neither has yet seen fit to accredil
to the rival concern of Jefferson Davis
Suppose then, the rebellion bad not broker
out, yet that our Government had chosen
r for reasons sufficient in it's own eyes, TO alb
soluiely close the port Of Charleston, for
bidding all vessels TO enter IL eVermore
would France or England, or both 'Ogelh
err, have VeBtured to protest against such {
step Let Us not deceive ourselves. Th'
protest which the British journals say Ear
Russell has already entered IN this case 1
: intervention In our domestic quarrel, aud I
/, TO be followed by other acts Of similar ten
o or but of still graver import The fsuda
arstnerats and military depots OF the OiG
World have too long been forced to endnr
the existence Of powerful and prosperou
republic across the Atlantic. That exls
is to their subjects areproaeh, to themselVe
a danger, from which they are determines
: TO be delivered. Having waited mt
> weary and despol,dent for the rebels
> heir own strength 10 vanqnish the Unior
they are about TO initiate measure OF aeliV
8 and nneqoivoeal intervention.
When The Tines declared the ston
: blockade atrOeious and unprecedented, III
Neaes points 10 the effort Of Great Brtai
J. in 1904 TO Obstruet 10 like manner the ha
az hor Of Boalogne, but that was "a barbC
sd widened and defended for the express pu
|. pose Of the conquest aud snbiugation
r England Indeed And has not Charlie
b ton been ured, 20 tbe utmcst possible e