Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-02-25
EnglaDd's Preparations for
War.
London. Jan. 20. 1862

War.
London, Jan. 20. 1862.
1t is possible that you expected. when
Messrs. Mason and Slidell and their tes-
pective secretaries were surrendered to the
British Government, that the preparations
for war with America would be at once sus
pended, and ships and regiments recalled.
IL so, you have reckoned without your host.
JOHN Bull has spent four millions of pounds
twenty millions of dollars-to rescue
Mason and Shdell, and you mag depend
upon 1t with an absolute certainty, that he
VIII, IN some way, get the worth of his
money.
The war preparations are in no degree
relaxed. much less suspended. The steel
plated Warrior has gone to America, via
Lisbon, AMI No Englishman doubts that she
can stem straight up the Narrows past
your seven forts,and through their concern
trated nre, take her position in the North
River, opposite Hoboken, and hold New
York at her mercy. The government arse.
nal at woo,wich Is sending off one million
OF Mine cartridges day. Men and ma,e-
rial are going to America, just as If the
rebel commissioners or pretended ambas-
sadors." had not been surrendered, and
just as II the government had no doubt that
the war would go on just as it would have
done had MIR. Lincoln hesitated TO reverse
the decisions Of Northern iurists
DO you wish to know the reason wny p
have very honestly endeavored to enligh-
ten you-thst is, if you are in any dark ness
or any doubt about it. England-potential
Engiand-all of England that has any
power to act in the matter, wants only a
decent excuse to interfere, secure the indie
pendence of the South, open the blockade.
and bring tbs war to sudden termination.
1T the North submits to her interoretions of
national law, that is all for the present : if
the North resists, England goes for rati-
fcation OF boundaries, such as will give
greater security to her North American
provinces. She is not satisfied with the
Northeastern boundary. She wants good
harbor on the Atlantic. Portland would
suit very well. She is rot satisfied with the
proximity of Fort Montgomery, at Rouse's
Point, to Montreal. She is sorry she ever
gave up the Columbia river. She wants
free trade. More than all, she wants cot
ton.
Moreover, as told you in my last, Mr..
Stewards international law, which is pre-
sumed to be that of the President and Cab
ineeBVill never be accepted. According to
that, Mason and Slideli could be taken on
the passage from Halifax TO Soutbam ptop.
and the packet which carries them sent to
New York and condemned as prize. De
pend upon it that not man will be with
drawn from Canada, nor ship of war from
the American station, until such ideas are
abandoned
There is another point which j. NAV be
well 20 consider. Mr.. Seward informed
the European Powers a few months ago
that an Acknowledgements of the indepenG-
ence Of the Southern Confederacy would
be considered cause of war by his Coy
eminent English Statesmen have not for
gotten this. Ii the United States governs
ment does not subdue the Southern rebel
lion by the time it has itself fixed for its
coml lete subjugatior. France, England,
AMI the other powers, will acknowledge it.
They must then be prepared for the war
with which they have been threatened in
such an eventuality. And you are not to
forget that this is the same government that
acknowledged the independence of Greece.
and blew up the Turkish fleet at Nayarino
Our own government did not wait for the
permission of Spain before she acknowledg
ed the independence of Mexico, nor for
that OF Mexico before she gave full recog-
milton to Texas. with what measure We
mete, it shall be measured to you again. u
We went to war with Mexico and ccnouer~
ed her, and peace. because she attempted
to suhJugate rebel 1r seeded State
England has not forgotten this, and means
to hold us to our own presidents.
The stone blockade has done more to
block up the sympathies Of England from
the North than to destroy the Southern
haThors.
There is much talk in the papers about
lnGia cotton, but the manufacturers them
selves have no confidence in il. They
I cannot work it without altering their ma
chine at an immense expense, and they
will not do this while the duration of the
war and the supply to work half time and
wait. They know that it will take wears
for India or any other country to so organ
ize its labor as 70 furnish full and con
slant supply. They expec: either that thu
rebellion will be put down, OF that yuu
will fail to do it and give it up, and il
either case they will get plenty ofcottun
Or, as is most probable, they have as
surauces Of speedily Intervention anC
the opening of the blockade.