Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
From the London Morning Post, Lord PamerstOns Or
TIA TX about Recognizing the SOuth.
ern COnfcderacy.

There be but little doubt that sooner or
later, the Southern COniederacy will be admitted
into the family of nations. After IA tedlOusly
protracted war of eighteen months, the Federal
Government have failed in making the slightest
impression on their resoute opponents. 1t is not
unreasonable to presume that even should the
be proceeded with for another year and
half, the result at the end OF that time would not
be different We have now had a fair opportu-
nifty of estimating the qualities and the calbre of
both belligerents Those who derive their ideas
OF strength from magnitude were not slow to
conclude thar the North must of necessity prove
victorious And in truth the advantages pos
sessed by the established Government at the
commencement of the contest were to all appear
ance overpowering. The Federal States entered
upon the war entirely free from debt, and with
resources at their command for the production of
wealth which were really stupendous. They
possessed powerful navy, and though not hav
ing at their disposal standing army, bad, Mt ali
events in abundance, the materials out of which
it could be speedily created. They enjoyed the
exclusive command OF the ocean, and saw not
the slightest danger to apDrehend in the prosecu-
ton OF their trade With the whole world open
to them. they found themselves speedily supplied
with every engine of modern warfare which sci
ence has of late called into existence. Besides
all this, they embarked in their enterprise with
all that prestige which invariably attaches itself
to the established order of things. Such were
the circumstances under which the North ad-
dressed Itself TO the task of crushing the So
called rebellion; is it possible to lose sight oil
them in estimating the probabilities of carrying
to succcssful issue war which, in it, present
stage, exhibits the combatants standing towards
each other in relations so different from those
which they occupied when the war began
| 1t would have been impossible for any nation
| to be compelled to struggle for its independence
under circumstances more disadvantageous than
those under which the States which seeded from
the Union endeavored to establish their CLAIM "a
la separate form of government Numerically
the population of the South stood to that of the
North in the relation of one to five. OF the
materiel of war the Southerners were entirely
destitute. No sooner had the standard of indie
pendence been raised than every port in a large
seaboard was at once sealed. With such MUM
tons of war as they then possessed, they found
| themselves obliged not only to commence but to
sustain what they well knew would be protract-
ed conflict OF ships of war, with one two
exceptions, they possessed none. Their trade
was entirely annihilated Instead of the prestige
with which their Northern opponents entered on
the war, they found themselves held up TO the
execration of the civilized world To foreign
States they were represented by the Federal Gov
eminent rebels, whilst fanatcism stigmatized
them as slaveowners. Numbering in all little
more than eight millions, they found themselves
at the same time obliged to cope with the North
ern States, and to retain in subsection, within
their own territory, population half as numer
Gus as their own Under disadvantages so great
as these hid the Southern Confederacy fight the
battle of independence.
1t is impossible to comparable present position
of the Federal States, with that held by them al
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