The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-07-02
ENGLISH OPINION OF OUR WAR.
From lie London Times. MaY 10.

Ii will have heen noticed as a singular
feature Of The American quarrel. that no in
teryention is thought probable or practicable
except 10 favor of The South. Mediation in
whatever form or under whatever name il 9
10 be offered, is universally taken to imply
some movement on behalf Of tie Coniedcrates.
So completely. indeed, are The belligerents
themselves impressed with this idea, that
he South casts Il ia nar teeth as a scandal
aud a blundpr that no European arbitration
has vet been interpOsed, while the President
Of tie Northern States actually proelaims a
day Of thanksgiving Tor the drliyerance Of
the cauHlry from i0reign intervention,
which he iuleniifies with nathing less Than
!" inYasiun' The instincts 0f the cnmbstants
have undoubtedly led them TO correct de-
cisions on this point, but the fact is not Q
little curious.
We need not dissembe the truth about
certain prepossessions in Europe. II is be-
yond denial that in spite of the slavery ques-
lion the Southerners have been rather the
fayorites. partly a. the weaker side. partly
a conquerors against odds. and partly their
iemani for independence w4s thought too
- "a, - rcststSu- arrBe : Hsr,.4 p-:-..
i government founded on the right OF insur-
reclian only. To these merely Sentimental
and not yery urgent considerations WAS added
he more potent and weighty reflection that
what me souherners had d1ne, no power,
whether American or European. could sue
eecd IN undoing
The dissolution If the Union vas az ac-
cnmplisked fact. nor could any statesman oi
any cpuntrg forecast the means By which q
government protesting to subsist only BY the
will Of lie governed, cnuld be re.esiablish.
III against ill., desire II nne-third ol the com.
munity after lieree aud sanglinary war.
Bat there is something still more curious
aboat the ease. Il happens that the inter.
,eation 81 anxiuusly deprecated b. The Fed
erals mu.t. il exerled at ALI, be exerted 4
, their prejudice. Intervention on behalf o
the North Is an impossibilily. They hav'
alread, possession Of the seas, and the Who'll,
British navy could give them nothing more
We might lend them money. but Of this
TOO. in some form or other, they have go
enough ID allow of present expenditure
eight hundred lhnusand pound, i day. A
"a sending them men. III he effective troop
now serving ia Epsland might he landed a
! New York without causing any pereeptlbl
increase in the fabulous numbers 0t IN
Northern armles.
Intervention, therefore, on behalf oE th
North, would BE- simply nullity. for no al
lance could add - its power Or promote i
| ends. y.
The case nf the South. however. is total
different. SO singular is the position ni u
Confederaies that, though all the powers I
Eurnpe could do them no harm. the intei
,entinn of any one 81 these powers might q
them an ininity II gnod. They are weak
bat no,hing cin make them weaker than the
are. whereas tie help Of single ally nlgl
. treble their strength IN a lnomcn.. LIZ
,ouadrnn such as. even q minor maritl'n
power might dispatch 70 American ~aie'
would suffice 10 raise the blockade tor . Ions
er or shorter period, and in that period IN
, Sonth might turn its Gotta into money 81
its money into munitions Of war.
II Is for the want Of these opporiunii''
: that the Conicderates have been lighting
40 serious disadvantage. They contrl'
even from their inferior numbers 10 natt
The numbers Of the North, but they a
! beaten in guns, gunboats and all the seize
/, life apnIiances o. war. which manuactnriI
!. .liudustrs creates, aud which money .pu
!. chascs. What they most want is the lre
|. dom Of The sea aud highway to the narke
!. az the world Once placed on 'evel NJ
their antagonists IN ti'is respect they weu