Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-26
FOREIGN Intervention.

Foreign Intervention
Events vary rapidly in the present condition
of the country, that the opinion of to day is out
of date tomorrow. We supposed, and have not
altogether abandoned the supposition yet, that
the European Powers had relnquished the idea
OF Intervention in American affairs: but the cor
respondents OF our journals, the tone at the
French and English capitals, and the hostility of
leading foreign journals to our Government, all
point to the fact that there is danger of recog
milton of Southern Independence.
Causes which no nation can ignore, conspire to
that result. First is the suffering of the manu-
facturers and their operatives. 1t may literally
be said that millions are starving from the cotton
dearth. How long can this last, is a serious and
pressing quesuon-serious TO US and the rulers of
these millions. 1t is to be observed, too, that it
is eminently not a sentimental question; no
chance, in answering it, to appeal to prejudice
against Southern Institutions Abolitionism can
bear only one part in the solution, and that is
hostile to the best interests of this country. For
next in order to the present suffering in France
and England, is the fear of sudden emancipation.
Indeed, the statesmen and press alike OF those
countries now regard slavery as practical pro-
ducng institution and, whatever theories they
may have entertained against it in the past, when
they saw in it only an abstract phianthropcal
problem, they recognize that 70 extirpate il
by force, or in the manner prescribed
by the Abolitionists, is to drag with it by the
roots all the industrial interests throughout
Christendom which are dependent upon it. This
view is unmistakably emphasized by the destruc-
ton of cotton in the Confederate States. The
millions who suffer may well raise their voices in
clamorous despair, as they behold the flames de-
stroy ali hope that the triumph of the National
cause will restore to them their necessary staple;
and their voices will be heard. No Government,
save ours, dares to turn a deaf ear to the COM
plants, whether i'll or well founded of millions
of its subjects.
There is then, in England and France three
causes which NAV force these Powers to interview
ton; the suffering of their own people, the de-
struction of cotton by the South, and the fear
that the radicals in this country will execute their
schemes of emancipation. These causes are at
work now, despite the gloss and denial which Alb
clifton journals attempt to place upon our for
eign relations. Indeed, from the voice of the
British Ministers in Parliament, and from the
/ leaders in the chief British newspapers, we catch
4 only one tone, and that is of sneers and soothing
at the idea that the abolition of nearly FIVE mil
lions OF slaves in this country can ever be accom-
plshed They naturally ask the question, which
/ AbOlitonists pertnaciously ignore what will be
done with the negroes when they are freedI
What can be done with them? The expense of
colonization. added to the expense of the war,
would crush the nation. The equality of the
races is impossible, and nothing short of
! equality or colonization would be philanthropy
to the blacks. The common sense of Europe
understands that the preiudlces of races cannot
/ be overcome by mere sentimentalisms. 1t sees,
what abolitionism should see here, that those pre-
JUDGES are bounded in an eternal law. which
makes black and white much distinct animals
as donkeys and horses are, and that the attempt
at social equality, which means inevitable ANAL
| gamation, is much resented by nature, the
attempt to extiDguish distinct species of brutes
by the same process. The Almighty never errs.
| The laws which he has established vindicate
themselves. An intelligent nation of white free
men will never receive into their blood the base
Infusion of the African slaves. Nor will any ag-
itatOn or labor by pseudo philanthropists educate
the people to it. The social equality of races is
never attained save where the white race is de-
graded and ignorant They neither the one
nor the other in the United States, and they.
therefore, cling to the natural antipathy which
prevents their violating law of their being.
English and French statesmen have no expect
alton that this antipathy can be eradcated. They
gaze, therefore, with Interchangeable increduty
upon the entire abolition idea i'm America. They
recognize in it danger to their own people, and
they therefore set us an example, the wisest and
greatest which nations can follow, of that self
shness which takes care of those who are de-
/ pendent upon them in preference to espous-
ing the cause of strangers. We style this ''the
wiseSt and greatest" example, because it points
in the direction of entire fidelity to responsible
ties. Itwoud be as Infamous in British Minis
try TO let British manufactures starve, it is in
AbOlitOnists to prolong the war and the suffer-
ngs of the whites by their wanton agitation for
the imaginary benefit of the blacks There
are limits to the duties of all men, and especially
to those Of men in office. Who takes care of
himself best does his duty most faithfully to God
and to society. The errantry of modern philan-
thropy is a violation of all laws alike of divine
and social wisdom. 1t is a mOnstrous~outcrop of
the sms and infdelity which believe that men die
like rats, TO rot.
The Government of the United States has
come very near to being an engine for the prOpa-
CATION of this species of errantry: but England
and France, with all their follies and crimes know
well enough that nations can not indulge in
the luxury of philanthropy-tha they are bust
ness institutions, and must be conducted on close
business principles, or fail They, therefore, will
listen to neither their love nor their hatred of
Americans, but to their necessities alone in the
present strife. They will not withhold their hands
from affection, nor let them fall in anger, but
will count the cOst-arrive at the sum total in
dollars and cents-before they intervene. They
have already taught the Abotionists a lesson
which should silence them forever in the politics
of this cOuntry-DetrOit Free Press.