New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-07
INTERVENTION LOGIC.

Ii seems incredible that any one should read
the pretexts put forth by British politicians TO
lu.lif, Intervention in our domestic troubles
without being conscious OF their essential false
hood. The concerted howl o. leading British
aad French journalists over the alleged de-
struction o. the barbor Of Charleston had Dot
ceased when brig fully in the rebel interest
arrisod from that very harbor, and testified
that the Stone Blockade would actually iupr0oe
wha, Il had been execrated rs certain forever
% DESTROY. And the reason is manifest: TIE
waters of two considerable rivers lind exit to
the ocean through Charleston larbor. Were
that exit narrow and straight, the influx Of
tide, the eGlux OF current and tide together,
would assuredly deepen aud preserve it: 1t ia
the breadth, the opennoss, Of its mouth that
causes the channel to be crooked and shallow,
rendering tue harbor very Difficult. of entrance.
SINK as many hulks as you please, the water
must have way; dam up the entrance altogether,
and Il would force passage narrower, straigh,cr
and more practicable than tie present II Is
tie smuggling in and out, under cover OF fog
or darkness, of vessels intent on running the
blockade, that the Stone Fleet embarrasses:
and the outcry against il is bought by Seces-
zion gold or dictated by the toTtuous scheming
Of hostile foreign policy Pretexts Tor inicrier.
ing IN behalf OF the rebels must b. had; If
there are none that Ill bear scrutiny Others
must be invented. The destruction by the
rebel. Of all the lighthouses along two thousand
mics of coast, the absolute choking up OF
Norfolk liarbor, did not excite word OF
European criticism, because perpetra,ed IN the
Interest, OF the Shareholders Rebellion.
bat "the blockade is regular farce"
says trusted informant Of The Manchester Guar
dian. You, gentlemen, who make and indorse this
fabrication We challenge YOU to face the facts
Cotton at Mobile, which you say is not block.
AIDED, is worth six TO eight cents per pound;
run it over to Havana, hardly three days of,
and it will bring twenty-five cents us fast as
the bales can be delivered. How can this be
if the blockade il inelectiyol Then Salt,
which is abundant and cheap throughout the
West Indies, is exceedingly scarce and dear
throughout the region which you pronounce in
efficiently blockaded; how can this be ! A
steamer might load with Cotton and Tur-
pentine at Charleston or Mobile, run over
to Havana, and exchange her cargo
for Salt, Powder, Clothing, Quinine, &C., and
run back within month clearing twice her
own value by the trip; or she might take q
cargo from Havana TO Charleston or Mobile
and return with Cotton, &C., at an enormous
profit. Vessels hare made such trips; enough
OF them are TO be had why is not the South
fully supplied with Salt, Clothing, Qunine, &C.,
but that The gTsa Prch IS oreyJorne By tie
.grsater ha.G,di What more than the present
prices Of Salt and Cotton respectively on the
opposite sides of the Gulf Stream ia needed to
prove the blockade electuall
Mr. w. A. Massey. NJ. p, in his recent
speech at Sal,ord, seems to have distanced all
competitors in prepoSterOuS and suicidal asset
ton. "Tho blockade is inefficient" says Mr..
NJ. Very well; you cotton-spnners must relish
that. o no! :" 1t has only been recognized at
" all through tie courtesy aud iorbearanee OF
s. the maritime Sthtes." Indeed Has any
British vessel refused to make profitable voy
age through "courtesy" or "iorbearance "
Does not nll Iyerpool-the entire merchant
chipping of Great Brtain-yes, of Western
Earopc-lnow that any vessel that can cross