New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-02
FOREIGN INTERVENTION.

mel, az supposed in my last-that is, the vsit was
not only not formally official, it was not even ai
Especially and deE,ately) authorized oileiouS ''S',
Apart from this error in matter Of literal TACT,
seJ little reason to change my last week
ton of The significance Of tbat visi''
NJ MeIcers general instructions doubtless MIC "
watch for-fnd if possible, to open and prea'e' ~
far as he opportunity cana way for oierpg' not
pressinc. propositions of "concillahon ana medul'
,onp on the part of bis msster. That he should
find. in the occupation OF New-Oresns by Union
troops, the opponune occasion to present. TO our Gov
ernment in his Emperor ,me, this alternative ID
style of uliimatum: "Accept French mediation, or
count Oh French recognition of the c. 5. A."-he
need be as strangely inventive as the Washington
correspondent of TIE n. y. Herald, who boldly
attributes such eccentric imagining to the discreet
French diplomat No nearly sensible bo1y here
even pretends to put faith in THIS Herddfc desre Oh
the enemy. Patrie and Pays and ConSffutionaei
even cannot are not inspired TO, make any capital
out of it for their favorite Southern cause. Lne
london Times treats il conteuptitly palpable
ahsurdity. The London Mornlng HERALD, the Hlgh
Tory, notwithstanding bitterly arii-American organ,
alone honors this letter with formal editorial com
ment congeniilly reckless Of hkellhood-in the
course of which comment the Washington ietter-
Of Secretary StantonV -.
TIE French ministerial Journals are thus far chary
of editorial remark upon the capture OF New'oIi.ans
They probably have not yet received thelr cue iIVu
tie ministries. You may think IL ho'ewor'n,
that la Pafric briefly improves the event TO say Al
a." il calculated to pTecpitate the march OF events
and TO hasten the fall OF the Southern Ccniedefa'
ton. But do no. suppose ira the capture U, N'"
Orleans has turned al any sharp angie, huh iess re-
versed the current spirit Of these journals anu tne
a Il -, A,.ts.l imam rery ii
remporarily checked their steady drift &. s. A. ward
Ii next week should bring us news OF The lail oil
Savannah or Fort Wright, OF Beauregard 5 retreat
or defeat. the current would rest still IN check but
still. fear, not flow backward. For why
For this WHY. The American Question IA re-
oarded by MANY here-noi by mere partisan enemies
or partisan friends Of North or South but by states
men and others, who study it, various phenomena III
search of tie elements Of its cal,uable solutlon,
from the point Of view OF international pcncyi ol
political economy, or OF historical pblosophy-hos
as a merely or chiefly military question iha' the
armies of the Union can vanquisn he armies o. the
Separatists they do not doubt. hat they may ls
admitted But territorial conquest does hol ioilo"
in immediate sequence nor logical consequence YET
further off ags stands obsiDaely sili the South
ern people sentiment, the Southern nation, on the
little backward uphill way to restoration ana re-
union. If it were only the Bloody Book deepening
ard widening now for more than year IN us
revolutionary course, that separated North ana Sou'h
commercial interests and family ties. ana common
Language and the like, could bridge IL over. a few
neacetnl Summers would dry it up and oyergrow It's
bed with rich industrial haryesis. If we had to 90
with Rebellion only, we have the power 10 subdue
it. "crush il out" destroy II. But we have TO DO
with Revolution. The South has been separating
for years, aud IS NOR separated from TIE North
Whether the independence OF the &. ;. a. or The
/ U. 5. A. be formally recognized not by the
u. S. 4. and by foreign nations, ia an extremely
important MATERIAL bur Is no longer the essential
question in the case. {. ). a. ana l.. D. a are
already as they have been in long course OF peFar-
tioD 10 become two natiops-n0t merely separate,
distinct but even distinctly antag0nisiic-a COM
muuity based on free labor and human equality,
and community whose social and economical bare
is slave labor, and the last degree OF human IN
equality fundamentally, then, different ana de-
yeloping divergently in every social, moral, ana
economical branch OF growth and inlfg CROWN.
Such is the brief imperfect by reason OF Its brevy,
but not otherwise erroneous indicative synopss, OF
the augmentation Of the many here IN Europe cay
specially here in France who are studiousiy OBJ
servant Of our affairs. With hs soundness, or IN
souudness with discussion OF the means yet lel IN
the haras Of our Government and If the loyal
Unionists TO set 1t all at paught have nothing 10 40
81 say in this correspondence.
Mine 70 make reply.
Mine no, to reason why,
4 But mine not TO tell lie.
however much more agreeable /, would be than the
simply reported truth TO voluntarily blinded ostrich
ard bOlstcrOuely tpfeJu-eaglc,
patriotism. Easy writing is said to be bard reading
If the converse Of the dclum is true, am sure Il
liuaQe from NY own feelings while painfully peIning
the above paragraph that have furnished you with
! a delightful five minutes pasiime.
Yet one more word Oh the American question a
seen from Europe. There ID no immediate danger o.
iAnglo-FIench intervention in our Affairs; has moi
been any Of d serious nature snce last Winter anC
the settlement Of the Trent affair. Itsy DANGER
| had better said opportunity. Intervention 10 con
stanty imminent, but IN no wise threatening. In
any preparatory steps taken the French foot will un
ldo1btedIy appear foremost. though much-maligneC
John Bulls sturdy pegs will doubtless keep sleJ
with its every motion. Ii is IN all the interests Of
the French and English nations that they act TO
gether in this matter and so act as not to offend he
American people, their iuture-recovered custome ~
either North or South. Both feel the sore need OF
our cotton market to buy from, and general mar
ket TO sell to. Engand's industrial ana commercial
need is greater than that OF France; Frances poli
cal need il greater than that OF England Their real
policy will be, as 1t hitherto constantly has d. "a,
concerted For the present, France viii seem o. Je
foremost ia ohering-gently urging-a polo. Of
" cancellation and mediation" and land or mr.,
according to circuAstsncesj between the two
American Cabinets. The sentence Is Lue
confused; 30 is the stale OF the Gaze, the state
of things France and England watch and
wait, and will watch and wait for some time
to come Only note how long they h0uc nj
ready waited-In Englands Case, uneXampiedly
| long-to acknowledge the dc factO G. 5. 4. Colu-
pare with this waiting the record Of Belgian, Gre
,ian, South and North American, Italian, revolted
and newly constituted Governments, TO SAY moth
ing of ready recognition by England at three days
notice OF quick-,hiftiug French dc facto Govern.
ments in lc3O, two; in 1915, pne III 1851, one; i'll
1852, one.
The Roman Question is certainly getting tOword
solution quite as last as your correspondent ventured
to anticiI ateamoug other provocative occasions to
talk on this headon occasion of the debates there
about the early days OF tins years session of the
Senate aud Legislative body. The approach to it's
solution, as then ventnred to predict, is making