Newbern weekly progress., 1862-02-11
contains the following unanswerable arguments
in faver Of Southern recognition


We do not desire, By any attempt at persuas-
ionsoR our part, to hurry this Government and
peopis into precipitate resolution on INC
mentSus matter. But the question that lies
before Us, and one that presses for a speedy
ansvfr, is, whether it be right or not that we
sheuA, without delay, recognize the independ-
encebf the Southern Confcderacy? We say
withoat delay. That sooner or later i. Will
/ have TO be recognized is inevitable. The CUES
tionis, whether it should not be done at once :?
We are left to our free choice in the matter
/ Wheaon, Cooke, Nattal and all international
jarlstS, have clearly laid this down. Wheaton
ahirnls that, IN the case of the revolt Of pro-
vil4ge, Of an empire or State the first thing TOR
foreign States 10 do is to allow beligerent
Figts.s - beth parties in the conflict IE the
next place, foreign Government may, if it
pleases, recognize the indepence Of the revolteu
people, or enter into treaties of commerce or
a,nicable relations with It. The mere recogni-
ton cannot justly be regarded by the other
belligerent party an occasion, Of war. The
period OF recognition is left 10 the option Of the
foreign States. But repeated precedents-
such cases as the revolt of the Belgians, the
South Americans, the Greeks, the Swiss Can
tons-havc established the practice Of recoe-
nizng 6e 1i5cto Governments, even before the
parent State has chosen TO admit their indie
pendence. This fact that other such Govern
ments have been recognized, without delay,
establishes sort of right to recognition, which
may very fairly be pressed uoon US By the
Confederate States. That is, de .titeto Gov
ernnent, which possesses all the machinery of
State and manages its own concerns and
waIch its enemies have 10 reasonable expecta-
ton Of subduing by means of lawful war
Who can suppose that by such means the
North will ever subdue the South ? Seven
millions Of men, united by their hopes, their
animosities, and their fears have stood up
successfully fer . months against all the arma-
nels that have so furously been hurled against
them by the 2T, 600, 900 of the North. Inch by
by inch they have gained II; they have contested
then ground, and inch by inch they have won
every battle, and put to flight every army that
has taken the field They are in better po-
siton now than hey were when they com
menced the contest. Every day adds to their
determination to accept no terms to agree to
no compromise with the enemy They feel them
selves separate nation, and a separate ration
they have resolved to be henceforth. WSdo not
speak of the merits Of the quarrel, but only cf
the attitude Of the combatants and the pros
poets OF the strife.
The North may lay waste with its flaets the
f1ourishing coast towns of the South it may tilt
out its cal goes Of stones to choke up the inets
provided for the interchange of ameable relations
between peoples by bounteoes Providence
more mercifu! than man to man; it may land its
doe battle with the yellow fever: it may send its
steam squadrons down the broad river, AMI burn
Mobileiand New Orleans; but all this will not
bring il one lot nearer to the end; all this will
but add to the fierce intensity of hate which the
injured SouiherEers will bequeath to the yet
born, Secure in their stubborn patriotism, in
their firm resolution to conquer their liberty or
die, the of the c. States, will maintain the
struggle till their enemies are exhausted by their
efforts and desist from their utter pow erlessness to
protract it further If it causes such losses in the
North, aud necessitates such Tremendous sacri-
fees as the world has never dreamed of before.
what nnst be the silent pain the untold agony,
of the smaller and weaker people that is too proud
to let US hear its cry Before they ask for for
eign aid. the people of the South will waste with
famine and sickness-wiil die and make a desert
of the Sven fair States that but recently were
peopled with happy and contented And
is there nothing poetical romantic in ali this
Is it because our brethren beyond the seas
for the most part men ofthe race as ourselves
that their heroism causes thrill, sufferings
bring tears ? Had the same spectacle OF con-
stancy been exhibited by Poles and Hungarans
had some exotic race, some tribe of Hindooa,
Cinnamon, red Indians, Or South Sea Islanders,
been the heroes of such a strife, how ioud had
been the voice Of sympathy from this generous
country! what fervid orations and 10 pceGns,
what odes and sonnets, what appeals from the
platform, what passionate C1nOtIoaS IN the clos
ct would then have pleaded the cause OF tie
patriot and the oppressed?
Ifit be argued that by recognizing the South
ern States we shall weaken the hands of the
North, and assist to bring to end this
of sections, we answer that this is the verv
reason why most wish that the step should
be taken. 1t is in the interest Of humanity that
we desire that this war, which is only kept
Up by the blind obstl,acy Of the North should
be brought to as speedy close may be.
TEL1GGIPNEC ITEMS.