Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-04-12

munication from the Emperor:
1.-The civil war which desolates America is a
riOus injury to French manufactures and commerce
we offer up the most ardent wishes that those dis
sensions may speedily terminate, and that the great
principle of the abolition of slavery may come vic
toriously out OF The struggle entered into on that
subject"
In the course of the debate
n. Cranier de Cassagnac, as member of the COM
mittee, wished to say few words on the amend
ment. The maintenance or the abolition of slavery
was question of administration or of internal poll
cy, and If France were to express wish that slave
ry should be suppressed in America ii would be an
act of interference with the affairs of foreign coun-
try. After having done so in America, France
might next do the for the Spanish possessions,
next for the Dutch and then Brazil Siam, and in
short for every part of the world where slavery still
existed. France had emancipated her own colonies,
and the other powers free to initiate her if
they choose, bat she could not interfere with Them
Hear, hear
ViScount Anatole Lemercier observed that, in
presenting the amendment under discussion, the
authors OF were DESTROYS OF respecting the senti
:nents expressed in the address, and they merely
added wish which they thought to be that of the
whole Chamber. They now desired to add after
the words speedy termination" the following:
And that the great principle of the abolition of
slavery may come out victorious from the struggle
INTO on the SUBJECT by so DONG tney
only expressed their adherence Of slavery and the
Chamber would do well to adopt the amendment
Count De Tromelin could not admit that slavery
the sole cause that had led to the crisis in Amer
lea; the motive was also that the South wished to
manage their affairs without being interferred
with, and IN his opinion, European commerce could
no; fail TO benefit by the realization of that desire
he feared that although civil war might cease, the
numerous volunteers who had been so long accus-
toned to camp life, would not readily return to their
more peaceful avocations and that troubles and dis
orders would long exist.
NJ Norm (de la Drome) could not agree with NJ.
Granier de Cassagnac that the abolition of slavery
was only question Of administration 1. was one
which essentially interested the right of nations-
Slaves were Christians
NJ. Granier de Cassagnac-The African slaves
were not so.
NJ. Baut-Two questions hare been mixed up in
this discuSs'nn and | am DESTROYS of saying few
words on each. One OF the honorable members has
pressed doubts rs to whether the blockade eStab-
lished by the Northern States is effective, and ap
pears to see an opposition between English and
French tendencies on the subject. Such Is not the
case. The principles laid down by the two govern
ments to the conditions necessary to render tire
blockade effective have been actually accepted Earl
Russell has laid down the principle that the block
ade is effective. The that considerable
prudence Is necessary in this Amercan question,
and that it is important that the Powers interested
should act in concert These powers do not think
that the effective character of the blockade can be
denied aud they respect it. The French govern
ment cannot feel surprise at the sympathy which
has been expressed on the great question of the alb
clifton of slavery, for it shares in it. When the
scourge of slavery affiicts country may advise
suppression, but We cannot go farther. Adhesion.
Do you, who advocate neutrality, think it would
be prudent and polite, in an address in which you
express wish see an end put TO the disturbances
in America to add words in favor of the abolition of
slavery? Certainly not. We express wishes in an
equal degree for the North and for the South, for
desire to end OF the civil war, and that
brand of discord e&tnguishcd which has set fire to
the country. Hear, hear.
President Lincoln's emancipation message had
been received in England and attracted much aten-
ton The Liverpool Post says there can be no
doubt it will have an Incalcuable effect in Europe,
and that effect will be favorable to the North
ern cause.
The London Times, IN an editorial on the subject,
says: ut is the most important news since the
split. The Presidents avowed object is to recover
10 the Union the border States. The proposition is
important, not for it's intrinsic likelihood of accep-
lance, but because It is proposition, and is the
yETst bid made towards putting an end to the uar.
We may hope others may follow, and that the North
may gradually rise It's offers until something &C.
ceptable has been put forth. The only reply of the
South to President Lincoln has been resolution of
the Confederate House OF Representatives to burn
all the cotton and tobacco that may be danger of
falling into the hands of the invaders. In every
point of view the proposal Of hSPresident gives
speculation, and perhaps glimpse
of hope; but it is for what it may herald, and not
for what it il"