Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-09-03

grow impatient at last. They are behaving nob.y
 rnooly now, their friends in Parliament tell them.
 iethapS they may behave ignobly vet. Parliament
 is now eaied upon to prepare for the crisis. .A cotton famine, the prospective loss of the hherlcan trade, war in China heavy war expen-
 ses ~ nouie' in rebuilding the navy and providing agalnst that ever dreaded French invasion dimin- iShlhg revenae, with the fear of bad haryest-- these are some oi the unpleasantnesses of English
 politics. which lead prudent people to pray for peace. F' One-quarter of the food eaten i- E,,rard ,nrer
 come from abroad and if the harvest he had. as tho cold, wet summer now portends mora may he
 wanted. If there be bad harvests in Eurone.
 England must look Co America for food Rrt hnu
 can she pay for It her trade De destroved1 Only
 the direct necessity can make England buv wberc she cannot sell An American tariff SO biqb ,s to be prohibitory, will make her seek for cotton and corn in other regions, and the government in. disposed as it Is to interfere with trade, may hs compelled to do
 You see now how strong the interest may be, on the part of England, France, Belgium, etc., to re-
 coghize, and by some means secure the indepen- dence of the Southern CCnrederacy. The South
 proHers them cotton, grain and free trade, or ex. change Of commodities< Golfers them exactly what they want. The North says: Buy our wheat ana welcome; buy our cotton, when we can get some to sell more than We want for own use; but as TOT vonT hardware and dry goods we expect to make what We require ourselves" e But, how are we to pay, If you don't take our goods2" says tho bothered Mir Bull. Pay. that is your look out" says Brother Jonathan.
 France may go to for ap idea She usy send aFmleS to Italy tor national indepenGence to Ohina TOT religious liberty, to Mexico for order, put England as rule fights for her interests. Iu
 Cnlud sae defends her trading towns. She has
 !ooet inen in Canada, and is ready to send ss
 many as circumstances may reQure-not that Canada, Is very profitable depend ency but to keep so many people from being cnt off from her commerce. by high duties have believed in in
 teTvenlon, because theceis strong interest in its
 favor. The war is disaster to England, and peace
 with the union restored and prohibtory duties,
 would be still more disastrous. 1t is for this rea
 son that l have believed, and still believe, that
 unless the war can be hurried to q sucaassfnl ter.
 imitation, intervention must come,
 Besides, there is British arrogance which de lights to have finger in every pie and something
 to say in every quarrel. If the government re
 sponded quickly to the popular feeling, or if the
 thundeg5 Of the press could have any effect on forts Or trigates, We should have had war already. 1
 see but one way to avert it--t is America to shsw
 herself SO powerful, invincible, that It will Do
 against the interest of any nation to attack her, or to provoke an attack from he9 England has bui- cd France for centuries, but she does it no more She even takes good deal of bullying in return, with wonderful meekness. She Is not only po- lite to France, but to all the friends of France. That there joy and exultation here over the
 up to July }, favorable to the South you raay i well believe. But, beneath this rejoicing thtre is another feeling. Disease and mismana cement may bring temporary disaster to the union forces: but 1 what can be thought of a nation which, having 1 created army of 7U0000 men, now proposes to | reinforce 1t with a new levy of 300 000 It is
 very clear that It 5 nos power to be trihed with | nation that cap place million of armed men in
 the teld and that defend her coasts, lakes and 1 rivers by ya gallant and invincible navy, is not
 likely to be Frightened by threats of intervention 1 All this enters into the calculations of English 1 statesmen, if forgotten by newspaper editors. l The financial question is the greatest puzzle. IL 1 IS very strange that q great and powerful nation i should have credit with its own people, and be able 1 to use its immense resources in u form most con venient. Why should America be the slave Of l gold or foreign exchanges? And if gold were nec-
 essary to the prosecution of the war why not keep ] i5 al home as well as sulphur or saltpetre7 When i the life of a nation is in peril, every man aEd
 everything must be at the disposal of the govern. ment Ii time, services and life of the citizen ! can be taken by draft conscription, then every ! Lushel of grain, every hoof Of cattle. all property
 now existing, that may be called into existence i in all future time, may be used for the general l welfare.
 ! England expended, hundred years ago, money i which am taxed to pay to-Gay, and money which
 will not be paid century hence, if her governments ! still has an existence. Iu just War-in good ! oause-Amerca, or that part of America loyal to 1 the constitution and the union, can place and keep ! in the field million soldiers. IL s barely one person in twenty of the population. With or
 without god--with paper money or no money
 that number can be clothed and fed. The North
 can keep in the field an army of million as easl- 1 ly as the South one of three hundred thoussnd.- When the resources of the two bellgerents are iu this proportion it would be strange kind of arith
 metic that could not cipher out a victory for tha stronger party
 MONADNOCK.