The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-20


We see, by the telegraphic summary of the
news by the North American, that the English
tory journals are reviying the rumors OF lie in
tention of France to interfere to put an end to
the war in this country. The wish with them il
parent to the fact Nothing has occurred OF
late, or is at present occurring, to found such an
assumption upon. On the contrary every thing
that reaches us from well informed people in
Paris goes to establish an opposite conclusion.
We have the highest authority for stating that
the Emperor is determined to perform no act
which would tend to disturb lis amcable rela-
tions with this country. He is emphatic on
this point, and, SO far from contemplating an
armed Intervention, he will not be induced even
to recognize the confcderacy, though such step
would not necessarily lead to war. The report
thlt he is about to invite Russia to
join him in an offer Of mediation is simply
absurd. lie is not likely to make a proposition
Of this kind, for the double reason that he
knows Russia would not unite with him in such
an offer, and that if she did it would be indig-
nantly rejected by us.
The English tory press are very anxious to
divert to France all the odium and ill-feeling
engendered by the Intervention cry. The Lon
don Times innocently wonders at the hostility
evoked in America against England, and pro-
fesses itself wholly at loss to account for it.
1t will not succeed in shifting from itself and
the factions associated with it the responsibility
of creating this feeling. Intervention being no
longer possible, it would be very convenient
now to wipe out the memory of the bitter re-
vikings and insults which were heaped upon US
in the supposed hour Of our weakness. The
truth is, that the advocates Of Intervention both
in England and France have become alarmed
at the consequences Of their acts. When the
war first broke out they had not the remotest
idea of the proportions which the contest was
about to assume, or Of the tremendous armies
that we could call into the field. The conflicts
Of civil war in which three hundred thousand
men are arrayed against each other on the same
battle field, and in which the losses reach from
twenty to thirty thousand on each side,
are something that the European mind
had not grasped or considered possible
Such evidences of the magnitude of our mill
tary resources appal it, for it can find nothing
like it in its own history. And when, in addi-
ton to the six hundred thousand men already
placed in the field by the North, it sees her pre-
pairing to raise three hundred thousand more
by voluntary enlistment, it naturally stands
aghast at the spectacle. No one in Europe be-
leved we could do this at the commencement
of the war. So little is really known about us
in either France or England that it was not to
be wondered at that our strength should be
moderated, and that now, when it is being
rapidly developed, the jibes. the sneers
and the depreciation of our military capabili-
ties in which English and French writers in
dulged should give place to apprehension.
From styling us ''the most contemplate" the
London Times has got to designating us "the
most dangerous, people in the world" This
means that it would not be safe to NEEDLE
with us-an opinion in which the press of
Canada appears to concur, from the marked
change that has taken place in its language
towards us We owe this revolution of tone
not to the good sense or moderation Of our
foreign detractors, but to the startling statis-
tics of our naval and military strength and the
big battles that we are fighting here. When
the good feeling Of the European governments
is no longer to be counted upon it is a satsfac-
ton to know that we can appeal to their fears.