Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-05
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render of the San Jacinto-Tren caphYes mas Deeh
virtually compiled with, and the pending am
cnltv between that governme and the United
States thus far settled, it becomes interesting
to reason from existing probabilities upon the
character Of the next act of the drama that viii
be disclosed by the rising Of the curtain Our
object is not to create the impression that foreign
mowers are certainly to interfere in this war, and
by armed Intervention relieve the South from the
Of establishing an independence which
she is ~abundantly able and fully determined to
do through her own unaided exerions. On the
contrary, we fully endorse, in common with the
whole southern press, the assertion made by the
President in his last message 10 Congress, that
" the Confederate States ask no aid from iorsign
powers, - and we enjoin upon the people, as We
have done from the first. the necessity Of con-
tinuedp preparation with the view of yet fighting
SONS Of The most terrible battles Of the war.
Without falling into a dangerous, not to say a
disgrscsful spathy-and without allowing our
energies to relax in the least, we can look com
posedly upon the foreign complications that en-
viron the enemy, and which are so apt to con-
duce to war. We must confess that, in reflect
ing upon the subject we have been struck forci-
bly, with the suggestion Of the New York En-
press, which thus alludes to the surrender Of
Messrs. MASON and SLIDEIL, and its probable
consequences This surrender TO necessity viii
soon impose on rs other necessities in connection
with Great Britain, which we must yield or fight.
Ninety days viii not elapse without a further
insulting demand from the English oligarchy."
The key to the whole future of this matter is
found IN the fact that the conduct Of the United
States was a surrender to necessity" which
was confessed BY Gen. SoOTF in his letter to
Nj. BIGELow, in the assertion that his govern
ment would make any sacrifice not incOnsis-
tent with honor % to avoid a war. Mr.. SEwARD
and his followers are unwilling to make &C
acknowledgement Of their governments weakness,
in so many words, but their conduct speaks IT
more petently than their voices. In making a
humiiadng apology, which they would never
have done but for the secession Of one half of
their territorial possessions, they are merely
paving the way for Other demands from Eng
land. Nothing is truer than the fact that con
eession invites aggression, and SO II viii prove
in the present instance.
The subjects that wiz next invite the attention
Of France and Great Brfain-beth of whom
seem to have acted conformity in the Trent az
faiT-age the breaking Of the blockade Of South
era ports and the recognition Of the Southern
Conederaey-eTents that are not probably more
than sixty days distant The Federal project
Of filing Southern harbons with hulks Of vessels
filed with stone, is regarded as especially IN
lawful, and according to the last foreign reports
received by the steamer Persia, al Europe is
outraged att. The London Times prOnounces
the blockade inefficient, and the Post, Lord
PALNERsToN's organ, alleges that the harbor Of
Charleston, now being sealed up with a stone
feet belongs to the world, and cannot begiven
up to an inefficient blockade Without placing
8 great deal Of confidence ia the exaggerated
accounts Of transatlantic preparations for war,
reported this morning By telegraph, We deem
tbs excitement over the stone-heet business
quite reasonable. It affects Europe quite as
much as it does the Confederate States, and
cannot render a blockade, VIGOROUSLY inefficient,
complete, thus supplying the absence Of YES
sels of war.
Besides Tins, there is the Introduction Of foreign
commerce by authority Of the United States up
the BIO Grande river to the Mexican port of
Matamorss, which recently led to the turning
away ofa British vessel, as we have before pub
lished, bound to that neutral port. VIII John
Bull tolerate this and if not, viii another
apolopv be demanded and given
In a similar light we may look upon the
blockade Of the mouth of the Mississippi against
French shipping. In the treaty which coded
Louisiana to the United States, France exacted
a stipulation hat her vessels should have the
right cfunintenupted access up the Mississippi
to New Orleans and other points. This treaty is
now being violated, and it is.very probable that
Emperor NAPOLEON, whose finances are at a very
low ebb at present, wiz be making arrangements
to have the matter remedied very soon, so as %
afford the government relief by reopening the
cotton and tobacco trade. The second Of these
staples alone brings him in S25,O00,0O0 Of re-
venue-the first quite as much profit to the
manufacturing interest.
Another laundering piece of stupidity on the
part Of SEwARD-greater even than the arrest
Of SLIDELL and MAsoS-appears in an abstract
of his letter to Minister ADAMS, relative to the
Trent affair, which we end in an exchange. AZ
ter asserting that the southern instruction .
would perish in ninety days if it were not sus-
tanned by hopes of European recognition. be says
that foreign powers have no right to know that
war exists in this country, (" and their recognition
of any independent political power besides the
Federal Union within the limits of that Union
ssouId BE- regarded by he United States g-ooernmeni
as a cause Of lsar.'
This staggering boast, coming in the wake Of
the humiiaiing surrender Of the Trent captives,
win be taken for what it is worth by Great
Britain. 1t is pretty certain that if the LINCOLN
cabinet do not r~epudiate it, as they did the indis-
Greet compliments Of Congress and Secretary
WELLEs offered Capt WILKES, they win be
Involved in war in sixty days. As the London
inns has said the Confederate States viii be
recognized when the proper time comes, and
we believe that time viii be when the news
shall reach Europe that the permanent govern
ment, which is to be ~inaugurated on the 22d Of
February next, has gone into successful opera
lion. There is a rule about this matter which
viii, doubtless, be followed by foreign powers
without regard to the vapoIings of the universal
Yankee nation. The only consideration in
snsh a case. as tue Tiaes has said, is whether
the community which demands to be recognized
has tie force and consistency which entitle it to
recognition. If it be de Jacto a nation, if It
prove that it can maintain its own independence,
then other governments are justified in eOmmu-
nicaiing with i automatically and treating itas
a member Of she family Of nations"
1t is improbable that the diplomacy of Mr.
sewARD viii save his government from all these
dangers that confront it 50 formidably. Unless
Che limited States arc eontented 10 ~relinquish
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