Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-22
FOREIGN INTERVENTION.


son to fear any intervention of the Euro
pean powers. We cannot conceive OF
any pretext now existing or likely to ex-
list upon which such intervention could be
based The alledged .inefliciency Of the
blockade has been the great reliance of
the Confederate government, but while
they have been making the endeavor to
prove to the governments of England and
France that there really has existed moth
ing but paper blockade of their ports,
our gallant navy has been taking them
one by one, until now but one or two of
any importance remain to be captured,
and those cannot hold out much longer
against our gun boats and mortar fleet
There can be no question but that the
blockade is complete enough at the pres
ent time, however it may have been in
the past.
Another pretext it has been supposed
might be resorted to, and that is the abso-
lutte necessity for a supply of cotton.
The Southern Confederacy have acted
upon the idea that ifthey adopted the pol
icy of Withholding cotton from the market
until their independence should be &C
knowledged, England and France would
recognize their separate national existence,
and force oPeg the blockaded ports for
ii. tue purpose of obtaining i: But now,
even such pretext as this has vanisheu.
For simultaneously with the occupation
of the Southern ports by the Union forces,
they are opened to commerce. The Eng
lish can come and purchase their cotton
if they can find sellers. If instead of
selling this commodity the rebels are in
sane enough to burn it, that is unfortunate
for them, and for the world, but it is an
evil beyond the remedy of armed inter-
vention. We know the rebels Lave a
policy in view in pursuing this course.
But it is the policy of puerile childishness,
of imbicility,-of downright madness.
They reason in this way: "Cotton is
King England must have cotton ;-she
can get it no where else but in the South
ern States I'VE will therefore give her
to understand that we will withhold it
from her, and destroy it, unless she will
fight our battles for us against the Yam
KEGS" This is the insolent language of
" Confederacy" that Mrs. jeff. Davis ac-
knowledges is about "played out, that
has shown itself utterly un: .ble to maintain
a separate national existence; "noSe
whole line of sea coast, harbors, and de-
fences, with one or two exceptions, are
now firmly within the grasp of the Fed
eral power, and whose internal navigation
upon the large rivers which penetrate to
all sections, is at the mercy and under the
control of the national gun boats After
the Confederacy" has tried to maintain
itself and failed, and is on the point of
being finally subdued when it is draw
inc its last breath-when it is uttering its
expiring groan, and the. death rattle is in
its oat,-when its Congress fees
from its Capital in wild dismay, and its
government wanders from place to place
in Sibley TENTS to be supposed that
at such juncture and in such a moment
foreign nations will acknowledge its indie
pendence, and open diplomatic relations
with it? The idea is preposterous. The
Southern people in their rage may des-
troy their cotton, their tobacco and their
sugar, if they please; it only proves their
imbecility and not their strength. Let
them "bite off their own noses" if they
will. Foreign nations will have nothing
but contempt for such people, and in
answer to all their frantic appeals for aid
they will be laughed to scorn.
The officers that did plan and attend
the expedition against Norfolk did the best
that could be done, and so has Gen. Nc.