The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-11
Rebel Cries for Cash and Recognition in
EurOnr.

represents seedy individual, kicked out OF his
boarding place and unable to pay his washing
bill. but with great roll of papers, continuing
plan TO pay the national debt OF Eng and,
sticking conspicuously out of his coat tail peck
ct. In this picture Hogarth has anticipated the
portrait of the rebel emissaries in Europe
as drawn by their own hands in the contraband
correspondence captured with the rebel steam
err Calhoun by tho blockading feet. and
already published in the HERALD. Accord
ing to their own accounts, these rebel agents
have been peregrinating Europe in the most
poverty stricken condition, with the plans of
the Southern confederacy in one pocket. and
schemes for railroads and cotton operations
in the other, crying Justify and alternately for
cash and recognition, and starving, like Colum-
bus, because no one would buy the rich empire
they were peddling from court to court.
The correspondence captured comprises the
private and confidential letters Of the rebel
agents in Europe to Thomas Butler King,
one Of the leading rebel emissaries. The
other agents there seemed to regard King
as their banker. and were constantly
begging him for what Dick Swiveller calls
s'the ready" or, more appropriately, "the
needful." Thus j. H. O'Sullivan. once resi-
dent Of this city and writer on the Evening
Post, reminds King that he is now vagrant;
cut of from all return to the North; unable to
subsist in Lisbon; only hopeful that when his
means enabled him to cross the Atlantic some
seeded State will give him "a home and citi-
zenship," and winds up by limiting that he has
some debts and no resources, and that King
must henceforth prepay his letters. Mr.. CAL
houn, one Of the old Calhoun family, writes
that Greene "a banker) will take no drafts on
the South; that he "can see no way of raising
money but BY at once ordering remittances
from home; for no matter what man 8 means
may be there, they are not considered here:"
and significantly adds:-"I have been here in
several crises, but never in one like the present,
and | hope may never see one again" So K.
Mitchell pitches into King from Paris, because
King has not paid Mr.. Moore, the printer of the
London atlas newspaper, the five pounds due
him for publishing Kings pamphlet. 1t seems
that Mitchell had bought up the Atlas by Civ
ing it this job. and that, as King did not pay,
the atlas people threatened to take the law
upon Mitchell. ri confess" says Mitchell
that, after taking such pains with your pamph-
let, did not expect that you, my dear King,
would let me support your expenses" Then
j. NJ Vernon writes from Brussels that
he had been there advocating Southern
commercial independence" since June, 1860:
was out Of money, in debt and nearly arrested;
could not borrow of his Belgian friends without
destroying our cause" and injuring "our ma
tionalty," and begged loan Of $3.50 to "make
him easy" as ~ Southerner must nowadays
maintain his dignity and honor" We fear poor
Vernon is uneasy STILL unless he has dropped
his dignity and honor and destroyed "our
cause by swindling his Belgian friends. No
wonder that, with such an example of Southern
commercial independence" as Vernon before
them, the Belgians should be, according to the
polysyllabic z. de Bellot de Minieres, ..all
dstrust and prejudice against cotton in the be-
ginning"
But this l. not the worst phase Of the rebel
finances. II King had the money these de-
mands were nothing Unfortunately, King had
not the money. With these begging letters
came note from Beach, Kings London agent
stating that hi. negotiation with Mr. Winieman
had failed; declining to try other resources IN
less there was no doubt about the prompt pay
ment Of his draft, and ironically wishing him
speedy relief from his endorsements. Worse
than this, Ysncey enclosed to King letter from
X. Hutchinson, Of Liverpool, asking the address
0: Thomas Butler King, Of Georgia U. S.
ard stating that solicitor was instructed 10
srrest King "for considerable debit How,
like insult added to injury, the reference to the
%. U. is here aggravated by the use of the
term Georgia. u. S." instead Of Georgia. @.
s. A." Poor King! Of what avail to him, in
his necessities. were the immense financial
schemes OF which other correspondents wrote?
G. G. Baylor, of Macon, informed him Of the
"great Georgia movement in 1906 but he did
not realize even hope frem the cotton opera
tons il promised The bankers would not Ego
on with the railroad and land plans'--by which
is meant the old Pacific Railroad plans--o!
which J. Cowles wrote him from New York.
The "slave States" did not call rush together;-
- separation" did not "of course follow;r
"eapital'' did not "then rush in,' and 1--WE"
could not '.carry our plans as Cowles pre-
dictcd. The contents of the coat tail pocket
devoted TO railroad and cotton schemes would
not pay for Kings bread and butter. Nor did
the diplomatic pocket, with it, schemes for Eu-
ropean recognition produce anything better.
y. Peirse wrote great deal from London and
gave King letter Of Introduction to the Paris
correspondent of the London Tines; but Peirsc's
rubbish may be summed up in the advice, "If
you want good nights rest read Russell's let
ters in the Tines" and Russell's letters have
put many other people besides King to sleep.
All the agents urged King, as necessity Of
their success, to advise the confcderstes to take
Washington Peirse urged it that the rebellion
might become . party question in England.