Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-04-02
ENoLlsH VIEWS or THE AMERICAN CONTEST
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Amid the pages Of festive st1ry which we vest rdsy
publ he'd column still devoted to the wars aud woes
Of that country which won't to look down with com
mseration dersion the troubles of the Old World
VIII le giving urselves up with heart aud sou
to roicngs at ustous the Americans are tear
ing each uther to pieces, aud sacrificing The AM
the Liberties Of their country to the exgenc-s Of
desperate conflict. OF this coaflc it cannot be said tina
any end is Immediately foreshadowed in the utegenc.
just received from the Of war The Federas hav,
made progress the Conedertes being every where o,
the defensive have progress to mike So long the
resist successfully they winning and therefore the re-
ports in their favor Every week that without
Federal victory Federal advance brings the North
nenrer to that fatal day when s armies will melt ava,
and its fail Every disappointment is 80 much
damage not only to the immediate chances of the cam
pagn but to the general prospects Of the war The Fe
rails have certainly shown extraordinary enacty
cutting enterprise Which all Europe considers hopeless
but American elasticity must have its limits, and
these, we should nix, must soon be reached
The Northern States had recently concentrated their
efforts two important pontsths seaport Of Charleston
and the town of Vcksbug, the Mississippi The expe
don against Richmond the Confederate pal had after
than disastrous campaign been finally abandoned
and the grand army of the Potomac representing the chief
division of the Fede forces had been fairly broken up
But though the Federas could make impIe upon
Virginia they stl hoped to crafty their revenge by the
destruction of charleston and to open The Mississippi by
the capture Of Vcksbnrg Neither OF these exploits have
they yet achieved infer from the reports that
any better success is awaiting than. The attack
Charleston which first unaccOu0tably suspended, and
then said ave been resumed, is passed with
out any mention at ALL Not syllable do the kilograms
contain about the operations of that powerful and costly
force which WIS dispatched the expedition. Whether
the ships still lie mooness at their moorngs, whether
their destination has been changed are loft to conjecture
snd in the absence OF informant can only conclude that
Charleston ia secure At Vicksburg little hrs been
tempted, and that little has not succeeded. The Federal
mortar boats did, told commence a bombardment
of the place. but compelled by the Confederate bat
teres change their position 1t is said that they then
opened fire from another quarter but the result
unknown Lower down the river rather in of it's
tributaries Federal vessel had been captured by the
COnfederaes, who made prisoners OF the whole crew.
That with 40 ntma,ion that Kentucky is in alarm the
prospect Of Southern INVASION ia TIE amonnt Of the
American news That ia The total of The intelligence
expected with unusual interest as promising to be both
critical and decisive.
In the proceedings however, of Congress and of other
representative bodies there is much that is Interesting
though it is very easy at present to decpher the signs
An omnous accord of protests had been followed by de-
monstraton of renewed confidence in the Government.
Meetings held not long ago in various States, at
which peace policy was openly advocated An armis-
tice, be followed by Convention, was recommended
and accepted Offering he only PRACTICABLE escape from
hopeless difficulty Now, however, these views
changed The resolutions passed in the several States
straton assured Of the support Of the public
But the question is, what policy in return is expected
from the Admnist alton aud this inquiry answered by
the assertion that the President and Cabinet viii hence
forth adopt the principles of the Democratic party and
frsske the luto which the anhtcism of the Re-
pubcans had been driving them On these terms, it is
ntmated matters have been arranged and the
Government have been allowed To pass without oppos
ton 1t 10 impossible however to disguise the cha actsr
which these measures have assumed. swearing
scrptoD suspension of the hab-as corpus and return
laftar aafm Ike arAtio
extremtes Of than prognostcs of approaching peace
Gold, too, has risen to an alarming premium, and the
yrobab addition of foreign TO civil war s sp ken Of
of the causes of this advance.
Ia this confusion of signs and be guided
by probabilities alone 1t certain that the ID
have recently acquired considerable power if not actual
ascendsncy, and it would be difficult to understand their
sudden conversion from disnecton to loyalty except
the superstition that their own principles to be- i'm
pressed IN future on the policy of the President and
bis CABINET. III the Government will do for them what
they apparently preparing do for themselves they
may well acquesce in its predominance Nor do we lay
much stress the violence of the put forward
for adoption Even the ID ,mccras themselves do not
yet venture to recommend in plain terms the recognition
Of the South and the termination of the and it was
cessary therefore, tn make BILE provision for
the maintenance nf hote enormous establishments which
the Federas keeping on foot. In few weeks the
period for which Thousands OF the Northern troops
enlisted will expire, ard il has been confessed i'm
possible to raise another nifty thousand by boun-
ties there tentative between acknowledgment
of exhaust a resort to the sxped ent of
scripton which has crea ed the armies Of he South As
to the ITSELF it hard to how it be eH
tive especially in the face OF such dsapponments
now announced Inscon and failure not likely to
conduce to the popularity OF war already regarded as
burdensome and desperate.
The expectations entertained profcssed of foreign
will certainly gratuitous this side If the At
antc The Americans perhaps, real npprebenslve
of the results which might be produced by MIR Stewards
recent spondence with the French Government They
may imagine hat the Emperor Napoleon will be disncned
to ait down under second rebuff and that measures may
be taken for raising The blockade They possibly
template foreign event like to reunite North
aud South, diversion which may at AIRY rate facil
tate the arrangements of peace at hume. We only
that any such must be OF their own making.
France has at least much she tcdns II
her hands already and England has certainly idea
Of inerrenioa We disposed indeed to believe that
such expectations could only have arisen from the confu
sion and bewidermant into which American politics have
been thrown Opinion throughout the Norihern States is
n state of transition rather conclusions which have
long been formed gradually finding uterapce. i'll
tn not yet absolutely expressed carried out to their
only practical end and result 10 complete cgntrad
ton betreen public opinion and public policy Mr. Seward
who tells that the resolutions Of Congress and the
Of the Executive form The only real opponents Of
Federal principles may still p0nt to these signs viii una
bated satisfaction He refer the word to votes aud
ordinances brea hing nothing but confidence and determ
nation and vt behind all this there is rs ng power
which is essentially adverse to the principles thus pro-
ella med.
IL the Government passes under the Influence OF the
Democratic party that influence will be exerted more
less direc ly IN favor Of peace War will still be adyo
Gated at fret but il will be OF different kind from
that proposed BY Abotionists and Tx erminators"
hsnd will later be hold out to the South, and
when IL refused IL undoubtedly will be- there will be
no rssdrce for such belRerents to part ir