Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-08

"Ouiu luuiChtS US q MANIFESTO, .udieO
Richmond-jUst as Gen. Forey has done in
Mexico-what are TO be in future our prin-
ciples and system of government; what we
are to do With our cotton; what with our
slaves; on what condition we are to enjoy
liberty of the press aud Of public worship;
and what precise power President Davis is
to exercise of registering aud enfofcing the
decree passed in London and Paris. r,.
God forbid that we should ever fall into
so low condition that the intervention of
England and France, to save US from sub.
jugation, should be an idea tolerated
among us for one moment Of England
and France we should ask but one thing
and accept but Que thing--the recognition
| of our goveruMent 70 this VIC are enti-
tied, and for this we will not thank them.
For anything more than this they would
make as pay too dear
| EUROPE and the Comfederaey-NapO-
leon and Mexico.
From the Richmend Examiner, July 81.
! Those blessed persons who expected
nothing from England are filed to day
Periodically there is fuss in the British
Parliament over the Southern Coufedera-
cy. Once in six months at least "notice"
is served to the world of "motion" to oe
made by Mr.. Roebuck, Mr.. Lindsay, or
NIr Gibson. With periodic regularity the
motion is withdrawn, and the speculation
which rested on il falls like II house of
cards. The last edition of the oil story is
found in to days paper. Roebuck has been
duly manipulated by the British ministry.
He is n wiser and sadder man than when
he returned from France, aud ''much
against his own Judgment, asks that the
motion be discharged" He is unwilling
to trammel the action of the Government,
ha Of nd ha
Southern Confederacy entirely in the hands
of the ''noble lord at its -heado So the
farthiug rusb-light of hope blinks and
Il is time chat tsts f.roe should tirs the
audience. After all the proofs we have
had of the settled determination of the
English government and people to do no
act that shall tend to abridge this war or
help the southern confederacy, or involve
itself in quarrel with the United States,
the most sanguine and credulous should be
ut last incapable of further hallucination.
We have no worse enemies in the world
than the British government and the ma
ioirty of the British nation Not that they
are friends of the North. They hate the
whole American people, and glOat on their
ruin. All their diplomacy has been and
will ever be employed to Prolong the war,
by preventing the interference of any other
nation.
The South never had, and never will
have reason to expect aught but evil from
Great Britain. But in no event need any
one expect Great Britain to do any thing
more than intrigue in this OF any other
imbroglio. 1t will not only never go to
war, but will not take any step that may
possibly involve future appeal to arms.
In judging that country, and in apticipa-
ting its action, Que fact should never be
lost sight of-thst, in the present genera
tion, it is the most peRceabiy inclined of
all nations. The British people, of our
day, have been educated into horror of
war as the most costly of all extrava-
gances. Napoleon defined the English to
be a nation of shop keepers. The defni-
milton was then but partially true--and
they convinced him OF it before they were
done with him.
The British was once COmbauve as well
as mercantile race. But it is no longer
so. Many wars have saddled it with an
incredib debt, aud weighted all It's move
ments with mOnstrous taxation. The peO-
pie who liVei in those islands have been
taught by every circumstance of their lives,
that wars means taxes. They pay the price
of their ancestors glory, and have fixed
deep in their hearts the conviction that
glory costs more than it is worth. The
British people will not fight any more.
ministry that appears to keep the nation
out of the ring where broken heads are
plenty aud brickbats flying around, will
always find itself on the strong side, and
never have the least difficulty in settling the
| Roebucks and their like.
| But France is very different entity
The French, too, have had their wars
But they have not swallowed the oPiate of
a national debt. From time to time France
has coolIy repudiated its debt, and neither
| this nor any other generation OF Erenchmen
are deaf to the voice of active ambition.
Tc be popular in France the ruler must
besIir himself, must enlarge the sphere of
| French influence, and treat the people to
lish of carnage now and then Napoleon
is wise ia his generation. He knows better
than the Rois Faineants. Even if he had
not Mexico, it would be reasonable to look
! for his finger in the American pie. But
the possession of Mexico appears TO render
his interference compulsory, whenever 1t
shall become evident that this contederaey
will cease 10 exist without it.
| The. news which the reader will find
elsewhere in this paper renders the prob
abilities to which we have referred doubly
strong. The news renders certain the only
point insthe case which was doubtful. II
was notlentirely ascertained whether the
| French invasion of Mexico was to create
European government there or simply TO
reduce the native organizations TO order
whether the French interference was 10
be permanent OF temporary. The moFement
to declare Maximillian of Austria, or some
other whom NapoIion shall dictate the
nominal sovereign of Mexico. which the
conquerots have put on foot, settles that
1 question beyond doubt
"A new throne is about to be erected,
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