Polynesian., 1863-02-28
Ilre polpnesian,

q Perhaps the best proof of England's impair
tiaIity and neutrality in the of the sections in
America may be found in the fact that both sides
are equally abusive toward her. We have often
read in Northern journals the long and viruent
TRADES with which England is reviled for standing
aoof in the quarrel that desolates the States. We
will now copy the view of some of the leading
Statesmen South on this point, and we are more
and more inclined to believe that in such quarrel
the abuse of both sides is the highest praise. Her
schel V. Johnson, Senator to the Confederate Con-
gress lately said in the Legislature of Georgia
1t is a truth which we ought to know and appre-
ciate as necessary to the development of all our
energies and resources, that stand alone in this
war; If we succeed, we must do so by our own
might under the favor of Heaven. We have not
the heartfelt sympathy, nor need we expect the
aid of single nation of the earth. The indulgence
of delusve hopes this score has done US injury.
1t has encouraged some degree of apathy among
the people, and presume it is the main reason why
our Government, in the beginning, did not exert its
utmost power to create or procure a navy. 1t was
said France could not dispense with tobacco, nor
England with cotton, and from this was argued a
speedy raising of the blockade, recognition, and
close of the war. | never entertained these expec
tations. 1t is too gratifying to the jealous thrones
of Europe to see the Union ruptured and the peo-
pie Cutting each others throats. Indeed, fear,
rather than hope for. the intervention of foreign
powers. If it should come it will be either
when we cease to need it, or when we may be
enfeebled and exhausted as to be compelled to
cept on terms-terms humiating to us, but ag-
grandizing to them. If it comes, it will be for their
benefit, not ours Reasons control the policy of
Great Britain. She does without our cotton be-
cause she desires to cripple our monopoly of its
production and at the same time encourage its suf
| ficient growth in some of her own dependencies.
| thinks she can do so. Hence. though her negro
philanthropy is holow-heared, yet she will rejoice
at the overthrow of slavery here, because it will
destroy this important branch of our agriculture.
Again, she will not provoke war with the United
States lest it might reunte the North and South
for common defense. She does not know how wide
and deep is the gulf between the two sections.
She wants to make it wider, and deeper, and i'm
passable. Hence she pats both sections on the
shoulder, processes to sympathize with both, and
pretends to neutrality while she drives unre-
stricted commerce with the North. Nor should it
be overlooked that while she consumes our cotton,
she also receives heavy expectations OF breadstufs
| from the grain-growing States of the Northwest.
The annual export of these to Great Britain amounts
| to many millions. Hence, if the blockade of our
ports cuts off her supply Of cotton, war with the
United States could, to the extent of these figures,
curtail her breadstuffs. throw out these sugges-
tions to show the futiity OF any hope from foreign
aid and the absolute necessity of concentrating all
our elements of fstrength-physical, moral and men,
| tal-lor the achievement of our independence.