Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-05-06
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We make some very interesting extracts
from - London (March 2Sl letter to the New
York. Times ;''..-s'.g.
A whole fleet is pro1,.i"g IS rapidly as pos.
sible, ostensibly for The emperor OF Ch.pn,
Everybody knows they are intended to open
the Confederate ports. Everybody knows
that the Confederate loan was raised to pur-
chase their outfit. This was the reason why
eighteen millions-nearly 1000, ,0OO-.wa.ss
wanted. This was the reason why the STOCK
went up to five per cent. premium, though Ia.
ken at eighty, and put on the market al
ninety. 80,
The simple truth of the matter is, that Will
the active sympathy of the upper classes, and
the neutrality Of the Government, strong
party of English capitalists, cotton specnla-
tors, ship-bui!ders and merchants, have taken
tp the cause of the South-in earnest, and
mean to put it through. They have embark
ed their millions, and do not mean 10 lose
them. The Government cannot interfere 70
prevent it, and has no disposition to DO 50,
As J,ord Palmcrston said last night, # they
attemnted TO amend the law, they might lnaSe
II worse. The Government will. be neutral.
1t may even pass over the seizure OF the re-,
terhoff by Captain Wilkes. They will let the
North buy all the "hardware" in Birmingham.
But they neither can nor will prevent the
departure of single one OF the fourteen
steamers which Mr.. Bright says are htung
out for the Confederate Government. England
as a Government, is not at war with you,
but English capitalists and manufacturers are,
and do not see how it is to'be helped.
The interest, you must grant, is very
strong one. Look at the millions Of capital
rusting away in Lancashire +; look at the great
cotton manufacturing interest which has en-
circled the world; at the closed cotton ports,
the dragging war which shows no sign Of q
termination, the starving populations, alreadY
Leo;nning to break out into riot and disorder
You talk of war. They ask nothing bett.r
The more YOU threaten, the less likely the
Government will he to intertee with their
projects. A war, they think, would soon
settle the matter. You will take Canaaa'
Well, it was but the other day that MT uiao'
stone was for getting rid of that troublesome
province on any terms. You VIII senG ou'
privateers. IF yon do your ports Will De piocS;
aided and all others closed against them, SO
that privateering will not be profitable. Ships
will 90 armed with the Armstrong guns, or
no cnorded by meI.-of- war steamers. That is
the way English|en feel. They are growing
60 irrita,ed aud disgusted with the war thai
they are ready for anything that WILL put al
enI 10 it. a.:
Lord Harrington, in an election speech tnlS
weaE stated the whole case. lie had Just
come from America, where he had travelled
in both sections, and he was out ana ou'
Southern, and declared that no union couio
be restored. nor could the South be conquer
ed This opinion was never so firm as at TIL;
moment. Is it strange that strong efforts
should be made to hasten result in Which,
faith is so general?
If the statements publicly made, and ap
parently based on good authority, are to 1'
believed, the Confederates, within month
will have ut scs one of the most formidable
asets that ever steamed out upon the Allan
,ic. The steamers new preparing will ne
fleet, as strong, and as powerful as br't'sl
machinists can make them. You nave no
begun to fortfy the Northern ports csy :, t
soon. cannot tell when the blow VIII TALL
only know that the Confederates mere are
IN raliant iubilation. They care nothing
shout Vicksburg or Charleston. They e1'
meet To 90 home in ninety days" They ea''
nothing for the new Union movement III th'
North. They care not for recognition, in' !:
money market has recognized them-thst i
enough. If cotton is not king, it's at least
hard subject, and has given them loan
slS OOO6OO, with the offer of sig tunes a
much. That is glory enough.