Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-09
THE AMERICAN QUESTION.


4 mr.. ,lIason's Recall OOnHrmed-Ths
n EngIIsh Press ON Jen. Davis DIP
loInatIo MOvements-SymPa ol
i the ArIstocratS with the Rebels, SO
The withdrawal of Mr.. Mason from Lon
don is confirmed 7'-'-
, The London Herald says Mr. Presideu
Davis has come to this determination re
Iluctantly. To him and to his people the
evil result OF this complete rupture must
be Immediate. From us they are moro re.
mote. The London Herald also asserts thai
even the unofficial reception of Mr.. MasoE
excited displeasure at Washington, and Il
comment upon Lord Russell's wonderful
docility.
From the London Times, September %.
. When application was
made for prospective guarantee Of prop.
Il erty to be transferred by the Confederate
government to British subjects in order 70
] protect 1t from destruction by the federal
forces, the Foreign Office declined to COM
Unit itself. We may be sure that the same
attitude has been preserved by Lord Rus
sell in all his unofficial dealings with Mr..
Mason. The position Of that gentleman
since his arrival in this country has been
peculiar, and in some respects painful. We
risked war with the United States, in re-
ality to vindicate our own maritime rights,
but apparently to procure ourselves the
honor of a visit from the Southern Com
missioner. Something like tive years has
4 passed away since the Trent affair, aud yet
the object Of his mission remains unaccom-
pIished. France has proposed mediation,
if not recognition, but England has stead
| lily adhered to her principIe aud declined
to treat with the South at present as an
independent State. Mr.. Adams is still the
only American Minister acknowledged by
the Foreign Office, and any communication
that Mr.. Mason may have had With the
| Department wanted the character and forms
| of diplomatic intercourse. This was no
doubt great trial of temper and patience
Ito proud aud loyal Southerner and we
are now informed that Mr.. Mason, or those
whom he represents, can bear It no longer.
he has at length been recalled by Presi.
dent Davis, and for the present, we pre-
sumo, the Confederate States will have no
accredited emissary in Great Britain.
We are not disposed to dwell upon the
petty motives, more OF less creditable,
| which have been suggested to account for
| this significant act. But one adequate and
probable explanation oft can be imagined,
and beyond that we need not go. The
OOnfederates expected more of rs than
they have received at our hands, and, like
the Federals, they are disgusted because
they have not got the one thing which
they demanded. ~ The Federals already
possessed the rights of an equal Power and
all the advantages which the Coufederates
| gould hope 70 derive from recognition,
while their naval superiority enabled them
to avail themselves freelyoof our markets.
Yet all this did not content them; they
wanted the moral sympathy and applause
of the English people, and, failing to com.
| M aaA IN
obloq1y upon us Now, this kind of SYM
pathy isapreoisely what the Confederntes
have enjoyed ever since it became manifest
that the struggle was really war of inde-
pendence. Nor is this all, tor they have
notoriously received assistance from indi-
viduals in this country which, right or
wrong, could not have been tolerated by
\ the law without giving the United States q
fair ground of complaint against Us, and
which, though not SO. tolerated aud fur
nished with the utmost secrecy, has
brought us to the very verge of war. But
these obligations, great Rs they are, fail to
win MS the gratitude of the Confederates so
long as the one coveted boon-the boon of
recognition-is withheld by the Govern
ment. To do them justice, they have new.
er disguised their sentiments on this sub.
iect. Just year ago Lancashire gentle
\ man applied to MIR. Mason for his opinion
upon It, and Mr. Mason's published answer
clearly disclosed the cardinal difference
between, his point of view and our own
Not only did he entirely ignore the oc-
Ecupation of many parts OF the South by
Federal troops, and assume that there
would be no difficulty in defining the
boundaries of the State which We are ask.
ed 70 recognize, but he expressly assigned
las q reason for it that which 10 the best
possible reason against 1t. FEhe reeogni.
tion to which you refer would be of no
2value 10 us, except so far as it might tend
TO bring the war to asclOss."t
Il is true that he described the war as q
lt'h0pelessu enterprise on the part Of the
United States, and spoke Of the effect. which
FecOEnitioh would have In 'dispeifipg az
delusionn in the minds of the Northerners;
but il is evident that he regarded IL chiefly
las DIVERSION Ia favor Of the SOuth-8s a
powerful means of, hasIenipg the triumph
1 of their arms. Now, this plea for reeOgui-
ton. thoughithe most cogeutiot all to the
mind of q Southerner. is precisely that
which an English Statesman is bound 70
criticise with the greatest Jealousy. The
theory OF recognition Is that the fact re-
i eognized should be q fat Gee0HPhI and ia
no degree brought about by the recognition
itself. It Il, one thfRg 70 SAY that the Com
federate States ought to be independent
and that it would be better for the future
peace of America If they were 50; it is
/ EanotheH,to say that this Independence is
achieved. The two propositions at that
stage Of the confiios seemed almost equiv.
RIent; but tue sequel hes s1oEp .yhpat Lord
Rnsaen could not have treated them az
! such withoat violating the usage, Il NOT
the law OF nations. Meanwhile We have
1 lscrupulousIy abstained from encouraging
/ falae hnnaz The racention of Mr.. Slidell