The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-05-06

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loan was raised to purchase their outfit.
This was the reason why eighteen millions
nearly Sl00, ,OO0. .000--was subscribed.
when only SIS, 900, ,O0e was wanted. This
was the reason why the stock went up to
par and to FIVE per cent. premium, though
taken at eighty and put on the market at
ninety.
The simple truth Of the matter is, that
with the active sympathy of the upper
classes, and the neutrality" of the CO.
yernment, strong party OF English capi
talists, cotton spectators, ship builders
and merchants, have taken up the causeof
tire South in earnest, and mean TO put il
through. They have embarked their mil
lians. and do not mean to lose them. The
Government cannot interfere to prevent.it.
and has no disposition to do so. As Lord
Palmerston said last night, if they attempt
ed to amend the law, they might make it
worse. The Government will be neutral.
1t may even pass over the seizure Of the
Peterhoff by Captain Wilkes. They will
let the North buy all the " hard ware" in
Birmingham. But they neither can nor
will prevent the departure of single one
Of the fourteen steamers which Mr.. Bright
says are fitting out for the Confederate Go.
yernment. England, as Government, is
not at war with you, but English capital
lists 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 capi-
tai rusting away in Lancashire look at the
great cotton manufacturing interest which
has encircled the world; at the closed cot
TON ports, the dragging war which shows
no sign Of termination, the starving pop
Iuistions, already beginning to break out
into riot and disorder.
You talk of war. They ask nothing
better. The more you threaten, the less
likely the Government will be to interfere
with their projects. A war, they think,
would soon settle the matter, You will
take Canada. Well, il was but the ether
day that Mr.. Gladstone was for getting rid
of that troublesome province on any terms.
You will send out privateers. If you do,
your ports will be blockaded and all others
closed against them, so that privateering
will not be profitable. Ships will 90 arm
ed with Armstrong guns, or be guarded by
men OF war steamers. That is the way
Englishmen feel. They are growing SO
iiritated aud disgusted with the war, that
they are ready for anything that will put
an end 10 il.
The Efforts of The emancipatlonists have
not changed the feelings Of the upper
classes at all. II abolition was ever ia
yorite idea Of the aristocraey, il is SO no
longer. II is consigned TO the Oblivion Of
the lower mlli ons. The Times openly
defends slavery. The other higher class
papers apologize for it. Mr.. Bright is
still the brave and eloquent champion OF
the North, but he finds very. little sympa-
thy in or out of Parliament, except among
the workingmcn, who are il earnest In the
cause Of free labor--all the more earnest
because they are oppressed and degraded
as freemen are nowhere else in the world.
Mr.. Bright made most eloquent speech, IN
favor oi the National Government, few
nights ago, 10 Trades Union meeting, at
ST. James Hall. Ii was we'll meant, but
very useless. The Times is not far from
right when IL asserts that the whole public
Of England-meaning the voting aud IA
come tax paying public--aIl but few DIS
appointed Republicans, hope for the sue
cess Of the South.
Lord Harrington, in an election speech
this week, stated the whole case. He had
Just come from America, where ne had
travelled in both sections, and he was out
and out Southern, and declared that no
union could be restored, nor could the
South be conquered. This opinion was
never so firm as at this moment. Is Il
strange that strong efforts should be made
to has,cG result in which fa,sh !, 30 gen
eral!
II the statements publicly made aul %.
parently based on good authority, are to