Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-03-26


In late number OF the London Index, received at
this Office We ind the following extract from an sr
tice in the EdnJug Reuiec in reference to the ques
tion of the recognition of the Confederate States and
the establishment Of direct intercourse with them 1t
may be interesting, although not, perhlps import
ant -
With America, the reviewer treats very
aoe aud valuable argument as to the rgh and duty OF
cognition There three degrees Of recognition
the establishment of diplomatic relations with the seed
ing States, accompanied by treaties of and
in the quarrel The first bcund to make, the
ond may make according to the prospects of the
=" q groucd Ter remons'rance much less of war"
1t has been argued with considerable ability and author
tons in extending their recognition province colony
centeDdDg for it's independence unless the contest be al
unless least the contest far advanced leave
doubt of the ultimate of the separatsts, and
pendent Government.
These propositions appear to to call for further
investigation by the light Of precedents and Of prnci
Piles. 1t would be easy to quote numerous examples of
different perhaps an opposite character go back
far TIE sixteenth century, the time of the Hsur
recon If the Netherlands against SPAIN England
entered into negotiations With thsm aud when they de-
clared tEer i2de perdDce in 1855. English agents
sent to Antwerp and treaty of alliance was concluded
ous r ses G De
immediate rupture with Spain, though ultimately
By all the Ta
knowledged Tin l648) by span In 1862 the Portuguese
threw OF the Spanish yoke and raised the House of Bra
to the throne the independence of Portugal
cognized within year by Engsna France and the North
Courts Spain only acknowledged the loss of
Ject Kingdom In 1861 These precedents were invoked
tAe American emssares OF I77 to the Court of France
and within twenty months of the Declaration OF lndepen
dence France consented epouse the of the yoaRg
Republic. 1t is true that this done grounds of poll
ayoWedy hostile to England to avenge the loss of Can
ada fifteen before. But the Feach rested their right
recognize the American Government the simple fact
that they In full OF their independence
ia of nA ESur Rf ORA
bbon and be read in the fourth volume of his mis-
ceaneous works hut he treats the question act of
treacheroas hostility and repudises, not so much the
cognition, as the Intervention, OF foreign state.
The next that Of Greece, which it also fell
the lot Of HI Canning decide. When the Greek insur
rectien broke cut in 1920, the British Government pro
fessed and designs to maintain strict neutrality but
compelled in obedeEee the principles have
already advered to, to acknowledge toe beerent char
aetsr Of the nSurgens In spite OF the heroic resistance
OF the Greeks to the Turkish armies they were at the
OF FIVE six years. exhsu2ted by the unequal contest
Mr. Cannisg proered the mediation of England, bat it
Indignantly ected by the Porte. At length IN 1885,
protocol signed by the Duke of Wellington at ST.
Petersburg which virtually recognized the dependence
Greece least the footing of the other Christian
battle of Navarno and the peace of Adianope settled the
question. In this ID important to renark that the
Christian Powers nterered and ecogEZed the lgdepend
of Greece not because The contest oUr or became
Insurgents, but precisely the opposite reason La 1876
apparent that the Greeks coad not maintain their
they must be beaten if left to struggle
Jingle handed against the whole power of Mahmoud AM
Powers intsrpssed, force Of arms extort from
Turkey the recognition of their freedom.
On the Last case which IL that of Belgium il hardly
sesssary to DWELL Though In this case also France and