Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-31

| without clue TO ownership OF meauS VI co'u
pensation. They are also there to witness
the blockade, and to report upon its efficacy
And these Consuls draw their eaequotars
from the Government Of Washington. They
are standing degradation to the power
which receives, which shelters and endures
them. We are not enclined to withdraw
them. We ought. therefore to accredt them
to the insurgent who permits them to reside.
and If we do he is acknowledged Honor
forbids nations, as it does men, to run up a
score of gratitude themselves, and to create
q score Of just resentment in its object to
offer insult at the moment they are proiting
by favor. In one sense alone do the Con-
federacy gain by the arrangement; we give
them all the grandeur of forbearance; they
allow our Consuls to reside, and we with
hold the recognition which public law enti-
| titles them to ask Of us. But is not our as
pect with regard them poor one? We de-
nv their rights over their territory, and yet
at their hands receive the safety Of our citi-
zens.
GREAT BRITAIN BOUND TO RECOGNIZE BY
| A noble earl who gained his laurels in
the East, well pointed out to us last session
that, whenever the war closed Canada would
be endangered If victorious, the North
ern States might attack it in the drunken
ness Of pride: if defeated. in the bitterness
Of torture. Some men out of doors, have
been SO infatuated as to hold that by care
fully abstsining from anything which gives
umbrage to the United States we should de-
fend it. AS if aggressive powers had ever
been restrained by wanting pretexts for the
wars they were inclined to. The security
Of Canada is quickly seen by your lordsbips
! to reside in.one circumstance alone--the
danger of attacking it. That danger will
at least be greater when the Southern pow
err is. kindly to Great Britain than when it
is estranged, inasmuch as the aggressive
1 State will then have to contemplate the
chance Of an attack upon his rear as we'll az
the blockade of lis seaboard. No doubt
Canada is safe while the civil war contin.
llucs; but we are neither able nor entitled tt
! prolong it for her safety. The civil wal
may close after the acknowledgements Of
Southern independence by the Emperor,
although Great Britain has shared thai
manifesto
The friendly disposition of the South is
therefore necessary to US; it is attalnable,
and if we want only forego it, if we allow
the war to close before we have acknowledg
ed, both the separated powers being ire
vocabIy hostile to US. we may be forced, now
to guard Canada from one, the West Indies
from the other Our diplomatists, more
over, would have no influence or voice il
the ConfederacY, whether they attempted
to soften the resentments which the war
had left behind it, to gain legitimate advan-
tages in trade, to deprecate aggressive views
or to improve the situation of the negro.
EVILS OF REUNION.
The only other sentiment which, in the
event Of other neutrals being prepared, might
indispose the country to acknowledgment,
is lingering idea that the cause offreedom
/ is involved in the RECEPTION of the Union
1t is just, therefore, to inquire for whose
advantage it would come again into exis
fence. We have seen it would not be fol
that Of Africa or Of the negro. It could Dot
be for chat of the seceders, as the miseries
of New Orleans have ex planned. where thai
rule has been established and those terrors
have been felt which would then apply to al
the cities of the territory. Who says they
ought not to perish rather than submit to 9
Joke more bitter and degrading than was
ever known get in Warsaw or in Venice
But would it be lestered for tie advantage
Of the NORTH
:
It is for despotism that the people o.
the North are pouring out their blood. anc
furnishing their glory. Already it exists
It bad its birth in war, and it would take
its Immortality from conquest. Then, would
the Union be restored for the advantages o
the world? What country would be safe
What country would be free? Would Pc
land gain when the only friend and patton
of the Gear recovered his original dimen.
sions? At first, indeed, the necessity Of
Southern garrisops might keep them in re-
pose. But III few years-and they do mol
labor to concea; it from us-a power more
rapacious, more unprincipled, more AFRO
giant, more selfish and encroaehing, would
arise, than has ever yet increased the out
lay, multiplied the fears, and compromised
the general tranquility Of Europe. Aud OF
this overgrown, on this portentous form O
tyranny and,egotism, many countries woule
depend for the material Of that important in
dusty which languisbes at present.
Ma ioritv on the Wrong side.