Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-02-12

male department, where the future manhood and in
telgence of America ranged to receive him" He
made speech telling them he had volated his rule in
meeting them-as he bad determined to be very quiet
and as be got through with his private bust
ness, he should return to the field of battle
He next visited the female department. where the
young ladies were put through variety OF exercises
at the conclusion of which the General expressed him.
self highly delighted" He next visited the primary de-
partment and made very telling speech to the infant
phenomena there assembled. He was immensely ap-
plauded. The success which he met with on the occa-
sion suggests the suspicion that he has heretofore mis-
taken his true vocation.
Fitz John Porter, Sumner and Franklin will, we
suppose, follow the example of their iusrious leaders
and peregrinate the North in quest of trumphs which
they failed to achieve in the South.
From the Charleston Mercury, Sd inst
Recognition nj Intervention.
We agree with every word Historicus 3" has said
against the intervention of France ard England to end
the between the Confederate and the United Sta
on the principles which governed their intervention in
the case of Greece and Belgium. The readers of the
Mercury will remember that from the first suggestion
of the Intervention OF European Powers, opposed
as necessarily Injurious to the Confederate States The
great European nations did not sympathize with in
our struggle for Free Government. hey are all, in
Guiding Great Britain, COnsolidatOnisls. They do
not understand that Free Government consists first in
the limitation OF the powers of government-and Second
check another, and all great interests, by representa-
ton, can protect themselves. Hence, they naturally
leaned the United States in their efforts to subju
gate us and have perverted the laws OF nations to
strengthen their power against TO give such ma
tons the power of settling relations towards the
United States would be fatal to liberties. Recon
structiLn, in the form desired by the United States
would doubtless follow and we would be taxed ruled
and oppressed heretofore, by the msorties of the
Free States. Nor would we be any better of on the
subject of slavery. With such Abolitionists as Lord
Palmerston and Earl Russell the part of Great Brit
ain, and Ministers from France entirely Indifferent to
the institution Ito say the least of it, the part of
France it would be miracle if the Confederate States
escaped utter ruin by their intervention. And what
chance would the Confederate States have of any the
Border States in the adjustment of boundaries under
the auspices OF such mediators? Might they not be
zealots in making these States, like their o1Un, Free
States Cotton is all that their interests require, and
these States do not grow cotton. The region where
cotton produced lett to slave labor will be enough
for them, and may be supposed enough for u.s. The
Cor tederate Sta would of course be dissatisfied with
such an adjustment and if they resisted there stands
the precedent OF Greece and Belgum-they would be
coerced. Holland and Turkey were forced to submit
to the intervention dictated by Great Britain aud
France, by the force of arms No! the Conf derate
States want no such intervention and the astonishing
part of the matter is that any statesman of Great Brit
ain 80 able and we'll informed as Historicus clearly
u.s. should deem necessary to combat at such length
policy which considerable statesman of the Confed
crate States has ever that know Of proposed sup
ported That it has been proposed and supported IN
England by those who profess to be favorable to our
cause, cannot doubt We are deeply indebted to
" Historicus for exposing their folly but we would
not be ct all surprised, if failing to conquer u.s.
Yankee foes should earnestly solicit European Powers
to enter upon just such an Intervention as " HstOr
icus - has condemned.
The only kird of interven ion whit b the Confeder
ate States could agree to- that lately proposed by the
Emperor Napoleon. Historicus " says that it was
no intervention at all and in sense he is right. 1t
did not bring the Powers popos ng it, beeen the bel
lgerents There was thus no physical intervention
And yet there Intervention of counsel, which if
assente to by the par les at war, would undoubtedly
have ended It, The Emperor of the French with his
great sagacity understood the condition of things in
the Uni ed States, far better than Hstorcus the
statesmen of England. An armistice of six months
would end the Staggering, the United States
are under the load of bankruptcy they have incurred
to stop the war; which affords the only chance Of sup
porting 1t by conquerng the Confederate States would
at once precpitate the catastrophe of utter financial
ruin. At the end of the six months, credit would be
gone the armies would be dsbanded, and the would
be closed The statesmen Of Great Britain who eect
ed the proposal of the Emperor of the French if they
really wished the war cl1sed (aChh ace doub commit
ted blunder when they rejected it. 1t COM
mtted them to do nothing, and in way complicated
them in the final adjustment Of the terms of peace
whilst if assened to by the parties at at all
an improbable rsultwoud have restored peace to the
world.
Men and nations very often msapprehend their true
position in the world Sefdeception is the most com
mon of all receptions. The statesmen of Great Bri-
TAIN who rule her policy, repudate intervention, whilst
they oftlly talk of impartality and neutrality. The
truth is they have neither been neutral impair ta
whilst they have finally interviewed in favor Of OF the
parties to the and against the other. They have
inerUened in refusing to acknowledge the Sovereignty
and Independence of the Confederate States after they
had acknowledged it eighty years ago. They have an
Ucned by forbddng the Confederate States against
whom alone the prohibition operated) from carrying
their priz"s into the ports of Great Bri ain They
have iateiUened by allowing sham blocka c to pre-
vail against the Confederate States directly in conlct
with their owu solemn annunciations.- Now, do Eu-
ropean staemen wish to know what the COME derate
States desire European nations to do? They want no
favors. They want ,othing but their rights, by the
laws Of nations Abolish the unjust intervention by
which they have acknowledged the Sovereignty of one
but not OF the other, party to the Rescnd the
bypocrihcal declaration, protesting mpartiaty but
really operating to shield Yankee commerce, by which
Confederate cruisers prohibited from carrying their
prizes into their ports. Enforce the law of blockade
which they proposed and the Confederate States have
agreed and put end to the paper bockades of the
United States l. Great Britain-let the great ma
ons of Europe-do these simple acts of justice and of
real impartiality, and they will end the war-and end
it speedily. The Confederate States ask no more of
them and will never be content with less
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