Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-10-08
From the New York World.


The administration through all its newspaper aud
unofficial organs is preparing the public mind If not
for war With France then for the recognition OF III
Confederacy by. That n"ion b. cary " limits Il
Yesterday, which has kind OF back d. or COM ect or
with the State DE- parnn NJ cont ms article fore
shadowiug tie tears of MIR Seward that recognition
would soon be lr,nopnced by the French cabinet
According 10 the Times, it would be mere by play
and would not amount 10 much. 1t says:
People caunot, therefore, be too Cf'en reminded tina
it is mere piece of etiquette, whose significance is en-
tirelv conYt ntona II VT choose to consider it i'm
portant it important but il choose to consider
it Of no moment il OF moment. 1t is on our OWL
nerves that it would be intended to proCuce all its e.
feet.
This is cheerful way Of regarding Of the gravest
insults nation put upon another bat then. 1t
is very much like Mr. Seward OF course, if Franci
recognizes the ConedeIacy at this tme IT 10 for the
purpose of compelling US to declare war CD point"o'
national honor and if that fails to provoke u.s. obei
measures will be taken which sure to prove efectua
The expedition to 1exas, when troops are needed g.
much eli ewhere. shows from what direction the admin
isration anticipates the 1t trouble The last foreign
advices point Enthusiastically to serious complications
between this country and France. All dangers of a
European on the Polish question are at an end
aud Napoleon direct all bis ges to ccnso
idatipg the French power 10 Mexico 10 secure his
dominion that country it is essential that the Con
ederacy should succeed and the Emperor is bound by
his interests and ambition to help the rebels all be
II they succeed 80 does be- and if they fall be knows
that Mexico will not long remain French dept nd ncy
The London Economist, with great force of reason
ing, shows how indispensable is the OF the re-
bells to the schemes of Napoleon on this continent II
says:
Louis Napoleon, then, has put himself deliberately
and avoWedy in opposition to the arrogant preenslons
longer one and indvis ble With which ction OF it
therefore, will his occupation Of Mexico bring him int
collision With which will he quarrel, and with which
will he torn, or seek to form an alliance? There car
be no doubt TO the immediate answer. The success
Of the secession movement the OF the old re
public into the two States is essential to the perma
maneut occupation OF Mexico by France, to the per
manent independence OF Mexico as powerful country
under French protection since the real restoration
the Union would once make the American nation
80 mighty and proud that all its old pretensions
would be renewed, and it would probably be imposs
bic for France ultimately to uphold her P'oteg'
without continuity OF struggle, and waste OF mel
and treasure which she could not endure en-
and of which she wculd-soon grow weary. His Mexi
can conquest thus entails upon Louis Napoleon almcs
the necessity OF alliance with the Southern Conttd
able his aid to insure their success and their lndppen
dence. II be ddays till they are beaten, and II they
beaten in corsf quence OF his delay he will have &c
consolidate and maintain hls Mexican enterprise not
against eneebed and diminished nation by the help
of that nations xusperated foe but without aid against
the Reconstructed Union which in time would become
as powerful as before. We apprehend, therefore
that lie will in bis heart be just anxious to proer aid
the hard press Conederates will to accept 1t
and, between contracting parties thus mutually predls
posed, terms Of treaty not difficult aid are SELDOM
long protraced Even before the Mexican conquest,
well assured, the sympathes and shes Ct the
| French Emperor inclined him to recognize the
South and he only withheld ron doing so by the
want of our cooperation Those sympathies aud wishes
fortified and vitazed by urgent polite 81 interests
now.
No doubt the /" Economist speaks by the card
when it ntimates that alliance already exis's be-
| %hoN NDfo lo h,7s phoTho
does or not there is great deal OF force in its reson-
inp