The New York herald., 1863-10-24
The Rebel Project OF . Europssn Coali
sion Against the United states.

et0n Against the United States
Our London correspondent in another letter
on the projected European movement for the
benefit Of JEFF Davis. says that "the French
Emperor is determined to fight" that che has
already sent sixty thousand soldiers to Mexico,
and is quietly embarking and sending off more
soldiers more cannon and more army supplies
every week." that he contemplates material
aid to Davis to the extent Of an army Of one
hundred and fifty thousand men in Texas and
feet of iron-clads in the Gulf that this coali-
ton will probably involve the dictation Of a
Southern confederacy by Louis Napoleon, en-
bracing Maryland, the District Of Columbia, the
city of Washington, West Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri; and that the equivalent from the
other side will be the remuneration" to France
of Louisiana, including the outlets of the Mis-
sissippi, and the great'Statc of Texas.
We are earnestly assured by our correspond
ent In the premises that all this is ''down on
the books of the French Emperor" that ''it is
as inevitably true as that the sun will rise to
morrow" and, to impress the matter upon us,
he further says to us, "woe be to your govern
mcnt and people II they turn deaf ear to the
warning and lull themselves into sense Of
false security" We must be prepared to see
French army in Texas and Louisiana, and to
give up all the South or prepare to fight IL out.
Here, it will be remarked, Louis Napoleon
| figures as the exclusive master of these cere-
monies. But Austria and Prince Macmillan
the Pope and his Church, and Spain and Cuba,
and, lastly, the inevitable John Bull, with his
deceitful neutrality. The Gar has put bis foot
down, and France and England have backed
out from Poland That question may be con-
sidered settled. Austria has been humbuggcd;
Prussia and the smaller German States are pre-
occupied with their own internal affairs; the
Continent, therefore, may be left to take care
of itself for some time, while Napoleon
aud Palmerston are working out their
American designs. Neutrality. too, will serve
the purposes Of England in this business
of an active alliance between France and
JEFF Davis better than any other course. Eng
land, under this arrangement, instead Of endan-
gcring her commerce, will secure the monopoly
Of the carrying trade between the United
States and Europe, and in the event OF a
Southern confederacy will doubtless be
an equal participant in its concessions
Of free trade to Napoleon. But, above
all other considerations, England, in the estab-
lishment OF Southern confederacy, will secure
the destruction Of her most dangerous naval and
commercial rival, and deal blow to popular
liberty, popular rights and popular institutions,
which my save the feudal aristocrscy of Great
Britain and the confederate kingcraft OF the
| Continent for half century to come.
What Cromwell was In the seventeenth cen.
tury, with his Puritanical Commonwealth,
among the old monarchies Of Europe-what the
French republic Of the eighteenth century and
the empire Of tho First Napoleon were TO the
"Holy Alliance" so now, in this the nineteenth
century, this great republic as the propagandist
Of liberal ideas and popular sovereignty, ia the
special object Of the fear, Jealousy aud hatred