The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-10-07
ENGLISH OPINION.

Secretary Seward issued on the l2th
ult., lsng diplomatic circular, +" No. &c."
snsouncing the speedy downfall Of the re-
bellion. setting forth the causes Of our long
successful resistance. 60. &c. ;alI TO be used
abroad by the Ministers to whom it was
cent for the benefit Of Yankeedom and the
injury Of the Confederacy. Its purport
and its effect abroad may be gathered from
the following Bsi'ish eommenl:
From the Lenden Times, Sept 4,h.
Mr.. Se~ard's diplomatic circular. which
pc published yesterday. consists of pro-
position. an argument. aud an application.
HIS proposition 10 that the statesmen ol
England and France having conceived at
the beginning Of the American war belief
that The restoration Of the Unisn vas an
impossibility, persist in that belief to the
present hour. His argument resolves it.
self into long narrative Of the campaigns
sSlhe last twelve months. and this histori.
esl compendium is thea applied 10 the pur-
pose Of correcting the prevailing belief.
ssd inPressing The ,wo Western Powers
-nh convictions more favorable to the
Federal cause. In its object this State
paper is certainly inteiligible. Mr.. Sc
ward is perfectly accurate in his presump-
iion that the Statssmes of France and
Englsnd-he might have included. indeed,
these of the rest oi Europr-ds consider 10
this very day that the old american Union
can never be reconstructed. IL is natural.
fso, that he should be desiroas Of renewing
this consiction, but the args ment which he
employs fsr this purpose is both Ineasct-
i've aud needless-nerdlrss. because we all
Anew beforehand every particle Of bis sto-
~, and ineffective because, even ii We ac-
rspt il exactly as it 10 presented TO Us. il
leaves our conclusions just what they were.
The truth -. the course oI the American
war has taken Us by surprise. When Ne
Grst arrived At the conclusion that the
South could never be eocrced into reunion
al the psini Of the sword We stlll snticipst-
I'd prompt military success on the psit sl
The North. The only reserve affecting our
Judgment Was = doubt sb"ut the earnest.
ness and unsnimiIy of the South 10 claim.
ing Independence. That condition being
satisfied, we considered that though twents
millions Of men were certainly stronger
then nlne millions. they were not So mach
stronger a. 10 have any chance Of subjugai.
ing these nine millions. dispersed a. the,
we're ever an almost illimiisble territory
We hardly doubted the immediate SUPER.
uriiy the North in the field. The genera
srpeetatisn Of Englishnen Was tha, III,
sosih would ssen be oserrup. that Its sea
ports ~osld be ell csptursd and occupied
and that stroug Federal garrisens woul'
held Us ekief towns. 10 short. We antici
paied that the first sir usnlhs. or at an,
rate the hrst year Of the var. would see IN,
pro.trstion OF the CoHfvdeTates thus Ii
completed but IL vas then that we though
The hopele.ness Of the work sould begiI
to be felt.
ff al that time We could have foreseei
that the successes Of the North alter NOR
than tive years uf desperate 6ghlihg woul,
amount only 10 the achievements now &c
counted with 40 nuch competency By Nj
seward. We should have tbousht the task .
ihs Warrington Government more imprar
ticaLle than ever. We venture 10 add TIM
Mr.. Seward himself would have been YER
much Of the same opinion. We think
may be said with some truth, that IL III
Federal Government hsd. u the beginnin
" the rear 1861, fsresesn that IN the mid
dle Of ths year 1863 the seeding State
would ,ull be free. Richmond and Charles
ton siill ssis. and Washington in some Ii,
tls danger. the war would never have bee
undertaken al al. That Mr.. Seward, q
MS period Of the strife. should be reduce
TO slng pRan over the deli,ersn.e Of N
North irom the invasion Of Southern Al
my, y about The strongest possible proof ,
the bopelsssnsss Of his cause.
ns Federsls thought TO sweep the South
trn States with their irresistible forces
AZ hrst they actually iuiagined that thre
months and 10000 men would suffice ID