Washington telegraph., 1863-10-14

The LAST ALTERNATIvE.-Weh have |
amongst Us sr. Of worthy men, whose
feelings are wholly with the soGth, and
who ardently long for her success, but
who are nevertheless timid and despon
dent These men have always had exag-
gerated ideas of Northern wealth and
power, and cannot rid themselves OF the
apprehension that We must be finally sub
jugated. They loathe the thonght, but
are almost ready to yield to what they
consider the iBexorable aecrees Of fate.
1t will be the most disgusting slavery ever
imposed upen 4 civilized people. Any
fate is preferable to a condition Of vassal-
are 70 q people whose selhshness and low
lived tyranny, unrelieved BY spark Of
magnani.aity or generous feeling, have
been made evident to the world.
We believe ourselves in the entire In
dependence of the South. For tha. many
long years Of war and suffering we're a
cheap sacrifice But in the last resort
there j. another alternative. Ii is pro
posed in The following from the Richmond
Whie. If VIC must be subjects, le. rs
connect ourselves with some eue or other
of the old nations of the earth, whose au-
tiquiiy and high position in the ranks Of
Christendom will enable US to preserve
some portion Of our self-respect:
"OUR RELATIONS WITH FRAEcE.-The
Emperor OF France has evinced a kindly
disposition towards Us, by proposing to
! Intermediate in the war between the North
and South The French people are almost
unanimous In siding with US against the
Federals. They justly and truly maintaiu
that we, like tie French, belong to the
Latin aud Celtic races-the North TO the
Y Teutouic, German, or Dutch races. Our
ancestors were Norman, French, Scotch
irish. HugueDots, Welsh, SpaniaFds and
Catholic French. The North is descended
chiefly from the English saxon element.
aud from iufidel, socialistic, agrarian and
Free Love Germans, whom extreme radi-
cal and revolutionary propensities have
induced % migrate 10 the North, the land
Of isms, within the last thirty years.
''The French are partial to US, because
we belong TO the same honorable, generous
and chivaIrous races with themselves.
"Moreover, France having lost ST. Do
mingo aud Mauritius, and finding Algiers
nnft ior cotton culture, needs Sc:;:h ScG:aai aT
colonies, or intimate Southern alliances,
which would supply the place Of such colo
MES. 10 Texas and Louisiana she would
find everything she wanted. AS French
provinces, or in strict alliance with France.
they would at once put her far ahead of
Eugland 10 the monopoly of tropical or
proximo tropical products. Sooner than
be subjugated by the Yankees, these
States would prefer to become French de-
tendencies or provinces, and the rest of
the Confcderacy would greatly prefer to
see those States, nay, themselves too. be-
longing TO France, rather than have them
subject to the North. Drive US to that
sacrifice, and we will no longer offer the
Tree va Nht 4Ilsslscippl,
tl+i Missouri to the Northwest. France
aud the Southern Confeder-cy could ex-
clude Northern commerce from those riv-
ers entirely and forever If the worst
come to the worst, we are prepared for this
sacrifice.
Besides, we utterly repudiate the Mon
roe doctrine, and wish to see France and
Spain getting stronger footbold in Ame-
rica, iu order TO establish the balance of
the power system, as it exists in Europe.
England and the North combined might
rule America, and exclude foreign com
merce from the Gulf Of -Iexico. and the
great land passway over the Istbmus.
ave DO not fear that we shall be driven
TO the necessity of dismembering our Con-
federacy, OF abdicatibg the government of
ourselves; but we warn the North if such
thing should occur, Frencbmen, not
Yankees, shall be gamers by it."