Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-24
sen SATION.
From The New b ork Herald

which we publish this inornlnS-oisch'scs
n programme of European intervention IN De-
half Of JEFF. DavR and his Southern Contede'
rncy, 50 very plausible and so perfectly con-
sistent with the game of Louis Napoleon IN
Mckee. ard the policy Of England to break
M and destroy.the power Of the United States
that the subject cannot fail to challenge the
special attention of The reader.
The European Coaleicrates in this ne"
scheme of spoils coalition against US are
rewcsented as the Holy Father OF Rome-in
behalf of the Latin cnurch-Austria, Spain;
France and Great Britain. Their projected
Intervention c0ntemplatcs the recognition q
n Southern Confcdcracy, embracing the 'hlr,
teen slaves States represented III the rc'S!
CONGRESS Including Kentucky and MlSsourl),
AMI the withdrawal IF the tuion troops lrcm
MARYLAND, so that IL free vote may be had !"
that State upon the question whether she'l'
to adhere to the remnant Of the old | mon or
to 90 over to the Southern Contedcracy: Al
| this is to be accomplished in behalf OF .cit'
/ Davis bv these European allies. Inc pro-
gramme is magnificent; for twill he seen
that it covers not only the Confederacy,
claimed by the rebellion, Int in addition
thereto the State of Maryland. which involves
the District of Columbia and the capital ii
the United States. fur the destiny of Maryland
is inevitably the destiny Of Washington.
For this magnificent endowment Of DAVIS
our correspondent says the rebel States arc
to expressly pledge themselves as inst any
filibustering in Mexico, Cuba or Porto Kico'
and arc 10 resist, 70 the extent of their power,
the annexation of any portion OF the british
possessions to the Northern Confederacy, and
any attempt on our part to dtsnrb the ar
Engagements Of this European coalition in
.N..Eico or the Gulf. Such .are the rough out
lines Of this projected plot. In reducing 1t to
q treaty it will probably embrace the cess'on
of Texas and Louisiana and Arizona, to say
nothing of California That there is some>
thing in these neutrality-suspicious. We can
hardly doubt, when simultaneously the pro-
gramme divuged by our London correspond
crt is substantially prcmnl gated through the
Richmond Enquirer" as the only admissible
basis Of q treaty Of peace.
The leading rebel ambassadors now in
Paris or concentrating there are Slidet and
Mason, Alexander II. Stephcrs, the so-called
Vice President of the so.ralled Confederate
States. and Dr. Gwin. of California, late from!
Fort Lafayette These desperate political ad-
venturers will promise anything and sacrifice
ANYTHING to the extent Of half the area o! the
slave States, in order TO secure 4 Southern
Cunfedcracv under \ Earnpcan protective
coalition TO enter into this coalition England
has the powerful induccmcnt BE destruc,
ton of an 0versha'lowinS coTn1eFeial rival
an object for which she has been working to
divide US on the slavery question for half 4
century: France is tempted Ivy the bait of a
powerful foolhold ON this continent; Spain,
hy promises Of the protcctiossof Cuba; Aus
tria, by the clittering baubleof the crown OF
Mckee, and the Pope by the spiritual and
temporal interests Of his church. Then there
arc the great inducements to England ard
France of monopoly of the trade in Southern
Gotten and tobucco upon their own terms
Surely, such arguments as these may be sup
posed to have been employed to some purpose
hy Siidell, Mason, Stephens, Gwin and their
numerous Southern co-laborers, in London,
Paris and Madrid.
; From the subsequent part Of the article 1t
appears that 'thc United Ststcs" ilattcrs itself
there is going to be 4 "IIoly Alliance" of the
decrepit monarch les of Europe against it, the
Yankee nation:
"IIencc the same common cause among
these old niqnarchies. beginning with Eng
land. which arrayed them in Holy ALI
ance' against the French republic and against
the first NAPOLEON, invite the parties now con.
ccrned TO = Holy Alliance against the United
States"
But the Yan,eo nation thr ,atcns them with
its Russian Alliance:
! IF the only difficulty in the way were. a
war with the United States, we might perhaps
have hostile Anglo.frerch fleet OF Sandy
Hook within sixty days. But, looming up in
the background of this European projected al
lance, stands the colossal power Of Russia
quite rs near an alliance with the United
States, offensive and defensive, as Louis Napo,
! leon and his colleagues can he to their CON
tsmpl;tcd coalition with the rebellion"
This was while New York was running
wild after the Ru sian barous and admirals
! and before the discovery that said barons and
almirals were merely enduring the antics Of
! that strange people, as all polite voyngers hui
NOR the srotesque usagcs Of every barbarouS
people their ships may visit.