Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-04-30

as topics to feed the sedon Of men who welcome any
thing that may like argument to sustain oregone
purpose of revolt. n
The pursuit of Independence BY these Confsdsrated
States has very different aim from the redress of such
shallow griefs these.
Whoever shall be able hereafter reveal the secret his
tory of those conclaves which have held counsel
the repeated attempts to invade and conqusr-or the
phrase was, liberate Cubai whoever shall unfold the
schemes of seizng Nicaragua of aiding revolution
Mexico, of possessing Sonora will make pretty
advances in disclosing the true pathway to the Of
this rebellion The organization Of the Knights Of the
Golden Circle and their spread the country their
meetings and transactions; who managed them and set
them to do their appointed work whoever shall pene
trate into the midnight which yelled this order from view,
will also open authentic chapter in the history Of this
outbreak. @A4
There great scheme Of dominion in this plot The
fancy of certain Southern politicians daxed with
vision Of Empire Years have been rolling on whilst this
brilliant scheme maturing in their private councils
and at intervals startling the nation by unexpected
eruption The design, which lay too deep in darkness to
be penetrated by the unnated occasionally the
surface in bold and rash adventure which either the
vigilance Of Government the imperfect means of
which the necessity of conceament imposed upon it
rendered abortive The Cuban expeditions miscarried;
the Sonora failed; the Nicaragua forays defeated
all these chiefly by the careful watch Of the Government
Large Of money squandered 10 these fuitless
adventures, and many lives lost Worse than these
mshaps, eager hopes disappointed and longnduged
dreams dsspated It was found that the Union was in
the way that the Federal Government the impedi-
ment and that as long the South was bound to obey
that Government Illustration OF these cherished schemes
always to attend them This experience bred the
hostility of thwarted ambition against the Union and turned
the thoughts of these agents Of mischief towards its de-
struction.
Then came the next movement. There IL, think,
better foundation than rumor for saying that over
lures made before the rebellion broke out, to the
Emperor of the French for support and patronage in the
scheme that very aurng picture presented to HIM
of great Southern Confederacy to embrace the land Of
cotton of sugar Of Coffee Of the most precious tobaccoes
and Of the choicest fruits Of the most valuable timber and
the richest the Gulf States Cuba
st. Domingo, and other islands, Mexico Central America
and perhaps reaching beyond into the borders Of
South Americas great tropical and semitropical para
disc of unbounded auence of product secured by i'm
pregnabe monopoly created by nature This large domain
was to be organized into Confederate Government and
provid with the cheapest and most doce and submissive
of all labor it's lands to be parceled into principal
ties and landlords to rsve in the riches Of Aaddns
solicited patronse with his protection for which he
be repaid treaty arrangements BY which France should
enjoy free trade in the products of French industry and
precedence in gathering the first fruits of all this wealth
of culture Certainly very dazzling lure this to the good
will of the Emperor!
1t is said the Emperor was quite captvated with The
first view of this brilliant project but ripper elaboration
brought to pause The scheme he discovered stood
leg: the whole structure rested slavery, which
much too rcketty support to win favor n this nne
teenh century with the shrewdes of European statesmen
The pot too light for the counterpoise Of great
opposition The structure might last few years, but
very it would tumble down and to nought And
it is whispered the Emperor declined the venture This
bit of secret history which time may may not verify
From nkDgs of that day which escaped into open
air. believe it true We heard various boastngs in the
of 1860 of French support the tire tened sepa
ration and there were agents in Europe negotiating for it.
During all that preliminary period there great deal
'aid in the South about revivng the slave trade When
the Emperor refused this suddenly dropped and Eng
and then locked to the ally in the coming revolt
Abolition England to be by another strategy The
Montgomery Convention asserted clause in the Confede
rate Constitution forbidding the slave trade and oddly
enough for Government founded the central idea Of
slavery. the commissioners who represented it in England
authorized to the British Minister that it
really the old Government which fghting to perpetu
ate slavery, whilst the only seeking free trade
thereby gently nsnuatng disinterested Indifference
the slave question which might ultimately into full
accord with England that subject These revelations
stand in strange contrast with the popular theme that has
rushed many into the rebellion. Al the matter
the rebel Government has quite platform enough be
prossvery antslavery its European negotis-
tons may require and if these should utterly fail there
nothing the constitutional provision to interrupt the AZ
slave trade single dsy For what that provision
worth in region where neither courts nor ures would
execute the law
Whilst this grand idea Of tropical extension seeth-
ing in the brain of the leaders and their hopes Of uton
vivid, the plan to coune the revolt to tn Cotton
Sates-or at least to give the Border States very infe
rior role in tho programme They might in when all
adjusted. but to have share in the primary
ganzaon Every remembers how these Border States
Houed in the beginning, and told they not t to
consulted and that the only advantage they could bring
10 the Southern Confederacy that of serving from
tier to prevent the escape Of slaves But when the ORR
ginsl plan found to be failure the views Of the
qers changed the Border States became ndspensa
persuasion force and fraud set in motion to bring
them in How mournfuy did it strike upon the heart Of
the nation when Virginia ia the lead Of this Of sub
mission sank to the humiliation Of pocketng the aont that
had been put upon her. and consented to accept position
which nothing but the weakness Of her comrades in
duced them to allow her Il
Since the hope Of this broader dominion has to
end the rebellion is still pursued for the ac