Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-18
England aid the Confederate States.


We make the following interesting, and, 10 az
probability, truthful extrac. from speech delivered
in the House Of Representatives on the 9th OF last
February, by the Hon. W. g. Swan, Of Tennessee.
a copy of which in pamphlet form The was KIND
enough to send us: -. =
"If We look closely into the matter we may see
that England has fat greater interest-evea Pecu
mary and material interest-in the prolongat'on Of
the war than she can have in peace with its unin-
terrupted supply Ct cotton. The war is removing
from her path great commercial rival she IS last
regaining the carrying trade of the world, when
three years ago she was fast losing. Not single
Confederate cruiser burns Yankee ship without
raising the war risks upon American shipping iEs
the Offices Of all the Neutrality-suspicious. securing
greater and constantly increasing preference Tor
British vessels in the minds Of shippers in all ports.
What England loses in her cotton industry, She
more than compensates by recovering her maritime
supremacy; and if it be true that portion Of the
workers in cotton are suffering restitution, the
ruling classes of England fe.l it but little They
endure with becoming eeuanmity the seferings OF
the poor, ard, as firmly believe, would prefer to
to sustain the idle operatives two years to come,
upon the public taxes rather than see the war ter
minated before the chief object of British policy
shall have been gained-the total destruction of
both North and South; for that ambitious and Tar.
seeing Power has moro than mere commercial or
pecuniary int. rest in prolonsng our strife to our
utter ruin. She has still greater and deeper po-
litica interest and that consists in seeing the dan
gerous example of political liberty and selfgovern-
ment removed from before. the eyes of her swarm
ing masses, already pressing hard upon the ancient
ohgarchy by their clamor for reform the United
States in the past have been with their institutions,
the model and exempar of the reformerS the horror
and bug.bear Of the ariStocracy; let the war but
last two years longer, ard they hope that absolute
INV. hat In krQr mi
will be complicated with half dozen or more cir,t
wars, both North and South; that the republican
institutions, which have long been their terror.
will sink in an of blood, disappearing forever
from earth; and that military dictators will drill
the proud citizens into subjects and cover the
land from the lakes to the gulf with pentarchy or
heptarchy of monarchles. Then, as these willy and
subtle statesmen hope, Americans, instead Of an
example, will have become warning to Europe, so
that if reform should become rampant again, they
will emily have to point across the Atlantic, with
hooking finger and say: behold the model of free
government; there is the end of your universal
suffrage; be contsnt with your government, ye
loyal Englishmen, honor the King; fear God end
thank Him that you have House of Lords!
say, sir, such it seems the cogent interests
both pecuniary and political, which prevent Eng
land from moving hand or voice in our BEHALF which
might even indirectly tend to bring our bloody
struggle to close; and it we are permitted to
build vessels in her docks, let it not be supposed
that 1t is with any view to accomplish, BY her con-
nivance our deliyerancc, but rather that Yankee
ships may be, destroyed. Two years more would
also go far to stop the gap even in her cotton sup
ply by creating new fields Of production in her own
colonial dominions; and herein is her interest in
destroying slave labor, and to that extent sympa-
thizing with cur abolition enemy-and then she
could, without a single drawback to disturb her
contemplate the total disastrous over
throw Of the institution she 80 much abho-s"