Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-04-14
CORRESPONDENCE CONCLUDED.
Mr.. Mason 10 Earl Rasssu
No. 81 DEvoNsHIRE STREE

/ No 81 DEvoNsHIRE STREET
PORTLAND PLACE, August l.lS62
by LORD: In the interview had the honor
to propose in my late note, had intended
briefly to submit the following views, which
thought might not be without weight in the
consideration to be given by her Maiesty's Coy
| ernment to the request for recognition of The
Confederate States, submitted in my letter Of
! the 24th Of July, ultimo. I ask leave now ID
PFefeut them as supplemental to that letter:
If it be true, as there assumed that IN the SET
tied Judgment of England the separation of the
States Is final, then the fsiIurs Of 50 Great ;
power TO recognize the fsct in formal manner
! impaTts an opposite belief and must operate ss
an Incentive to the United States to protract the
contest.
In a war, such as that pending in America.
| where party in possession of the Government
is striving 70 subdue those, who, for reasons
sufhcients to themselves, have withdrawn from
it, the contest viii be carried on Ia the heat OF
blood aud Of popular excitement long after its
object has become hopeless in the eyes Of disin-
terested parties.
The government itself may feel that its power
is inadequata to bring back the Tecusant States,
/ and yet be unable at once to control the feree
| elements which surround it whilst the war
RACES Such, If is confidently believed, is the
setusl condition Of affairs in America
| It is impossible, in the experience of eighteen
months Of no ordinary trial. in the small results
| attained, and in the manifest exhaustion Of its
resources, that any hope remains with the GOV
eminent of the United States either of bringing
about a restoration Of the discovered Union, OF
OF subjugsting those who have renOuneed It.
And yet, the failure Of foreign powers formally
to recognize this actual condition of things dis
sbles those 10 authority from eoneeding that fact
at home
Again, it is known that there is a large and
increasing sentiment in the Uaited States in ac-
cordsnee with these VIEWS sentiment which
has its origin IN the hard teachings Of the war
as it has progressed.
1t WAS believed Cor so confidently sffrmed0
that there was a large party in the Southern
States devoted to the Union, whose presence
and power would be manifested there as soon az
The public force of the United States was Dreg-
ent to sustain Is. I need not say how fully the
experience Of the war has dispelled this delu-
sion.
Again, it was believed, and confidently relied
on, thst IN the social structure Of the Southern
States shsre wes large population Of the domi-
nant race Indifferent If not hostile. TO the basis
on which that social structure rests ia which
they were not interested, and who would be
fQpnd the elaIes Of those whose mission vas
supposed to be in some way to break it M; but
the same experience had shown that the whole
population of the South is united. as one peopIe
in arms to resist the invader
Nothing remains, then, on which TO rest any
hope Of conquest but reliance on the superior
numbers and the supposed greater resources of
the Northern States I think the results of the
lest Cor pendingl campaign have proved how
idle such expectatiops were, against the advan-
tsSes Of people fighting at home and bringing
into common stock Of resistance as 8 freeswill
Offering ail thatthey possesses, whether Of blood
OF Heasure-a spectacle now heroieally before
the world.
Il is IN human experience that there most be
those IN the United States who cannot shut their
eyes to such facts, and yet in the despotie
power now assumed there BY the government,
to give expression to any doubt would be to
court the inequalities Of the dungeon.
One word from the government Of her Males
y would encourages thoes people 70 speak, aud
the civilized world would respond to the truths
they would utter, that for whatever purpose
the war was begun, 1t was continued now only
vil1is,slVs ana unTeasoning spirit, SHOCKING
alike to humanity and civilization - That DO
tent WoId would simply be to announes fact
which irenzled mind could only dispute. that
The Southern States, now in a separate Confed-
eraey, had established before the world its COM
potency to maintain the government of It's adop-
ton and lts determination to abide BY it.
10 withhold It, would not only seem in dero.
ganon OF truth, bat would be 70 encourage the
continuance OF war hopeless IN It's object, ru-
NOUS alks 70 the parties engaged in it and 20
the prosperity and welfare Of Europe
J. N. MASON.
Eerl Russell to Mr. Mason
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