Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-10-14

to their return to the workshop or the plow,
Is an army of creators and not destroyers.
1t takes into Mexico all that Mexico needs;
first cohesion; because it is the most
complete and sincere expression of mod
ern democracy second, order: because
it permits all citizens of this unfortunate
nation to develop their own interests /;
third, industry because it furnishes to
languishing enterprise, workmen, foremen,
artisans, managers, because it familiar
ICES The Mexican people with the wonders
of France and of French industry; fourth,
an army by Its example and its instruc-
ton.
Thus, then, and naturally, by a diffu-
sion and profusion of interests and of
labor, the desire and need of firmness in
the political system will be fortified. In
the great movement of our century i'll
dustrial and financial interests control and
conduct society. Questions of politics
disappear before social questions. Twen-
ty years ago the opposition was republi-
can-to day-it is social. And the theory
of human equality no longer assumes TO
reduce the great to the condition of the
lowly but TO raise the lowly to the level
of the great. The problems of general
prosperity, of the increase of wages, of
cheap production, of public hygiene, can
be much more easily solved under a pow
ertul government. The empire has disci-
plined socialism and rut it to use The
empire has conquered and decapitatcd an
archy. This it is that the empire is 10
do in Mexico. and this il cannot do Sc
curely and properly until the Confederate
States have been recognised.
If war had not broken out between the
Northern and Southren States of America,
Europe would not been impressed with
the dangers which threaten her from the
Union.
Although she had become tributary to
the new world Europe had taken no pre-
caution TO prevent the consummation of a
crisis which she had never forseen, and
which for two years she has been entiur-
ing. 1t has cost Us something TO learn
/ how uncertain is the fortune OF an indus
/ try compelled TO seek its raw materials ir
! Il single market. to all the exactions and
all the vicissitudcs of which it must ne.
I cessarily submit.
| In this respect the secession of the Con
! fedcrate States IS an event particularly
/ favorable to France-for England ha:
/ now no interest in the cessation of hos
/ tilities and the consequent Constitution ot
/ an intermediary power between the Fed,
: ar,l | nin,, o,,l ba Sno,iSh
/ States.
ENGLAND trembles for Canada, to which
! the North, after the war, may look for tkt
/ compensation of its losses. The commerce
/ of England profits by the misfortunes o
! American commerce-she looks with sat
! istaction alike Of the South and the North
She supplies both parties with arms, ant
while the Southern export Of cotton is sus
! pended she is increasing the cotton culture
of India. England, tken, will never tax,
/ the initiative in recognizing the Confede
! rate States, and the way in which on
/ propositions Of pacific intervention wer
twice received by her, ought to dispel al
doubts on this heal.
France, on the other hand, cannot hop
III liiiU tiiS NpttNif I'LL isi1toii i'S'
elsewhere than in the South. Every at
tempt at the culture has failed, and it i
unfortunately probable that every such at
tempt will continue to fail. The cottol
culture, like the grape culture, is ques
ton of soils. A vine from Bordeaux o
the Rhine transplanted under the sam
lattudes and climates will yield neithc
Chateau Margaux nor Johannisbere
The wine changes with the soil: and so
is with cotton-its quality degenerate
with the soil. Furthermore, the qucstio
is not to produce some sort of cotton. good
bad, or ordinary, but 10 produce it at TAI
prices Now, as we'll in respect to cheaf
ness as to quality, the cotton of the Sout
surpasses all others. The Federals al
SO we'll aware of this that the war whic
they are waging is really and mainly
war of interest. The producing, agricu
tural South was the commercial vassal {
the North, which insists upon keeping il
best customer; emancipation is merely
s!lillful device for entrapping the symps
thies of the European liberalism. If I'll
, North were victorious it would ncvI
, probe the slavery question to the cor
Once masters of the negro race, Northei
men would be slow to compromise II
cotton culture, for the sake of which the
are so savagely maintaining an unjust WI
: they. would then hasten to admit that it
impossible to change the vital economic
, condition of an immense region by bait
or a stroke of the pen. The Northel
E idea of the abolition of slavery by makir
! the negro food for powder or by exilir