Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-10

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coloniats to Great Britain than h, submit
70 the Yankees. We have not paid to this
contr oVersy theattention Wtjchswe usually
accord to the suggestions OF our neiehbors
Ior the simple reason that ID caa conceive
Oh nothing more unproiitab - yat this mo.
ment, and In our circums ntsss 5 EnGldnd
eGtnot TeeoEonfss lts IF sh5 l5otttd, and 10
telRF ItPfetty certain tAut 5jIe s5onld not h
sac eohtd. In the beginning of this war Il
she had recognized us, as she should have
aone, and declared her determination ,to
compel strict observanc6 Of the rules Of
blockade, laid down herselflat Paris, and
subscribed by all the maFatirde Powers OF
Europe, she might easily have put an
end to the struggle b6fors it had been
SIX months old. The Yankees at that time
1t7ilq nelq her In mortal terror. They were ig-
noEant OF their own strength, and held that
OF gland in an awe approaching super.
Sutton. She might have dictated her
own terms, and they would have
|g9pscEloed to them without hesitation.
But fsukeedom has nov "a most un-
due opinion of It's own atls anGf q
contempt for the streagth 81, Eagtand, war.
ranted only by the cowsrdly policy her
Cabinet has thought fit to pursue. Any
interference of England wenld be re:ented
as 90 insult, and she has noe the potoer to
enforce any line Of hostile policy she may
ADOPT. She hos allowed the Yankees to
put their own coasts into such "a state of
defence as to render them uaiassailabie bv
her fleets. She has no ships that could
encounter the Yankee monitors With anv
prospect of success; and, although it il
easy enough for her to build such, vet the
prob ability is that they would not be able
ocress the ocean. Monitors are made for
coast defence, aud not for ocean naviga-
ton. She could not, theg in all pro6a6ili.
ty, eUe1 break up the blockade of our ports,
far Tess send an army, and feet here to as
sist US in driving away the Yankees, pre-.
paratory to returning to colonial Vasssl.
age. We think it, therefore, hardly worth
while to inquire into the expediency of
returning to- the arms of Old England,
seeing Old England could not receive us.
ifshe would. We must Eight it out with
the Yankees. The alternative presented
is death orislRvery. We hope our people
have not yet cpme to that point that they
hesitate in their choice.
Great Britain has been guilty of great
blunder in overlooking the claims OF the
confederacy to her notice, and ia trucking
as che has done to the Yankees. She has
neglected an opportunity of oertainly hum
bling the most formidable rival that she
has in nlthelworld, and has thrown upon us
the entire burden of war In which she
is quite as much interested as we. If the
Yankees could succeed in sabjugatine US
the doom of Great Britain would be sealed.
Before the year 1900 she would have lost
all her ships and all her colonies. Ireland
would be torn from her grasp, aud she
might tremble for her supremacy even in
England itself. She cannot avoid the war
which 5Yankeedom is determined to force
upon her, by yielding and suCcumbing.-
That is not the way to preserve peace.
That is not the:way ythat.N Napoleon nj apre-
vents all Europe, in a body, from falling
upon him. He is always ready to strike,
and it is for that reason that he seldom has
occasion to do it. SO far from taking US
back as colonists, with the encumbrauce
OF such a war as we should bring along
with US, England, if the cowArdly counsel
of the London Times be worthy of notice,
is ready to givelup Canada as soon as the
Yankees make formal demand. The
Confederate States alone have the courage
to face the whole power of Ysnkeedom.
1t seems more as though England should
one day become our colony than that we
should ever become hers. esHI