The New York herald., 1865-06-20
Our Position I'm Europe-The Unwillfng
Witnesses 20 Our Success.

The United States has forced from her onl.
enen les in Europe the final recognition Of he
greatness. and power, and has compelled thos'
enemies ID eat the words that they uttered
with such eager and malignant haste. This il
the Significance OF the withdrawal by England
and France of those privileges that in splri
Of hostility to us they extended to rebe
ships.
The three West ern Powers had great stakes
at issue in the la'e war, and great games U
make by the destr ,ction Of this republic
France wanted to build up supplemental EN-
pire in Mexico; Englan. wanted to open II
the Southern States a wide market for ne
manufactures, and Spain, who. Sc Minister impu
IDENTIFY declared our war to be h.' opportunity
wanted to revive that colonial realA u .na' h"'
once been to her the source Of such iminei"
wealth. Every one had direct, immedlA ''e ~
centive, and all had q general stimulus in vi
dread with which monarchical government
must always look upon the success of govern
ment constituted as ours is, on principles which
assume that the people are the real sovereign
power Of every State. 1t was therefore only
according to their nature to hurry to the assist
an6e OF vhatever should promise our overthrn,--; y
Hence all hastened to recognize the bellige-
rent character Of the insurrection, and England
gave it the comfort of that immence system of
blockade running that enabled it to keep its
armies on foot. France gave it less material
and immediate assistance, Spain none at all;
but the selfish and malignant purpose of every
lin the recognition was equally evident.
What were those European proclamations,
that recognized the rebels as belligerents?
They were the flourish of the ass heels in tho
face of the sick lion. Giving some little
strength to the South, they were much more
significant as announcements to Europe, on tie
authority Of those governments, that the repub-
lie of the United States was no longer the
great Power whose wishes it was necessary to
respect. The indecent haste with which France
rushed to Mexico, and with which impOtent
Spain seized her opportunity" in st. Domingo
and Peru, as well as the daily homilies over
us in the London papers, showed it to be a
foregone conclusion in Europe that our doom
was sealed. The very recognitions of bellige-
rent rights were based on the assumption that
the rebellion was of such character that to put
itdown was simply impossible. France, by the
Mexican expedition, showed the extent of her
faith in the belief that we could not
put down the rebellion, and Spain
showed her faith in the same belief
by her conduct in Peru and St. Domingo. All
this showed how very sick they thought we
were. England also indicated her faith by
those millions that the British government en-
couraged it's subjects to lend, and by the
millions lost in tho blockade business. Taking
their own capacity to put down rebel
lion - proper measure, they believed it
absurd TO suppose that we could put down
ours.
And now these governments are, by inevi-
table facts, compelled to announce to their
people that we have done what they declared
was impossible They are compelled to re-
cognize and TO say that what they could not
have hoped to do has been actually done by
q government based on popular rights. They
ore in substance thus convicted out of their
own mouths Of the admission that VIC are
stronger than they are, as well as that
popular government is the strongest, the
most vital, the most able to resist inter-
nal convuision and to carry on war;
that it is the best form
Of government on the earth. Will this an
be without its effect on the mind
Of the European people, already fermenting
on these great pointss
The withdrawal of their declarations by
France and England-the swallowing their
words-and the hasty retirement of Spain from
her attempts ON this continent, are the recogni-
tions of the immense power that we have shown
in this war. They are extorted by those exhi-
btions of our power, and by nothing else.
England's recognition is even extorted against
a great pressure from The tory party-desirous
to keep that recognition back for fear Of its
effect on the people. Let US not deceive our
selves with the nonscnsical delusion that these
recognitions come from any friendly spirit
towards us. No; they are u necessary part Of
the reconstruction that has been forced by the
power of our arms. We forced the reconstruc-
tion of the Union, and we just as distinctly
forced this recognition of our power abroad,
that now reconstructs the family of nations
with the United States at the head, acknow-
lodged as the first of military and naval Powers.
NORTH CARoLINA--GovERSoR HoI.DEN's Proc
IAMATIoN.-We publish to-day proclama-
ton from the Provisional Governor of North
Carolina, cutting out the necessary work for
the reorganization of the State as q loyal
member of the Union. He announces that as
soon as practicable there will be day ap-
pointed for the election of State convention,
the duties Of which convention, when assem-
bled, shall be to frame new State constitu.