Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-01-17
Will Eurd,ne Help the Rebels.

The Richmond lpapers are sill discussing the
project Of throwing the ConGderacy into the
arms Of England afhe France, but some Of them
have doubts about he brilliant success Of the
scheme The Eraa ner says:
"If neither EqglAud nor France will 80 much
az recognize us, not even know of our existence,
while We are vigorously battling and beating
back gigantic lnya4ions year after year, in
haughy reliance on our own proves and good
cause, and able, also, to oifH them advantageous
alliances and reclprocate Jsnefs, how would
they rscolya such On aviation as this now that
we are sinking and psrishing uader the mighty
power OF the YANKEE hahon2
Now that we are beaten and beggared, we
pray you TO 80 W war VITA that nation iOE our
redemption, ana having rescued US, as we have
nothing else to o1er, take ourselves and our
children lor yaSsals TO you and your children.
lake this land that ongo was ours and partition
j. among you. This will not DO. The alterna-
tive ls not offered US, as panic stricken mortals
imagine, to be colonsts inder Eogland or France
or subjects of the YANKEES.
The very proposal Suggested to BE- made 30
those powers would prove that We were already
subugAted Ii would BIO an admission that we
had set up pretensIol we could not support,
and provoked an enemy we could not fghs, and
they would coIdly bid US creep back into tho
Union and stay there. They would understand
that the United States, if this ConfedeIacy be
once subdued, must Do the ruling power Of tho
west lney Would DO glad to cement their
friendship with our enemies by treating US with
c0ntumely, ana would so endeRvor 10 make q
general treaty, settling the affairs Of all Ameri-
ca and giving G"'raosie' 18th 30 Mexico and to
| e--ado ~
As to tho feasibility Of securing European
support by C'mancipatng tho slaves, it says:
at is not alleged that England or France, or
the Government Of either, has ever said or limited
that they would make this bargain, but if they
would then We are eIhoted to say that We
would Now thd. also, however the idea may
DO muffled up, amounts exactly to an invitation
to England and France, or one Of them, to max
war upon the United States, in order to save as
from Yankee DONNA ton, and in return we are
to offer them what Destruction Of our labor
power, which would leave US Of 20 use to them,
TO ourselves, or to anybody else.
1t is said, indeed, shat this would be a great
concession to the opinion Of mankind, which is
anii-slayery, and that the evil consequences
would fall upon the unfortunate negro whom
we should thus basey abandon. Very well,
then, it would be u must humilating concession
Of defeat. We must NOT deceive ourselves.
1t signifies nothing to say we would rather
give up slavery then be subject to Yankees. Ga
the contrary, when We should have made thin
graceful concession to the public opinion Of Eu.
rope, then Europe would very certainly cheat
US, and seeing that W. wlro whipped, and the
pluck taken out of u, would make friends oil
our enemy at our expense
The Richmond Wig in an article on En-
gland says
" She has no ships that could encounter tn.
Yankee monitors with any prospect Of success
and although she might build such, yet the
probability is that they could not cross the
ocean. She could not even break up the block
ade, far less send an army and feet here to assist
us 1t is therefore hardly worth while to think
OF returning to Eng lish yassslage."
These extracts exhibi. more sense, if not more
panic, than the frantic cries Of the Sentinel anc
Enquirer The traitors may be quite sure thai
England. and France will not make haste, wher
the Federal fire is particularly hot-as it is JUS
now-to stand between the rebels and our guns