Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-03
" FOREIGN INTERFERENCE" OUT
OF THE 0HRSTI0M

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE" OUT
| OF THE QUESTION.
/ The great bugbear of /" Foreign Inter
vention has finally ceased to trouble tne
minds of loyal citizens, OF to cheer inc
hearts of Copperheads and rebels 10 use
the words of an Eastern exchange 'ne
" precious scheme so hopefully discussed
of late by Southern rebels ana Northern
commemorative scheme of securing for
ei1n help to the Confederacy, by casting IT
.hol;t;onized and purged of its unclean-
noss into the arms of England and France
fit was preposterous before, is now re-
duced to a certain and utter impossibiity.
The Confederacy is put beyond the help of
foreign powers, whether willing or uuwil-
ling" Neither England nor France, nor
both together could dream of undertaking
its rescue however eager they might be to
interpose in its behalf. 1t is not too ex-
travagant to say that to-day we may in
differently snap our fingers in the face Of
all Europe, and defy it to interfere with
onr subjugation of the shareholders re-
bellion. So long as We maintained the
blockade of Southern ports by fleets upon
the coast, it was within the ability of a
naval power like England to relieve the
Confederacy by interrupting that blockade.
Our navy, though it might cope with that
of England, could not, at once, hold an
impenetrable line along the southern coast,
and defend, at the same time, our own
northern ports, against British blockade.
But now the conditions are altered. The
southern blockade is no longer dependent
upon the navy, and our vast naval power
is free for defence of northern ports and
for offense against the power that should
dare aSsail us. Every port of the South
is either actually in our possession, or
sealed by the occupation of its fortified
entrances. And no foreign power could
drive US from New Orleans, or Savannah,
or Mobile Bay, or Charleston, or Cape
Fear River, as We have driven the rebels,
for two sufficient reasons. In the first
place. they have no available rendezvous
near enough for launching at any OF these
points such expeditions as Farragut
brought to Mobile from New Orleans, and
Porter from Beaufort to New Inlet. In
the second place, a few monitor iron-clads,
auxiliary to the for,ihcations Of these ports,
put complexion upon their defense very
different from that which it wore when we
assailed them. We hold, therefore, that
neither England nor France, nor both,
could now break an opening into the Con-
federacy to give it relief; nor could they,
with the naval forces which we now have
released from bloekading service, either
shut up Northern ports or deal us any
serious blows upon our Northern coast.
On the other hand we could ruin English
commerce upon the seas, and in doing so
ruin England-for her commerce is her
life. No nation in the world is so vui-
nerable as England to formidable naval
power, because none is so dependent upon
its maritime commerce. Drive her ships
from the sea, and starvation among her
crowded operatives in the quick forerun-
ner of riot and revolution. Her power
has always rested, upon the sovereignty
which she has maintained of the ocean.
She has never fought with power that
could materially disturb her commerce,
and she cannot fight with such an one.
Since France and the United States have
risen to equal rank with her IN naval
strength, her old belligerancy and haughd-
ness of temper have left her. We venture
to say, without boasting, but as conclu-
sion from the coolest calculation of ctr-
cumstances, that nothing but an absolute
necessity, in the present condition of our
affairs, could drive England into war with
the United States.