The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-30
What the Richmond Examiner Saws.

The papers in Dixie are at loggerheads on
many points and the ground WAKES warmer
and warmer. The Examiner has a sharp arti-
Gle on the present position of the rebel Con-
federacy. 1t says the councillors of the peo-
pie are gazing around in wild alarm, and the
wild outcries CRATE and jar dreadfully on the
general CAIN and resolute tone of the country.
Some advocate placing the Confederacy under
the protection of England, France or Spain,
and others, the abolition of slavery in order
to secure recognition but neither of the prop
ositions suit the Examiner. In regard to the
first it says:T toAclkY
"It neither England nor France will SO much
as recognize us, not even know of our exis-
tence, while we are vigorously battling and
beating back gigantic invasions year after
year, in naughty reliance on our own prowess
and good cause, and able, also, to offer them
advantageous alliances and reciprocate bene-
fits, how would they receive such an invita-
ton as this, now that we are sinking and per-
ishing under the mighty power Of the Yankee
nation? naa taast1sYI1 eseEi 3asal asy5s9
!, Now that we are beaten and beggared, we
pray you to go to war with that nation for our
redemption, and having rescued us, as we have
nothidg else to offer, take ourselves and our
children for vassa.s to you and your children.
Take this land that once was ours, and parti-
ton 1t among you. This will not do. The al
Tentative Is not offered us, as panic-stricken
mortals Imagine, to be colonists under England
or France or subjects OF the Yankees.
The very proposal suggested to be made to
those powers would prove that we were al
ready subjugated. 1t would be an admission
that we had set up pretension we could not
support, and provoked an enemy we could
| not fght, and they would coldly bid US creep
back into the Union and stay there. They
would understand that the United States, if
| this Confederacy be once subdued, must be
the ruling power Of the West. They would be
| glad to cement their friendship with our enc
mtes by treating us with contumely, and
would so endeavor to make general treaty
settling the affairs of all America and giving
guarantees both to Mexico and to Canada"
In regard to the possibility of securing Eu-
ropean recognition and support by emancipa-
ting the slaves it says: b 73s9GunTg6 Z
SIT is not alleged that England or France ,Sr
the Government of either, has ever said or
limited that they would make this bargain, but
| if they would, then we are exhorted to say
| that we would. Now this ALSO, however the
idea may be muffled up, amounts exactly to an
invitation to England and France, or one OF
them, to make war u on the United States, in
\ order 10 save us from Yankee domination, and
4 in return we are +tt' offer them what? Destruc-
ton of our labor power, which would leave us.
| ofno use to them, to ourselves, or to anybody
| else. &ES&MESbM Gsa SfF
| 1t is said, indeed, that this would be great
concession to the opinion of mankind, which
is anti slavery, anti that the evil consequences
would fall upon the unfortunate negro whom
we should thus b,sely abandon. Very well
then, it would be q most humiliating confess
ion of defeat, and would also, by them, be tax
en- as Confession that we had deserved de-
feat. We must net deceive ourselves.
Itsigniiies moth ing to say we would rather
4 give up slavery than be subject to Yankees.
| On the contrary, when we should have made
this graceful concession to the puplc opinion
| Of Europe, then Europe would very certainly
cheat us, and seeing that we were whipped.
| and the pluck TAX Ell out Of US, would make
friends of aour enc my at our expense"
This anxious, journal concludes by declar-
ing that If the rebels have not within them
selves all the elements of independence, ire
tspectiveof foreign influence they will never
secure it. We believe so toe. Their "ele-
ments Of Independence" seem now to be very
much scattered. and weakened. On the whole
we think their case is a hopeless one.