The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-20
COLONEL FORNEY's LETTERS.
LONDON, May 90, 1867

o LONDON, May 80, 1867
), During the American War London n
J. Paris were so infested by rebels that no 10,
e citizen OF the Republic could visit these
+ any other OF the British or continental cit
+ without being subjected to inconcei, alb
humiliation. The Confederate aceuts NJ
+ only occupied what is called "the ground
but continued to arouse the aristocracy
the old countries IN their behalf And n
ono doubts now that there were several OF
casions when England would have bee
forced into conflict with America as a resll'
of the incessant Vaccinations but for tls eii-
ergy and wisdom of Golden, Bri0i'' otter'
Cavendish, Gladstone, and tb,fr comPeers
and the direct interposition Fl Prlnce Albert,
| ALWAYS known to be ave~e to what would
have been a most bloody issue. France
whatever may be said to the contrary now,
was always plotting to force Great Britain
into hostilities with US, and it did not need
the Mexican experiment to prove that the
intrigues of the rebel emissaries IN Paris met
the cordial approval of the silent Emperor
But now all this hiss been changed; and
such changNp' If the truly loyal Ameri-
can desires to realize how thorouehly bis
country has been indicated in Europe by
the overthrow of treason and the success OF
the congressional policy of reconstruction:
he has only to visit London Paris or any VI
the other great capitals. 1here Is no suler
proof of this than the fate winch hae oVerIa
ken the Confederate cause ana the
"Confederate leaders, VINO nave taken
refupe in Europe. No more do we hear the
American Union satrized and denounced
the Door Yankees are no longer ridiculed on
the streets by travelling mountebanks, or
caricatured on the stage by degenerate &C
tors. The aristocrisy on the one hand, and
the Plutoracy on the other, are either silent
or openly confess that they were mistaken
in their estimate of the American character,
or that our example calls forth their surprise.
Even the Tory journals eonfne their abuse of
our country to the publication of cores
pondence from Philadelphia, Washington,
and New York, so crowded with falsehoods
that each succeeding letter is the uncon-
scious correction of the fabrications of its
predecessor But the most significant of all
these indications is, as l have said, the fate
which has overtaken the Confederate cause
and the Confederate leaders. The failure of
Frazier, Trenholm & Co., the great house at
Liverpool, through which the rebels carried
on their enormous transactions in cotton,
constructed and sent out their iron-clad navy,
and paid their agents in Europe and Cana
ola, will lead to some rich disclosures Our
Government, under the sagacious counsels of
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, the American
Minister in London, had anticipated this
catastrophe, and will take care to receive,
with the aid of the British courts, whatever
may be left from the wreck of this once
proud and all-defying organization. Not less
significant is the present condition of most of
the Confederate leaders in London and Paris.
John G. Breckenridge is formerly seen at the
Langham Hotel, where am stopping, wo-
fully changed in appearance, if not in opin-
IONS A gentleman who cOnversed with him
few days ago says that Breckenridge did
not hesitate to declare against the good taste
of the defeated rebel leaders claiming any
rights under the Constitution which they
had repudiated, and the Government they
had vainly fought to destroy, and that what
ever Others might do he proposed to submit
to fate. Judah P. Benjamin is practition-
er at the London bar, and unlike Breckin-
ridge does not entertain the slightest hope
of being restored to the rights he has doubly
forfeited by his violated oaths to the Ameri-
can Republic, and now by his new oath to
the British Government. Mr.. Benjamin is
the counsel of the celebrated c. r Prioleau,
of Liverpool, the financial head and front of
the Confederate cause during the rebellion,
and now heavily involved in the overthrow
of Frazer, Trenholm s. Co. He is also said
to be the American editor of the London
Telegraph, and the writer of the articles that
now delight the Tory readers of that pre-
tended Liberal paper eulogistic of Jefferson
Davis and the "Lost Cause" The we'll
known George N. Sanders is also sojourning
in London, and has just passed through the
courts of bankruptcy for certain individual
obligations. The violent Lewis P. Wigfall,
of Texas, also here, is engaged in the pre-
cious business of collecting the lists of the
victims who invested in the celebrated cot
ton loans of the Confederate Government,
and in the other securities of that miserable
conspiracy itself His hope is that the Brit
lsh courts will decide, and that the Ameri-
can Government abide by the decision, that
the rebels enjoyed belligerent rights in the
recent war, In which event the credulous
holders OF these bonds are told by Mr.. Wig
fall that they will be reimbursed by the con-
quering Government of the Union. Robert
Toombs, of Georgia, was recently in London,
not less vehement than ever though greatly
reduced in his physical PROPORTIONS
1t is unnecessary to comment upon this
spectacle, save to add that the English
aristocracy will not again be caught
in such a trap as that set for them by the
American rebels. They are heartily ashamed
of themselves, and you will readily conceive
that in proportion as they admit the injus-
tice of their prejudices against our country,
they lose their confidence in, and Withdraw
their support from, the conquered Confed-
crate leaders. 1t is announced in one of the
morning papers that Mr. Jefferson Davis in
tends visit to London. If he comes his
will not be Garibaldi welcome. The
cheated and plundered Englishmen who in
vested their money in the Confederate loans
will not be inspired to extend an ecstatic
greeting to the despoiled head of the pro-
slavery revolt. Nor will the great body of
the British people, so full of amazement and
delight at the triumph of universal suffrage
in the United States and the success of the
corresponding measures of reconstruction,
feel like joining in an ovation to man
whose successful rebellion would have held
four millions of human beings in perpetual
slavery, and so have defeated the mighty
movement extending the right to vote to the
householder of Great Britain. ]. VIZ.
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