The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-02-06

Even before the 1rcn. affair Lord Rus
sell wrote, on Oc:ooer II, 1861, 20
LorG Pa;merston, concerning he ooin
ioa Of tie Freuch minister at Wishing.
ton, that the blockade should De- raised
b. outside force:
There is nuch gcoi sepsein Meroiers
observations. Bu: we must Walt. | an
persuaded ,ha.lt se 30 anything i: must
b. on a grand scale. Ii vi. not d Jor
Englen1 aad Ffsone 10 break the beck
sGe for Inc sase # getting cotton. Bu:,
in Earcpa, powers have c'ten SAID 10
b$itigercpt>, Make up yo-r qua:rels
We propose 70 give terms OF pacIhc'-
ton watch we tbiak fair and equitable.
If you acoep: them, w.ll aad go0d, bu:
If your adversary acvepis them, aao II
You rafuse them, our medisti3a Is at
an end, and you must expect to see Us
your eoemie, France would be quite
ready 30 hold this language With Us. II
eu,h policy were to BE seopsed the
tins for il would be the erd oI tue yesr
or i'm nc diasely before the meeting .!
pagli nens.'
W.,h that letter b fore Us today, we
can more fully understand the curt,
perem,ory, b:iIicose Is -guase ia which
Lord Russell sb2ut FIX weeks ist,
couchgd lis craft OF ths no to TIE
Batlsh G:i1ister ct Washington &C
a2d.rg tie release Of Mason and
Si,deil. and 81 ap3lpgg foC 'he.r se z
u:e Lo d R,ls2el! ssw IN the Treat
: f .ir ii e opportunity to intervene II
the var wn ol ne had been already 40
ticipa,iog in lis secret oorre> pond eDca
With Lord Pai;Lers;on. Aad kLoslDg
tia: the British csoinst gas on tie
lookout at that tim, FL chasc, to
help the south, ne can better spWalss
the V.!ue Of the queens pacific service
IN rear:;ing Lord Ru s2l.'s dispatch.
Lea5 than aysar had Iassed after
tas i'leas stf sir a ID the iausn:ed deata
Of Aloer. tue Good when her nsjssty's
ministers were again plotting for the
undoirg Of America. On September
Il, 1852, the premier wrote this note:
My Dear Russell: The detailed sc
counts given n the Observer OF today
Of the battles Of August 29 and 80 be-
sEeeo Coafe dera5es and Federals sho7
that the later got very complete
smashing; and it seems not altogether
unlikely that still grea:er disasters
await them, and tt a: even Washington
or Baltimore may fall into the lands
of the Confederates. If this should
happsa, would it not be tine for US TO
consider whether 10 such state Of
things England ard France might net
address tho contending parties end re
commend an arrangement on tie oa.is
Of separation?
LORD Rlssel had ooted the ''ver5
smashing cefcat, and was prompt to
answer
My D: e, Pa ners.on: Whether the
Federal army Is destroyed or no., it is
clear that it. ). has msie No PRO.
gress in su5duiug the insurgent States
Such heicg The case, | agree with 2oa
that the time is come for tf ring ne.
distioD to the Uuit: d States go7ero
mens, With 7:eT to the recognition
of the independence of toe CoEfeder-
ates. l agree further thst, il case Of
failure, we ought ourselves to recog
niz, the Southern States as al indepen-
dept Stale. For the purpose Of taking
so important a step, | think We nus,
have meeting 9! the cabinet The
23i OF Both would suit me for the meet
lDg We ougns, then, il We agree on
such as.ep, TO propose it frs; to Fran .e,
and then, on the par; Of Eoglaad and
France, 10 Russia and other powers es
measure decided upon By US. We
ought to make ourselves s.fein Canads,
tot By sending more troops there, bu:
by concentrating those ge have in feR
defensiole posts before Eiutsr sets il.
The whole scheme of finally destroy.
ing the American Union by European
intervention was thus mapped Gu. by
the Brs:ish foreign ministers as e.rl:
ae September II, 1852. P.lmerstcp sn
sssred the 23d tka. he thauzht Ras.
seli's plan 20 be excellent. Herathe,
tjectei, however, to sskiug Russis tc
jo:n in ''the offer Of mediation" ''be.
cause sine would be too favorable tc
t1e North"
The plotting Of Der najes,y's miris.
tiers was at that point, however, check
ed by the failure of the army of Nor.
them Virginia to defeat he forces I'm
der Gen. Mcclellan at Tie battle Of Ao.
titan and the cu'oome Ct the nezl
meeting Of the British cabinet was
tha. the ministry decided not to move
ia tie mater. Nor did they 6od ao,
o:Eer opportunity. The later attemp!
at atinteryection, which aas engineered
by Louis Napoleon, met a zesolute op-
ponent 10 Russia. whose feet was sert
to New York in 1868 on most eignif-
can't mission. Vlcksburg aud Gestys.
burg, also, brou sht the plotters to re.
alIzation Of the utter futility Of the
Tho'e programme.
The queen vas net without attach
meot for Louis Napoleon, and especi.
ally for his wife, Eugene, but there is
no eviderc, that she ever displayed
interest il, or even had knowledge Of,
the intervention co'pirscy, which her
own minister's and Nspo!eon nursed SO
loag snd tsnderly. Her record in that
entire crisis was made up in the Tren,
affa!r, which was the turning point in
our couutr5s foreign relations during
the civil var. Springfield Rel u5l;can.