The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24
THE SOUTH
IN EUROPE
What the Representative Of the
Confederacy Did at the n
Foreign Capitals.
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Jack Of Success Of Soutll's Com
missioners iii Europe
Great Drawback.
BY John Witherspoon Du Bose.
was it evct. before, that a nation at
+ its birth was ready with a million young
horsemen to ride across Its borders as
7 Forrest, and Morgan and Mostly rode,
4 gathering arms and blankets and horses
I for wider range OF unparalleled Scnter-
Il prise In tho enen,ys territory Was ever.
invaded nation firm In It's foundations
TO drive back the million young horse
men fro n,the farms Of the South?
Il s When Robert Barnwcll Rhett III master
" stntecraft ut tho outset, would prepare
compensatory treaty rights for the cons
4 ,ncrcial powers OF Western EuropeF,in
Il Confederate ports, thus to hold them safe
81 from hostile blockadc; and when this
Il measure OF statecraft was refused by the
Confederate Government the act of re-
I fusal became 5tarltamount to- tho use of a
D policy or Military defense OF thousands of
+ miles Of Southern coast, impossible of
success, yet u policy wherein the q Con
4 federate soldier was siiorn OF his peculiar
u prowessi III war and whereby IN EEK
II llaustive draft was made upon the army
for garrison forces. n
MI The government Of the Confederacy
4 lost no stime in entering a field of diplo-s
macy of it's own devlsiEg, Il sentimental
& appeal to an unwilling world. The Con-
Flds taN} 81 In n ri
FOR admission of the mos refined free
4 government hat had ever lived into the
n fairlily circle'of hereditary 1nonarchies, but
LII brought In its pure hands no tempta-
&tion to the avariceEof tho old lnonarcll!es
II IT appeared wit n long scroll of argument
I'm its@pure hands going to prove to ans
Client Kingdoms that the only hope OF
q free institutions In America lay in tho
length and safety or It's own precious
llfe.8 That was alaof Confederate diplo-s
i nlacy--all, from first TO last. brief as the
e time.
5sa The young slave Republic, the Offspring
OF a aforementioned government al peace
3 with all Europe and which.!f let alone,
would co. full sail, into B the sphere of.
x monarchicnl conditions--the young repuh-1
lie mounted the pedestal Unnatural right
7 and with the curl of yirtuous scOrn upon
Its lip challenged the monarchicnl world
to turn tho spectacle ifSI T could.
Lord Palmcrston, tho Wing premier of
81 England an octogennrinn who had been
personal disciple OF Wilbcrforco in his
youth and who had brought down To his
present life and Office lie enthusiasm
II then inspired by the great enAncipa or,
Z heard with smile Of incrcdulity, the
solemn plea Of the Confoderacy ut the
Court Of st. James John Bright and
n Richard Colx1en theEYenernble premicr's
lcutenan&S, bad jlitirdyJ composed them-
! selves from tho..cxciting sympathy with
which they had watched the campaign
OF Abraham Lincoln for the presidency.
* The German Prince Consort. too. Albert.
was near to carry Into the predicate Of
Confederate recognition tho national Ger
4 man morbidity OF late against slavery
Albert died soon. yet not before he had
developed his stand for the side OF the
United States In the American conflict.
Tor years after her husbands death. the
Queen lived In n melancholy and ho
would be a rash minister who should
approach Her Majesty with suggestion
LOT variance With lcr dead husband
known policy.
1t was not new or recently excited pre-
judlco tint the Confederacy met at the
III Court OF ST. James, Tho amnblc Victoria
lin her hhppiest years had been offended
10 hear the; truth Of the Southern States
She had retired from her household. tht
Il chosen COMPANION of lier childhood. the
and the favorite among BIER four maids
OF honor Miss Amelia Murray. The talt
so simple, now so omiious. had been long
told 10 the world. Miss Murray made t
tour Of the United States, from North tt
South, accompanied alone by her Engiisl
maid She came in the 1imo of the kan
sas agitation and being Informed in pub
lie affairs. wrote volnminonsly in private
letters to friends In England of apart.
politics an she observed them In Con
gress and elsewhere. She wrote critical.
OF American society," ita customs and th
8 sectional lines that separated what wa
good North from what good South
Gradually approaching The slave States
the tourist accepted proftered hospitalit,
OF the planters and visited plantations
She tone of her original Wilberforcea1
preJuuicts began 10 moderate as informh
lion reached her mind OF practical Acondi
lions concerning the Southern plantatio
81 and It's African hondsmen. The trul
valuable letters of Miss Murray were pub
lished The delightful literature prove
an offense In the royal court. The reve
lation OF the trut hon the Southern Plan
a tatpns published from the household {
the Queen OF England. whose goysrpmen
directed by her husband, was even the
engaged in vigorous efforts TO put DON
the surviving slave trade In English 10!
toms with Spanish American Islands an
Brazil. Was bad politics. Not only s.
Ne hut the Queens government had rul
tn e!iter upon mo new treaty Of amt
Il and commerce which failed 10 comm
4 the signatures alike ia suppression Of u
African glaye trade. Miss Murfay's pil
,lisied reports 6f Southern plantation
were AN ,inwelcolne infp'nta Ion and mp
fi ,,eens suffer a positive royal relludlattt
OH An aer dismissal from The semi.irIitic
post she had so loNg adorned. The sout
ern confederacy nevertheless had alrea,
taken the most advanced step open TO
FL against an iadefnile+ EXPANSION nj :
Institution ~ slavery. The Secessi9n 60
M Sents,n OF Alabama had leS5iill the moy
B ,nent which illuminated inEa proyiso
the Federal Constitution forever torhi