Year: 1862

gans of the British Ministry, have lost no op


portunity, from the commencement of the re-
belion, to disparage the efforts of the Fedora


Government to preserve the Union, and at the


same time to advocate the claims of the Soutf
! to recognition. The recent rebel successes In
Virginia will afford these journals and the rebe


emissaries abroad still another opportunity tc


revive their clamor for recognition or in.eryen


tion, and we may anticipate from them, fol


months to come, more than ordinary bitterness,


OF criticism. The following, copied from the
London Morning Post, which is the organ Of


Lord Palmerston, exhibits the favoritish ii


which the Southern Confedefacy is held by the


British aristocracyi


There can be but little doubt that, sooner OF


later, the Southern Contederacy will be admit


ted info the family of nations. After a te lious-


y protracted war of eighteen months, the Fed


eral Government have failed in making the


slightest impression on their resolute opponents


1t is not unreasonable to presume that even


should the war be proceeded with for another
year and half, the result at the end of that


time would not be different. We have now had


fair opportunity OF estimating the qualities and
] the calibre of both belligerants. Those who


derive their ideas of strength from magnitude,


were not slow to conclude that the North must
! of necessity prove victorious. And. in truth,


the advantages possessed by the established Gov.
ernment at the commencement of the contest


were to all appearance overpowering. The Fed
eral States entered upon the war entirely free
from debt, and with resources at their command


for the production of wealth which were really
stupendous. They possessed a powerful navy,
and though not having at their disposal a stand.
ing army, had, at all events, in abundance the
materials ont of which it could be speedily Gre
ated. They enjoyed the exclusive command of
the ocean, and saw not the slightest danger to
apprehend in the prosecution of their trade
With the whole world open to them, they found
themselves speedily supplied with every engine
OF modern warfare which science has of late
called into existence. Besides all this, they en-


barked in their enterprise with all that prestige
which invariably attaches itself to the establish
ed order of things. Such were the crcumstan-
ces under which the North addressed itself to
the task Of crushing out the so-called rebellion;
mating the 81 lee Of Gh Ga af nt them s il esti
ful issue Il war which in its present stage, eX-
hibits the combatants standing towards each
other in relations so different from those which
they occupied when the war began.


II would have been impossible for any nation
to be compelled to struggle for its independence
under circumstances more disadvantageous than
those under which the States which seeded from
the Union endeavored to establish their claim to
a separate form of government. Numerically,
the population of the South stood to that of the
North in the relation of one to five. Of the
mate,f of war the Southerners were entirely
destitute. No sooner had the standard of inde-
pen3cncc been raised than every port in a large
seaboard was at once sealed. With such muni-
tions of war as they then possessed, they found
themselves obliged not only to commence but to
sustain what they well knew would be a pro-
tracted conflict. Of ships of war, with one or
two exceptions, they possessed none. Their
trade was entirely annihlated Instead of the
prestige with which their Northern opponents
entered on the war, they found themselves held
up to the eXecration of the civilized world. To |
foreign States they were represented by the Fed |
eral Government as rebels, whilst fanaticism |
stigmatNed them as slave-owners. Numbering |
in all little more than eight millions, they found
themselves at the same time obliged to cope with |
the Northern States, and to retain in subsection, |
within their own territory, a population half as
numerous as their own Under disadvantages
so great as these did the Southern Confederacy
fight the battle of independence.


1t is impossible to compare the present posi-
tion of the Federal States with that held by them
at the beginning of the war, without being ire
sistibly impressed with the utter hopelessness of
their attempt to subjugate the South. The
South has suffered much; it has also contracted
a debt; but as nothing by it can be regarded as
worse than defeat, it will be enabled ultimately,
Il: a
cnce, to regard with greater equanimity the bur-
dcns which this war may impose To us it
seems impossible that the North, in its present
crippled state, can effect an object which it has
hitherto shown itself unable to accomplish.


The question when the South ought to be re-
garded as having established right to demand
still remains open for consideration.
Until the close of the present campaign it had
certainly failed to satisfy the world of its abil-
ty to maintain its independence. Had the re-
suit of the recent engagements in the vicinity of
Richmond proved different, the Confederate cap
ital would, in all probability, have fallen. Now,
however, when, to all appearances, the North
is compelled to desist from active operations for
some months, it would certainly seem that the
claims of the South to recognition deserve the
serious consideration of foreign governments.
Another signal victory on the part of the Con-
federates may possibly decide the Cabinets of
England and France on the course they will a
dopt. II


cS-Our soldiers often have great difficult
ty in finding roads to travel over, but the reb-
els and their cause are always upon the "broad
road"


sgA smile may be bright when the heart is {