Year: 1863

Icognize the Confederate States shall have


right to obtain much more for the negro


than the federals could secure for hin


through their "Union by victory" Thi:


first power being France, we may be SURF


that the cause of civilization, humanity


and progress will not be forgotten by her
All that is difficult, even impossible, while


the conflict RACES, will become easy with


the return of peace. The emancipation o


the blacks, the complete abolition Of sla


very can only be the work of peace and Of


time, and an alliance with the South will
effect that great social revolution which
England, with her right Of search, has SO
vainly sought to bring about.


Moreover, slavery cannot possibly be
| made serious argument against the recog
| nition of the South France and England
live on good terms with Spain and Brazil;
they even protect Egypt and Turkey, and
these countries maintain slavery with no
show of disposition to abolish it. France
will use her influence to secure the gradu.
al emancipation of the slaves without max
| ing slavery ground for refusing recogni
ton.


The North, made keen eyed by selfish
ness, has certainly foreseen this; and the
famous Monroe doctrine is nothing more
nor less than policy of insurance against
civilization. What has become of those
glorious days when the fierce and touchy
patriotism of the Americans boasted of a
confederacy free from public debt, of those
days when political liberty in nowise tram
meled individual liberty, and the free citi-
zen of FREQ State roamed freely over a
free soil? What has the North done with
the prestige and the glory which it used
forever to parade before the dazzled eyes of
European populations, scarce able to be-
lieve in the existence of so much happiness
and liberty?


They have all been sacrificed to the
Union! "Perish liberty, rather than that
We should lose the provinces that support
US! Let US mortgage the influences Of the
future, but let us not give up the states
which fill the Golfers of the treasury
What though they long to leave us: We, we
the men ofthe North will never consent to
t!n And so. were the Union reconstructed
to-day, its debt would almost equal the
debt of England: the free soil has been dis
graced by daily and audacious ATTACKS upon
personal liberty: the title of American citi-
zen offers no protection, and imposes 40
sacred duties upon him who wears it,


The "model republic" exists only as a
memory, and those who love it are left to
cherish the image Of a greatness and grace
forever gone.


;Jn 90 ha afn
to admit the superiority Of southern men:
and yet it is from these that the Union drew
its best statesmen and the majority Of Its
presidents. The pride Of the North will
bena only to necessity. because 1t has not
kept pace with the progress Of the age
To-day the Americans Of the North are
as completely foreign to the family of ma
tions as they were twenty years ago
They understand nothing but the narrow
est and most mechanical mercantiism, the
art Of purchase and sale; and they long to
annihilate the Confederate States in order
that the South, by its intelligence, its en-
terprise, and the talent OF its statesmen
may not throw down the rempart it has
but up against EuropeaniSm. 1t was By
Northern men that Jurae2 was and is en-
couraged to perserve in his resistance-but
the other day at Frankfort, their consul on
public and solemn occasion raised the flag
of the fallen President Of Mexico and al
though the chances which have taken place
in Mexico have not yet been automatically
published and recognized this auspiciouo
piece of bravado proves that the sympa-
thies of the North would seize upon peace
as the opportunity for throwing men and
money upon the country in which France is
seeking to found a new empire.


The American war, from which France
has suffered more than England,can be
useful to us only if the North and South
part company defnitively; and for these
reasons:


|. The Confederate States will be our al
lies, and will guarantee US against attack
by the North


.. Mexico, developed BY our efforts, and
sheltered from the attacks Of the North,
will reward all our hopes.


3.~Our factories will be ensured the sup.
plies which they absolutely require.


Were the American war to end otherwise
all the adventures whom peace would let
luOse MOuiu oihPlJ mug tnch'Ci'So INV
Mexico, and all that we have gone 50 far to
secure would be gathered in by the men Of
the North.


The Americanquestion is not one of those
which can be deferred for solution to more
convenient season.


1t has been put to US point blank; it must
be settled peremptorily.


Every one new admits that Europe can
live il peace under perpetual lmminence
Of questions-Eastern, Roman, Ducal Hol-
stein, and others-because no one can see
his way to any sharp and definite solution
of those great international problems.


Moreover, the interests disturbed by
those questions are either religious or po-
litical; they are not commercial, and they
can be discussed. Now, in politics whatever
can be discussed need not be persmptorily
dealt with. Time is the great allsyer Of