Year: 1861

ment for southern inuepenuence, we urged that our necessary commercial policy would nresent to the sense of the great nations of Europe the strongest claims-so strong that we doubted not considerations of in- terest would override any prejudice, and secure an early recognition of our independ- ent nationality. This seemed to us then as plain as the demonstration of traaspired fact, and late developments of opinion in Europe leave no doubt of it's truth. It is beginning to be discussed in its conner cial phase and aspects-thc only light in which our quarrel is commended to foreign attention. Weeks ago the most influential English and French journals indicated that they had arrived at a thorough understand. ing of these merits, and that consequently they knew that the inter-commercial in- tercourse of those nations affiliated them to the agricultural South, rather than to the manufacturing North, their industrial rival.

 Convictions founded on this basis were the leavers which has been working in the minds of the people of Great Britain, and preparing them to fall into political posi- ton on the qu u'stion of this struggle when 1t should actually commence. Accordingly, we find them prepared at once to take that position, and it has been announced through all the organs of British opinion. As to these views in the aggregate, it is sufficient to quote the admission of the New York Herald that " the tone of these papers IS very significant, as seeming to possess, al- ost without exception, strong southern bias" How strong and how general this bias" must be, may be appreciated from the fact that the most ultra and ingenious journals at the North have not found in all their English files one article which they could quote with plausible perversion to seeming favor of their cause This is put ting the case strongly enough for our side.

 It is impossible to conceive that the manufacturing and maratime nations of Europe will hesitate to award the common grace of recognition to a new nation which they know can make its relations with them most profitable, by opening market for their wares, and alfording them free parti- cipation in trans oceanic commerce, ensu- ing rich returns to their shipping cially as the only nationality objecting to their acceptance of these advantages is one which is peculiarly their industrial and commercial rival-the one which has al. ways precuded them from their enjoyment

 To these various arguments which practi callv and powerfully commend the cause of southern independence to European favor, is added that which equals the aggregate influence of all them combined-the cotton supply. To understand the power this ex- erts in Great Britain alone. we must real

 ze the fact that in that country a number 1f people about equaling the whole white 

 md black population of the seven original Confederate States, are dependent for busi- aess prosperity and actual subsistence upon

 he cotton manufactures of the kingdom. This statement is from the most authorita-

 i've sources in that country, the political | economist and statcmen of which have de-

 nonstrated from the very inception of our troubles to this time, the profoundest con ,ern and have acknowledged their anxiety md the vital character of the complication.

 which have inextrcably linked the interests )f England with those of the South.

 Approaching the commercial compulsion

 in our favor brought to bear upon Great Britain, we have no fear that she will stand upon the ceremony of her friendly relations with the rival North, or permit any small scruples of prejudice or fanatism to stand in the way of the establishment of amica- 1 ble relations with the South. When Great | Britain shall recognize us, France will soon | follow without doubt. Tine moral effect, if nothing more, of the recognition and sympathy of England and France will be a comfortable thing for us and weaken the enemy immensely during the summer. In the fall their sympathy will assume prac- sical form. A cotton crop, necessity of English manufacturers, will then demand | shipment, and if blockades interfere with its transit in English bottoms, or interfere with inward freights in these vessels, then Ln- coin will have quarrel to settle with John Bull, whose mammoth navy will sweep his squadron from the ocean.