Year: 1863

q Perhaps the best proof of England's impair


tiaIity and neutrality in the of the sections in


America may be found in the fact that both sides


are equally abusive toward her. We have often


read in Northern journals the long and viruent


TRADES with which England is reviled for standing


aoof in the quarrel that desolates the States. We


will now copy the view of some of the leading


Statesmen South on this point, and we are more


and more inclined to believe that in such quarrel


the abuse of both sides is the highest praise. Her


schel V. Johnson, Senator to the Confederate Con-


gress lately said in the Legislature of Georgia


1t is a truth which we ought to know and appre-


ciate as necessary to the development of all our


energies and resources, that stand alone in this


war; If we succeed, we must do so by our own


might under the favor of Heaven. We have not


the heartfelt sympathy, nor need we expect the
aid of single nation of the earth. The indulgence
of delusve hopes this score has done US injury.
1t has encouraged some degree of apathy among
the people, and presume it is the main reason why


our Government, in the beginning, did not exert its
utmost power to create or procure a navy. 1t was
said France could not dispense with tobacco, nor


England with cotton, and from this was argued a
speedy raising of the blockade, recognition, and
close of the war. | never entertained these expec


tations. 1t is too gratifying to the jealous thrones
of Europe to see the Union ruptured and the peo-
pie Cutting each others throats. Indeed, fear,
rather than hope for. the intervention of foreign
powers. If it should come it will be either
when we cease to need it, or when we may be
enfeebled and exhausted as to be compelled to
cept on terms-terms humiating to us, but ag-


grandizing to them. If it comes, it will be for their
benefit, not ours Reasons control the policy of
Great Britain. She does without our cotton be-
cause she desires to cripple our monopoly of its


production and at the same time encourage its suf
| ficient growth in some of her own dependencies.
| thinks she can do so. Hence. though her negro
philanthropy is holow-heared, yet she will rejoice


at the overthrow of slavery here, because it will
destroy this important branch of our agriculture.
Again, she will not provoke war with the United
States lest it might reunte the North and South
for common defense. She does not know how wide


and deep is the gulf between the two sections.
She wants to make it wider, and deeper, and i'm


passable. Hence she pats both sections on the
shoulder, processes to sympathize with both, and
pretends to neutrality while she drives unre-
stricted commerce with the North. Nor should it
be overlooked that while she consumes our cotton,


she also receives heavy expectations OF breadstufs
| from the grain-growing States of the Northwest.


The annual export of these to Great Britain amounts
| to many millions. Hence, if the blockade of our
ports cuts off her supply Of cotton, war with the


United States could, to the extent of these figures,


curtail her breadstuffs. throw out these sugges-


tions to show the futiity OF any hope from foreign


aid and the absolute necessity of concentrating all


our elements of fstrength-physical, moral and men,
| tal-lor the achievement of our independence.