Year: 1862

simply to one little word OF three letters, when
they might find in any chds primer. That word
is WAR.


Secretary Seward, in his letters to our Minis
ters abroad, declared in the plainest terms that
effective mediation was an impossibility, and that
recognition would be regarded and acted upon as
a casus beIf. The British Government having
expressed to Mr.. Adams a willingness to under
take mediation, letter was despatched to the
latter year ago this month which said 1.-THE
President expects you to say on this point to the
British Government that we cannot solicit or ac-
cept mediation from any, even the most friendly
quarter. The conditions of society here, the
character of our Government, the exigencies oi
the country, forbid that any dispute arising among
us should ever be referred TO foreign arbitration
In the letter of instructions to Mr.. Dayton it was
declared " Foreign Intervention would oblige us
to treat those who should yield to it as allies of
the insurectionary party, and TO carry on the war
against them as enemies. The case would not be
relieved, but on the contrary would only be ag-
grayated, if several European states should COM
bne in that intervention The President and the
people of the United States deem the Union,
which would then be at stake, worth all the cost
and all the sacrifices, with the world in arms, if
such contest should prove inevitable The
whole volume of correspondence is full of this
spirit-all courteously and kindly conveyed, and
yet perfectly unmistakable. The British Parla-
ment published the volume as a blue book. as did
our own Congress, and therefore there must have
been a general and thorough understanding of
the early position of our Government


! If such was cur sprit a year ago, what must be
our determination now Then we had an army
Ct nearly 10000, and navy numbering only
some 10 vessels all told, Nov we have an army
of 100000, and a navy of not less than 500 yes
sells, soon to be reinforced by feet of ironclads
which the world cannot match Then we had an
exhausted treasury, and no apparent possibility
of adequately supplying it. Now we have full
treasury, and no difficulty in meeting every want.
Then eleven States, with the exception of small
patch in Western Virginia, under absolute
rebel sway and other States-MissOuri, Ken
lucky and Maryland it would seem, most
certain to follow them. Now these three last
States are true to the Government beyond all
contingency four others-Tennessee, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Florida-have been almost COM
pletely regained from the rebel dominion, and of
the remaining seven there is not one whose chief
town is not beleaguered, and liable any day to
fall into our possession. Then We knew nothing
of victories. The rebels were moving on from
] Ct
fture Now all that has changed. The annals
of warfare scarcely show such an unbroken series
OF triumphs"as have followed our arms since the
opening of the present year. Then the rebellion
was sanguine, exutant rampant; despond-
ency and desperation completely possess it. If
we would then tolerate from foreign powers moth
ing calculated to confirm the pretensons of the
Confederacy, how absurd must it be ir them to
imagine for an instant that we should tolerate
such an inimcal act now


We of course can understand that the tempta-
tons to such an interference are in some respects
stronger at the present time. Economically. the
stoppage of the cotton supply has made itself felt
since in very painful forms. Politically, the III
wishers of democratic nstitutions-the ruler of
France and the ruling classes of England among
them-have experienced certain disappointment
| in their hopes that the Confederacy would work
out its independence and now see that there is no
chance left but in foreign interference. To all
such considerations there is simply this one offset:
the same lapse Of time which may have strength
ened such inducements as these 10 interfere, has
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that there shall be no interference.


No earthly fact is more fixed than the readiness
of the twenty-three loyal millions of this Govern
ment to fight, and to fight to the last if need be,
against any European power, or combination of
European powers, which shall undertake a rescue
of the sinking rebellion. The energy with which
Republican France rose as one man and hurled
back the coalition, which sought to interfere for
La Vendee, for half generation deied all Europe
in arms, and loaded England with debt which will
make her groan to the last day of her existence,
| did not equal wrathful might which a similar
attempt upon this American republic would surely
evoke. Sooner than submit to such outrage there
would be fighting such as the world never saw.
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and two millions if there were need. Canada and
every European possession on the continent would
be seized. Every sea would be swept by Amer
lean privateers. Monitors would be multiplied by
scores, and, if necessary, hundreds. Every river
would be converted into a dock-yard, and every
plain into an armory. This nation shall not so
die. 1t is Gods heritage Not earth nor hell
shall prevail against it.


There will continue to be talk of interference
until the last gun is fred-probaby, too, even in
creasing in vebemenee. 1t will be an agony to
see the last chance of crippling the young giant
disappear withoat result--an agony that cannot
be silent. Talk, withal, will stimulate the rebels
to hold out to the very last gasp 1t deudes them
with the hope that help, though it comes not now,
must come soon. 1t is that motive which has Just
impelled Earl Russell and Lord Palmerston to
wind up their TRADES against our treatment of the
rebellion with the negative pregnant" that for
the present they do not intend to interfere. IN
uuestionably not. Nor will interference ever be
their intention. They dare not attemptit. With
all their malgnity towards US, prudence yet rules
them. They are not blind to the dreadful conse-
quences of war, and will avoid it as they would
the destroying angel. Talk and not action NOR
al aid, but no military support that, in the end,
will be found to be the sum total of their patron
age of the Confederacy, The historian will record
it to have been as base as it was bootess.-JNe,o
York World.