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The Southern Confederacy Not To Be Re Ognized

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Day
15
Month
November
Year
1861
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Public Domain
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From the Lcndon New, Oct. 18. A Vágñe notion .ooms to have got obroad among :i fow of tho more r;ish nnd excited míll-owners, that ve could jret over tbc diíTijiilty of our position nnd utipply onruelves vvith cotton to mu ni ■un .i od i'.tent nt once, by roetHfawng lhfi S Hithorn Cmfederation A more futile, basoless. and uttorly j logicnl Bolion Iií.k, perh: ps, nevor been ( entet'HÜned. ín tho first place, :t s mi nnsüile fo.r this country or nny other to recogniz a eonfeduration which doos nct'yet exist, and very possibly never mav. Any recognition of the South no ■vould be Rimply helping it in it trilogie for existence. Il would bo taking 8(Js in the rnidsl of a desperate conflict, aüd would thus of courpo be in fuot a deolaration wur against the Norlt). Hut, in the seroiiJ place, if we clid i recognize the Southern Confederacy , ever no luüy, if n)l the World rocoghizod ! itlhis woufd nnt i tho leant further the end in view. We should not be ' ino whi'. nearer llio cotton th.in before. j The Nmthorn States would liave tho muik; right to blackade the Southerri port as nowi and tliey would be eerrain to ?Kou-ise the richts oven more; tritigefitK'. We Bhould have no legal gronrd or pretcJ'.co whatever for atterrpting to breuk the hlockade. If we attoinpted it, this would equiilly be decluralion cf war naiiiit tho North, iind wo conld only carry out the attempt by forco. But if iorce :oto be ued nt il!,it mny juet ae well bc uoed t once. And those w4io would 6urgent the rccoriiüon of the South in order to obtain a eupply of cotton, onght lopicfllly to dtitnand from the govrrnment a naval rmament to take it by force. Tccra tbs Ixïndon Post, Aug. 17. Ko foreign "power has the pmallen'. right to interioro, in the matter. Some thing might po?sih!y De done in the way of necrotmting, although that i. very doubiful, bnt as to the queetion cf right thera -.innot bo two opinión?. A" very errotieoua notinna have been jind etll nru entcrtnined.upon this t;iil. jeot, wó hall sin rlly explain tho true tato ot tho cuse. Wo phnll show, tnoroover that, instond of tnending matters, aiiv active intevference upon our pnrt would only bring about fre?h complications, and very probably involve u? asprítieipals in a contest to which for many reasons we eaniestly desire to put a stop. From the London Star, Oct. 17. LordJohn Rissell should have ob rved th' rigidly constitutional nttitudeof Mr. Linci In' governmeni before he rashly de.-c:ibed it as that of a cornbahint )"■ r 'emire." Would our Forpign Socrotary perfnit its application to his oau government, by the minister ither ota denpotism or a republiu, if raellion were to show itself in one of tb three kingdonis ? Yet nearly very man who has taken service in he Oonlederate armies, was in the exrase a ■ e iragoof th iscpolitical tights which are deoied to fivo sixthn of the people of Great Britian and Ireland. A rebel li on of free citizetif, um.blü lo allege the slightest infraction of their conititutional rights is surely nut to be likened, evön by tha faintest implication to apatrioüo 8trugglo for nationnl exiit'nco. We cannot suspect E.rl Eussel' of tJ remotost complioity with thoee reck!?ss poiiticians who advoeaie the refognition of tho Confederacy as a preliininary to breakins; tho blockade, 15ut t ia ianguago 1 .kejhis- unguarded, n."t)iguous unsympailietic - that enrourages tho hope of something being done by our dinloinatistsftnd war ships to relieve the cotton crisis. The hope i aliko criminal and fallacioui. Until oor.fcience - and even ahamo, tho pale rIict of cooscience - havo perished from the public rnind ot England, n uyh gigautic outrage can be powibe.

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