| Show opinions of the foreign press As ai every american citizen bas has more or less interest in what is transpiring on the tiie easter eastern easterne nj as well as on the western continent at the present I 1 time and especially what eng england land franceane France and other european powers are saying and ard doing in relation to the amer Kmer american ican civil war the following I extracts from f foreign elp g journals are published they breathe the feelings ee lings and sentim ants entertained by the people on the other side tf of the Atlin atlantic tic relative to the war its conduct and po probable bable babie re rel I 1 1 suits I 1 I 1 the london post baa bas ays I 1 it is ia certain that we have never been in a better condition than a at t thi to td go to war andia and it those are night right who think they descry in the new york press a change or of public opinion on in america on the qu question bs ion lon at it issue much ot of that change cha tige is ia proba probably bly 1 due to our recent event exertions both in our bur army aminy and navy in n the american and west indian waters we have alre aire already adya a nine nirie hundred guns and weare taking me insures for its ts immediate Inc increase kease the enthusiasm exhibited along the sea coast oas of oe t the he united Ming king kingdom dom for the redress of our national honor will enable us to commission new ships at a very notice and the success of the zio nio lo io 10 bounty scheme when adopted in 1859 evinces how we may at all times timea obtain ilal ilai sailors ors in emergency at sea therefore there could be no contest whatever between great britain and the united states A rup rupture ture lure between the two countries would simply invert the relations of the northern and southern states the ports of charleston and new orleans would be opened by the retreat of the stars and stripes and the ports of boston and new york would be blockaded in turn such a result would in itself be nearly equivalent to the termination of the civil war for it is ia obviously by th the e command of df the sea alone that the north can now continue its hostilities if then naval warfare between england and the united states would be turned into a system of mariti c e blockade what would probably be the lind kind of warfare which either elther party would conduct by land this much may be on our side bide sd it would in all probability be and that we should r restrict ou our r active active 0 operations s to di the closing of amer Ader american icari byerts ports bu but t i if f our military tactics were to beon e on the defensive would t those hose of the united states be offensive the answer answer to the question rests in the relations j of the cabinet of washington with the south ern confederation it seems quite impossible i that the federal armies could at once continue their campaign with their pres present antagonists who ar are already a match for thern them in the field and invade our Ci canadian nadian dominions at the same time in order to do this they would have either to double or divide their present army it is hard bard to con conceive eive elve that the finances of the united stapes stapel would admit of the former course counse especially at the moment from which they cease vodraw tod raiv their ma material lerial of lw war r from this country and it if they adopt the latter course it is likely that they would be defeated on oh either side we assume therefore that unless tt e northern states were prepared to nerve themselves to gigantic exertions probably beyond their power as weil well as be beyond y ond their they would be compelled to accept a peace with the southern Sout hern bern confederation before they the ventured ventu rec upon offensive tactics against gur gun canadian dominions did di they boto goto eo to war wat with us and continue cont inui to prosecute their campal campaign n against the south they would find themselves themselves cooped up within three threw hostile lines there would bein addition to the confederate states on iho 1 1 41 r southern frontier our canadian fi forces arces on their geir nort Nott northern herh herb and bur our fleet upon their seaboard seaboard to disengage trems elves eires from one enemy before they deliberately encounter another seems to be the dictate not so much of prudence as of necessity we will imagine then tife the government of washington agton recognizing the he secession of the southern states under pressure of tuf a european war ar then no doubt I 1 they wo A aid mid uld nid have a great gleat military force at their command for it would be liard hard for us who bave bare stood neutral between north and expect the south gouth to t do otherwise than to stand neutral between usand us usand and the north the ahe tb e othern nothern army la Is probably more apparently formidable in numbers than it is lirt actual vally iso so in organization but at the bame same time lime we must remember that it is altogether er a deiv new creation and it is not hot the north can xan be said to have manifested a proved incapacity ca a city fa for fon r scientific warfare A year yea r hence tb their lr armies might be in a fibuch better state of discipline e than they are i ow ay the london leam jeam ajram bays says of every battle battie fought we have generally received three buc suc successive dessive accounts in an almost uniform diminuendo scale first a great battle has taken place the confederates outnumbered the federalists as three to one the north has gained a great victory thousands pf af rebe a killed wounded and prisoners loss of the he federalists three men killed ten wounded ond and pd a dozen missing by next mail the importance of the action and the numbers f the enemy phemy are abood deal reduced red aced at aid d we li hear bear ar doubts hinted as to the completeness of the victory it appears too that t the a conquerors have retreated A week or two later the truth oozes out the armies have been tolerably equal in force the the tte northern generally superior in artill artillery the concede ates have put there adver adversaries I 1 aries arles to ignominious rout and if the federal isallas loss bas has no not t been heavy it has been because ithe ilbe federal sol soi soldiers diers have made excellent use not so much of the arms provided by government as of the legs given them by nature and then comes out ih the e on one bit bitof jot truth which the new york P apers papers ever wi willing y pil publish blish on these occasions it waa the ault auit of the offic officers bra tra 1 21 the london tas tar in in 1 speaking of the W brocade broc kade of the southern parts ports says bays the blockade has been so notoriously a failure that nothing but the extraordinary binary scrupulousness of the european powers has allowed it to continue ships have pas paa and ont ouk at all times just as they pleased and so BO far as the harbors are concerned there has hag never neler been beon any difficulty jn in glie getting eting into them or in getting out of them the tha federal government has itself ernp emphatically hati bati caily cally ad admitted bitted the farll faril failure tire of their naval blockade by an act of 1 barbarity which is unparalleled in the history ot of national wars they have actually chu ehu en deavo red to undo what columbus had haf done to shut abut up from all forever the ports which the greaf greag discoverer opened to the human race and to destroy by impediments be the gates by thich men of all ail nations enter and pass pasa out of some million millions of square m miles iles lles of oe fertile and productive land lands this is a crime against aind lind it if is does I 1 not call cal down uni universal universia versil opposition itis it is only becala esaua the enterprise is believed to be as impossible as its design is execrable the manchester guardian says the conviction forces itself upon many that the day is not far distant u when hen the southern i confederation must inest be recognized and that thit re recognition c il on may be expected to bring about a 2 nl f fresh r ea difficulty cu ity in which wemusa we must be prep prepared to maintain our policy it is with this view and as a demonstration of our intention to hold our own way that the government are sending out men to canada without any reference to the reply of the american amere Amert can cabil cabi net if mason and slidell landed a at liverpool te tc morrow not a soldier the less would be sent out if we are to have a w war ar with the north in connection with this U united ni states schism there could be no more favorable time than the present it would be a short and decisive aarand would have a vital influence on th the e preservation of peace and the he uninterrupted freedom of commerce tor for many years to come comoe without t our haing haind to pass through the ordeal of social and mercal tile con confusion fusto n r A iner rule er aa tall tali Q u A the london observer of the of december organ says kays that england wishes for peace but that she will gain by S it will enable her to rectify her can frontiers open the ports of the cuth chih alia aila ana give a lesson alesson to the thi united states f |
