France.
Mr. Massey, Member of Parliament, in his late speech at Falford, declared ‘"it was notorious that the French Government had repeatedly and earnestly remonstrated with our Government (Great Britain) to join them in putting an end to that which was no blockade" ’We had often seen this statement before, but, coming from so responsible a source, it no longer admits of question. Two nations, Spain and France, have, from the beginning, manifested a decided sympathy with the Southern cause, which the South will remember with gratitude. Both of them would have gladly raised the blockade but for the opposition of the British Government. The interests of England in American affairs are of a very complicated character, but she much mistakes her permanent welfare if she permits the golden opportunity for intervention in American affairs to pass unimproved. If she saves the debts due her subjects in the North, she loses, in the event of Southern overthrow, the cotton of the South now and forever. That which is on band will be burned to the fast bale, and all planters, who prefer patriotism to pelf, will never hereafter raise another pound till their country is free. The idea that we shall be made to cultivate our lands for the benefit of those who make open war upon us, or who leave us coldly to our fate, is one that hardly enters into the ideas of the high souled people of the South.
