not exist_
to the most of us. Moreover, we shall shake off this inertia; and, as to
the English, they will not suffer their brightest title to glory in
modern times to be tarnished by any latent complicity with the Gulf
States. The brutal doctrines of interest, so often professed publicly in
Parliament by Mr. Bright, may indeed find organs; and Great Britain
will be counselled to remember cotton and forget justice. The measure
already taken by her at Washington, and which appears to have been
supported by France, a measure designed to declare that the blockade of
the Southern ports must be effectual to be recognized, is perhaps a
concession wrested from her by this detestable school of selfishness.
Happily, there is another school face to face with this; the Christian
sentiment, the sentiment of abolition, will arise and enforce obedience.
Never was a more important work in store for it. To unveil every
suspicious act of the British Government, to keep public opinion
aroused, to maintain, in fine, that noble moral agitation which makes
the success of good causes and the safety of free nations, such is the
mission proffered in England to the defenders of humanity and the
Gospel. If they could forget it, the populace of Mobile or Savannah
pursuing English consuls, would remind them to what principle the name
of Great Britain is inevitably pledged, for the sake of its honor.
France and England, I am confident, will act in unison, here as
elsewhere; their alliance which comprises within itself the germs of all
true progress, will be found as useful and as fruitful in the New World
as it has proved in the Old.

This is of such importance that I beg leave to dwell on it; evidently
our influence has not yet been exercised as it should have been, and if
Mr. Lincoln now bends somewhat before counsels devoid of energy and
dignity, it proceeds in part from our reserve, our silence, our apparent
neutrality--who knows? even from the discouraging language that has
been sometimes held in our name. The publication of the unlucky Morrill
Tariff, (signed, we may say in passing, by Mr. Buchanan, and the
revocation of which, I am convinced, will be signed some day by Mr.
Lincoln,) has given the signal for political demonstrations, all of
which are very far from being to the credit of Europe. Our _Moniteur_
has published articles to be regretted, but it is above all among the
English that the cotton party has had full scope.

Let England