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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], English opinion of Affairs in America. (search)
ederates, but when we come to inquire into them we find that the dissentients are so far from the thought of making terms that they reproach the Government of President Davis for not carrying on offensive war, for confining its military operations to the defence of Southern territory. In fine, we are persuaded that the rule of theoo late, that it had held its hand when the cards seemed all in its favor. If a great man struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods, Mr. President Davis, delivering his inaugural address, almost on the morrow of the signal disaster of Donelson, may, perhaps, claim something of our sympathy. In this speech there ishrough both hemispheres, and convince those who yet may doubt that the men of the Confederate States are not made of the metal that gives in at the first shock. Mr. Davis describes to us the causes and the progress of the war, which, he says, was reluctantly accepted by the South. "The tide," he admits, "is for the moment against
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
proposes to acknowledge the rebel Confederacy, and guarantee to it its interposition to bring about a peace — peaceable if she can, forcibly if she must — provided Davis & Co. will agree to non-interference with them perpetually in any measure she may take for the subjugation of Mexico, and making it a dependency of France. Certaias the boundary line between the two new Government, allowing the rebel Confederacy a considerable slice more than she now covers by her arms. It is said that Davis likes the proposition as far as it goes, and is willing to send the Monroe doctrine to the dogs; but it is said that he will enter into negotiations with no Government unless they guarantee to him the territory of the new Confederacy comprised in all the slave States. Thus the matter stands. Davis is to consider the French proposition, and vice versa. It isaid that among the French propositions is one requiring the Southern Confederacy to furnish a certain number of troops to assist in con