The French press on the battle of Manassas
The French papers in their comments on American affairs, differ considerable in their views of the probable consequences of the war. We have only space for the following: The Journal des Debats, which was the warm supporter of the
North, has recently published an article signed by the secretary of the editor in which, abandoning the policy hitherto pursued, it says to the
North that its victories will have no other results but a nou debt and useless bloodshed.
However conquered, the
South will not submit to the
North.
When an energetic and production has resolved to be independent, there are no means to make her bend her head, unless by recurring to the atrocious and systematic rivers successfully employed by ori despose.
The P comments in the following language upon the
battle of Bull Run:
Though the triumph of the
Confederates confirms us in the opinion we professed from the start upon the
American affairs, it is difficult to find in it the decisive importance usually attending, in
Europe, a great victory.
The military results of the day do not seem to us calculated to exercise a decided influence upon the coming even s It is clear that the h and anger of the
North will be enhanced and that brilliant victories will avenge this defeat.
The
Patric proceeds to show that even in the eventuality of great victories the
North will no be capable of occupying and retaining the
South in the
Union.
It says that the expenses of the war will be runout, and that hear is attend now on both sides to ruin the present rather than to secure the future.
It the
North and the
South, says the Patrie, or severe in this way, they will eternize civil war, ruin the whole country and postpone, lod knows for what number of years, the pid and energetic progress of which the
United States are so proud.
The
Constitutionnel says: Impartiality, which is the duty of neutrals, has caused us to deplore the coercive policy of the Administration.
A peaceful settlement was offered by the wishes of whosoever loves since ly the
Americans.
As to us, we never believed that war would take place; and it is only within he last few days that we looked upon it as unavoidable.
The fatality which will cause be name of
Manassas to become a matter of history will be