Foreign Intervention

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1862

Foreign Intervention.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Journal, under date of Nov. 8, writes;

"The feeling in Europe is described by Mr. Cameron as strongly savoring of intervention, and this feeling is strongly increased in consequence of the continued inactivity of the Federal arms. In England it is thought that no active intervention will take place until Parliament meets. The success or failure of the present campaign will probably decide the matter, and only decided victories on our side will dispel the idea, in his opinion. It is generally understood in England that a rebel naval attack on our Atlantic cities is in preparation. Three immense iron-clad steam rams, the most powerful ever constructed, are building in English ship-yards, and with these it is supposed that the rebels will attack our Northern cities. They have an especial desire to make a dash at New York, and even if the enterprise were but partially successful, the presence of rebel war-vessels in New York harbor, if only for an hour, would have a great effect abroad.

"There is a secession club in Liverpool numbering three hundred members, who provide funds to furnish vessels to run our blockade. No individual member of this society is allowed to know what any other member contributes.

"The sympathy in England for the rebels is daily increasing, and a delay in a Federal advance is interpreted as a tacit admission of our inability to cope with the enemy.

"Mr. Cameron thinks that the fortifications of New York should be at once attended to, and is surprised that the danger of an attack on our city is not more fully appreciated here."