FRANCE AND AMERICA.
The Conslitutionnel comments as follows on tbe war iv America, and specially refers to the calling out of half a million of negroes in the South :— "If there be a question in which war has conclusively shown its impotence, it is certainly that of the conflict in America. That the solution of that question will never be obtained by arms, is now evident. The advantages of the Federals do not bring them a fraction nearer tbe object they are pursuing, and the Confederates display the same unflagging energy and activity in the struggle. The measure proposed by President Davis of calling under arms 500.000 negroes, with the promise of liberty and the gift of a portiou of territory, dees not indicate (as an attempt is made to shew) a desperate resolution, but a confidence which seems justified by the good spirit arid feelings of the black population. The Morning Post remarks that this resolution of the Richmond Government may bring about the conclusion of the war by the immense re-inforcements which j it will place at the disposal of Lee and Beauregard and also by the excel lea t impression which it will produce in Europe upon the ideas and policy of the different Governments."
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1987, 24 November 1863, Page 3
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