The Athens Post

Foreign Intervention and the South.

The North is very much afraid of foreign intervention in this war, and is alarmed lest the great distress of the manufacturing classes of England may furnish a cause for the intervention of the British government to break the blockade. The New York World, in discussing the subject, says:

The war commenced on the 19th of April, 1861; it ought to be ended by the 19th of April, 1862. The amount of cotton now on hand in the warehouses of Liverpool and Manchester, is sufficient to keep the Lancashire mills at work, at their present rate of running, until the latter part of May. As that period approaches, the impending distress of the manufacturing population of England will furnish powerful motives for the intervention of the British government to break the blockade. The over-mastering instinct of self-preservation will assert its force, and pretexts will not long be wanting for war with the United States and an alliance with the South. Recent events have shown on how precarious a footing are our relations with Great Britain. It behooves us to strike vigorous, rapid and effective blows while we have but one enemy to contend with, and no formidable third party interferes.