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ment of his diplomatic career in the United States by fitting out , in the American ports , privateers to cruise against English commerce—England being a power with whom the United States was at peace , although she was at war with France . Citizen G-enet answered the remonstrances addressed to him by Washington , who naturally wished to preserve a position of honourable neutrality , by a most insolent letter , appealing from the President to the people ; and Washington forthwith sent him his passpoi-ts . " There is much parallelism between this case and the present : the grand difference is that Genet appealed from President to people , which Crampton has not done ; but the main principle is exactly the same , an infraction of the law and a violation of neutrality . What account of the precedent have we copied ? That given by the Morning Post . It is contended that Mr . Crampton is not implicated as Genet was , because the English Government issued a circular stipulating that agents should do no acts which should consti-.
which should sweep American commerce from the seas , and " lay the seaboard of the Union open to the attacks of the greatest naval power in . the world . " Our contemporary , therefore , somewhat more than hints that our navy is to be sent to " sweep American commerce from the seas . " What will cotton-consuming manufacturing Lancashire say to that ? What will Birmingham , Bristol , Glasgow , or London ? We put the question distinctly . Are Manchester , Liverpool , Birmingham , Glasgow , Bristol , London , and half the British islands , prepared to see the English navy " sweep American commerce from the seas , " raising a storm in those seas which will intercept so vast a portion of English commerce ? And all for what ? Because our Government allowed itself to be involved in the petty treacheries of agents whom it sent to execute an illegal act .
tute a violation of the law within the United States , or bear the appearance of recruiting within the jurisdiction of the United States ; otherwise parties must expect no aid or assistance from the British Government . This is very good , as a safeguard against the acts of agents , but it does not do with regard to third parties . If 1 hire a man to trespass in the garden of my neighbour , and tell him to bring away certain things that he may find uoui
THE PEACE IN PARLIAMENT . On the subject of the war , Parliament represents the unquestionable opinion of the country . It is felt by the vast majority in and out of the Houses , that a Treaty concluded at this moment with Russia would be a sacrifice to the sentiment of Peace . Our Plenipotentiary at Paris , therefore , will have a right to maintain , in their amplitude , the principles declared bv the English Cabinet : for Great Britain
there , 1 do not exonerate myseii » u action for trespass , by telling him that he nvust not violate the law of property , or do anything that'looks like stealing . It is true that Hektz , Strobkl , and the other agents flagrantly violated the law , and ostentatiously flaunted their connexion with the English G-overnment ; so that our Government , by its a ' cronts . rKrpp . f-lv violated that enactment of th
has not been forced to propose a pacmcanon . The Legislature and the public concur in thinking that Russia is now negotiating under circumstances more favourable to herself than those which wotlld probably result from a third campaign . It is acknowledged , perhaps reluctantly , that if she concedes the original object of the war , no grounds will exist for postpon-4 « rr ao Tiraw T , ord Clarendon declares that ¦ ¦
Neutrality Act , which declares that persons should not be invited in the Union to go forth and be enlisted beyond the territories of the United States . _ We told our agents to do an illegal thing in a lc » rt . ol Tnonnov * r \ c \ thpv Tietraved us ; but we i /
J . 1 AC > I / U VJ » - * ^_/« - * J Xi" - ' ¦ . the negotiations will be conducted on the part of England with sincerity , and that the just claims of every Government will be respected . But it is equally clear that the submission of Russia must be real , and that the securities obtained . «~ -o + "Ua affnotnal A t . rpn . t , v concluded upon
OUH RELATIONS WITH AMERICA . If we may trust the Morning Post , we are on -the point of sending out a fleet to make war upon the United States . The alleged ground is , that , the Government of the American Republic has not been satisfied with the reparation made in the case of the recruitment . The reader must bear in mind that while the recruitment question was suffered to grow into a dispute , where no dispute ought to have arisen , the real bad blood is provoked by a want of straig htforwardness in the strict observance of treaty stipulations . At present ,
A \> t q CI > J . AUCf M . LI V ^ J . y *^ . — - ^» - ** - -j --J have to apologise to the Union for sending them there at all , and the apology ought to be ample . If we are too proud to apologise , our only course is to cancel the wrong done , and leave the question in static quo . The first step would be to withdraw the chief of the agents who had so mismanaged the affair . Now , nobody casts much moral blame on Mr . Crampto ^ ; but he is officially the chief agent . If the express wish of the Union hid been carried out , and he had been withdrawn from a post where he will no longer be
,, any other basis wotxld ruin the character of every statesman concerned in it . In the policy of the Austrian and French Cabinets there is sufficient guarantee that no immoderate concessions will be required from Russia . It cannot be the object of either of those Governments to humble or to exasperate her . The peace is for her benefit , no less than for their own . Consequently , there is no foundation for the idea that Lord Palmerston has amplified the demands of the Western PoAvers , so far as to increase the difficixlty of pacifications . The only danger is , that the
however , accordwg to our contemporaiy , me hazard of quarrel rests entirely upon the recruitment question . Now how does that stand ? The Morning Post takes two grounds . In the first place , that sufficient reparation has been made . There are two parties to the decision of that question , and England cannot , decide it for herself . If America is not satisfied , England has not done enough to secure tlio purpose of all reparation , and her only alternative would be to cancel the wrong done . As we do nut , know the amount of apology which Grant Britain has made for violating through her agents the laws of the United States , wo are not capable of giving our own judgment on the moral sufficiency of the reparation . We very much doubt , however , whether our statesmen who have the prefix of " Lord" to their names , arc willing to nuiki that genuine npology which avus demanded by tho , case . Iii the second place , it is maintained that no wrong avun committed . We will stale a parallel . " In tlio yonr 1793 , Citwou Uonot , tha first Minister of tho Fronoh Republic , liignttliHud tho
oommouocuseful , all subsequent difaculty might nave been avoided . This might have been done without humiliation to our Government or to Mr . Champion . He mig ht have been promoted to a higher post—to the St . Petersburg embassy , for example , which is to be revived just as the English legation at Washington is to be dropped . Our Government chooses neither of the alternatives , but elects the terttum quid The Morning Post hints that America has resolved upon the course described , "in ignorance that > vc are to be at peace Avith Russia ; " implying that the Americans would dare to resist us if m Avoro at Avar , but not if we wove disengaged . We need not point out the insulting character of such language . Our contemporary continues : — " Tho uaval power of Eugland , novor inoro hilly developed than at prosont , eomprirtea ft i'oroo «> l' Hhipsof-tho-liho , frigutoH , and lnovUir and guu-bouta , in compu-ison with which tho ontiro navy of the Urn tod Staton in but a weak and iuoffloiont B < juadron , and will , with u certainty of peuoo , bo not at liberty , to aot iix vindication of the national honour , in whatever quiii-tor it may bo availed . " The Americans are told to consider whether a war should bo rashly and Aveakly provoked
princip les which have been , to this point , asserted , may be forsaken , and that Russia may obtain peace without purchasing it by adequate concessions . The document called the Queen's speech contains , on the subject of the Avar , only a statement , part of which is untrue , prefixed to a platitude , from which we learn nothing . To say that Sevastopol " has y ielded " is to exaggerate the event of last September . Sebastoi ) ol was a group of ¦ fortresses , some of which are still held in groat , force by the enemy-Not only are the Russians on the north side preparing for an . obstinate defence , they litorally defend , from that position , the most important cities of the Crimea . The Allies could not unit Sevastopol , to luareh on other potato , without leaving a pow .-riul array oi investment . Sinip huropol and Baktchi-Serai , the . seat « f government and the depository of the ad . ninist ration have never been attacked . lhc occupation of the Crimea has only advanced a step . Neither of the allied nations , therefore , can claim a conquest . _ It is , ( hen , a mistake to suppose that in tho event of an unsuccessful negotiation , tho war
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 2, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02021856/page/11/
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