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hardships and miseries of the war, and come to the
conclusion that they have had enough of it. Con-
sequently it is necessary to be cautious. The Irish
love a fight, as all the world knows; but they lOW

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fleet, wt.ich will burst out ore long in a storm. We
are very far from being afraid of war—we are in
it ; we know what it is like—and tho2o who
openly, brazenly, infamously, aid our enemies and
mike war for them shall also learn, let it cost what
it may. England hopes to cover the world's oceans
with pirates, with murder, rapine, and robbery—to
exaggerate still more the horrors of war—and yet
deems that her commerce will escape! This is a
dlforent matter from the affair of the Trent."
It never seems to strike the minds of such men as
Mr. Walker, the sage and philosopher, who believes
that New Yolk is destined in 20 years to be the
" social, financial, commercial, and moral centre of
the universe," that the real criminal, if there be any
criminality in the matter, is the American Govern-
ment, which has abundant means to purchase scores
of vessels as swift and as powerful as the Alabama
and the Florida, and which rather than incur the
expense sends out ancient tubs under Admiral Wilkes
and others, that make their seven or eight knots an
hour where the Alabama and Florida can make 16.
For every Alabama possessed by the Confederates
the Federals, if they pleased, might have 10, and
the same impartial shipbuilders of the Clyde and
the Mersey who take the orders of the small cus-
tomer would be still more delighted to enter into
commercial relations with the great one, if the Go-
vernment, instead of instructing its friends and
hangers-on to abuse England, would only display
half as much common sense as it displays passion,
and meet the Confederates on the sea with the same
adaptation of means to ends as it employs on the
land. If it confront brave armies with brave armies,
why not chase fast ships with ships that are still
faster ?

Nor is it only this cause of offence that rankles
in the minds of the Government and people. The
eagerness with which the Confederate Loan has been
taken up in England and France is a barbed and
poisoned arrow that accounts for much of the "fierce
indignation" on which Mr. Walker expatiates. And
so openly do people talk of war with England, and
so confidently do some of the leading Generals and
politicians anticipate it, that the gentle Gen. Butler,
late of New Orleans, has offered his services to the
Government to head an expedition of 20,000 men
for the invasion of Ireland, should Mr. Lincoln deem

it necessary to resort to the extremity which his
organs so presumptuously threaten. It is not plea-
sant to speculate on nab a huge scandal as a war
between Great Britain and America, provoked by
the latter to revenge an offence which, at the most,
amounts to want of sympathy; but were the shame-
ful deed once done, it would be highly pleasant to
every true Englishman to speculate on the probable
fate of Gen. Butler and every Irishman who might
be induced to follow him in the desperate venture.
The General himself, not being, or ever having been,
a British subject, might suffer no worse fate than
capture or the soldier's death in the battle-field, but
if the tragedy of Mumford were not repeated on a
large scale upon the Irish survivors of the conflict, it
would be owing to the mercy of the British Govern-
ment and people, and not to any lack of example de-
rived from the life, career, and teachings of Benja-
min F. Butler.
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The barbarous destruction of the city of Jackson-
ville, in Florida, has excited but one feeling of
reprobation and disgust, not wholly because it was
wanton, but because it was inflicted upon friends as
well as foes. The town is the same which was re-
cently occupied by the negro brigade under Colonels
Higginson and Montgomery; but it does not appear
from the published accounts t hat the negroes had any
hand whatever in the outrage. The Tribune, which
narrates the facts at greater length than any other
journal, throws the blame entirely upon two Yankee
Regiments from Maine and Connecticut, and declares
that the negroes merely looked on "as silent specta-
tors of the splendid but sad spectacle." If soldiers
of the Union army when ordered for military reasons
to evacuate a beautiful city where it would give them
pleasure to remain, ebome to vent their displeasure
against their officers and their vengeance against
the people whom it would have been their delight to
rob and oppress, by setting fire to churches, public
buildings, hotels, and private houses, and indulging.
themselves in every kind of diabolical riot and de-
batrhery, the war has lasted too long for the cha-
racter of the American people. The narrator of the
story in the Tribune, who denounces the atrocity as
it deserves, asks, " Is not this war—vindictive—
unrelenting war ?" The reply of every honest man
will be that it is vindictive and unrelenting, but
that it is not war at all, but savage murder, robber4y,
and arson. The same writer winds up his queries '
by asking his countrymen, " whether they have not
gotten up to the European standard ?" He has
yet to learn that no European nation whatever
would tolerate such an outrage on the part of
its troops ; that Europe never had such a stan-
dard since the darkness of the Middle Ages was
dispelled by the light of Christian and civilised
opinion.
At the great war meeting held to receive Gen.
Butler at the Academy of Alusic, and to strew with
metaphorical roses the pathway of that amiable
hero, it was observed that at least one half of the
audience were ladies. At the great peace meeting
held at the Cooper Institute a few evenings after-
wards only one lady was present. How are these
facts to be explained ? Are the ladies, the church
and chapel going ladies of New York, so thoroughly
imbued with the ideas of blood, gunpowder, and
extermination, instilled into their minds by their
clerical teachers, that they have no hearts for gentle
peace ? Or do their husbands and fathers make so
much money by the war that, in consideration of
the silks, the satins, the Cashmere shawls, the
jewelry, the carriages, the opera-boxes, and the
largely augmented pin-money which they receive
from their prosperous natural protectors, their
senses are dulled to the consideration of the horrors
which the very name of war implies, especially of
a war against mon of their own race, blood, country,
and language ? Whatever be the reason, it is not
agreeable to reflect upon. Jacksonville and all its
elegant buildings are given to the flames. Every
woman and child are removed from Charleston, to
be out of the reach of danger should the Federals
fulfil their threat of not allowing one stone to stand
upon another in that doomed city. The women of
Richmond clamour for bread, and break open the
Government stores to obtain it, or die; and the vast
region from the Potomac to the Rio Grande is a
scene of privation and suffering to women as well
as of heroism in men. But only one woman of
New York was to be found to grace with her pre-
sence an assembly that met together in the sacred
cause of peace and conciliation, while at least 2,000
were glad to come together in their gayest array
and with their sweetest smiles to do honour to such
a man as Butler ! It is bad enough that war should
demoralise men—infinitely worse when it demo-
ralises women—and makes hard those hearts that
nature intended should overflow with mercy and all
kindly sympathies.
The preliminary measures for the enforcement of
the conscription have made little progress ; neither
have the persuasive proclamations of the President
and the Governors of the several States been very
successful in inducing deserters to return to the
camp. Although since the Ist inst. every deserter
has rendered himself liable to be shot, the penalty
has only been inflicted on one individual—far away
in some obscure village of the west—so far away es
to be almost beyond the knowledge and quite be-
yond the sympathies of the soldiers in the more
Populous and busy East. The Government is strongly
urged to make a few examples in Now York and
Boston, but hesitates to shed blood. The Irish, upon
whose aid the Government so greatly depends for
recruiting its armies, are not only violently opposed
to the conscription, but they constitute a large pro-
portion of the deserters, who have seen and felt the

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I liberty also, and think it hard that in the new coun-
try whither they have come to enjoy it they should
be subjected to a forced conscription which they
never heard of in the old. As a rule the Irish jour-
nals are Democratic, and opposed both to the. war
and to the Administration. One of them, published
in this city, under the title of the Metropolitan Re
cord, has rendered itself conspicuous by its able
opposition to the unconstitutional acts of the Go-
vernment. It bore, until a few weeks ago, under
its main title the words, " Official organ of the
Most Reverend the Archbishop of New Yak." It
appears, however, that D Hughes—who was sent
to Europa last year by Mr. Seward, with Bishop
M 11 vraine and Mr. Thurlow Weed, to mar wove
and manage public opinion so as to detach it, if
postib:e, from the cause of the South—has become
alarmed at the conduct of his organ with reference
to the conscription, which it denounces as uncon-
stitutional and oppressive, and particularly unjust
to the poor man. He has, therefore, caused his name
to be removed from the Metropolitan Record, which
now appear as a " Catholic family journal ;" and
boasts no archiepiscopal sanction. The Archbishop is
far above the fighting age, and, therefore, runs no
risk of the conscription; but a large number of the
Roman Catholic priests in his diocess are much under
45, and must personally serve if draughted, or find
substitutes. To a poor priest—no better paid in gene-
ral than a day labourer or mechanic-300 dole. is a
sum too fabulously large to ba provided, except per-
haps at the expense of his parishioners. Hence it fol-
lows that the working Roman Catholic clergy are
opposed to the conscription, though the Archbishop,
radiant in the approbation and esteem of Mr. Seward,
is in its favour ; and that the Metropolitan Record
has retained the confidence of the poorer clergy and
the bulk of the Irish population, while forfeiting that
of the Primate of the Church. These facts having
been freely commented upon in the Dubuque Herald,
edited by an Irishman, the Archbishop has thought
it necessary to explain his position. In a letter to
the editor of a New York paper he denies having
taken any part in politics, except to fulfil in spirit
and to the letter his oath of allegiance to the Go-
vernment of the United States; and expresses his
conviction that if a conscription had been resorted
to 20 months ago in the North " the results would
have been of more humane consequence to both sec-
tions than they are to-day." It is to be inferred from
this somewhat vague utterance that the Archbishop is
of opinion that the North would not have submitted
to a conscription at that time, and that if it had ban
attempted the people would have stopped the war P
It is possible that this is his meaning, for he con-
cludes his letter by stating that all his predictions
ever entertained in thought or expressed in words
have been too truly verified in the results of this
unhappy war. "The only difference," he adds, 'is
that be thought that by early propositions of con-
ciliation the war might either have been prevented,
or that its duration might not have been protracted
so long." The Archbishop's English is somewhat
obscure; but it would seem, all things considered,
that, although he favours the conscription, he still
more greatly favours peace. This is much more than
can be said for the Beechers and Cheevers and the
other preachers of blood ; and is decidedly more
consistent with his sacred function than the relent-
less ravings of too many of his Presbyterian and
Evangelical brethren.

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