The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

!MORE ABOUT 711 E ALABAMA CLAMS.

(Frcm the Anglo -A meriecn Times.)
On Wednesday the Times had an article which
opened with a strong indictment against Senator
Sumner, whose unreasonable demands forced the
South into the civil war, and thereby associated
his name with the opening chapter of that disas-
trous epoch. His demands then were of the same
preposterous nature as his claims now, and as the
7 lines insinuates may lead to another terrible cala-
mity. It goes on to show that for every act which
might be construed into an infraction of interna-
tional law, of England against America, there were
ten such acts by America against England, and if
English sympathy an 1 assistance were towards the
South in the struggle, American sympathy and
assistance were still more in favour of every enemy
of England, in every British emergency since the
birth of the Republic. The 7 imes asserts ttlat if
the upper &asses in England were not sorry to see
the Union endangered, it was the fault of Americans
who had never ceased to aid those whose design it
was to sever the British Union. The Standard takes
the warlike attitude that venerable lady assumes
when her p' i,le is toac'ted. S .nator Chan ller's
proposal it regards as more dangerous than Senator
Sumnet's faThous oration, whic:i had the goof effect
of reducing coutlictiug English views to a common
denominator, and making a unit of British re-
', sist tnC:!. to American aggression. England before
had been able when united to overco:uo greater
I difficulties than now, or ever again can threaten.
Were Senator Sumner's speech embodied in diplo-
-1 matic demands they would make America the laugh•
ing-stock of the world, for they would resolve the.
negociations into a farce ; and the ,Standard thinks
' they could only have been put forward as a prelimi-
\nary to Mr. Chandler's demand for the cession of the
Canadas. That would be more difficult to dispose
ot, for" the rinio-Americansiu this country, Repub-
lican sympathisets-eagerto advance the Democratic
cause and strike any blow at Monarchical institutions,
have long been in the habit of assuming that in the
progress of events Canada must necessarily fall a
prey to the Union." Englishmen have been found
to dishonour their birth by their attempts to betray
the loyal Canadians into the bands of the Philis-

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In this way it has come to pass that a demand for the
cession of the British North American provinces may not
strike all parties in this country with the same feeling of
indignation which would be excited by any other demand
which, though it might not in reality be more unwarrant-
able or insulting, would be Jess familiar. There would
be a party, let us hope it would be a small one, but still
there would be a party in this country,'prepared to defend
and justify such a demand."
After striking these stunning blows, which we, being
among the culprits, could not but feel, the Standard
asserts that it behoves the British to prepare, to let
Americans clearly know where concessions will stop
and peaceable endurance end; that England, no mat-
ter what the consequences, will refuse to surrender a
foot of colonial territory except•through the action of
the colonists themselves, and that any attempt to in-
fringe this principle would bring about a war with
the whole power of Great Britain. While discuss-
ing the Standard, we niay mention that there is an
excellent letter, also in Thursday's issue, from " An
American Shipowner." lie, in a few telling sen-
tences, points out two errors under which his coun-
trymen labour as to the consequences of the escape
of the Alabama and other pirates; the one, that
they prolonged the war, the other that they per-
manently weakened American preponderance upon
the ocean. We regret that we cannot trans-
fer this letter intact to our columns, for it
is an admirable resume of the arguments for the nosi-
tion all along taken by the Anglo-American Times.
But there are a few points too important to be
omitted. This American ship owner, himself a
sufferer from the Alabama, calls the Confederate
effort to get up a Navy " fally," asserting the
" ornamental fighting" done by Semmes and others
to have injured in a material way their cause in Eng-
lani, annihilating the Southern sentiment, perhaps
preventing the union with France in recognizing
the independence of the Confederate States. They
supplied nothing to the South, they did nothing in
aid of Lee or Stanewall Jacks m, their work being
only unmitigated evil, alike to themselves and to
every one else. The monstrous taxation prevented
America, on the termination of hostilities, from r,.!-•
gaining her preponderance, and Congress unwisely
declined to allow the vessels transferred to the Bri-
tish flag during the war to hoist the Star Spangled
Banner after it. But a change had also taken
place whereby the ship-building in which the Tinion
excelled became a thing of the past—wooden sail-
ing vessels having given place to iron screw steamers,
in which the British excelled, as the Americans had
formerly done in wooden sailing ships. The sentimen-
tal part of the question only is seen by the great mass
of Americans, who, having settled West, away back
from the Atlantic, know little of the subject, and
believe in the figurative talk of sails whitening the
ocean. The " Ship-owner" desires that Mr. Bright
would institute an inquiry as President of the
Board of Trade into the cause of the increase of
British and the decrease of American shipping, and
1 he is so popular in America that he would be believed
there as readily as any statesman of the Republic.
We may here observe that he would find the
whole ground already traversed by Consul-General
Morse, in a fair and equitable spirit, a journey
which took him to the same conclusion as the
" Ship-owner," and, as all practical Americans ac-
quainted with the subject. One point more. The
Americans who sold their ships to foreigners during
the war receive I a higher price than could since
have been obtained fcr them. Will Mr. Sumner
give England credit for this, when assessing the
II damages? The Daily New;; concurs with nearly
. all other English journals in thinking INIr Sumner's
exposition absurd, and the supposition that a de-
mand could be made on England for the cession of
Canada, in liquidation, preposterous. If the Pall
Mall Gazette represents the " gentlemen" of Eng-
land, they are in a fighting mood. Our evening
contemporary is bitter as well as bellicose, and is
raking together against Americans every vicious
scrap it can glean. The letter of an American
correspondent to a morning paper furnished an op-
portunity, as it gave specimens of how New York
was governed. Every one knows that a rowdy
Irish mob has been so skilfully organized in that
city as to rule ; and Cork might as well be pointed
The following are among the distinctive features of the to as a specimen of Democratic Government. There
Society : is a pleasant little habit Cockneys have of forget-
CREDIT SYSTEM.—On any Policy for the whole of ta •
ng their own shortcomings, for, in three years,
Life, where the age does not exceed 60. one-half of the
Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain more iniquitous swindling was done in London—
on credit. I and by the respectability, too, of the City—than in
ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected,
a generation
without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay- in New York and with worse conse-
,
able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death, quences. The Pall Mall censures the Spectator
whichever event shall first happen. for admitting that America had any grievance
INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned
to the increased risk. I at all against England, and proceeds much in
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid
thirty days after proof of death. the same way as Mr. Sumner, on the other side, to
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained Prove this, taking the road which so often brings us
of any of the Society's Agents, or of alltogrief. Thusnationsdrift into wars; thusindivid-
EORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. uals into law courts. But however one-sided the
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.
arguments may be they are intelligible, whether
American or British, and we who endeavour to get
as near the centre as we can are called British by
Americans,.and American by the British. Having,
however, the arguments on both sides before us, we
can comprehend them ; but we confess our inability
to understand Mr. Reverdy Johnson's remarkF (a,ds
reported in the 7 Imes) at the Royal Literary
as the
Dinner. Lord Stanley occupied the chair, anhd. abered
American Minister was on his left, heo.hwisps
did
in his ear not to talk politics. itch'
perhaps
not prevent Mr. Johnson from dm
lie acknowledged that it
.would be
tances that had
to refer refer minutely to the orfutnost
any
thing in them
gave the enigmatical character tohhifsmporbospeeirvaintiohniisn.
cently occurred. There wasbuetween England and
likely to lead to a rupture
America. Then this followed .
rifer he gN,v.oatstOittiolef
Vits.l or e d iu bringing about the re-
jectionb ther the person to whom he al-
luded had or had not succeeded
two,
believe
ee hliewv was intendedthat toe
seotnt
o'intl,l4nnwmansighittnmstaatteertit
al
hat
and he begged' thosek
aisputes between the two countries,
surutiiitatofwthhiechninan.y.
was
not expressing the real, honest, and patriotic sentiments of
hoof
his country.
He had always dwelt at the base, and from that
wthaes :dndvreestistign
position he could not see the claims that had since
been discovered. From the way in Which the re-
porter of the Times gave his remarks the reader
would suppose that he had alluded
.to the Presi-
dent, but we believe he meant Senator Sumner,
regarded by him as an old political foe against
whom he had often led hie patty in tin Smarts.

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