The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

United States to enforce the doctrines of Lord
PALMERSTON and Lord ABERDEEN.
It must at once excite great suspicion 111 the
Liberal party, to see the right of England to visit
and search American ships now strenuously
urged and maintained by the Tory Press. It bee
been taken up by the Times, the Morning PA
the Quarterly Review, the Morning Herald, &C',
and it is pl eased vehemently by these high: flying
monarchical Tories against theßepublicaus, wh°ll/,
they continually deride and depreciate. Wit!:
them it is a personal quarrel, founded on o'l'
hatred of freedom. They press it, too, in the 'Wile
of humanity, when theyiwere the men who resiled
to the utmost of their power, through a succef
of years, every attempt to check the progress °f
the slave trade, or meliorate the condition of the
slaves.

It excites great suspicion, too, that the pall
which is so eager to involve us in war, in °l.dr
to promote the advantage of the Africans, is, the
advocate of monopoly at home; and while it Pr it
tends to feel for the suffering negroes $
cruelly starves our own people, inflicting
thousands instances a more lingering. and pain
middle
ful death than ever disgraced the ~,
passage. While we feel that the Tory cant ab°has
humanity is a sheer pretext, we cannot forget.t's
the tree republicans, against whom they viell
direct the wrath of our humane people, are, t"he
dwellers in the boundless plains of the Mis6l';
sippi, and offer to our starving multitudes t",
food which the Monopolists withold from tileill;
A war against them would be an effectual rnet'e
of indirectly preserving the monopoly of
bread-taxers.
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Another source of suspicion is found in
allies of our Tories. Russia, Austria, Prussitt
and France form the league which is to dictate
a new code of international laws to the Repubo
whose capacious. bosom yielding nourishment
all who ask it, whose strong arms to Ofea,
them, and cheap institutions constitute a stania
ing condemnation of all the Monarchieg.,a.rth
despotisms of Europe. Is England to unite W.lof
them to put down freedom under the pretf,%''

putting down slavery ?
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The language used by the defenders an
vocates of this holy league, is calculated tV 4;.ce
cite grave suspicions. They want to enf°,:d
" maritime order," just as they have establi4'
terrestrial order, or slavery; they want to s9res
a "police over the sea," as they have spre,,lier
over the land ; they liken a ship to a trave't;
and they contend, as the latter is subject t°l/300
his passport overhauled on the Continent/ s° ea
shipowner can complain if his vessel be steppe,
till she has proved to the satisfaction of the ',;
tain of the vessel stopping her that she
right to wear the tiag she hoits, as a travelled if
stopped by gens d'armes on the Continent, aprd
compelled to prove that he is entitled to Ca

the passport he exhibits.
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Passports are inventions to preserve. or 01
They are to prevent the escape of criminals/ $.O,
enable a Government to bring offenders to J#
tice. That is their best defence, but they °leo
prodigious annoyance to honest and ioneetieor,
men. Let these Powers obtain the s4Peete
of maritime England to establish a police 011,,,e(1
sea—let our people approve of the plan now lirtlop,
by the Tories in the name of humanity, ef,se of
ping and examining every ship in time of Peavoio
which a naval officer may choose to enter $l,
suspicions—and very soon no vessel wiqe °iice
lowed to cross the seas unmolested by th.delltooe
.cruizers of all the tyrants of Europe: ate'
of their victims would then be . able ,todstoti;
fuge from their wrath in the United StatOtearti
vessel would then be able to cross the sea:eirm: the
on a traffic of which they disapprovederfe
commerce of England a sea police .t 4: .P ti9B
maritime order would be a fatal enthralmtl"loo
hope that our own merchants and shiOr.
-$ll
who would not submit to such a practice.; 105 t
careful not to support the present cIOMMi rbe
the United States, lest the precedent lier-C#'
applied to themselves. • e '
From these circumstances, thoug4ol%el (I'4
our Liberal Contemporaries have, salt.
side of the Tories, and of Lord PALbitti?7,i '
look on the claims, now put forililb,y,o!";, err
vernment with great dislike, and we- 50. '`
deavour to show that they are.foundedAlt°47
ther on new and erroneous assumption4,-
may stand alone in our resistance to th.e. tic
made in the name of England as againtiool
United States, but it is better to be right."
than wrong with a great multitude.
It is rather late to begin our stateole:;4
principles, and our argument at the tail
_fori,
many observations, and we must, the
content ourselves with observing that the
co of
now made by England has entirely gr°`.fig
out of a new set of circumstances, and
11,,e1t
itself a novelty should unquestionably 41c°
enforced by violence on the unwilling joil t 0
of any other Government. In contradict asgeri
my Lord ABERDEEN, we will venture tc)vritl4l'
that it never was the practice of the fieitf
navy, nor of any navy, to ascertain, by .heat
during peace, the real nationality of Ifl,e'r
del,
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vessels nzet with on the high seas, if elf
good reason to apprehend their Wee, ere''
racter. When the nations are at peace ti!th 1)f;
no motive for examining vessels met '111051:
the high seas. It would be a gratuito°s4o„,
of time. Except a man-of-war be sent after ill'
particular pirate vessel, or some partieui oioe
gal trafficker, it is not the practice to e°o6
O_•P
vessels met with on the high seas duri°7a-t`
In fact, the right of visit, or the lir' It 1.
search, is altogether a right of war. oes,
instituted and acknowledged solely as
of preventing an enemy from receiving sti.trto(l"
and never was either practised or sub or;
during peace. We are now at peace, and atiO
fore, according to the customary law of a 0
we have no right to visit American ship; ocite
But the American flag, it is said, l 9 bets
carry on a trade which we and some Ot and ‘
tions have recently declared to be piracP
eao
tl3:'
order to put an end to that it is contend ,
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in certain latitudes where ships are hrible oi
g '0
picion, vessels bearing the Americanflaviej
be stopped and made to prove to all is i°e3
cruizer that they are American vessf 1.13it,t
navigated according to the laws of lltr
States. Now this declaring a partide of
O
piracy is a complete novelty in the e a it's
,
Lions. We are not sure, however wele°°l-
to our zeal for humanity, that it is witl)..filcno
dope
To kidnap the blacks, as is sometime b,a'
the Slavers, is undoubtedly almost as boo'.
our practice of impressment; tobuy those eel
already enslaved, however heinons atv °life° Tr
morality, can scarcely be called piracY.,oe
latter never had the sanction of the ti'
world; the slave trade, and slavery, receive:le ti
sanction for ages. To class the slave Wlao ir
piracy, is, therefore, a novelty, arid we lei
whether it be proper to enforce a nove
others by such extreme measures as stti
American ships at sea, and making the cs.rfr
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prove that they are bona fide American A
The Quarterly Review admits that "Pr° ircf
it this
lqaut
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rgeraotwi out ofTheo ur sTimesla
that" it has arisen upon the slave trade tree
reced?'
"It is only a means of enforcing Cala r
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a"
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enactments of partial obligation." 'OIF
been careful to obtain the consent of other .og°l
where we could, to our means of etlf°ll..ezt.i,eo
their subjects obedience to our enact.loe•Piaeall
the Government never thought itselftu.st:tig t,Pe,
enforcing obedience, without first obtalos'restioi
consent of other nations. Hence our.aht
nationsuld havegiving
sary had such a right been,
sweiatrhe. ht,hNorsheicl w
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my Lord ABERDEEN, always in
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and the piracy being novel and
ary to be
peace. The enactments creating the
niternailonal—it was clearly necess 00
time consent
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