The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-14
RICHMOND. VA;
Tbursday Morning. October IA. 1882.
Gu Bi.

II
New York Express justly remarks that 'he IN
cident is full OF pruyocation; but We 90 not
agree with that paper and the journal OF 1om
nerce that the treatment OF the captain was
strictly according to the law Of nations. Ii Is
rue that the law OF nations prescrbes 10 every
cantain and crew of a vessel. visiting foreign
mort. the stictest obedience to the laws of the
country 10 which such port belongs. and 10 the
regulations and bylaws which appertain more
particularly 10 the port itself. Its trne that
the laws o: Spain require passengers, leaving
sry of her ports, to obtain passports previous
~ 10 doing so, and that the man 1earkness left
without having provided himselfin this paltic-
ular. 1t is true, lastly, that il the captain had
been cognisant of the fact, he would have been
liable to punishment according TO law, that i,
10 q fine of one thousand dollars. But he pro
tested upon his word Of homer, as gent,emon
that he vas perfectly unconscious OF the fact,
and in this assertion he was sustained by
Hearkness himself. So apparent was the truth
of his statement, that the authorities, after bull
lying him for several days, combining him in
lIiSpLI, anu CIihtuN WIN 'NCIS iAiS"t'T "a
their power TO eXtort money from him. were
compelled 10 release him. There was, in fact,
nothing against him.
Had il been proved that Capt. Ward was an
accomplice, there could have been no doubt
as TO the Justice of sentence by the proper
authority 10 the extent cf the law. But we
have vet to learn that the Spanish law pre-
scribes rs u part of the punishment on such
occasions, gross and violent personal abuse, or
that il authcrses the riing Of the letter bags
ofe vessel belonging to q friendly nation. This
last was clearly an act Of war, without de-
claration. 1t was such an act as will excite a
storm of INDIGNATION from one end of this Re
public to the G, her; such a storm rs no admin
'stration could resist, even were it so disposed.
We repeat what we said yesterday; it is vain
it is an absolute waste of time-to reason
with these people. They are behind the times
by al least three hundred years, aud cunnot lie
made 10 believe that the world has progressed
one foot, since the reign of Ferdinand the Cath
ole. They have stuck themselves down upon
one Of the most beautiful and productive islands
commerce in the world, and there they stand.
They will neither advance nor reCede-neither
do ANYTHING themselves, nor suffer anybody
else to do It, They lax the unhappy Ihhab!-
tant: so enormously, that they absolutely
gfoah peneath thelr buf'hehS tAey MAKE u
ba support oil the coruptons OF tie mpeche
and corrupt Count OF the hscuriaI' and the Oh
iy returns The ihhao"ah'S get Tor IL ATE Tie
dungeon ana t'ie gaff"'e' 1ohh Ntu'LcS AZ
ans delivered long lecture TO prove mat 'Ae
English were right IN gong 10 war to force
'1e Chinese into the purchase ana cohsump-
lion Of Their opium, though hundreds 0i
thousands were reduced 10 ne2gay by
IT, and he constructed the only argument "hieh
ms whole lecture contains, upon the basis OF
an assumption made by himself, that the world
has 5lght to force every nation to trade We
regard Mr.. Adams as very poor authority IN
any case wh@tever and we are lar from as
sentlng to the murderous doctrine expressed
above. But We will say, that where semi
barbarous people seat themselves IN the midst
OF civilized nations, and practice, under any
-; N'' 'i''>'i'-S' VI N'P
on their commerce and their citizens, she
makes herself a nuisance, that ought 10 be
abated.
We have been told nv some nrin,s which
evidently see that we con never oct ,Ionc with
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expected 10 go 10 war without JUST cause anu
witch sue snail nave such cuuse' II stie small