The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-29

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rr3 kss in the Generals avn ssntimsnt. Indeed
wAy i 4 necessary that In pthins may fes II our
hu.anity ofour transatlAtic srethrsnf Except in an
eeearons doctrine Of rather too aggressive character
sS s.s aeu n
- toe ax find nothing in the inter
national policy Of me United States and the language of
American citine ON the subject that cannot admire
and that Is zot worthy Of the generous emulation
subsisting between US But they must pardon
rosls and shoals even II they be laid down in the
Anercan chart Theirs IL not "snug little island"
compact little republic or hide bound population
fAsy Increasing and multiplying they are stretching
thsr in every direction they heterogeneous in
race in language and in manners they are imperecty
organized, and, as matter of necessity, sometimes
ss1gh and ready in their notions Of justice public de-
fsaoe and territorial extension they have Inch law In
Ne backwoods and in the newly gathered and mscela
OF the Atlantic ports crude ideas of mari
Time order II is not every man who does, or can take
Of his children, especially when they hume.
American government or Congress, but do fear the
unscrupulous cupdiy the desutory enterprise and the
feeling that the Old World and everything not in the Uni
ted States lawful prey to its privileged citizens which
annates certain class Of the American population.
Nsr this the whole Of the danger The sting behind
We greatly fear that, in the event of our capturing
Ysiyateer, evidently American, yet sharp sn1nsa
1s have kept to wind Of the law, American
would be rather for the offender than for his victim;
Rr;t;,h yowtb and that II il looked to with hope
elsewhere might be seen by extracts ron Two
ssak-n our Yesterdays impression 1t appears that
some Russian officers are on mission 70 the cnef
norta and even the government navy yards Of the
ned states osensby to superntend the construction
Of some propelers ordered for the Emperor From
snt OF subarents ali over the Union and other cir
sunstances it is more than suspected that they have
been sent to effect the organization necessary for fitting
Sut Russian prvateers in the American ports Nothing
"a said about their success II any, whether they ap
pear to have met with kindred spirits in the great strong
held of republican freedom and federal strength. We
are inclined to think it probable that they have been
hitherto content with looking about, and that very
slight hint will be construed into suggestion that these
prvateering diplomatists may well return home to
their master.
we are to apply to the Of all prvaeers the rules
which the United States lay down for their guidance
here will not be much loop hole for the intrusion of the
eass have described in the struggle By
those rules we may require that the letters o. marquee
Russian port after the breaking out of the war Now
y moral impossibhty that there can be such thing
the open from the moment OF the declaration OF
war; in whatever shape may come, till the time when
the Russian Penpoentary shall sign hard conditions OF
peace whenever and wherever that also may be. Car
nly our fleets are in vain our boasts in van
ssas, wealth. all is in vain If we allow anything
Russian to escape through the Sound or the
during the period of If Russia has the land, we
have the sea- have right to expect that
ahe those two outlets Of her marine than
shc has that could march our handful of soldiers
ksn Odessa to Moscow. OF course 1t will be necessary
- early success, to economy of treasure and blood
and to the peace Of the continent that We we. should %n
that much seems certain We have then only to insist
the principles laid down by President Polk in his Mes
mge IN December g. 1S46 to the Americans Themselves
any Of their counrymen should be caught in the Of
fence After the energetic regulations however, that
have been elected by fears will fain hope that
even the lawless adventurers we have alluded To will
dread they do not respect the public opinion OF the
Omitted States; particularly the laws Of the Union re-
gard the disposal of Illegally captured prize in neu
trail port a violation ofthat neutrality.
Gen. Webb suggests that now is the time for England
France and the United States, the three foremost
maritime Powers in the world and the two former en-
ged in Of the noblest undertaken In the
cause of humanity and freedom to enter into treaty
Ter the entire suppression Of privaeerng Should such
preer appear to be feasible It ooud De most soecoms
end ne hare beiepc that ovtures ,cu shortly be
made By our ou,' government for ne purpose For the
ne such danger in tho quarter whence the evil
next to Impossible there should be any but is at least
fair matter of inquiry by the several governments in
terested what danger there is anywhere and whether
there 10 sufficient call for the machinery that such
treaty would require and Greater have any right
to be regarded the opponents of public opinion in this
object, would be decidedly unpopular. The particular
ssm which the may eventually assume 1t may pass
human agacity todyine but for this year. at least
VIII hardly be maritime Russia, in return for the
unustifabe occupation of Principalites will suffer
the hostile occupation of two inland Her defned
but dangerous pretensions to those will be spced
In instant and she will fnd that her future choice
Hes between an equal share in their use or utter excln
sion. Whether in out of those seas, her maritime
character will be placed in abeyancc till she has submit
ted herself to the common law of nations and admitted
that popular anaticism and imperial hypocrisy arc no
palliation of robbery and murder.
ALLIANCE DESIRED BY THE WESTERN POWERS WITH
THE UNITED STATES.
From the London Times, March 10.]
The period of forty which has elapsed since the
Termination Of the last European has witnessed
changes Of unexamped magnitude in every branch Of
s,irit has searched and reformed the institutions Of 80
sety Restrictions which formerly regarded as In
dpeusa bic guarantees for personal interests or our
national security have been not only swept away as su
periuous but condemned positively noxious; for our
prosperity and power have advanced with accelerated
rapdity as we have learned to rely with confidence
but few examples Our penal code has been relieved
from the sanguinary enactments once thought essential
rsuue have been released from those protective and
restrictive laws which long believed to be the
rien Of Parliament win probably open even our
soaating trade to the free competition of foreign
vessels. 1t now becomes our duty to consider and
70 ascertain whether the same period which has
served to remove SO many prejudces and misconcep-
tens in most of the relations of social life may not also
have enabled to deal in more liberal and humane
ret to which little attention has been directed
hing there no immediate cause for it. The world
content to believe that the evils of state OF war
vsud not easily again, and there be some rea
son regret that In the of the long peace
provision has not been made for hem butt the other
hand the circumstances Of the present time pecu
Early favorable to the dispassonate consideration Of
such notifications in the law OF nations a. the state 81
he world requires The three principal maritime and
sosmercial Porers-Gredt Britain France, and the
Usiied Satesdrc excellent terms. Two Of them
closely aedfor tho prosecution Of this war, and the
American people scarcely less interested than
selves In the success Of The extreme difficulty
hitherto felt in oil previous efforts TO improve the usages
Of war; regards commercial interests lay in the fact
That in every between two great maritime States all
that was proposed by one Of the belligerents
resisted by the other, and the attempt to impose
By force any departure from the received doctrines Of in
hrnatona law only fresh Of the strife. At
sAts time on the conrcry hare in orr posccr acting
- cosIuncton NTH the United Sotes aud Frawoe, to 10y
s Skdher belsgerents Hcsrdls may agree; and
We have doubt that the reaxatons which may safely
be made in the former maritime code will be cordially
assented to by the secondary maritime States The Later
years of the last and especially from 1907 to 1914
witnessed an exaggeraton Of all the measures Of rgcr
before employed against commercial interests In mari
time warfare Napoleon carried his prohibitions to the
extinction Of all commercial independence by the CONT