The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-22


attention and promise to to the subject future
day
THE LIVERPOOL TINES ON THE GREYTOwN
AFFAIR.
In looking foreign files of papers received by
the Baltic notice article in the Liverpool Times, rel
alive to the bombardment of Greytown by the IT, s. ship
Cyane which is deserving of something than
passing comment On the of the departure of every
from Liverpool for Boston New York edition
of the Times is prepared expressly and exclusively for the
American market very large majority of the socaled
commercial papers published in the northern Atlantic
cities in the hands of wings, aboonsts, persons
radically opposed to the principles of the democratic party
and are therefore not all surprised that the news
and editorial articles prepared with much care for the
Times manufactured with the just confidence of long
continued to meet the views wishes interests and
peculiar ndosyncracies of their best But
surprised that journals published in other sections of the
country and identified with other ineressiournas free
from the smac complaints of the New York Tribune and
the chronic diseases of the New York Courier and
Enquirer-should make their readers acquainted with
the popular mind and movements abroad solely
through the medium of a newspaper which, while 1T
panders to the diseased anti-repubcan appetite of
nconsiderable portion of the American press, is
udious in its endevors give the reader this side
of the Atlantic only the English version of the great events
transporting the continent. Judging from the char
acer of the intelligence which appears in the Times in re-
gard to American affairs together with the editorial COM
ments which accompany that intelligence feel fully JUS
titled in the suspicion which we have from the first enter
tanned touching the authenticity of the accounts from the
of war in the East which have from time time APP
peared in this Journal.
1t will be fresh in the recollection of the reader that the
of the bombardment of Greytown received with
howl of assumed indignation by every abolition press in
the country. The wing journals, which have become
suddenly Americanzed in their feelings and sentiments
shades of the Hartford Convention protect us promptly
took up the discordant cry They could see nothing TO
admire in the prompt vindcaon of the honor of flag
They could nothing to approve in the gallant reply
of Captain Hollins the nsolent note of the English
commander They doubted the right to punish pi
and treebooers. AT the time, expected that the
wing and abolition press would find not merely ready
echo but able and useful auxiliary in the Liverpool
Times In this expectation have not been deceived.
The Times is of opinion that the burning of Greytown
sis of the dsgrncefu events that could have oc-
Cured in the nineteenth century We will pass over
such disgracel events the booty and beauty order
we will forget the storming of ST. Jean dAcre; will OBJ
serve the scrupulous silence in regard to British mas
sacre in India word shall escape lips touching
the infamous opium in Chna-for the purpose OF re-
mndng contemporary the water ofthe bombard
mcn Of Copenhagen and destruction of the Danish feet
which most dsgraceul event. occurred if recollec
ton has not totally deserted u.s. in the nineteenth
century, But two wrongs the honest homely
adage has it, adont make right Granted; but,
we contend, the bombardment of San Juan all
right; and the bombardment of Copenhagen, with its
terrible accomplishments all wrong The reebooters of
Greytow had deied the American faghad committed
gross personal outrage upon the American mniserhad
for long of years committed the most unprovoked
aggressons upon the persons and property of American
czens--and before punishment inflicted, they had
refused make redress apology On the other hand,
England was at peace with Denmark. Apparently, the
most friendly relations existed between the courts of the
two countries Nothing had occurred to interrupt the ami
cable feelings which had existed between the governments
Yet in the face of all thsn violation of all public pr
yac rghin utter contempt of laws recognised sacred
and inyiolablc by all civilized natonsCopenhagen was
bombarded human life wantonly sacrificed; and mil
lions of property DESTROYED because Great Britain fear
full that the Danish fleet might be used by the uncle of
their present usrous ally, the Emperor of the French
In conclusions we would call the attention othc Liverpool
Times the fact of the recognition of the sovereignty OF
San Juan in the hands of the King of the Mosquitoes by
/ Great Britain and France and until that monarch shall
prefer his complaint against the United States rather
premature invoke the interference of the supremacy OF
the press either in the United States or Great Britain
much less the poectoate of Britain the same sans
euoHe barbarian When that sovereign shall send his
eeches embassy for redress for the violation of his
rights and the destruction Of The property Of his British
and French subjects doubt not that the Secretary o
State will consider his pretensons are well satisfied
the people of the United States ready and willing to do
those of his transatlantic allies.
i EXCOLLECTOR BRONSON
n II Is positively stated in several New York papers that
Mr. Brnnenn haa finally consented accept the nominal