Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-08-22
CFrom the London Times OF august 81
English En1istments in the United States.

gerentS only too apt TO forget all nteteStS bat
their own, and 10 pay too little attention to the
rights and recamatIoas OF neulraS. Our cani-
paenS have taught us, only too vigorously anu
plainly, how great is our want OF men, and how
necessary ii is to find some OF competing IN
this respect with Power which levies its human
tribute with tar more certainty than that win
which 1t eau collect the pecunlary contributions
OF its Impoverished subjects. But there Is, as II
appears u US, considerable danger that IN our
anxiety 10 Conquer ole enemy We snail nike 10
ourselves another, and order to provide ourselves
with few hundred drso:derly and refractory fe-
crultS make tLlEty million enemies OF our ownracs
on tne other side OF the Atlantic. There is 80 per
son against whom the moral presumption would
be stronger than against resident IN The Unliet-
States who should be willing 10 reCrOSS the Allan
tic III order TO plunge into the vortex OF an Euro
pean war. Such person has gone to country
where man is above all things III demand, and
where idleneSS and poverty are not the results oil
the stale Of society, but the voluntary choice OF
men unwilling 10 work and unable 10 save. such
persons there will always be in every com nunlty,
but America affords less excuse than any other
country tot their existence, inaSmuch as work is
more easily obtained and mule richly enumerated
than elsewhere.
We greatly doubt whether, if we can succeed
in attracting under STANDARD all the Jesparadoes
who forever threatening The reroSe of the fee
Bile republic contiguous 10 the United States, we
shall nave materially strengthened our amy, and
whether We Shall not have 10 pay in imsubuEilna-
ton, mutinleS, and deSeTuorS price more than
equivalent 10 tnh:ng increase of our numbers.
VI hetEer this be so however, or not, there is no
doubt That tine inst and honest cause in which we
arc engaged has failed to command the Symplthies
of considerable portion OF the the American
people. " may regret this, but We cannot de-
uylt. We may lament that, while such extreme
facility afforded 10 the plra.ical expedition
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to collect a band Of adventures for any buccneer-
lug object, the attempts OF England to recruit her
armies from the United States have been watched
with such peculiar and exceptional vigilance, and
cOumteTpCLed with such unyledIng severity. But,
though we regret these things, cannot deny
thea, nor can we deny the right Of the United
States Government to put in force its own law pro-
h5Iing the en- iStnent of lis subject into foreign
service, even though that Service may happen 10
be our own. We nave the IeeIIng of the people
and The law OF the country against us. 4 people
justly jealous oil the proceedings OF any lureisn
State; and law whose provisions We, at any rate
having adopted Slmilar law ourselves, have no
right 10 complain. Is it wise, is II just to push on
this Interference with the internal affairs of Ii
friendly Power, in defiance of her law, her 1ecia-
nations, and her feelings?
The danger we appIehend is nearer than might
be supposed. We find by the American papers
that Mr.. RowcrOlt, the English Consul at Clncm-
nati, has been tired on the charge of enllstIng
Am. Tlcan subjects lor service with the British ar
my IN the CTnea. The report OF the tnahiS thus
headed by our cOntempor4ry,--"Irl Intormers I!
Sham EnlStme"ts! Trap 10 catch Mr. Ruwcraf
The money obtained Speut III d.ink; Thu. object
l-hatred OF England" In this CompendouS auridg-
ment, which does much Credit to lie condensimg
powers Ut Onr American contemporary, is pretty
we'll explained the history OF the case. 4 Mr.
Conahau, member OF the aUnilel Irish Society,"
conceived the brilliant idea of pretending Il wish
TO enlist fifty recrnitS III the English army in order
TO eniTap Mr.. Rowcro!t, the English Consul, into
an admission which might bring him within the
danger OF the law against foreign enlistment, For
lhIS purpose he obtained an introduction to Mr.
Rowcrott, who appears TO have told him that if
he would take hay men To the Niagara Suspension
bridge he should receive Captains commission
70 tins purpose he deceived an advance of money
hot from Nj. ROwCIOlt,--which he and Ills con-
Iederates, not apparently afflicted with over nice
ness as 10 the pclnt of honor, retained for their
own USE. 1t also Appeared that MIR. ROwcroft had
advised Conahan to stay at home, and take care
OF his wife and children, instead OF going to the
Crumea. The evidence, even if II be believed,
which, considering the persons from whom il
COMES would IMPLY an extraordinary amount of
credulty, is exceedingly slight. The Court has
not Yet given lis opinion, but we cannot entertain
i doubt that upon the merits of the case MIR. Row
gTOtt Will obtain an acquttal. Still, the fact Of
such trial taking place is in itself extremely
preJudIcal to the good understanding between the
TWO counties, and likely 10 raise feelings md de-
bates OF Il most undesirable character. Though
Mr.. Rowcroit may be acquitted of the charge Of
eniiSICg American subjects, the trial proves clear
| Iy enough that such enlistment WAS going on
| through agents supplied with money from this
county, and that the English Consul was cogni-
2ant oil the proceedings.
Tie whole thing seems to have been managed
very clunSllY, and TO have been brought 10 light
by an aruhce as clumsy as the Management. Ii is
OF no use to inveigh against the Contemplate trea-
cherry by which the proceeding was dscoverrd-
Our duty is to consider whether we are free from
blame, and not how much blame may he lmputa-
BILE to Others. 1t IS the will of the American no
pie, as expressed by their laws, that they shall not
he enlisted IN the service OF foreign State; it is
The OPINION OF the executive Government that those
laws ought to be put i'll force, ard, far as we can
tell that supported by very considerable
| amount OF pnblc opinion. We are not acting the
part OF good ally or of a sincere and honorable
Trend OF the United States III seeking, for our own
purposes, TO infringe their laws, to cutwit tn, il
Executive, and to ofendthe feelings and preiuclc
OF their people. We might reasonably have tx
pected at the hands OF u nation nearly united
10 us ty blood, and, we should have thought, by
SlmIarltyof views and feeling, little more sympa-
| thy; but their sympathy is theIr own To give or
Withhold, and we have night 10 quarrel with
our Transatlantic meighbors IT. in the midst OF de-
mocrncy, they stretch out their hands 10 despotism
and look coldly on the cause of freedom.
| We earnestly entreat our Government TO consid
er well what they are dolas IN thus tamperlng
with the feelings OF susceptible and high spirited
nation and 10 withdraw, before worse comes of l..
from a position so fraught with difficulty, which it
is Impossible to defend on the grounds uI Justice
or support on principles of equity or fair dealing.
Let them reverse the question, and ass themselves
whether, if the United States sent their recruiting
agents into England, the British Government would
tolerate such proceedng2 We are sure they
would not, and that in so doing they would be
backed by the voice Of Parliament and the all but
unanimous opinion of the people. We have no
right to inhct upon our neighbors that which, IN
der similar circumstances, we would not endure
ourselves. W have no right to maze their mu-
nIclpal law bend TO our n tons OF expediency,
and we utterly misunderstood that which is expe.
den, if we believe it 10 consist with any course
which will have the effect of raising against us
hostile feelings in the great American Republic.
1t is for the Americans to consider what line Of
conduct they choose to adopt in this matter; it is
Tor us to respect their decision, and by a volun-
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