The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-15
From the Winchester Virsinian.
STRANGE NEUTRALITY.

STRANGE NEUTRALITY.
AS well known to eyeryb body the French and English
governments have kept constantly employed several hun
bred thousand finest and most costly merchant
shipping the transportation of troops and stores 10 the
Crimea The exorban of charter paid to the own
OF these vessels furnish strong prcsumptve evidence
that without their aid the allied operations would have
been seriously delayed mpeed As it is the benefit
has been mutual The allies have freely awaited themselves
Of the extraordinary Of transport afforded them by
the tonnage of neutral country and merchants
and journals have been freely INDUCING in segratuahon
at The large steady and profitable employ thus Sc
cured TO vessels time when the ordinary freghiing
business WAS duh. The Russians alone have been the
sufferers While they have not, with solitary excep-
ton we shall presently mention, and which suggested
these remarks tasked the conscience Of neutral ship
owners to the extent single schooner but
feel that but the material adp have indirectly
tended to their banded invaders Sobasopol might now
be theirs Yet the Gar has complained. Proba-
bly, it is the stern and proud endurance Characters
tic Of his race that has sealed the lips Of his repre-
sentative at Washington The uniform aiiy he and his
predecessors have been always careful TO maintain with
the United States has also doubtless something to do with
his iorbearance. Whatever the cause the only check
placed upon these proceedings is the practically inopera
tive Of notifying American merchants that their
sells Liable capture If found by Russian cruisers with
materials Of on board Russia has not single cruiser
at sea in any of the European waters
Well few months ago a Russian frigate wrecked
in the japanese harbor Of Snoda the and officers
barely escaIing An American trading schooner, the
Caroline t. Foote happened fortunately in port and she
chartered carry these shpwrecked and shelteess
men-or part of them-to Peiropauowski. The voyage
performed and the skpper brought his vessel back to
San Francisco BY the last steamer thence we learn that
he has arraigned before the United States commits
soner or having in the transportation Of the Russian
soldiers violated the strict terms Of neutrality in the
pending between Russia and the allied powers AT
whose insgaon these proceedings had does not APP
pear but the British French consul both of them ia
or are, guess, at the bottom OF it
or the technicates of the we know nothing Our
strict neutrality may have been violated but assuredy
more than BY ships in the British channel the Me
terranean and the Black IT. after having winked APP
proringly under the influence OF swelling pocket the
landing by American ships Of hundred thousand British
and French troops Russian soil humor the rep
resenistves OF the power which lately nsnlted
and laws by existing recruits our soil In immoa-
ting the master Of American schooner for receiving
handful Of shpwreced Russians the other side Of the
globe we do hesitate to say that the national honor
viii be sullied.
Should the accused be 10 court of Law, douot
not that he will be relieved from whatever fine may be inn
posed By private contributions The prevailing popular
sentiment as marked on the Pacific the Atlantic side
Everywhere in the Union there Is keen appreciation Of
the interest this country has in seeing England and France
sufficiently rammeed by the affairs of their hemis7
pbere to keep them out of The allies are as anxious
obscure the existence Of that feeling in the eyes Of their
own people in those Of Everything tending like
The incident have adverted to- to combat or to throw
cloud it, works in their favor
Did all the contending powers belong to another planet
near enough TO be but incapable Of communication
THE would be subject merely OF phosophic curiosity
and opinions might be equally divided Posi-
bly, Napoleon aud Victoria might be the favorites Bat
the arsenss Of England and France near us rs they
are to the Crmea; and ten days or fortnight might
transfer the hunders Of Sebastopo to our shores or those
Of OR next neghbors Call the impression produced by
this consciousness one Of pocket Of the heart is
nevertheless natural and strong one, and II viii in all
probability become stronger with victory over
the Russians and every ve in The extraordinary alliance
which assails them
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