The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-14
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THURSDAY MORNING, ,rfNr :. 10
AMERICAN SYMPATHY FoR ENoLANn

We nave never seen In British journal
an article which treated this subject with the
i'lrness and truth of he Edinburgh Caledo.
ma Mercury, some extracts from which we
suhjoin. Whilst the London Times and other
papers consider it unnatural and revolving
that Americs should refuse to sympathze
with England in the Eastern war, this intelli-
gent and candid journal gives some of the
true reasons for that want of sympathy, and
places the responsibility where it properly
belongs, upon British shoulders. "rhe ru-
inors,' says the Mercury, "of American in
difference TO our success, of American SYM
pathy with our enemies, have their origin,
not in the acts Of our brethren, but in the
contcmptuous Sights and callous indiffer-
ences of ourselves? The promptings of an
evil conscience inform us that we have mer-
tied the resentment, the existence of which
we are beginning to assume; and that per-
sistence in the studied insolence with which
the friendly advances of our transatlantic
brothers seem to be received, may possibly
at no distant period, convert these rumors
into facts
The Mercury then proceeds to say that while
every whiskered aid de camp or envoy from
the continental powers, whose business or
pleasurelesds him to England, is overwhelm.
cd with honors,-received in special train
st Folkstone, and in court carriage at
London Bridge, presented to Majesty by the
Minister, and runs the gauntlet of aristo,
! cratic hospitality and ostentation in Crescent.
Lane and square, from St. Something in the
East, to st. Somebody IN the West" Ameri,
| can visitors Of distinction and merit are ut
| terly neglected and ignored. OF several in
stances which have lately bsen brought un-
der its notice OF the manner in which Ameri
| cans have been treated, the Mercury con-
tents itself with giving the following:
In the month OF March last, three of the Ameri-
can veteran officers of the Mexican campaign, 10
the three several departments of engineers, arte
ry, and cavalry. selected from the gallant army OF
the United States, by the President and his cabi-
net, as worthy from their talent and services to
represent their countrymep, were directed by the
Government to proceed to the Crimea, for the pur.
pose Of studying the art of war. The names OF
these officers were, and are. Major Richard Dea-
field of the Ensine eers--Major Mordecai of the
Artillery, and Captain Maclellap of the Cavalry.
Did they proceed TO the Russian lines, where the
art OF war be studied quite as efisctually
as In our own-to which they would have received
and would still receive a hearty weicome-and
with which nation they are falsely represented
TO sympsthizef They did not. They arrived
in England, with letters from the British Minister
st Washington authenticaling their mission, and
which were presented by them last month to the
Foreign Secretary In L. ndon; but beyond a
civil reception, which we believe Lord Claren-
don vouchssfes TO ali men-en interview with Sir
John BUrg0yne-and letters OF recognition to the
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was taken Of them their mission. No special
train received them at Liycrpool-n0 Court car.
riage at Euston Square no presentation to Ma
jesty-no inscription In the ChambeflalD's open
sesame-no pasteboard tor Minister'S reception or
aristocralic s0ree- the only surteit which
thsy received was surfeit OF neglect and disgust
which they have doubtless carried with them TO
the Court of France whittier they have bent their
steps, and which il will assuredy DEFY all the baths
and Bfunneis OF Pumperackel to remove.
Towards the end of last summer, the United
States sIoop- p-of-war Preble arrived at Spithead-
1t is q rule in the American Navy that all the
naval cadets, who compose the material out OF
which fashioned afterwards the naval com
manders Of the Republic, shall serve their time
before the mast; and good and wholesome rule
it Is, for reasons too obvious to descant upon
The Prebie, training ship for this purpose, and
manned almost exclusively by young gentlemen
from amongst the most respectable families in the
States, TO the amount OF two hundred and up.
wards, came to Spithead for the purpose OF naval
education. She happened to be the only msn-oir
war on the station at the time, ana her presence
on that account, and on account OF the frequent
opportunities which she had OF sslutiug the Royal
Yacht, was made more than usually conspicuous
She was lett wholly unnosiced by the authorities
OF Portsmouth, her cadets were refused admission
to the dockyard, aud she ultimately left the sca-
ton, with two hundred young naval hearts, the
future upholders of their c0untrys naval fame,
fully impressed with the nature OF their reception
in their tstherland
The Mercury then gives the following
contrast:
We can also tell our readers how Her Majesty q
sloop- ot-war Pearl sailed from Bermuda In the
winter of 1889 or lS40 with dispatches entrusted
to her gallant commander, Lord Clarence Paget,
for the United States Government; she exs
perienced succession OF gales on her passage; -
how she arrived in Chesapeake Bay with battered
bulk and exhausted crew;-how the naval authori-
ties OF Norfolk The Portsmouth OF the States, sent
shipwrights snd riegers On boarc;-how the good
ship was reitted without charge or demand OF any
nd,-aud how the British officers and crew were
welcomed and feasted on shore. nlsfresn, 100,
iu the recollection OF the public, how the two Rus
sian meme .ofswar were reftted and repaired at
Portsmouth lest year, their officers received with
marked consideration, and the dock yards thrown
open TO Russian pencil and pen! There was
Prussian Ian-of- war (the Gsfon) atthe same pc
riod which was similarly favored, bu. then, to be
sure, she was commanded by one OF the Royal am
lily!
There are other causes in abundance for
the alienated feelings of the American peo-
pie. The studied Sights shown in England
to such men as Henry Clay and other distin-
guished Southerners, because Of their con
nection with slavery the ovation to Mrs.
Stowe, deliberately designed not to honor
her, but to insult her country; the constant
war upon American institutions; the ribaid
abuse and slander of our people by tourists
and newspapers; the announcement of de-
termination to regulate the affairs OF both
hemispheres, these are abundant reasons
why Americans cannot sympathize with the
war of Great Britain upon country from
which they have only received kindness and
consideration.
THE SALONS DuEL.-The French sailors wbe
,ousht duel near Boston Saturday, begun theil
disuute about the courage of the people In the
North and South of France. One OF the mer
20. . hand before the mast, named Guii.su
ne RAYMOND and the other cook, named
Celestin Busson. They retired under railroad
h,idge and the sailor threw his kbiie away so ths
he nsiaht not bs tempted to use IT, They then hreo