The Empire County argus., 1855-09-29

more especially during the present war. of re.
main ny on the very best terms with the Govern
ment ard people of the United States 1t is an ev
almost insepa1able from war that. in the strong
passions it excites, the fierce resentments it smu-
lates. and the wishes it raises beligerents
are only too apt to forget all interests but their own
and to pay too little attention to the rights and re-
clamatlons OF neutrals Our campaigns have taught
u.s. only too vigorously and plainly, how great is
our want OF men, and how necessary it is to find
| some means OF competing in this respect with a
power winch levies its human tribute with far more
certainty than that with which it can collect the
ecunlary cont,ihut ons of its impoverished SUBJ
Je'ts Put there is. as it appears to U.S. considera-
tle danger, that in our anxiety to conquer one
enemy we shall make to ourselves another. and in
order to provide ourselves with few hundred dis
orderly and refractory r. cruits make thirty million
enemies OF our own race the other side of the
Atlantic. There is no person against whom the
moral presumption would be stronger than against
resident IN the United States who should be will
ling to recross the Atlantic in order to plunge into
the vortex OF European War. Such passion has
gone 70 country where man is above all things in
demand. and where idleness and p r,y are not
the suits of the state Of society but the voluntary
choice of men unwilling to work ana unable to
save Such persons there will always lie in every
Community but America ,r's less excuse than
any other country for their existence, inasmuch as
work is more easily obtained and more richly re-
whether if we succeed in attracting under our
standard all the desperadoes who are forever
threatening the repose Of the feeble Republics con-
tiguous to the United States, we shall have materi-
ally strengthened our army, and whether we shall
not have to pay in insubordination. mutinies, and
desertlons, a price more than equivalent to tri
fling increase of our numbers. Whether this be So
however not there is no doubt that the lust and
honest cause in which we are engaged has failed to
command the svmpathies of a considerable portion
of the American people. We may regret this. but
we cannot deny it, We may lament that while
such extreme facility afforded to the piratcal
expedition which invaded Cuba and while it is
found easy to collect band Of adventurers for
any buccaneering object the attempts of England
to recruit her armies from the United States have
been watched with such peculiar and exceptional
vigilance and cOuntrracted with such unyelding
severity. But though we regret these things. we
cannot deny them nor can we deny the right Of
the United States Government to put in force its
own law prohibiting the enlistment Of its subjects
into foreign service, even though that service may
happen to be our own W. have the feeling of the
people and the law of the country against us--a
pe pie justly jealous of the proceedings Of any for
e'gn State-and law of whose provisions we at
any rate, having adopted similar law ourselves,
have right to complain Is it wise, is it just to
push on this interference with the internal affairs
of friendly power in defiance of her law, her re-
clamatons and her feelings!
The danger we apprehenl is nearer than might
be supposed We find by the American papers
that Mr.. Rowcroft, the English Consul at Cincin-
natl, has been tried the charge of enlsting
in the Crlmea. The report of the trial is thus
headed by our cotemporary: Irish Informers
Sham Enlisments! Trap to catch the object
hatred Of England" In this compendious abridg-
ment, which does much credit to the conlensing
powers OF our American contemporary. is pretty well
explained the history of the case A MIR Conahan
a member Of the United Irish Society, conceived
the brilliant idea of pretending wish to enlist i
recruits in the English army in order to entrap
MIR. Rowcroft, the English Consul, into an admis-
sion which might bring him within the danger of
the law against foreign enlistment. For this pur-
pose he obtained an introduction to MIR. Rowcroft
who appears to have told him that if he would take
fifty men to the Niagara Suspension Bridge. he
should receive captains commission. For this
purpose he received an advance Of money--not
from Mr.. Rowcrott--whch he and his confeder
ates, not apparently afflicted with nceness as
to the point of honor, retained for their own use
1t also appeared that Mr.. Rowcroft had advised
Conahan to stay at home and take care of his wife
and children, instead Of going to the Crimea The
evidence, even if it be believed which. considering
the persons from whom it comes would imply an
extraordinary amount of credulity--is exceedingly
| slight The Court has not yet given its opinion,
but we cannot entertain doubt that upon the
merits of the case MIR. ROwcrOft will obtain an ac-
quital. Still the fact of such a trial taking place.
is itself extremely prejudcial to the good under,
standing between the two countries and likely to
raise feelings and debates of most undesirable
character. Though MIR Rowcroft may be acquit-
ted Of the charge Of ensting American subjects
the trial proves clearly enough that such enlistment
was going on through agents supplied with money
from thi, country, and the English Consul was cog.
INFANT Of the proceeding.
ha phnlp thinr 70 have baoo al
very clumsily and have been brought to light by
use to nveigh against the contemplate treachery
by which the proceeding discovered. Our duty
is to consider whether we are free from blame. and
not how much blame may be imputed to others 1t
is the will of the American people as expressed by
their laws that their citizens shall not be enlisted
in the service of foreign State it is the opinion
of the Executive Government that those laws ought
to be put in force and, as far as we Can tell that
decision is supported by very considerable amount
of public opinion We are not acting the part of
II good ally or a sincere and honorable friend of the
United States in seeking, for our own purposes to
infringe their laws, to outwt their Executive, and
to offend the feelings and ejudices of their peo-
pie. We might reasonably have expected at the
hands of a nation SO nearly united to by blood.
and, should have thought by similarity of
views, and feelings a little more sympathy; but
their sympathy is their own to gve or Withhold /.
and we have no right to quarrel with our transat-
lantic neighbors if in the midst of democracy they
stretch out their hands to despotism and look cold
ly on the cause of Freedom. We earnestly entreat
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