The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-29

'1NsEA SeAfAer AZ foreign government should under
take without consent march troops across our Ter
rOry weuld i Be any our demand Of redress
% say that Il Is forbidden BY ACT Of Congress
Clearly not No is il material consider or has any
torslgn government business inquire in The matter Of
recruiting whether the thing done attempted be or not
within the letter VI aet Of Congress.
Ons hing If foreign government presuning, as
il has No business de- look into our statutes on the
subject undertakes in The language Of eminent judge
70 look into them in order how BY series Of ar
rAngements aruy devised its agents may evade those
laws thea the national wrong s only the more fragrant
II has no right to do the thing any way whether forbid
den by statute not If il proessedly dsregards the
law that s manly at least II protesting observe the
law the foreign government undertakes by Ingenious and
elaborate devices to defeat and evade that is sngenu-
GUS as wei as otherwise wrongful national sorer-
eighty.
All these considerations are plain, palpable almost
selfeFident truths Of natural justice
Accordingly At the very commencement Of the existing
war in Europe Mr. Champion The British minister in the
United Stairs addressed the Secretary Of State to express
the eonhasnt trust Of his government that the United
SAFES would sincerely every effort enforce upon
ter citizens the necessity Of observing the srictsst
t-aty Tobe sure he afterwards proceeded to apply this
to the contingency Of Russian maritime armanens in the
ports Of the United States expressing again the confident
hope that orders would be given to prevent the equipment
of prEatees under Russian colors in our ports and also
that The citizens Of the United States shall vigorously alb
stain from taking part in ornaments of this nature
any other opposed The duties Of strict neu-
traiy.r ......a
Mr. Champion said nothing expressly here of the en-
g..
letter addressed him few days afterwards quietly
minded him of this by saying that government would
not permit the equpping Of pryateers in ports neither
would it permit the enlsing of within territory
assuring Mr. Champion that the United States while
claiming The full enjoyment Of their rights neutral
power a observe the strptest neutrality towards each
and all tie belligerents."
1t is most memorable fact, that this apprehended
abuse of neutral territory for begerent purposes
which the British government took much pains to
prevent on the part Of Russia has been perpetrated
by Great Britain herself and by her alone She had
drfted" into great without the slightest fore
thought Of adequate military naval preparation.
We viii not venture to speak her journalists and
public have done, of the deplorsble deficiencies of
the military force which she had in the trenches before Sc
bastopo Suffice il say that her ministers instead Of
proposing great and honorable measures for great
oaAl exigency resortea the miserable akesh expe
dent Of recruiting individual mereenares in foreign
ir countries in deliberate and open violation Of the
trial lights and national sovereignty Of all the world. She
scattered her recruiting agents Germany the Neither
lands Switzerland Italy and the Uniied States placed
the recruiting officers under the instruction of her dipo
mstc agents; and perseveringy continued to her own
discedt and the disturbance Of her friendly relations
with other gorernmen;s raking mp for her military
vice the sIn Of the population Of Europe and America
In the United States month after month from the be-
ginning Of March down to August laws set
naugh the public peace Of cities disturbed and the
ministerial and judicial officers OF the country subjected to
nyidons and painful labor in the vain attempt
put siop British enlstmen until il became
ssry for government to make Of il public question
between the nations which question length assumed
gravity, when after time IL be as
ocrtained by irreagsble proofs that the whole business
unlawful and injurious public rights as it WAS had
been conducted all along under the dgsnt superntend-
enoe Of The British minister, Mr.. Champion whea the
matter had thus proceeded for the period Of some six
months The British government it is true desistsd from
The attempt with declaration that it did 50 to avoid fur
tber woundug the sensbes Of the United States But
satisfaction for what it had done it has the contrary
occupied itself with dsputng about the construction Of
municipal law into which ii bad authority TO inquire
altogether dsrrgarding meanwhile The question OF
neutral and sovereign rights independent nation.
Mr. Marcy after discussing the question with Lord
Cnrsndon for the last six months in series Of able and
srgumentave dispatches has ELECTED from the British
government only perseverng defence Of the wrong We
have BOW reached The inevitable result The Presden,
Of the United States in the discharge OF his public duty
and for the vndicaion Of the national peace and honor
has been oopsained TO require Of the British government
the recall OF Mr. Champion and the dismissal Of the British
consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati.
At the last Advices The public mind in England
der the perverse impression Of certain statements made by
the Earl Of Clarendon in the House Of Lords We win
trust ourselves ch&racerzs what he said II was from
beginning to end utterly untrue that loss
decide whether he spoke in total ignorance Of the facts
or with deliberate misrepresentation. What be said has
been most pointsdy conadcisd already BY several
tors in their places including the oonsderae and honora
be chairman Of the Committee Foreign Relations We
content ourselves With adding that the documents before
Ear Of Clarendon uttered in excavation q the conduct Of
the British government; aud confidently predict that
when these documents reach J0ndsn and TO be read
there they viii produce the conviction in the minds
Of the people Of Great Britain and will completely dspe
suy possible danger arising out Of this question to The