The Nevada journal., 1856-04-04

mail Steamer brought the full cores
pondenee between the United States and
Great Britain i'll relation to the En-
]istment Scheme. At about the COM
of hostilities with Russia, Eng
land asked of the United States strict neu-
trality in relation to the war, which was
promised on the part of our government.
When it was first ascertained that the
business of enlisting soldiers for the Cri
mea was going on in the United States,
our government informed her Malesty's
government of the fact, and received for
reply that all engaged in such business
were irresponsible persons who were act
ing entirely without authority. Lord
Clarendon says:
''Her Majesty's Government do not de-
ny that the acts and advertisements Of
these self constituted and unauthorized
agents were in many instances undoubted
violations of the law of the United States,
but such persons had no authority what
ever for their proceedings from any Brit
ish Agents, by all of whom they were
promptly and unequivocally disavowed." !"
Mr.. Champion, the representative of the
English government at Washington, ex-
hibited copy of letter to Mr.. Marcy
which he had written to parties in New
York engaged in the recruiting business,
in which he discount enanced the whole
affair, and denounced it as violation of
our laws. He also made the same assu-
RANGES as Lord Clarendon did, that the
home government had no connection with
any such scheme whatever, and would do
all in its power to suppress it.
But unfortunately for Lord Clarendon
and Mr.. Champion, the trials of the par
ties actively engaged in the enlistment
business proved conclusively that Mr..
Champion, the Governor of Nova Scotia,
and the British Consuls at New York,
Cincinnati and New Orleans, were doing
all in their power to raise troops in the
United States, prostituting their official po-
sitions, each and all of them, to this base
and contemplate business, and that, too,
both previous to and after her Maiesty's
secretary of war, and ministers plenipo-
tentiary to this government, had made the
assurances to Mr.. Marcy which we have
previously given. Mr.. Crampton, subse-
quent to making this statement, spent a
month in Nova Scotia and Canada, devils
ing schemes for recruiting in the United
States so as to elude the officers of our
government.
When these facts were presented to Lord
Clarendon, accompanied by the evidence
elected in court, that gentleman, while ad-
mitting the facts, contended that the law
relating to enlistments had not been vio-
lated! His reasons were that no enlist
ment had actually taken place in the Uni
ted States; but people were only inform
ed that if they would embark for Nova
Scotia, they could there enlist! Lord
Clarendon throws out many boyish insinu-
ations against the United States which we
have not room to enumerate.
MIR. Marcy, it must be acknowledged
by every one, handles Lord Clarendon in
a mastery manner. Before British off
cials were clearly proved to have been
engaged in the enlistment business, Lord
Clarendon admitted that the neutrality laws
had been violated; but so soon as that
nobleman has the evidence before him that
Mr.. Champion and others are implicated
in the business, why, he asserts, the neu.
trality laws have not heen violated at all
Lord Clarendon admits, too, when all
these facts have transpired, that the Eng
lish government authorized these agents
to go into the United States and hold out
inducements to people to go to Nova SEQ
tia where they could enrol themselves as
soldiers for the Crimean army. But these
British agents were strictly enjoined not tc
violate our neutrality laws! Mr.. Marcy
carefully reviews the whole ground, in his
last communication, and leaves not loop
hole for Lord Clarendon to creep through
The demand is made that Mr.. Cramptor
and the Consuls for New York, Cincinnati
and New Orleans be recalled The de
mand had been previously made that al
soldiers enlisted or enticed away from til,
United States should be discharged from
the English army.
That Great Britain has violated inter
national law in the grossest manner b,
coming into the territory of the Unite,
States to recruit her army is certain. Tha
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