The true Democrat., 1856-01-22
From the London Telegraph, Nov Recxuiting by EreIanS.
JNo. E. REARDoN, Sec'y.

One Of the greatest ana graVeSt mistakes ever committed by British ministry has been that of the attempt to recruit soldiers iii foreign countries for our army in the Crimea. The procedure has been alike indignantly resisted by Prussia, the Hanseatic Republics, and by the United States. As EnglisAmen, we deplore that we have all administration so ignorant Uf the internal laws of other nations, or so regard less of them as to flagrantly perpetuate their violation. Apart from the wrong itself, which has been committed, we have been placed in most humilating position before the world We have given unmistakable evil dence that we. are destitute of the most es- sential requisite for the successful prosecution
 of a vigorous wal-tr0ops. The cndeavor to enlist one man here and another there in for eign countries, has necessarily conveyed with 1t an impression that our reputed physical strength in the field Is altogether fictitious
 There is but little glory to bo derived from gaining victories by d power whose armies are composed of aliens. Nations are not in a fit condition to go to war who have not a suffi- ciency of their own subjects to fill their ranks
 in the field. So, at least, will neutralB reason
 Nothing could have transpired SD well cal
 culated to create prejudice against this country
 in the United States, as the conduct of the Pal
 merston government in the matter of the en-
 lstments there. The policy of the Republic,
 in it's relations with foreign States was announc-
 ed at an early day of it's existence by Wash
 lngton, and was subsequently re-assertcd by
 Jefferson. It is almost marvellous that 1t
 should have been observed with such scrupu-
 lous fidelity until the present time. That po-
 Hey is, Peace with all nations entanghug al-
 dances with none" The government and the
 >i.s IL; d., l.
 clpe that every people has the right to choose
 its own form of government, and that they are
 prepared to recognize whatever form it may
 choose de tacto. As the American Union does
 not interfere in the internal concerns of other countries, So will it not permit other coun-
 tries to intermeddle with its own internal con-
 cerns.
 But the enlistment procedure was peculiarly
 offensive to the Americans. Their hatred to
 this kingdom had long since been completely
 eradicated, but for the fearful recollection that
 foreigners were employed to subiugate them in the war of the revolution. The sending thlther Hessian army-an army of hired mur- derers--to fight against the "bone of our bone and flesh of our fleSh," fills page iii history which they can never read uncxcited, nor our selves without remorse. Lord Palmerston has
 been IS inconsiderate as was Lord North, and we trust that Parliament, when it assemblies, will hold him to a rigid accountability for his transgression.
 The Cabinet at Washington so far from
 having acted rashly in the matter has scarcely maintained its dignity. National sef-rcsrcct seemed to demand that as soon as the proceed ings of the tribunal at Philadelphia were laid before the President the dismissal of the Brit lsh Minister would be the consequence. That lt did not occur, shows \ degree of ndulgcuce for an un usttabe outrage, for which this go- vernmcnt ought never to cease to be thankful. When Minister is offensive to the government | near which he resides, that government may with the utmost propriety, demand his recall
 assigning the reasons torit When he has con- mitted crime against the laws, he may, ii like manner, be furnished with his passport
 and the reason for the act afterwards as- signed to the government to which he De- longs.
 The rule of the custom Is something like this with respect to diplomatic representatives " hlle one resides in the territory of fore Ln
 nation, he is always considered as a subject or citizen of his own. Accordingly, he is compile tely exempted from the jurisdiction o!that ter rlt0rv, Tn the same manner as ne would be ex- empted from 1t If he had been at home, because II the nation where he resides claims only iu- rlSdlctlOD over him, 1t treats him a. one of its own members, and not as the member of the nation from which he comes. When ne con- mlts any crime, therefore, he cannot be pun lsled for It by the nation where he resides: 1t IS bound to treat him in all respects as If he
 was resident Ill his own country. lie must be
 sent away and proceeded against by a complaint to his own nation, which makes itself party
 to his crime if it refuses either to punish him by its own authority, or to deliver him up to be punished by the offended nation.
 In the instance of the recruiting case, 1t is
 admitted we believe that Mir. Crampton acted under the orders of his government. The pun ishment. then, due for wrong that no national man can deny, is of most aggravated character, and should be inflicted on the British Prime Minister at Washington. He was but the in- srument not the instigator of the crme.- | What punishment the American government
 may demand, if any, we know not; what pun lshment this country is prepared to in!1ict We
 can scarcely determine. To guard against q recurrence of such blunder-one so humiliat- ing to British national pride-it can scarcely do
 less than deprive the wrong doer of the seals of l office, which he has so ignorantly or wantonly abused.
 | We are aware that in certain circles in Great
 Britain everything American meets with un- qualified abuse. The Times newspaper has done more than all other influences to produce this unfortunate condition of things. The period has at length arrived when the British public will require that journal and it's deluded followers to retrance their steps. No sensible
 Englishman can contemplate war with Ame-
 rca without shudderng for the disastrous con-