The daily union., 1856-04-09
BLuEDERs or the LONDON TINES.


undertakes to put airs Of aiabiiy towards the Uni
ted States it blunders along In stupid Of fact
after another that its efforts only make bad worse
whatever may have been It's intentions
This reflection is forciby suggested to by late lead
Of the Times which find copied in the heIgeHeer
and which appears have been conceived in the sole pur
pose OF making the following concluding recommends
tion; ..t
" There apologies be made both sides and II
the United States do condeseend to abrae the refer
ought to take the whole group Of difficulties between
fairly in hand and dispose of them all BY an apology to
be made by both Sides in words comprehensive and EN-
phate as the English language can supply"
Here is unequvocal admission upon the part OF
the Times that the conduct of the English to-
wards the United States calls for apology the part
of Great Britain ain words comprehensive and emphatic
as the English language supply" Very well take
OF that and it for at appropriate u
ture time
But argues the Times there have been faults on both
sides and the two governments should enter into
ming account of debit many wrongs done each side
and credit many wrongs received and square the books
by the most ample reeiprocaed apologies All that is pos
sibe Whether it be the fact is the point to
be determined The Times says it is SO the Times is the
first journal of Europe it speaks accordingly eaedra
hbi, of the wrongs perpeaed by the of the
United States
1T is alleged by party of American politicians and
scarcely disguised by the other that the serious ob
stace to the reception of Lord CareDdons explanations in
this matter of the enlistment is that in the letter he
reflected the conduct of the United States in
the recent trials One senator far to that his
remarks this point dided insult injury or course
must admit the general rule that explanation in the
ture of apology ought to be simple possibs and
calculated to heal every rather than open fresh
No doubt the gratutous introduction OF dsageeabs topic
goes very the grace and destroy the force of
apology but the other hand must be considered that
it Lord Clarendon who introduced the topic of the
trials in question: but Mr. Marcy who offered the report of
these trials evidence Of breach of international law
Lord Clarendon denied that minister the States
had committed such breach Of the law and thereby Of
Tended against the sovereignty of the United States He had
therefore alternative but except to the evidenceev
dence which, for the sake of TRUTH call very repug
nant to English notions of justice.
There passages in Lord Carendon letters that might
be open exception particularly when he to intimate
that the United States had departed from their pofesed
neutrality in permitting the supply Of gunpowder and other
materials of to Russia But perusa of the correspond
shows too clearly that the matter Of the misunderand
ing not simple, bat various and miscellaneous 1t nd
Gates the existence of group of unsettled questions Mr.
buchanan expressed it at the Mansion House."
So "the gratutous introduction of disagreeabe topic"
In the correspondence between the was
fault by whomsoever committed if introduced by Great
Britain 1t goes very far the grace and destroy the
force of apology but ii has the contrary effect if in
roduced by the United States We viii show that in this
attempt of the Times get up in set-of that
journal conounds dispatches mistakes dates and bun
giles from beginning to end in all its pretended specca-
tons.
The admitted fault is the grsuitous introduction Of the
disagreeable topic Of the recent trials of certain of the
recruiting agents OF Great Britain Th if introduced by
Lord Clarendon destroys the Times comedies the force
of any apology which be may have made either previously
simultaneously in behalf of Great Britain But says
the Times t Lord Clarendon who introduced the
topic Of the trials in question but Mr. Marcy who offered
the report of these trials evidence OF breach OF inter
national law" Let us see.
Mr.. Marcy mentions these trials for the first time in
bis letter to Mr. Buchanan Of the t OF October They arc
not hinted az his previous letters either in that June
9th or Of July l6th Of September 9Th How could they
be The first trial did not commence until the 2lst of
September.
Now, 1t was in Lord Carendons letter to Mr. Buchanan
Of the 9th of September when Of course be knew nob-
ing Of the recent trials that Lord Clarendon REFLECTED on
the conduct Of the United States in such style
Of thought and expression draw from senators of the
United States the declaration that in what he said be had
but added insult TO injury" So that in the first place
the Times buuders in m foundation fact OF who It was
whether Lord Clarendon Mr. Marcy-that first intro
duced offensive topic calculated the Times tsel,
says not ITO heal every sore but rather "open fresh
one"
Then the Times bunders as 10 the occasion when this
particular offensive line Of observation was introduced 10y
Lord Clarendon. Those observations Of his which Amer
lean senator's had spoken Of insulting and which the
Times identities Ly It's reference TO that fact occur as we
have in Lord Carendons letter Of the 9th OF Sep
tember Bot that is not the Times enormously sup
poses the despatch containing Lord Carendons erpa-
nations in this matter Of the enlistment" Those expa-
nations occur in bis previous leter-that Of the 10th
Of July The letter Of the 27th Of September con-
ss throughout Of pettish complaints against the Uni
ted States which would be sufficient of themselves 20
undo any good effect Of hs Profe,aedy apologize letter
Of Juy OF this signal example is in The insnuaon he
makes that we bad been false professions Of
ity, by reason Of citizens having sold arms ammuni-
ton, and warke stores for the seryce Of Russia to which
imPutaon Mr. Marcy responds triumphanty in his let
ter Of the 9th Of October And Il is upon view Of these
groundess and udred mpuations that the Times is con-
strained to cay There passages n Lord Clarendon let
ssrs that might be open exception particularly when be
seems TO intimate that the United States had departed from
fessed neutrality in permitting supply
der and other materials Of to Russia" This despatch
introduces other bIo