The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-05-29

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800 zoo bids, u prices given place Coffee
wac quiet Freights wsre aru, with fair amount Of
gsseu epss Cotton rates Liverpool wore rather better
10 Havre rates we're quiet aod UschsnRsd.
The Right OF Vi.at ard tho Ssnate.-Lord
Espisr's vievws--ssasinsens cS tho Co~stry.
We see it stated in some Of the black repubii.
can journals that sympathise aud affiliate with
the English view of the exercise Of tue right of
search by British cruisers upon our ships, that
Lord Napier believes the British government
has and will insist upon the right of visit for the
examination of papers.
This is the same thing, the difference between
the right of visit and tho right of search being
even less than that between tweediedum ADD
tweedledee. In the old authorities on intec-
national law the right of search is always called
the right of visit, and Is spoken of rs bellige-
rent right only. The insisting by England upon
the claim to exercise this belligerent right 10
tine of peace makes it question of war at once,
and the emphatic report of the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations made yesterday is but
an echo of the public sentiment of this country.
The people of the United States are determined
that their flag shall be respected, and that under
no pretence, whether slave trade or any other
trade, shall their ships be detained in time Of
peace And this feeling is not local one; the
North, South, East and West are equally unani.
nous upon it. If any possible distinction can
be found it is that the Northwest is more in
dgnant at the insolent exercise Of this
right than any other section. But the
entire American people claim that Anne
rican ships have the absolute right to
sail the ocean unqueetioned in q time Of peacs,
when there is no possibility of their infringing
The belligerent rights of other nations. IfE,g
lar d insists upon any other principle we must
have war, and in that case the sooner We have
ii the better.
But every day brings out some new fact
which strengthens ow already expressed view
that political and partisan motives are at the
bottom of this sudden outbreak 10 the diplom4.
cy of England. One Of our contemporaries, who
has tasted good dinners at BrosdIands and hob
nobbed with ite master, thinks that Derby, and
not Palmerston, must have issued the obnoxious
orders to the British cruisers. A fact which
will be found in a communication Published In
our columns to-day overthrows that theory.
As early as November last, oue of the cruisers
the Jasper-while on her way to her station
on the coast of Cuba, boarded and overloaded
an American ship at sea- This is conclusive
evidence that the orders to search American
vessels were not issued to these cruisers recent
ly, through the British Admiral on the Jam aca
station, but came directly from Palmerstou.
long before he dreamed of being turned out OF
office by the spontaneous uprising Of public
opinion in Great Britain against his trucking
policy to the schemes of Louis Napoleon.
rI~-- -s -~asnns both In En- GLAND and
in this country why the asitstoss Of f ne n auu
slavery humbug should set on foot there, aud
support here, this exercise of the right to over
haul American ships under the pretence that 1t
is necessary to hsrrass our five millions Of tons
Of shipping to catch half dozen surreptitious
slave traders. The fslscies upon which their
political supremacy in England is founded, aud
upon which they rely for existence as . polii-
eel faction in this country, are fast dying out in
the public mind. The commercial and manu-
featuring classes In England are beginning to
see that the question of cotton and sugar is far
superior in its bearing upon the bulk Of human
happiness to the question Of niger. They are
beginning to feel, too, that by their supineness
they have permitted the evangelical faction of
Exeter Hall to do too much injury TO Eagland's
material interests, and they have made up their
minds to stop IL. A few months ago Palmer
ston saw no danger to his rule in Great Britain
except from the Manchester school of states
men, and he determined to get up o surrepti-
tious issue upon the slavery question with this
country, In order 10 wake up the evangelical
| faction to his support Then II was, and for
this purpose, that be issued the obnoxious or
ders, and sent bis cruisers into our own waters to
execute them
| Similar reasons have weighed with Seward
and his factious followers in the antislavc-
ny agitation In this country to PAL
| late and defend this insolent course on
the part Of Palmsfston- They are endeavor-
ing to impress upon the public mind that the
present punishment Of a few Spanish slave
traders who violate our flag is of more impor-
lance than the security Of our ships upon the sea
for all coming time. Kansas has undeceived
the people of this country as to the value Of the
factious humbug of and-slavery; and the in
vention of the grossest outragcs there now falls
dead upon the public ear. So they unite with
Pslmerston in the policy Of binding the public
TO their Interior schemes by endeavoring 10
rouse again the spirit Of fsnaticism. Both Of
them hope for the same success that attended
the fana ical faction in England, when, through
the supineness Of other great interests, they
succeeded in dressing up Britannia In clerical
coat and white neckcloth, and turned her Into a
fanatical humanitarian propagandist They
would dress up Columbia in the same hypocriti-
cal garb and lead her into preaching their ad-
mission TO the high places Of the State. 1t Ia