The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-21
I H Z D DISPA TCH.
EXCITEMENT IN ENGLAND
APPREHENsTONs OF WAR
MONDAY MORNING lime u ,s.s


The English press is a good deal taken m v;,,
the reported aggressions upon our commerce /,
the Gulf, and universally condemn the action q
the British naval officers, while some even annra.
bend immediate war. We give few extracts
The London Star says:
The intelligence from the other side Of the Al
iantic by the last two three mails Ia of a yer,
alarming character. British cruisers In the chi
OF Mexico and Oft the coas 9 of Cuba are accused
OF committing high-ban outrages upon Ameri
cah merchant vessels trading In those waters-
We suspect there may be some exapyera,ior Z,
the reports 10 the New Yor papers Of these oc
currences. but the indignation OF the Americar
nationaiists. who are as touchy as the Eng,ist
themselves on the subject Of the honor of thei
nationai nag, and the peremptory tone assumed
by the Cabinet OF Washington 10 commuuication,
understood to have been addressed to our Govern
meat In the matter, leave little room to doub
that war between the two countries will he In
svitable. II q restraint be not immediately i'm
posed upon the operations of onr naval officers In
the Gulf of Mexico
Some twenty cases mentioned in the New
YORK papers, and many are referred TO IN tbe off
cisi correspondence between General Cass and
Lord Napier, in which American vessels have beer
rufey brought TO by British ships OF war in som,
eases fired at. and into, boarded and searched
to ascertain whether they were slavers Congress,
~ once took notice OF these proceedings, and Sir
President Buchanan promptly co-operated The
result is that the United States Navy IL no n. i'm,
mediately re enforced on that station, and Mr DaI
las, the American Minister at this Court has bear
Instructed to lay the facts before the British Gov
ernment to require that these outraees shonId
cease, and to peremptorily demand satisfaction to
She insults to the American flag. and indemnity 70,
whatever damages have resulted from the vista
lions of the British cruisers.
People will readily understand the dangers which
10 imminent from this explosive state of things
should our Goserument fail to have the fortftuds o
recedDg from the untenable position il has Az
sumsd. Aud what 10 this right of visitation and
search which we claim, and which we have now
rnIe'y, and 1t appears unnecessarily exercised bu,
An Invasion OF one Of the liberties most highly
priced, and strenuousy fought for by the American
people. We shall not appeal to that mass OF con
sradictions, the international code Of laws AZ IL i,
termed, TO prove that this right of search forms nc
part of IL, although We might do 80 sa feIy . I'M,
We appeal to history. America has always stead
fastly resisted our claims to this alleg ii right
1u ths war of 1912 between Great Britain and
the United states, one OF the objects Was on our
side TO enforce the right, and on the part of the
Americans, TO resist 1t. That destructive war
ragsd for nineteen months, and the treaty Of
peace which closed II did not even mention this
tight of Search and OF course left the disnnt. ON
that point precisely where it wss-a striking illus
trston Of the crnel absurdity of resortin to wa,
as settlement Of such disputes, and an experi
mental proc! also OF the readiness with which The
Americans will draw the sword in defeEce of the
Integrity Of thar flag. if driven to 1t by the pre
,, ID
Can that r at alton, r I'D, DOW er nj and ne,
tinnciousiy stubborn on all points of national
honor, be compelled to 60 actively, heart and sonl
into blockade against slave shipsf The idea i,
as monsttous, ifis have entered any mans brain
as it 10 wicked. W all know very well that tI,.
Government of Washington and the predomina.
party n Congress and in the Executive have sytn
pathes rather in favor OF than against the traffic
iupegro slaves; and 1t must has been very well
known also to Lord Paimerstou when he dispatch
cd hp prh va hay oil Ind AaA 30 A.
der OF the blockadiDg squadron, that they would
lead, not to the repressions of the slave Import.
into Cuba, but that very evaporation of feeling
in the United States againt this country, viii i
the noble lord still in power might keen
both nations lowering on the brink of war, or per
haps precptate them into that direst of ali calsmi
ties.
We hope the Administration of Lord Derby will
take different course. 1t is not question o.
abandoning the blockade, but of respecting tbs
American flag, which the Americans are determin
ed to make respected The answer of Mr. FirZge
raid, on Tuesday night, to MIR. Lindsay's question
on the subject, although not quite satisfactory
was perhaps much so as, under the circum
stances, could be expected The bare prospect O
a war with the United States on such cause O
quarrel, is destructive in it's effects on commerce
aud industry. We hope instructions have aIread,
been sent out to arrest those boarding aud search
ing operations of our cruisers, aud that when th,
facts shall have been ascertaned, due amends apC
reparation will be offered for what wrong may
have been DONE
The Liverpool Times remarks:
or course, Lord Malmesbury will demand from
the captain and officers of the ship referred
to, an explanation Of the whole circumstances
and then shall be enabled to Judge how much
of truth and how much Of fiction the captain O
the cUasting craft is fairly cbargeable with Il
will be found, we suspect, that he has sadly exceed
ed the bounds Of faithful historian; but the Anne
ric ans believe in the fidelity of his statement and
nd or fha fpAi nrrb; 81.
occurrence has evoked Our own self.love need
not blind US to anger, which would be certani,
excited in England, if the case had been reversed
Snd one Of our vessels had been treated, withou,
right OF reason, by an American frigate, with the
overwhelming iusoeuce which the Mobile com
mauder so graphically paiats.
The truth ID that this right of search on tht
ocean is q very arbitrary power, aud nothing re
comedies US to it but the justice of the cause u
which il Is excl clsed. We have in this country
such detestation of the slave trade that We look
with leniency on every measure, however harsh
that aids in putting 1t down; but il other nations
do not share our views We have no right to force
them on them, because to do so is nothing more
nor less than indulging in the phara sacal "hoiier
than thou" princiPle-offensive 10 their pride and
certain to call forth all their combative tendencies
In the case Of Spain, as We have shown, the bar d
ship 10 mItigated because that country has received
our money for abolishing the traffic, and yet con
times TO wink at it, if not positively to practice
II, in defiance of engagements soemny entered
into, and ratified by pecuniary payment.
Comments Of other papers are similar TO those
all tendng to show that this is the last country
the people II Great Britain desire war with.
The London Times received by the steamer Eu
popa has an important editorial in relation TO the
recent outragas on American vessels and the right
of search. We quote as follows:
Are we really to ego on' forever with these an
ii slave.trade squadrons? The question must be
asked, and answered too, because In great State
like ours everything "goes on" till IL IL stopped
or till there il smash or until the machine wears
out Everything that is paid to go on "goes on
as long as it is paid. Offices in Church and State
sinecures of all kinds, Institutions innumerabls
go on" as infallibly and regularly as quarterday
comes round.
Is il necessary to add to what we have said be-
fre on the obvious certainty that this antisavery
crusade must come to an end! 1t might "Fo on
for this year, the next year. or for ten or twenty
wears: but any one who thinks for q moment on
the character of the power with which We hare
principally TO deal must see not only that the end
will come st some time or other, but that the Ion
ger the end is STAYED of the worse it will be. II
is the fastgrowing son or younger brother, rather
lubberIy we may please to think at present, very
sascy seIf-wiled, aud moro free for physical de
ye,onments than bound by moral ties. Let us nOt
quarrel over much with this disagreeabie strge Of
existence, for it belongs TO tho youth OF mee ana
of nations But this same power must one day
have fifty times our territory ana ten fifnfs shr
people Besides receiving year by year from the
old world the poulation of an English country, II
is more thrifty of its bo-u citizens than We are il
has no armies in India no fifty colonies to be gar
risoned, ne immense navy in commisson-scarceiy
even the pretense of an antisiave-trade squadron
The time must come when, ibvineible as we may
be on our own soil, our own shores, our own seas,
and anywhere on equal terms, we should have 10
contend with the United States on very unequal
terms on their soil, their shores, their seas, and
generally In the New World To thi: must be add
cd tie great popularity OF their poitlcai cobsitu
tion. Il is by no means settled out there what
the Union may undertake and promise, aud as 10
this particular affair the antisave trade treaty
against the conscience of many OF tn" states, aud
the interest of nearly ALL 1t is vain to expect thai
= thing of paper aud lux will either compel the
Union TO sacrifices the several States TO compi
auce. We see not whence the virtue Of fidelity
and constaney il to come; or where We are toioos
for the patriots who shall stem any tide of popular
evaporation at alleged "British outrages." That
these outrages are very gotup affairs, that ouI
cruisers have plenty Of work to do, Il the treaty
ssf m har han afa mai nd hat