The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-01
The British Press on the aggression. ~
the Gulf


The London 7me,. Of June 3, commences
an article On the right Of search question ms
follows:
We will draw few inmates upon the i'm.
agnation OF our readers In the year A, ID.
1858, the United States OF America, hay
ing then filled up the grand outline expressed
in their title, stretching from Barrow's
Strait 10 Magellan's, and comprising pop
ulation Of near 20O.000,00O, are enabled to
take high ground on moral and religious
questions. ut least, in that aspect Of them
which il most disagrceable 10 other people.
At the call Of nm incorporating philan-
thropy, they have constituted themselves
tho protectors Of all barbarous and semi
barbarous nations against the vices and the
immoral tra1cs Of civilization. So they
have sent forth score or two fleets Of cruis.
era all over the ocean to stop the supply Of
opium, spirits aud oil kinds Of intoxicating
liquors To the races whose weakness appeals
TO their protection, Their cruisers haunt
the BAY Of Bengal, the Chinese waters, and
the Malacca Straits, hailiug the crah Of oil
nations the British particularly, with blank
cartridges or round shot as the case may be.
They order our ships 10 liz to, put of boats,
send on board staggering Yankee officers,
who overhaul the ships papers, ask n multi.
tu,lc OF impertincnt questions, demand to
look into the hold, and perhaps end with
carrying the ship into port, aud throwing
the cargo overheard.
Another squadron cruises In the chops Of
the Chanel, or otl the Irish and Scotch coasts,
aud intercept every outward bound mer-
chairman in quest Of wine, brandy, or other
spirits, and BASES and Akopp's ale. Every
day columns OF this paper. from numbers 80.
900, to 10000. arr filled with such stories as
that which appeared the day before yesterday
In the letter Of orr New York correspondent.
Every day We read that some splendid clip
pr ship OF 10000 tons, sailing and screwing
to reach Mclbornc in 50 days, has been
brought to by mn ugly little Yankee schooner,
and has lost half a dry and u fair breeze, be
sides having Ia stand no end Of gratuitous
insolcncc. On all sides there are loud com
plants. energetic remonstrances, and as much
disposition to resent the 'ndignity by force
as will DC compatible with the comparison
OF our respective means and resources.
The Times thus sums up its conclusions.
We don't convert, America by our present
course. We do not compel her to the virtue
she has not. Before very long the mere
attempt must bring on u fearful war, Is
there no such thing Us giving up crusade
which began by being optional and is found
to bc Intellectual! Is nothing TO he surrender.
ed cXcep, alter the loss OF 30 900 lives on both
sides and thirty millions in money l--ls there
no other USE. equally benevolent, To which
We could put tbs halfmilion of money and
the valuable lives annually sunk in those
s,uadrons
The Tunes Of the 5th. concludes that on
the whole. it would be better 10 give up the
right OF search than 10 provoke conhic.
with the United States. One OF lis most
powerful reasons Is that. The time must
come when, invincible us We may I've 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 shors,
their seas, and generally in the New World
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