The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-21
The ou,u,up,e Treaty Of fs4I.

We referred q few days ago to tho agency OF Gen.
GAYS In defeating this notable plan Of Eoglsnd to
Constitute herself high constable OF the seas The
object OF the treaty was osteushy TO suppress the
Afeesn slave trade. and the parties whom IL iuvi.
ted to mutually silow the right of search were
Great Britain Pranco Russia, Austria aud Prussia,
the three latter OF which had scarcely any navy a.
ALL Gen. Cass, then Minister TO France, did not
wait for instructions from home, but issued pow
erfnl protest. which blew the nicely concocted
seheme to fragments, aud drew down upon him
the everlasting aatipathy Of the defeated party.
Cen Cass Is now AZ the helm OF our foreign affairs
aud We can easily conceive that 1t will be labor
of love to him TO obtain redress for the recent out
RACES upon our Gag.
The N. Y. Courier justly declares that the uni
ted States ssauds firm by the prlocipes enumerated
bv IL IN the discussions upon the QuiDiupie Treaty
OF lssl. and embodied in the Webster Asbburton
Traafy OF 1872 II asserts that its nag unless pal
pably simulated protects the ship that bears IT,
and denies an Toto tho right of visit or search NO
American ship IL bound to lie to or wait the ap-
proach Of any other ship, except the war vessels
of it's own nationality; and II force be employed
10 make her thus lie 20, trespass Is committed
for which the Government, in whose service the
ersndisg vessel acts, must answer. The equality
Of ships IN the is precisely analogous to
the equality of men on the shore. No man has
right 70 bid another stop and submit TO
examination tnAt can ne NODS only Nv an bIit't
OF the land. and home officer, not a foreign one.
III civil efflcer land have process against one
inAiv idual, and through mistake arrest another,
this arrest IL wholly tortuous; and just so II a
British iser having right to intercept African
,slAvers, through mistake stop an American mer-
chant vessel. IL commits wrong. for which redress
shouid be exacted. Ii may safely be said tbat
there IL nothing upon which the United states IL
more firmly resolved than upon the maintenance
of the per feet freedom aud immunity OF its mer-
chant vessels on the high seas. Upon this subject
the people of the United ates are rs one man
Add well they may be after the trials and tri-
umphs Of the late war which arose out Of the same
cause. aggravated, It is true, by circumstances Il
grester atrocity. We ilnd in the Alexandria Ga
sette, Of Wednesday, a communication containing
some interesting "reminiscences Of the events which
preceded our last contest with Great Britain. The
exercise of the right Of search was then accompa
nied by the impressment of American seameu for
the British service, the number Of whom, when
the war broke out, amounted to three thousand
five hundred men, many of whom we're killed II
fighting the battles Of our enemy. Many from
exsudris were impressed, some of whom never re-
turned. The Gazette,s correspondent says that
he many years ago saw a wagner from Fan
quisr or Cupeper, who. in his youth had smiled
out Of Alexandris, and had been impressed or
board of one of Sir Sydney SMITHS squadrous. and
toIk part IN the defence of ST Jean D'Acre. where
Napoleon stopped by the British and their no
bls ally Djezzsr par mobile fratrum" Tbs
name of the Virgnian, referred to, was Washing
ton Cooke. No man who heard him talk, coul1
doubt the truth Of his story. One OF their owI
writer's adds the correspondent knowlcdgrs the
fact of Furnishing impressed Americans-Captais
Basil Hall, in one of his books mentions the In
human fortunes of noble impressed American
sailor, who refused to do duty on board Of British
man-of-war-tbe recital is enough to make oneI
blood run cold Capt, Hall also mentions the fact
OF an American coaster being fired into, off Sand
Hook by British frgate, and the mate being kill
ed-and the consequent excitement at the funeral
Of the murdered man. and remarks nearly as fol
lows: mo wonder these people we're hostile tc
us"