The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-06


..,c. and the Law Of Nations.
Archbishop wHArKLY tells us that haii me
,,onh,es Of the world arise from the Dad nAoi'
wan have somehow fallen into Of negiectins
their logic. A writer In the London Saturday
p..i,,r who undertakes TO demolish the Ame-
r,ean Government for its views upon pr'-
watering. does not seem to have proftea oy
the hint Of Archbishop WHATELr. lie COM
mencas bv assuring his readers that there Is
something !. peculiarly irritating in the baa
faith Of the United States" and in the twofoi-
lowing sen fences he shows why the "oao lai.h
Of the United States is more irriiauhs 'i's.s'
any other bad faith. "There is enough, says
he, "of fraud and violence In the oio ofio,
but II is reserved for the youngstown VI
Common wealths to strip its naiionai Ni.es
naked. aud parade them before mahklhu VIZ"
a kind Of pride in their deformty. WHEN -
has piece of gh-handed oppression 10 per-
petrate. the American Government never
thinks OF covering the steel gauniiet with the
xllken eioyen Here is delicious CONFUSION
of ideas 1t is the nature OF fraud, we had IL
WAYS thought, to seek concealineht' p"t 'he
American Government seems to be arraighea
for not cheating according to rule, Out DONG
the thing openly, that Is, for not cheating az
ALI. In pursuing this train OF lhought the
writer tells us, in the next sentence, when u
is DESTROYS of stealing march on TOO conii-
dent foreigners IL disda,ns TO practice fhdf hy-
noerisy which, ut all events, prevents perfidy
from being turned into a precedent The
,brase stealing a march," Is borrowed from
the vocabulary OF war. 1t always struck us
that "hypocrisy (that is deception.) consti-
tinted the very essence of the operation. Tie
Consul NERO stole march on HANNIBAL be-
fore Capua, WASHINGTON stole march Oh
HOWE at Tren ton, CORVALLIS stole a march
on GATES at Camden, NAPOLEON stole many
marches on the Austrians in the operations
before Mantua, JACKSON stole march on the
British army on the 23d December. Each OF
these Generals did his utmost to deceive the
enemy--that is, practiced military hypocrisy
TO the utmost-and if he had not done So
would have made failure. But the Anerl-
cans have invented a new process, by which
they steal marches without practic1ng hypoc-
risy! If we had not been told that THIS ln'eh-
ton is purely American, we should nave
suspected that il owes its birth to dlnefeh'
country-to n country celebrated for It's VIII.
it's warmth of heart, and its bulls.
The tastes Of this writer, as may be collect
ed from the two or three sentences above, are
somewhat peculiar. The only palliation OF
the fraud and violence practised by the gov
eminent of Europe, he finds to be their habit
ual hypocrisy. The great objection to Ameri-
can fraud and violence, he thinks, CONSISTS IN
the total absence of that amiable virtue =
Leaving morality ont of the question, The
confession is certainly edifying enough.
We should be doing an act eft injustice did
we not explain the particular Indictment to
this splendid cffusion OF bile, morals, and
logic The Congress of Paris. among Other
things ageed to relinquish the rights OF search
and privateering during war. The United
States have always maintained that the right
of search was no right at all, and among other
things went to war upon that theme i'll 1Si2.--
They say now, as they said then, that they
will resist this pretended right whenever ii is
attempted to be enforced. There was no &C.
casion, therefore, for them TO become party
to this stipulation in the treaty of Paris, since
it but conceded what they had always taken
for granted. When, therefore, it was present
cd to them in company with the stipulation
against the exercise of a right which nobody
ever disputed-the right of privateering-they
reectedit. They were not weak enough to sur
render an acknowledged right on condition Of
tut SUI "a ~ rvcIcHueu light DNAAAe 49,
late war certain ship-owners wrote to The
Secretary of State to know whether or moi
their vessels would be liable to search by the
and received an answer In The
negative, and reference to the treaty OF Paris,
by virtue of which the pretended right OF
search. during war, is abandoned. The wri-
ter in question is moved beyond patience and
politeness, by this answer, contending that
how No ri OH IN IA nd
tag.s of one clause without swallowing all
Here. again, the logic of the writer seems to
hurry him to conclusions hardly justified by
the facts The parties to the treaty of Paris
relinquished the practice of
searching vessels, without stipulation, as far
AS we can learn. OF course they cannot fly
in the face of their own declaration now, and
of course General CAss was right in saying
that they would not search American vessels.
It is their own declaration, not dependent
upon any stipulation, as far as we can see
They declare, also, that they will not charter
privateers. Of course they will not, unless by
way of retaliation. Both stipulations are
positive, and do not depend upon the United
States at all, and both will be preserved, un-
less some other nation, at war with them, re-
sorts to the practices they are meant to dis
countenance. 1t would be pretty sort of
treaty which should make the abandonment
Of an habitual wrong dependent upon the
abandonment of an undoubted right Why
did not the contracting parties propose to our
government to abandon all right TO its terrific
ries, in exchange for their abandonment of the
ubiquitous practice OF searching our vesselsl-
We claim the immunity Of our vessels from
search as a right which We are not willing to
derive from any Paris conference
Louis Napoleon.
The world is, beginning to question the in
fallibility of Louis NAPOLEON. The abrupt
termination Of the war with Austria upon
such terms as have been announced, has dam
aged the reputation of the Emperor as a man
of great wisdom, and his explanations have
made matters worse. His address to the prin-