New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-07

tanned footing at Hatteras, Port Royal, Tybee
| and Ship Island. .zz7ls -.-..s.., s- "a. -'e
| the Union IN North Carolina and Tennessee, and
therefore bases an argument that the cause Of the
Union ID steadily advancing Southwark 4. afs4 Z, h
| He compliments Gen. Scott and boasts of Me
Clean, and concludes with specnIations about the
capital and labor superiority Of the United Staten
| over the Southern Confederacy.@ @ %~s@S ~ Esss
The Federal Blockade Affecting the
| ! ,. Trade of rNeutrais. ,s,F. 49,.
fFsom the London Herald (DeIby gam NeT a s45.
Lord Russell and the Cabinet; have nov some-,
| thing serious to think about in the matter Of
| American blockade, and each step they take will
! form precedent for future sjurists. The latest
phase which the question has assumed, in the fast
and loose policy of the Federal Government ia
exceptional and extraordinary. We believe it, in
fact,ito be unsupported by any precedent, and to
be wanting in respect to other governments. TAX
| ing advantage of the act Of the 18th February,
| 1888, which would seem to bear on cases of ire
gular clearing from one American port to another,
and of the act Of 1898, we are led to understand
that such American vessels as have from time to
time run the blockade have been released, although
British ships for doing the same thing have been
condemned. Further, it appears that American
vessels arriving in American port from another
| with irregular clearances-in other words, which
have run the blockade-are not to be fnterfered
with in future, unless under instructions from the
Federal Treasury, while British aud other foreign
vessels are we presume to be still liable to cap
tnre and to subsequent condemnation in the Fed
eral prize courts. t'-' s' ~ '''' -
1t would be idle for Us to pretend.to see what
the Federal Governments is now driving at but the
bow may be drawn at a venture. Time will be
gained by this new Federal scheme. and in the
interval the Federal Government will try it's hand
at the subjugaton of the South from the seabeard!
If the attemptis is attended with success then the
blockade. will be raised formally but il bad luck
follows the Federal cause to Savannah and New
Orleans the blockade will not be raised. And in
the mean time the privileged American vessels
would take ice, Holsters, oysters and other deli
7 cacies not contraband, to the occupied cotton
ports, and carry back with them all the cotton
: that could be had. PresumiRg this to be the new
line which the Federal Goyernment intends to
r take, it may be asked whether Lord Russell and
the British Government VIII lend themselves to its
being tried Will Lord Lyons be instructed to ask
an explanation from Mr.. Sc ward, and. MIR. Seward
be permitted to deliberate and confer, and stir up
| in the same breath the angry elements of which
American society is composed?
If SO, we do not hesitate to affirm that more
grave responsibility was never assumed by the
5 constitutional advisers Of the Crown. 1t would be
= the responsibility of determining whether foul
. millions Of dependent people are this winter to be
. employed whether the greatest branch Of oul
n national industry is temporarily to be convulsed
| whether our commerce is to be convulsed more
seriously than it ever has been !; and the pillars d
the constitution shaken by political demagognes tt
. their base. On the other hand 1t is open TO Lore
John Russell and the Cabinet to confer with
d France and the other powers interested, and te
a
: terms which will command attention and not in
Evolve delay. Cotton will do without il TIL
i law of nations is TO be eontravened; but cotto,
It we must have the moment it is illegally withheld
q ! We have rights neutrals which the Fedora
= Government must respect, and interests and homo
as nation to which dsingenuousnessmu must not b.
is made to bend. When the Federal Governmen
70 released the American vessels which had run TIL
81 blockade, the decision Of Judge Belts in the cas-
OF the Hiawatha and the other British ships shou
I at once be set aside and when the Federal Gov
d ernment yielded to the clamor of the American
}. shpowners and merchants and cotton.spinners
:. by the Instructions given to the New York Gus
| toni House Collector, it became lawful for th
ships of all nations to resume without molesta
taton peaceful intercourse with the Southern
,f States.
h Ina crisis like the present we have no desire tt
be fant-fnding, but Lord Russell and the Govern
IS ment must be sensible of their grave Hliscalcula
ton in American matters, and OF the serious natur
IS ofthe concessions which they have made, and mad
" in vain The right of nation to blockade its ow
e ports has been given up; a paper blockade ha
e been recognized and ships working to the South
erh coast for Information, and leaving ports befdr
q which no force had been ever stationed have bee
| captured and condemned. The time will com
t. when each and all of the concessions may. b.
d brought before Parliament, and the wisdom Of tn
q proceedings called in question. And it will be re
II membered that at the beginning Of the American
difficulty Lord Russell felt assured that there neve
j. | would be any fighting, and when the fighting di
begin that the numbers and resources of the Mort
J. quire how far these misnforned and narrow view
shaped the course of the coalition party, or wan
j. Of policy. sr -4,.sas az ,-.tits5.E -l.aE. s..
n d Now, however, Judgment must be exercised an
j. common craftsmanship displayed. Opinion is nos
10 well formed among all classes the merits of tn
,s contest and there will be no further retcenee
a. the House of Commons. What is said out of door
ty daily will be repeated in doors when Paramer
assemblies, and on every point information will b
is required Let US hope that the Government wi
in be prepared, that the most will be made from no.
till then of onr cause and that the Federal Govern
s. ment in the meanwhile will see the folly of drag
in ging this country or any other country into th
c. struggle. It's hands should now be full enough
" for the winter may have set in already and left th
to South stronger and more determined than it was
at March. To involve this country or any other
Il the contest would thus lead inevitably to the sea
e. being turned and to the South being received in
j. the community, of nations Ultimately, even if ii
assisted, such result appears now inevitable; hl
he assisted, the result would of course be hastene
of while the Federal States would enormously j
I'd crease their financial and other troubles. Wha
nd ever the Federal Government or the British Go
ernment raay do, President Lincoln and Mr.. Sc,
nd ard cannot reckon longer on the forbearance
e- the British people, for that has been taken advG
he tage of and miseonstrned. -.Ea1s.a,, ~ ~ ~
w CAsEaATE BATTERIES. We recently alluded
- the Importance of constructing casemate batteri
an on thes coast, and mentioned PLAN which BIZ
e been suggested to US by "a scientific and skillf
w naval officer, by which it appeared that the wol
re- of rendering our sea-coast batteries bomb pro
ITS shell-proof, was, by means, 50 formidable
he might at first be supposed. We notice pract
rv cal mmunieatioR on the same subject. the su
~ gestions Of which appear to be both obvlous al
"a forcible. The writer says
ho .aTbis !" (the work of making the batteries she
IN prsof) may be done by means of wood and ear
or by the use af masonry and earth: or better,
s done hastily, by a combination of masonry, wot
he | and earth. Construct brick or stone wall sew
H. H. I to eight feet thick. pierced with embrazures
fnp 81 OH wal n ha