New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-16
LoRp LyoNs ANp srn. SEWARD.

There is a rumor that Lord Lyons and Ar.
Seward have had d quarrel and that his Lordship
has demanded his passports, and Ii about 20 quit
the country in disgust. Ii would not be at all
strange If this were So fer it is difficult to under
stand how any man Of honor and sensibiity can
consent to have official much less personal, rela.
tons with the graceiess set Of pretenders and
humbugs who constitute the Gorilla Administra-
ton at Washington.
The trouble between them, if the report be true,
doubtless grew out of the notorious inefciency of
the Federal blockade of the Southern ports. That
tho blockade has been run, time and again, from
every portion of the Southern coast, is perfectly
well known to Lord Lyons, to the British Govern
mont, and to everybody else. The wonder is that
they have stood the nonsense of the Federal
Government in this respect as long as they have
L The latest case reported is, however, one of pc
cnliar Incidents and this it is which has, no doubt,
led to the withdrawal of Lord Lyons, assuming the
sramor Of his withdrawal to be true. Some time
ago, according to the Raleigh tNorth Caroiina)
Register, two English vessels arriving on the coast
Of North Carolina and finding no blockade, pro-
eeeded to Beaufort. Discharging their cargoes
they loaded again and started for Liverpool. But
now, some Yankee ships were on hand and refused
permission for them to pass. The British captains
protested contending that there being no blockade
when they arrived, the right Of agress carried with
il the right Of eGress They appealed to the British
Consul At Charleston, who coincided with the cap
tains but his circumstances had no better effect
whereppon he. proceeded to Washington and laid
the subject before Lord Lyons, who, it is said fully
concurred with the Consul and captains as to the
bright of egress, and ordered portion of the Brit
sh squadron to Beaufort to see the British vessels
safe ont of the harbor, and give them convoy on
| the way hemeward. I i ID, r.74
| What the upshot of it was we have not yet
learned, but take it for granted that the British
men-of-war saw the merchant vessels out of the
port, in defiance of the blockade. 1t would be a
pretty piece Of business, indeed, that a foreign
vessel entering a port not blockaded should be
caught and hemmcd up in that port, and kept
there as long as the bloekaders think proper. The
right of ingress most assuredy carries with it the
right of egress, else commerce never would be safe
or know what to depend on. And yet the block
aders proposed to violate common as well as inter
national and marine law by pleading their own
neglect, and taking advantage of their own reniss-
ness and failure to do what they had proclaimed as
their intention. ft
Such nonsense as this, it is probable, did not
suit the ideas of Lord Lyons, and the chances are
he gave Seward tolerably large piece of his
mind about it. But that same Seward, although
his Craftsmanship has ever been of the most bung-
ling character, has vast eoneeit of the dignity of
his office, affects the profoundest knowledge of
law, and labors under the absurd delusion that he
can hector and bully foreign nations as much as he
chooses, and they dare not resent. This is a mis-
take, indeed, which has been too often made by
American Premiers, old Cass being an exception,
because from long residence in Europe he knew
better. ga en- q
It is. in fact, matter of surprise that Lord Ly-
ons, or any others of the diplomatic corps, should
have remained as long as they have at Washing
ton, thrown as they are into constant personal
and official association with the ignorant, low
flung, wretehed apologies for statesmen who CON
troll the Gorilla Government, and that Government
itself sham, a travesty and burlesqne upon the
very name OF Government. The foreign Ministers
at Washington, who are statesmen as well as gen
uemen must have discovered long ago that the
Yankee race is not only not fit for empire, but that
their ideas about everything else except their in
dividual interests are crude limited, and generally
absurd The craftsmanship which rules at Wash
ington now Is the craftsmanship pretenders and
.bungiefs, and the social law which prevails there
is,a curious admixture Of sycophancy, fnnkeyism
Goldfish arstocraey aud ridiculous pretension. If
Lord Lyons has become Disguised with everything
there, political and CIVIL and has shaken the dust
of the city from his feet, he has shown his good
sense by the act. e%@%