Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-05-22
Spirit Of N. naerniag Press.
THE NEWS HERE.

he PRTvkrEERINs QUESTION IN ENGLAND
The commercial journals of New ork city are
manifesting undue solicitude concerning the pos
sibilitv that England may favor the cause of the
elgarchy, by opening her ports to their prvateers
with prizes. The idea is so preposterous as that
we are astonished at the ner vousness thus exhib-
tied by the Times and other newspapers of New
York, on the subject The Morrill, tariff il a
heavy blow at the American trade of Britain; and
the London Tunes and ether English journals as
well as Lord Jobn Russell and other parliament
tary representatives of English commerce, are
evidently bent on holding the privateer question
before the eyes OF the Government Of the United
states as a scare crow to induce Its modi hcation
The course of the English Government in the
premises must necessarily be directed by fixed
law. well known to all international publicists.
Lord John Russell, in what he has taken occasion
TO say on the subject, has simply laid down one
branch OF those laws, while Lord Palmerston, in
what he, also, has said upon it, has laid down
sell has proclaimed that 1t is not the province Of
England 10 interfere with the current attempt at
revolution In this country by herself arresting and
punishiny the privateers of the oil igaIchy; while
Lord Palmerston has no less clearly proclaimed
that IL Is entirely lawful tor the Government of ths
United States to treat them pirates and nothing
but pirates They both concur in the opinion
that 1t is lawful for British vessels TO run our Gov
ernments blockade, il they can. And, further, in
the opinion that British vessels attempting to do
30, II caught In the act, may not look to British
We have read everything from England on the
subject appearing In print on this side Of the At
lantc for months past, and state the case or Ques-
non just as 1t stands there at this time. No man
OF common sense expects England we appIehend
10 hold any other position upon IL than that ex-
planned above. 1t Is, doubtless hard for England
70 be so terribly injured as she will be by our
MoTriH tariff, at the same time she loses her Gus
tOEary supply Of American cotton But she is
rapidly relieving herself from the last disability
,hIough her measures being taken to secure her
SUI Pies OF cotton from other quarters Of
the globe, which all commercial men now under
stand are rapidly proving successful. He must
De blind, Indeed, who now fails to realize that
one OF the most palpable results of the American
secession movement is the approach hing total de-
sduetion OF the late American cotton producing
supremacy, which Of itself cannot fail to break
The backbone Of the disuniOn movement ere long
Nor do we entertain the slightest doubt that
congress al Its approaching extra session will so
modify the Morrill, tariff as to divest II Of many of
its features not more Objectionable to Europe than
10 the general commercial interests Of our own
country Its enactment, embracing those features
was not the work or policy OF the present Admin
istration, which, through the President, (then
President elect) distinctly and palpab!y objected
10 making ii the law OF The land
We therefore conceive that the misunders.and-
Ing Rpon that subject between the two Govern
mcnts Will be Of brief duration In the mean
while, we remind the New York Times that Eng
land is eInpbatically gorsrHnl.rt of public
opinion and, d CONSEQUENCE that were THE
British Ministry to essay TO take sides with an
American revolution designed to reduce one half
OF the Confederacy Of the United States under the
dsspotism Of a wholly uuaccOuptable oligarchy
To be based on the Possession Of slave prcperty
and the deprivation Of the white laborer Of afl his
distinctive American liberties Ii (that British
Ministry would not exist three months after the
English nation came to a realization Of the fact
The spirit that has animated the British people for
Quarter OF century, where the slavery Question
is concerned, is 10 us sufficient guarantee quite
that however much the London Times and those
In England interested in the speedy modification
OF the Morrill, tariff may buster for the time being
over this p:vafeer question: the moral force of the
policy OF Britain towards the bellIgerents on this
side Of the water will be directed to the end Of
rePressing the Oigarchy's attempt to erecta naked
prc-slayery and anti-white- labor despotism over
any portion OF this land
SH,sCt OFT tIaOu Srnt1,s with which he
London Tunes and its anti-Morrill Tariff colabor.
ers In England have already essayed to use the
Privateer question, will surely be to cause the
Government Of the United States to redoubIe IT'S
e1ertons to quell the attempt at revolution in the
shortest possible time. Ii will cause the prompt
employment OF twice as many armed vessels on
our southern coasts and the appearance of another
call for land forces in less than a month we an
prehend, making the total force placed In the
field not less than four hundred thousand men:
that being not only the poligy embracing the
only positive assurance Of immunity for American
commerce against piracy under the pretext of prI-
Watering, but the policy OF humanity In the pros
ecutoE Of the impending war.