Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-11-18

WHAT WILL GREAT BRITAIN Do?-The
New York Evening Post supposes the capture
Of Mason and SlideIl will lead to a diplomatic
correspondence between our government and
that of Great Britain and speaks on the sub.
ject as follows -
at is to be expected, however, that unless
subsequent Information should put another
| face to the affair, The British government may
/ have something 10 say respecting it, Ii that
/ government adheres 10 tile principle it so long
/ sirenuousiy maintained. that one nation has a
/ right to search the vessels Of another and take
/ from them its own subjects, there will be no
! difficulty Il must cOncede to us the right
which ii claims for itself. But if the rule is TO
be applied in this case for which the American
eXpounders OF international law have contend.
! ed then the ground will be taken that on the
/ high seas a British vessel Represents the SOW.
ereignty and Jurisdiction of the British govern
ment and the American frigate had no right
10 interfere with the prosecution Of 4 voyage
irOm uba to England. 1t will be argued tpg4
Caveruinar,ts s-.,v srrfsC tIIeSe freedoms Win
each others commerce without impairing the
good neghbOrlood existing between them.
Even il she comes over 20 this view of the
question Great Britain cannot make the act
OF the San JaciuIo the occasion OF any very
serious quarrel with our government, inasmuch
as j! il copied from her own practlce-she
having done tie same thing to our vessels and
those Of any other nation Whenever any occa-
sion Of equal importance arose.
1t mag be that this pOiut will seem so clear
20 our government that il will be deemed
proper to make an apology 20 Great Britain.
What other reparaion the case will admit of
we cannot see, unless, perhaps, a pecuniary
compensation be made to the owners Of the
British steamer in case their interests have
suffered any prejudice. Clearly. the two ring
leaders Of the revolt cannot De given up. Once
prisoners, they are prisoners to the end of the
war. Besides, we may want few just such
men to hang, in case the rebels perform their
threat Of putting Colonel CorCOran to death"
Mr.. SUMMERS SPEEcu-The Boston Cou
rier, which less than year ago was an open
/ apologst oil the disunionists, and which would
defend and apologize for them now If it dared,
is responsible for the following:-
at is said that Summers Worcester speech,
which was SO generally disav9wed by his par
/ IT, and to crcul te which in the north unsuc
| cesstul appeals made 10 decent churches,
/ is having considerable currency ut the south.
| They think there is nothing like it to nflame
still further the minds Of the southern people
against The Union and the north. Massachu-
sets owes it TO herself to take the earliest OPP
portGnity to treat him as the disunionist which
lie is"
None but the Courier could manufacture
such compound OF falsehoods, or use it with
so much malgnity. Isn't it a nice trick for
one Of the most rancorous OF our northern
uphoIders Of the slavery extremists to indite
such things and cali Charles Sumner dis
unionist :" The only southern references to a
! ttsa If Mr. Cur,nor,s spaanL ar +ba soutb
which the conductors of the Courier or any
body else has seen, we presume are like the
extract of letter from a Kentuckian which
we find in the Boston Traveller. The writer
is now acting as colonel in the Union ser
vice in Kentucky. It appears that several
thousand copies OF the speech have been print
ed and circulated in that state by the Union
men there, and that they think it will do the
/ Union cause excellent service. The Kentuek.
ians letter TO which we have referred says -
Summers speech strikes the key note for
the Union cause in Kentucky, and his policy,
II followed up by the administration viii in
sure us a speedy triumph, The president
seems 10 rely upon Holt, bat Holt has been too
long in Washington and away from Ken.
lucky, TO understand the popular feeling here.
LIS SYSTEM tehus 10 make All men OF property
not exactly open traitors, but Indifferent, which
Is almost as bad. | own one hundred and
fifty slaves, and am ready to lose them and
my life to save the Union. Is the property OF
traitors any more sacred than my own or
why, in crushing treason, are we to be re
strained from striking in the only tender
spot =
And who finds it easy to say "No" to these
questions of Kentucky stakeholder? Mr.
Sumner has not demanded 70 have the admin
istration adopt his views. He has no contro
versy with'the administration on account o
any matter in its war policy, but, on the con
trary, supports it as one OF its most reliable
friends If the views expressed in his speecl
are sound, they will ultimately prevail. If no
tley will be rejected. But, ii is proper to OF
serve that his views do not appear to dlffe
tnuch from those OF the secretary Of war, AM