The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-17
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ARRIVAL OF THE SAXONIA.
s british and French Press on the Block
ade of the Southern Ports,

tsh" FIehcn IceSS on the block
ade of the Southern Ports.
Inc steamship Saxonia, Captain Ehlers, which
lett Hamburg on the 4th May, brings papers of
'n"t uate from London, as late as the papers bv
.ne Europa. They contain some interesting items
In regard TO American affairs
In speech delivered by Lord John Russell in
the h"use of Commons, On the Cd of Nav, he STA
tea that her Majesty had directed that an adeouste
Naval iorce should be sent to the coast of America
ana the Gulf of Mexico, for the purpose of pro.
tecting British shipping and British interests. and
A''er a'iuding to the blockade and the rumored
issuing OF letters of marque, added:
:. Her Majasty's government felt very deeplv that
IL was their duty to use every possible means to
tbot ,otu lahihg any part in the amentabe contest
tuat "as now raging in America, and nothing hut
Tue Imperative duty of protecting British interasts
IN case OF their being attacked would at all Justify
.uem IN any way in interfering. They had not haen
mat UNHAPPY contest, or in any other way and
lnr heavens sake, let them, if possible, keep ont
OF it. 'P U'
The London Herald, Lord Derby's organ, takes
the Secretary of State roundy to task for neglect
Ing his duty, and allowing England to be taken BY
surprise. 1t saws:
, Mr.. Lincoln not only declares a blockade of the
southern seabord, but one OF the good od-fashoned
H'hu, which contscates enemy's goods wherever
iouhd, and the ships that carry them hint a
IeW weeks 20 from the Foreign office that this
woad not go down in England, and the ordering
OF the Narth American squadron to the Chesapeske
OF the Guli, would have prevented this; but Lord
Jonn Russell, as we have said already has left
British interests in the United States to mind them
serves until the eleventh hour and for so doing he
and the Cabinet of which he is member must he
heio accountable should war now u1 happily and
lltr nr,-o l..
men. ~
TO sustain the proposed blockade, and adds:
All the public armed vessels at the service of the
,euera' government will be required for convoys
lor the bombardment of works held by the enemy
ana Tor making demonstrations on the coast And
IL Is safe assertion that as soon ss the fighting has
oeSuh MN IN earnest and the smart raking schooners
ana well appointed steamers hailing from the cot
Ton ports begin their depredations on American
trade, not on the Atlantic seabnard onlv but in
Europe, not single American ship of war will be
employed in mere blockade
Ihe consequence of this, it alleges, will be that
American privateers will command the ocean and
prevent single bale of cotton from reaching En-
gland, and charges Lord John with havinp
brought himself and the country into sad dilem-
ma. 1t then adds
II cotton is not to be got by fair means we must
hot sei dpe 10 use l0ul means, or the daily bread
OF tour or hive millions of the working ponulation
VIII be at once stopped. To blockade
the cotton ports is to destroy the British cotton
trade, to involve, not in remote, but in immeda te
restitution several millions OF the British people:
ana 1t would be bitter reflection for the present
generation as well, perhaps, as to the one that fol-
lows II, that to the shortsightedness of Lord John
russell and the present government it was entirely
owing. Had they done as mere common sense
would have suggested, the present danger would
not only have been averted but cotton would be ve
oeen supplied without let or hindrance and we
might have remained good terms with both
begerents.
The London Standard comments plainly upon
the danger with which the British marine is
threatened from the fact that neutral flags cover
nothing and with a cargo the bona fide property of
citizen of the ConEed crate States neutral ship
would be liable to confscation, and calls upon the
Government for prompt action. 1t says:
That we do not exaggerate the danger of the
situation is manifest from the fact that high rate
of premium is already charged at Lloyd's on
American vessels now at sea. Rssolutely bent on
independence, there is saving to what lengths
the people o. the Southern States have already
gone, and although immensely inf rior to the North
In maritime power they are not without a consd-
erable marine. Engaged in the river and coastinp
trade of the Gulf nf Mexico are some of the hest
meFchantmen altuat, together with number Of
powerful! steamers, any one of which would he a
match Tor anything short of ships of war that the
North can bring against them. With these facts
before them underwriters have wisely advanced
rlsks to war standard; and surely the Cavern
ment will not be behind the underwriters in sneak
ing out, that the business of the country NAV mot
be unnecessarily impeded or imperilled
From the London Chronicle we clip the follow
ing:
Sympathzing heartily, as we DO, with the North
with Its Tree press, free Speech free SOIL free men
and allenated as we must be from the South
stalned with slavery, we cannot but censure the
North Tor an almost Austrian stupidity in states.
manshlp. The United States is NOT a military Gov
ernment-it is not constructed for the coercion of
any large mass oI its own people-and though the
South was wrong, according to the letter of the
law, yet the spirit of American institutions sane
toned the successive secessons. = <
Mr.. Lincoln is further now from success against
the South than he when he started from Chi
cago AS regards Fort Sumter itself he did the
worst thing he could d. He intended to eyacuata
1t IN few days; but sooner than consent to ackuoy-
iedge that South Carolina was rebellious he ey-
pressed his intention to send in provision by force
1t necessary. He thus gave the South the provo
cation aud opportunity of a brilliant victory, and
had to submit to a mOrtifying defeat. The conduct
OF the southern Government has, on the contrary
been marked by moderation and good sense They
chung to no fctinns, and were hampared bv no legal
ignorance OF plain facts. Thew wanted to leave
the Union and they left it. They wanted to take
Fort Sumter and they took it. They wished the
border States to join them, and bv precipitatinp
deed, some unexpected good sense at Washington
prevents them at the eleventh hour.
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