New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-09
NoRTsERs INToLERaNCE.

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Lord Lyons, the British Minister at Washington,
was the recipient short time ago Of formal ad-
dress from the subjects of Great Britain residing
| in New York. complaining of the intoerant spirit
prevailing in that city and asking for protection
against it. The niemorialiss state that no freedom
Of opinion is allowed them-that they are not even
permitted to maintain prudent reserve that they
cannot even keep silent respecting the merits of
| the controversy between the North and the South
The Abolitionists have applied the rule that those
who are not for them are against them; and every
man is expected to declare openly for the North on
penalty of being annoyed and insulted. These
British subjects, declaring that they feel uneasy
for their personal safety, petition Lord Lyons that
he would cause to be placed in the harbor of New
York one or more vessels of war bearing the Brit
sh flag, so as TO give of security to many
who are now looking to the future with great anx-
iety.n .
This is fit Illustration of Yankee humbug and
hypocrisy. Nowhere on earth have people been
more camorous for free speech, freedom of opin-
ion, a free press, free "niggers," free soil free
love, and everything else that had the prefix "free"
to It. And yet nowhere else is there such abso-
lutte slavery. physical and moral
These memorialists are not natives of England
natnraiized in this country, but bona Ide British
subjects, owing allegiance to this country or its
rulers, but subjects Of the Queen. By the procla-
| nation Of their Sovereign they are bound to be
neutral respects this quarrel between the North
and South, and their inclination no doubt accords
with their duty We venture to say no intelligent
Englishman, subject Of Her Majesty, has violated
this neutrality by word or deed, in any section of
the country, since the Queens proclamation was
issued. But it is precisely this which the New
York Aboliiionsts will not allow. They will not
permit any man to be neutral, even though he be
a British subject People Of all sorts are com
PEELED, By threats of injury to their property, to
hoist the United States flag on their houses They
are forced 10 break their silence and declare for
the 5UnIon,n even when they have no hostility to
the Union. They are not allowed to be silent
they are compelled to speak out, but to speak
only on one side OF the question. No man. citizen
or not, ought 10 be subjected to this duress-but,
in the case of British subject, it is, in fact
forcing man, by threats of personal violence, to
do that which he is expressly forbidden to do by
the Sovereign to whom he owes allegiance.
No wonder, then, this remonsrance comes Up
from these gentlemen. They declare, in their ad.
dress TO Lord Lyons, that g any person not warmly
approving the justice of this war Of the North
against the South is condemned as an enemy to the
North, and is consequently subjected to much
obloqny." Many Of as, they continue, g have
been in great dread that, in case of disaster to the
arms Of the North, our lives aud properties would
be endangered by tumultuous assenblages Of the
people, despising all law and wreaking vengeance
on the suspeeted.n
Such is the g free' North This is the land
which bemoans the slavafy of the South. and pro