Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-04
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.

on American anaIrs IN the mouse OF lords VIII
f nd it difficult TO detect therein any trace of
that ill will towards our government or dspo
sition TO aggravate our intestine troubles
which is popularity supposed TO animate the
councils Of the western European powers
N Y@Iribane, June 3.
This paragraph from the Tribune misstates
the case and the editorial article from which
we take ii surprises us by an attempt to ex-
cuse the course of the English government
with respect to American affairs. 1t is not
true that the feeling on the subject recently
expressed in this country has been directed
against ''the councils of the western European
nations" No! it has been directed against
the government and portion of the press of
Great Britain and why should there be such
use OF words as is adapted only to withdraw
attention from this fact? No other nation of
western Europe, nor of eastern Europe, has
given such occasion for indignant criticism,
and in stating the case no other should be
mentioned.
The government of France, for example, has
pursued very different course. lthas issued
no offensive proclamations, and made no hasty
and insulting recognitions; and all advices
from Europe say that il is around the English
government, rather than at Paris, that the Sc
cession agents have found encouragement
The Austrians were baffied and beaten in
Hungary but England would not recognize
Hungary as "beligerent," fearing that such
a course might prejudice the cause of Aus
tria." Shedid not recognize as "belligerent'
the Swiss "Sonderbund," which was a rebel
lious and reasonable concern, very similar to
our Confederate states )" and in defiance of
all outside pressure that "Sonderbund" was
dissolved and reduced to order. But England
has made eager and insulting haste to recog-
nize as a belligerent the high handed con-
spiraey of our southern traitors. This recog-
milton was not necessary, as the other cases
show. 1t was the free-will offering of sympa-
thy. The government that made the offering
would gladly see the destruction of this re-
public Let all this be carefully entered in the
book of memory.
That portion of the English press that shows
sympathy for our government in its present
struggle, does not talk on this subject as
the TEibune talks in the article from which
we quote. The London Spectator, for in
stance, while speaking dutifully of the queens
proclamation, and hoping the British govern
ment means to be neutral, although "its bias
remains TO be Defined" expresses its views as
follows -
"Eut il is nevertheless a misfortune that our first
official act in connection Nth the struggle should be
one schick tends directly 10 The benefit Of the south
Englishmen, as subjects of power in alliance
with the United States, had, till this declare
ton, right to enter into its service, right
wholly unaffected by the fact of the service
being against rebels instead of Indians or
Mexicans. Nobody "proclaims" the lrishmen
who rise in the Austrian army, or the Eng
lishmen who accept The summons of Carl
baldi. By prohibiting enlistment the order
deprives the United States of all the aid it
might, without that order, have obtained.
That ald Is by no means nominal, or limited
10 the moral force which is SO serious an incen-
tive IN war. The Canadas, if let alone might
IN an antl-slavery struggle have been ranked
as northern states, aud one British regiment
has already marched for Washington via Bal
timore. British sailors too, are sure to be enoaoed
IN thousands The northern side, and 10 depsine
them Of the protection their nationality nliqM hare
afforded, is pro tanto to limit The resources of he
north 1t may be argued that the south is
equally deprived of this advantage but the
remark is sound only in appearance Nothing
in the proclamation stops ship owner of Liv.
erpool or the Clyde from selling ships to the
SOUTH and it is in steamers, not in men to man
them, that President Davis is deficient"
The honest public sentiment Of the English