Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-29
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N|W. WY. A|"f|"tL ~ ""I"H
Uneol ~ H1uauA COR -tl4la
letter. ubishtd IN yotsrday &sWpqF ast
assets pOdttaIr that letters Of marI1fdbh
Davis are moi oaiy IN The hgnds sfaErnts IL
London and liverpool 'but they have -Btenl
tshen up by Spaniel hoase. 80 itcn
teNtion ofpreying upon the metthaui service
Of the Northeru Sfatssi' and, Ia the New J
Orleans Tras DetAlit Is stated that com
missions for privhteers are on their 7Vay 70
British islands on these coasts, 10 the Pa-
ei6q ard 20 IiverPOOli london aud she
Meantime the London Tfmss bees that We
will not treat Daviss prlvateers as pirates;
and thinks hanging much too severe a pun
ishment for them. II IL too hate TO AJAX this.
The nations Of Europe agreed some years ago
to place privateeriag on a level with piracy, Il.
/ and they can not object II We do the same,
especially IN such q case as this, whore q
| sham government begun in the bo1est
treachery and carried on by stealing, now,
without q port open in which 70 condemu
i prizes, and without q vessel which Il has not
stolen from the Government or citizens Of
the United States, calls upon all the raseals
Of the world TO unite with Il in a piratical
raid upon our commerce.. sa
During our war with Mexico, that Govern
ment made great efforts 70 induce the SUBJ
jsets Of the neutral States of Europe 70 take
commissions for privateers under its flag.
L ENBih0O anu EfhnCe pronounced luetr buU~
| jecte from accepting letters OF marque from
the Mexican Government. The Government
of Spain was cautioned BY our own 20 see to
the faithful execution of the article In our
treaty with thatpower which applies 70 this
case. This article, the fourteenth, provides
that "No subject Of Her Catholic Majesty
shall apply for or take any commissions or
lettersof marque for arming any ship or
ships to act as pfiEateers against the aaid
United States, or against the citizens people
or inhabitants Of said United States, or against
the property Of any of the inhabitants Of sny
ofthem, from any prince or state with which
the United States shall be at war; And
the President recommended Congress to
provide by Law for the trial and punishment
as pirates of Spanish subjects who should ba
found guilty of privateeEing against tue
United States.
BY an order Of the Queen Of Spain, Issued
in May, 1854 proprietors, masters or cap
taips Of Spanish ships are prohibited from
taking letters of marque from any foreign
power, or from giving aid TO sach foreign
privsteers, unless IN case Of fire or shipWreck,
The British Government itself will nos
offer to protect sby OF its subjects who enter
as privateersmen under the letters OF Davis.
They take their lives in their own hands.
Piracy is defined by writer's on ~ihterna-
tional law to be 'the ofense Of depredsti1g
on the seas without being authorized by any
Sovereign State.i The Montgomery mutt
neers are in no sense a Sovereign State.
The best that can be said of them by their
friends is that they are in armed REBELLION
against a lawful government, and that they
have at present armed possession Of a certain
portion OF the territory of the United States,
ia which, However, the United States flag Is
hying-as at Fort Pickens-and through
whose whole extent the United States Cow
eminent coptinues TO perform one of its
most important offices, in the transportation
and da1ivHru of malta q No fnYaipu noWer
could have a decent excuse for recognizing
the Sovereignty of the Confederates,
while a United States Government officer
performs his duties under the Uaited
States laws, in every city, town, post village,
4 in the States held by them.
II AS Is reported from Washington, the
Government has signihed TO the European
powers its acceptance Of that article in tho
treaty of Paris which sbolishes priFateering
among all the powers Of Europe, and which
needed only this acceptance to make pri.
Watering piracy, by the general consent of
the ruling governments Of the world, then
the Confederate privateers will be hung By
whatever nation captures them. If how
ever, this ehonid prove untrue, our own Gov
eminent Is no less bound by odr own laws to
! punish every man captured in a Confederate
p~fivateer as a pirate against our commerce.
Ii has no choice in the matter, but must exc
cute the laws as IL finds them b
!. A Southern Journals View of lthe Rebel
/ Strength at F0rT PickeBs, HaFper's Ferry
!. and Other KIiIitnry Points-ProbAbilIIy Of
the X epulsiOn of the Government.
The Louisville (Ky.) journal remarks.
We expressed our opinion the other day that
the attack on Fort Piekens, whenever made,
= would be successful. We do not see how
any other result can reasonably be expected.
Z The Confederate troops upon the main shore
r are vastly more numerous than the United
4 Gfotao fNnonaf In the fart and np0u the island
/ and they have been engaged for months in
| planting their batteries and strengthening
: their defenses. They are prepared to fight
/ from behind walls as impenetrable to cannon
balls as the walls of the fort and under as
! perfect protection from bombs as the men in
/ the fortwill have. And noB, when we con
slider that they have three or four times -
many heavy guns and mortars as are in the
= fort, we don't understand how the result can
a he considered at all doubtful. We really
o don't see why, since the condition of war is
o recognized in both sections, the Commander
had the privilege accorded 10 him of fixing
IS his wi time for the attack. Maybe il i
"a mere Difference or courtesy or politeness or
the part of the United States Government
/, Still we are aware that we oughtto hesitate
l. long before presuming to condemn the mil
y itary plans of the greatest General Of the age
What we anticipate at Pensacola we arG
i, also inclined to anticipate at Harpers Ferry
4 at Norfolk, and at SewelIs Point. In all o
those places, the Confederate troops, undel
a the command of experienced and skillfl
n Generals and civil engineers, have had Jus
,e as much time and Just as many cannon OF 81
descriptions for siren Qthening their positions
as they could desire. At Harper's Ferry th J
" have planted columbiads and other tremenG
y Gus guns upon the summita Of the man,
almost perpendicular nights in that wild re
d gion, besides having powerful batteries upor
se the level of the village pointed so rs to swee
Is every possible way of approach, and they d.
not entertain a doubt, that, with ten o
q twelve thousand troops, they can easily an
ts speedily repel forty or fifty thousand assail
ants. At Norfolk, the Copfederate troops
under the guidance of the famous Beaure
gard, havefplanted between four and fv
hundred of the biggest guns in America, a
or taken from the Gosport ~Rayyryasd, for tw
n. or three miles along the shore, while tn
near approach 70 the harbor is rendered in
psssible BY sunke1 vessels At Seweu'
re Point they have placed just as many gun
and troops and completed inst sHch ~fortiica
4, lions as they have deemed necessary to III
:, certain accomplishment Of their purposes.
10 Now we, have watched the late militar
movements with considerable care. .~cegtalnl
with much anxiety and = reatlyseems 70 .
bo at this distance as ifthe United States Gov
Ia eminent were preparing to attack the Cor
federats troops at all points named with
be- force scarcely II at all superior 70 their owi
he If this be done the United States troop
sssuredly be beaten back IN every instanc
he if not annihilated. Indeed, we see no rsasC
We why the Confederate troops At Harners Fer
he and at Norfolk could not with their vel
great advantages, repel, with terrlb
M. slaughters three or four times their own nuu
Der. Still we have no right to give up cor
h. fdenee In General Scott and his disth
on;shnd eounrallora Perhana altar All "