East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-07-04
From the London Times, June o
Deprecating Displcasure.

tulate with our kinsmen across the Allan
tic for the truculent tone they have as
sumed toward this country. What have
we done? How have we misbehayed our
selves? Why are we to be scolded and
threatened and warned? Wherefore this
attack? At first few dropping shots
spashed with some violence in our own
column, then a volley was suddenly dis
charged at us from the Louvre Hotel in
Paris, and now comes complete salvo of
shottod guns from all the northern press.
England is to be made war upon if she
should but move finger. Federal Amer
lea is to join with France and destroy us
if we should but cast a shadow of ship
upon the waters of the South. If Eng
land persists in regarding the privateers
of the South as merely belligerents, it
would seem that in such case the North
will be inclined to consider it as "mani-
testing an insane disposition to give aid or
comfort to the rebel States :" and in such
case they say they care resolved not to
deliberate q single moment, but to launch
against England the thunderbolts of war
that would not cease till every power in
Europe was involved" What can all this
mean? At other times we should laugh
outright at it but our friends are now in
difficulties. At another time we should
echo the observation that "It certainly is
remarkable that the most despotic Europ-
can Powers, Prussia, Austria, and Russia,
have fastened to express their sympathy
with our internal troubles" in moment
of tranquility we should have deprecated
the suggestion that Russia has evidently
well remembered the American sympathies
shown to her during the Crimean war;"
but now, when the hand of affection is
heavy upon this great nation, which sprang
from our loins and gloriied us by its
strength, we would rather suffer some
wrong than handy words Of provocation.
We would only ask what is our offence ?
what have we done to deserve this fierce
invective
So far as we can judge at present, it is
we only who have cause of complaint if
we chose to urge them. All the northern
newspapers have been trumpcting forth two
facts, which, if true, are certainly no5
creditablc to our professions of neutrality.
! 1t is said that the Canadians have given a
regiment to the northern aamy Of invasion
and that New York has supplied rifle
corps of Englishmen to fight the battle of
the Union. If the gentlemen at Wash
ington will remember their own conduct
some time since, when an injudicious at.
tempt was made to obtain few score of
recruits in the United States for war
against a despotie and cncroaching power
If they will call to mind how hardly
they bore upon us in that moment of our
embarrassment, and how severely they in
sisted upon the full punishment of the
fault committed by one of our subordi-
mates, they will then, we think, see how
much more friendly and considerate has
been our silence under so serious breach
of international law. We have heard of
no diplomatic remonstrance on our part,
nor of any proclamation to these mcrce-
naries. Like all men who shed blood in
cause with which they have no natural
connection, especially when they take that
stronger and richer side to which extra
neous aid is not of absolute necessity,
these foreign legions find no favor in the
eyes Of their countrymcn, and are likely
to receive more maledictions than bless
ings from home; but we have prosecuted
no American Consul in the courts of Ca
NADIA, and we have threatened to send away
no American Minister from London
When we were at war with Russia, Amer
lea supplied our enemy with war steamers
SO ostcntatiously that one of them, in
which the Russian plenipotentiary lately
disported himself in the China seas, was
named the America. Now if we had been
inclined to follow such an example we
might very likely have got good price
for fleet of steamers from the Southern
Confederacy, and might have found such
occupation for the Northern Navy that
there would have been no danger of cot
ton famine in Lancashire. All this we
might have done, and much more, and if
we had done it we might have provoked
some such language of menace as that now
held, although we could not even then
have been accused of doing more than re-
turning evil for evil. But we, on the con-
trary, have done none of these things
We have returned good for evil. We have
not only made formal proclamations against
an interference in this melancholy conflict
but we have addressed ourselves in good
faith and with hearty good will to the pre-
vention of privatecrs going forth from our
dockyards. We have issued orders all
over the world that no corner of the earth
where the British flag waves shall give
shelter to the armed vessels of either of
these two bclligerent parties, or shall aid
them to dispose of their prizes or their
plumber. We have not only done these
State acts, but we have aided them with
the full force of public opinion. Nothing
could be moro unpopular in England at
this moment than any interference with
this quarrel. If VIC could heal il by a
word, that word would be spoken with en-
tire unanimity, throughout the islands ;
but, as we do not hope that this is in our
power, we are fully resolved to hold strict
ly to our position Of absolute neutrality
A sovereign democracy of federal re-
publcs furnishing and conqucring rebel
democracy of confederate republics may