New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-18
ADEFENsE OF BRITISH NEUTRALITY.


Surely have sone reason TO expostnlate with our
Ensmen across tie Aant, for the truculept tone they
have assumed toward this country. What lave we
done How hav. we misbehaved ourselves Why
are we to be scolded, ard threatened, and warned
Wherefore this attack At fret few dropping shots
s,lased with sOme violence iii own columns then
vclley was suddenly discharged at US on the Louvre
Hotel, in Paris, and now comes complete salvo OF
ho, ed guns from all the Northern Press. England Is
to be made npOn ii size shOuld but move finger.
Federal America is TO join with France and destroy
Us if we should but cast shadow Of ship upon the
waters of The South. III England peTs sis In regarding
the privateers OF the South merely begerebts, it
woul ee that in such the North will be inclined
10 consider this manfesng an insane disposition
10 give aid comfort 10 the Rebel States and In such
cas-. they say they are resolved not to deliberate
single moment but TO launch against England the
thunderbolts of that would not ceate till every
Power ia Europe was involved. What can all this
mean At other times should laugh outright AT IL,
INT our friends in difficulties AT another
tine we should echo the observation that: IL GER
tainly is remarkable that the three most despotic
European Powers-Prussia, Austria and Russa-have
fastened to exlre their sympathy with our iternal
troubles" IN moment Of tranquility we should,have
der eesed the suggeriion that Russia has evidently
well remembered the Amer an sympathies shown to
her during the Crimean War" but now, when the
hand of affection is heavy npon this great nation,
which sprang from our lolDs, and gorihed us by Its
strength, we would rather suffer some wrong than
b4ndy words OF provocaion. We would only ask
what Is our oielse !-wnat nave we uohe 70 ueser'e
this fierce invcctive
So lar Us judge at present, it is we only who
have of complaint if we choose to urge them
All the Northern newspapers have been truinpemg
forth two facts which, II true, certainly not cred
table to orr professions Of neutrality 1t is said that
TIE Canadians have given regiment to the Northern
army of iuvasion and that NewYork has supplied
Rifle Corps of Enel hmen to fight the battle Of the
Union If the gentlemen at Warrington will remem-
Der their own conduct rome time slDce when an lnlu-
dicious atiempt was made to obtain few score re-
cruits in the United States for wal against desrotic
and rncroachng poweT-if they will call 10 mind how
hardly tey bore upon in that moment Of our embar-
rassnent and how severely they insisted upon the full
punishment of the fault committed by one OF our snbor-
ainates they will then, We think, see how much more
friendly ard con idefate has been silence uuder
40 serious breach Of international law. We have
heard of no diplomatic remonsrance on our part nor
of any proclamation TO these mercenaIles Iise all
n en- who shed blood in cause with which they nave
no natural connection, especially when they take that
stronger and richer side to which exireous aid Is not
of absolute necessity these foreign legoDs lind no IA
yor in the eyes of their countrymen ard are likely TO
receive more naleOictons than blessings from home;
but we have prosecuted American Consul in the
Courts of Canada and we have threatened to SEND away
no American Munster from London. When We were at
war with Russia America supplied our enemy with war
steamers Ostentaiously thai one OF the in which
the Russian Plenpoentiary lately dsported himself IN
| the China Seas was named the America" Now,
il we had been inclined to follow such an example,
| we might very likely have got good price for
feet Of steamers from the Southern Coniederaey, and
mipht have found such occupation for the Northern
| Navy that there would have been no danger of
| cotton famine in Lancashire. All this We might
| have done, ana much more, and II we had done
It, we nigh, have provoked some such language Of
| menace as that now held, although we could not
| even then have been accused OF doing more than
returning evil for evil Bat we, on the contrary,
| have done none Of these things. We have returned
good for evil. We have&ot only made formal proc
| Iamations against all Interference IN this meian-
| choy conflict, but we have addressed ourselves In
good faith and with hearty goodwill to the pre-
/ Of fpYl u
wards We have issued orders all over the world that
no corner OF the earth where the British flag flies shall
give shelter the armed vessels of ether Of these two
cell parties shall aid them to dispose Of their
prizes OF their plumber. We have not only done these
State acts but have aided them with the full for
of our public opinion. Nothing would he more uI-
popular England at this moment than any intefeI-
euce with ths quarrel If We could heal 1t by word
! that word would be spoken with entire unaiili
throughout these islands, but, ~ we do not hope that
thi is in oar power all fully resolved TO hold
strictly to onr Posiuon OF absolute nentTshly.
| A Sovereign Democracy OF Federal Republics pun
ishlng and conqueiing Rebel Democracy OF C. MED
era Republics may appear strange TO the ears OF stu
Oen,s public law but we have before us as lact
and as q fact we must deal with il. The words =" re-
bton and "loyalty," when used to indicate the &c
ton Of independent States onedogebe oya contract
which derived its validity from each individual assent,
fall strange upon mind accustomed 10 aecep the cAr-
acieriscs Of fixed forms of government, as they have
been made familiar to by the old writers; but here
| wa have them in use Just a. have IN Austria or
Russia. IT, however, We stretch the night Of soyer-
eighty to the utmost Washington can have 10 fairei
,e 10 sovereignty over Montgomery than the King Of
Naples had over Sicily. and Commodore Tatnail, who
only who s s"a, ysst sss
or than water" is, when he goes anos,, certainly
not more Of q pirate than was Gsitali. Al
we treated Gsribald 80 we must treat Comno.
dore Tatnall. As we respected the blockade Of the
feet Of the King Of Naples, so we shai respect .he
blockade of the Southern ports BY the fleets OF the
North; and &c we respected the bellieerent rights Of
the conqueror of Palermo, who was really at that
moment not very distnguishsble from corssir 30 we