The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-20
EXCITED STATE OF TIE BRITISH MIND
The Restoration Of the Rebel Com
missiOners Still Demanded,
What is Thought by" Young ITALY"
and Young Ireland"
AMERICAN POLITICS IN PARIS,
Ae., Ac., Zee
sanguinnry Feelings and Pretudices or
tho British Aristocracy.


Tho from tho United States leaves us little, any,
nope of ding II quite clear that the few honest
respectable men 10 the Northern States arc
et and dgused al the act Of Captain Wilkes They
s.,1 not 4 any time desire war with England; they
woad Al great sacrifice avoid It under present circlm
stances when army OF $50 600 men mennces their
Southern frontier and when they could not spare ship
reg ment from their present duties to wage
US IN Canada the Bot, above all, these
dread and dstest the idea Of war with England bad
They kntD that his occasion Europe IS 'ch US;
right wh US, the law OF nations on our side; they
know that hsht not for greed, nor for empire,
nor for passion, nor for glory, but from the neces
sy OF defending the honor OF flag aud the IRE dom
OF the They know that their government has
strained the law OF nations to the uerm st by law
less arrests by unue fable captures by paper bock
ade and that Eng has borne these ourages patient
rather thn with asnge doubt hanging over her cause,
appeal 10 the God Of Battles They grateful for the
unprecedented orbeaance Of the greatest naval Power
In the world They ashamed OF the reckless aggres
sion and 4an,on inso,ence OF their backwoods states
men and half educated stump orators They arc CAD
that have long absiancd, in tenle. ness to
them, from enlghtening painfully the ignorance Of
Mr.. Lincoln, and chastising condgnly the braggart
impertinence of Mr. Seward In one word they know
well do how grlevousy have been pro-
voked, and how long have RETAINED from veng
II In Americas, in England the educite and thoughtful
men OF tho country the guides of national opinion
and public 20 icy there would be SIX OF Dis
ageabe though 1t might he, he stolen ENJOYS would BE-
replaced on board a British ship, and Captain Wilkes
would have been sent before court martial But IN
happily the edlca ed classes IN America practically
DISTINGUISHED. The mob is supreme; and tho mob is
rule by passion, and not by principe They proud
Of having nsultod the British dag they proud Of hav
ing dthed the law Of nations strange it may seem,
they proud OF the capture by mlu.o Of four
unarmed gentlemen board al unarmed mail steamer.
They will not hear reason they caro- nothing for right or
law.
Tho rejoicing of the Empire City over the capture Of
the "rebeln additional evidence of a temper
which makes Us shudder at the prospac, Of proonga-
tion OF tho present civil conflict. II would that
personal hatre TO their antagonists mrgrs in this
TO degree never before Witnessed II tho
guerrilla war OF Spain against the Fronch invaders
get hold Of four Southern gentlemen the North will risk
q struggle with England. To hang of Southern
South war to the knife and to ensure the immediate
execution OF every prisoner taken either side On the
propostrrous condemnation OF tho of confederate
vessel Mr. Havis very properly ordered number OF
federal officers into close confinement giving notice
that the execution Of any of the prisoners taken the
Savannah would be the death warrant OF these cap
tivss The necessity for such reprsas Is painful any
man OF decent feeling but honor and justice
alternative The guilt with those who begin the
has In drnnre and insfaceabie saia the ncn,3
~ q the only great general Am RIGA eter produced Mr.
Ltoc In has al ecdg pdrndicd the of he Duo
DErphien d0es he intend 10 nA PREF drn of The das
ta,d rdton Of AnreS he es h may rest as
involved himself in with Great Britain the confcde
rat army will work its will with his distracted forces
and for every prisoner whom he may put to death his
rival will be able to hang three. Passion
alto and reckless as has been his course hithor-
70, wo do earnestly trust that no win
stop short Of this extreme OF wanon wickodness and If
he leave his t. sterity that 4 the last President
Of what tho United States hope that he will
not add this unenviabe distinction oathsome fame
earned by the deliberate revival after centuries OF
use Of the practice Of numbering prisoners cold blood
II no ooes we shall certainly not find fault with the
taaton but whom thc fret crime has been avenged
trust that the civilized world will interfere It did in
Greece, to put an end " war which will have become
not merely nuisancs TO commerce but scandal hu-
manly Such nm atrocity as that apparently meditated
by the ,nt of the Northern States would DO Ally
punished by the joint intervention Of the civilized
30 suppress that government altogether q scourge
mankind and . disgrace to civilization.
What the British Cabinet Thinks OF tho
NJ
Opinion md Eng glands Mission.
IFrom the London Post government organ, Dec.l
Tho members OF the ''fourth estate" the federal
side who probab vie greater influence the present
moment in dote mining tho course Of tho civil contest
senatves OF the Northern provinces all taken together
have we learn by the intelligence brought by the
the &C; commit by Captain wilkes and INDUCED in ex
tremely cha acteristic speculaons the probable
tion Of this country. There would not appear il
only fair to state, in the OF the New York press
Judging from their comments on the affair thing like
tho Same astonishing nnanimty in usying the proceed
ings OF Capt. Wilkes which has been shown by the whole
English press in nouncing their condemnation We are
told that some c the New York journals aude the pro-
babe ty OF herg venment being compelled TO
der ogy u offer repa and even To surren
der the II the southern Commissioners and tho
fact that ich slsms of common sense and common
lice should be visible In any portion OF the federal press
ought to be duly chroniced But the general tone OF
federal 10 rnasm precisely what might have been
pocted long OF mpunity In insoenco Of action
and still greater nsnlencs Of language appears have
created in tho minds OF the federal politicians over
belief in tho possibility Of thor ms lence bong ever
curbsd not dissmilar to that entertained by the En-
pcror Nicholas on the eve Of the Crlnean war. Tho
parallel which the great master Of political science
tquity has drawn between the single despoc ruler and
the many headed despotic mob finds it's latest courma
ton in the the crowded mars OF New York
the imperial ha Is St. Petersburg the parasites to
tho vanity and panders to the pride Of the democratic
yrsnt have succeeded in warpng his Judgment and per
verting his intellect completely the with
the late Autocrat Of al the Russas The opinion
ming through most Of the New York journals that Eng
flag speak only those words Of sound and fury which,
like idiots tale, signify nothing-that after hectornx
and rsntng IKE Bom6astes Furioso she will quietly
buly's mind and displays bullys logic. They who
write thus are a. ignorant Of the plain teachings Of
mon ~ they Of tho English character We have
not the slightest wish to quarrel with any human being,
about any political question, avoid doing
mV oWs h head 70 be- WEN ne
street bly, not many days will pass before he
certain of having his head punched again.
10 right that there should not be for the slight
est misrepresentation mistake in this part Of the
the ohe9 side OF the Atlantic There In no sane
should tho federal government wiser than its seicon
stud organs and advisers in the Northern press per-
form simple act Of duty in expressing its regret at the
seizure Of the Southern commissonors
them into our hands But the federal government shall
not perform Its duty there is no In England
who win blind his eyes the alternative that Eng ard
must then do her duty Our riqAs a. he frt mar;time
Io,or in the toorid cannot Be dissereied from osv
da'es; and never have they been completely blended
upon to vindicate, In the name OF English in
, s and honor, right which We pro-
Tess 70 hold and exercise ourselves alone but for
,hs yanalished for the opprcssed may be- only for
he suffering and struggling, in every country OF the
world We can make distinction between the seizure
OF Messrs slide and Mason under the In
which occurred the rumored deaign rafarrsd 70
Iantn Ego IN our colmna Of foreign government 10
And carry OH, by the agents Of its secret police
@ esome revolutionary writer frem his private veli
hg IN TINS very metropolis f
oas asserng great frincpleone of ,phicA N. AN
Ms dee,..on Of The american struggle 4, favor NJ In
x,s, ~ Son 10 whatever termination that strue.is
niix Tvs consequences will prove long and az
;ns;c, sarNl The triumph Of the North wenId
In.Ios severe wound the great intera.,s "
conmercial freedom with which the prosras. .n %
spcc.s Q, our nation now inseparabiy i;nSaI ~
he triumph OF the South would sanction IA an naoa
ii natei aec.Lne that man may hold properiy in n
e low man and rvet on the limbs OF m llior. ~ rs
ss which England Mou gladly or tn. Sol.
op!oa be one in which tho Northcsn " our
the Southern slaveholder-tausht, If nt by .n. ana
~, a. least by the smart OF common suIernS 40 au
q their stee-shsuld Nike the attorney and ,Ss .Iny
o. comic memory, effect selfish rsconcYa,,on aa
q hrat ha, ana