New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-23
uSCzsT OF SEARCH CHEAT BRIT
AHy-MksON AND SLIDEE.L.

The Satanic all but drops its disguise in its
eagerness to help JEFF. Davis & Co. by getting
the Union into a war with Great Britain.
Here is a specimen of its persistent falsehOOds
1.-THE eOwardly Abolition journals are making appeals to
her Enelud 81 mercy deprecatins her wrath, in bonds
key with bated breath and whispering humbleues
while with fear aud trembling they call Government
end the popular press not exaIerae the tooss old lion
ofEgaud lest he may strike the nation dead with hi. power
ful paw"
Not single American journal has appealed
to Brtain's " mercy" deprecated her "wrath,
nor anything of the sort. We are anxious to
know whether she will or will not reclaim
Slidell and Mason, but cannot decide whether
we should prefer that she would or would not
do it. If she does it, she puts herself llagranty
in the wrong throughout generation, aud con-
iesses that our fathers resistance to her i'm
pressment, right of search, &C., was emphati-
caly and emncntly right. We confess to
pretty strong desire to see her on record IS
champion of liberal Interpretation OF Maritime
Law and Neutral Rights. We do not know
nor aek whether President Lincoln would in
any case SdEItbUtT NitSrTF. Glutu anu nluShu
on her demand; but ii he should, he will have
won an immense triumph for the cause which
is traditiOnally and naturally our cOuntry's, by
having compelled her to take ground which will
afford ne valuable precedent hereafter. On
the whole, it is our impression that she VIII
not make the demands but it is our National
interest that she should do it. Whit response
the President will make, is quite another mat
ter: but be can hardly so manage that our
country shall not derive great aud enduring
advantages from the capture of the rebel Pleni.
potentiaries. No doubt he viii do whatever
is for the best.
1t is not worth while to expose further the
unwearied efforts Of The HcraH to extrcate
the rebels from their dilemma by pluDging the
country into war with Great Britain. Here
is a specimen of its habitual language:
We ask fayors from England. We simply demand
justice and IL she will yield that win fight her as we
did before The true way her hostility 20 hov
boldJ,eHt and Be fully p5epa,ed Jor her vorsL"
The meaning of this is simply" Hold out
" little longer dear JEFF and we will have
- the Union involved in q war with Great
L" Britain that will enable you to dictate your
" own terms Of peace" And this is the end
fer which Tie Herald has labored since the
day that it was compelled to haul down its
Secession flag and run up the Stars and Stripes.
"A tinorous correspondent sends us the
following:
To me Editor OF The ~ TribYns.
SIR: Your article Of to-day under the caption Of
Trouble with England" again rciteate' the Hsstaiene"i
that Henry Laurens from the United States to
Holland was captured board Dutch ship on his passage 10
Amsterdam.
THIS Is entirely wrong he captured board an .fntr
paots-ssy. as The following viii show;
Firm The Ner York Meyeuyy. Oc,. -, 1870.
leserday the ship Petty Capt Maqgi', iIeIa ns'sow,
racket bound Phiadplis which which Pssseu-
er NJ Henry Isaren iae President Of Co.e,s a.. cap
al sspeub.r on the Newfoundland station the prize
red into st Johns and the Hsi being found Of sgeh CON
sequence it, dispatched with Mr. H. LsuTous
in irfson. uudc! convey TO England Nc
Had she been Dutch ship how could Engi,h fd-se
have captured Holland being then, ard for months after
ward at peeoe with England But she built end owned
in Phil depha md vii surely have "TEorntE WITH
" ENCL,ND.' G.. W.
. Phaode,1hia. Nor. 81
We assure G.. W. that there will be- no
serious trouble with England, for Mason and
Slldell ore not worth it. Ii Great Britain eau
show good reason for claiming them, they will
be given up; but we do not believe she can.
The current of British Admiralty decisions,
and the uniform lcanings Of British writers on
International Law, favor the exercise OF bel
ligerent right which placed Mason aud Siidel
in their present position. But if the British
Government can be induced for the sake Of
retaining them, to take the Highest American
ground in favor of Neutral Maritime Rights,
we shall have sold them for great deal more
than they are worth.