New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-24

the quarterback, men OF all nauohS anu Hom tHs
manifested desire Of some to resist to the Last, !
have no doubt but that every person Would nave
Joined heart and soul in the struggle had our COM
| mander but given the order. Such an order ne
could not, under such adverse circumstances, CON
scientiously give, and it was therefore, considered
sufficient that a party Of marines. with bayenets
fixed, should forcibly lay hands on the gentlemen
named. This was done, and the gentlemen retired
/ to their cabins to arrange some few changes OF
clothing most heartrending scene now took
place between Mr.. Siidell, bis eldest daughter,
noble girl devoted to her, father, and the lieu.
tenant. 1t woald require far more able pen than
mine to describe how, with flashing eyes and qnv-
erng lips she threw herself in the doorway Of the
! cabin where her father was, resolved to defend
him with her life, TILL on the order being given 70
| the marines to advance, which they did with pay
onets pointed at this poor defenceless girl, her
| father ended the painful scene by escaping from
| the cabin by window, when he was Immediately
| seized by the marines and hurried into the boat
calling out to Captain Moir as he left that he held
him and his Government responsible for the out
rage. :. -.
and cowardly bullying in the line of conduct pur-
| sued by the captain Of the San Jacinto, may re-
| mark first that on being asked if they would have
| committed this outrage il we had been man-of
war they replied Certainly not, and, secondly,
that Captain Wilkes sent an order for Captain
Moir to move the Trent closer to the San Jacinto:
| OF course not the slightest notice was taken Of
either order, nor did they attempt to enforce them
ar" SIR TaE ffHs Gstasss PTFskk fsSia 81 fHE TRENT.
ROYAL MAIL LsrElnsHlP TsEsT, at nov. s. 1851 ~
| .. lssuthsmpto letter in London Chroniclel
Immediately the La Plata was announced at the
Needles this morning, Captain Pegram, OF the
steamtug to meet the La Plata in the river for the
purpose Of receiving Messrs. Sidell and Mason,
4 the Southern Commissioners; Captain pegram
was not at all surprised to find that they had been
foreibly taken from the British mail steamer, having
/ before stated that he was aware that it was the
| intention Of the United States Government to do
so. Captain Pegram took charge of Mrs. Slideil
and family, and also of Mrs. Eusts, and, after
having entertained them on board the Nashville,
saw them safely off by the o'clock train for Lon
don. 1t is stated that the Americans, while on
board the mail steamer Trent, behaved in very
| violent manner. No authentic information has,
however, been received to confirm this statement.
1 1t is stated, good authority, that the Hansa
which sails tomorrow at 10 A. NJ, for New York,
has taken on board an immense quantity OF mus
| kets and other warike stores for the Federal Gov
| ernment.,s .e~fsst ~ ts" ., ,a : Tf ,ss
4 Mr. Slidell, on taking leave of his family on
board the Trent, is reported to have said 1t is
true that l may suffer great personal inconyen
ence but thank God, it is the best thing that could
happen for my country.n e ..4.saa Il d. 81
Isouthsmpton letter in London Telegraph ,
1t is stated that the Americans, whle.on board
the mail steamer Trent, behaved in q very violent
| manner. No authentic information has, however,
been received to confirm this statement, which
more particularly mentions that, while MIR. Slldal
was in his cabin with Mrs. Slidel, arranging his
lpriyate papers, ETC., the first lieutenant OF the
San Jacnto endeavored to force the cabin door.
Miss Sidell was at the cabin door, protecting any
intrusion upon her father, and Lieutenant Fairfax
then endeayored to forcibly remove her, where
upon Miss Slidell slapped him in the face. Lieu
tenant Fairfax then ordered one OF the marines to
, charge her with open bayonet, which command
| was Immediately obeyed, and would have no doubt
resulted seriously to Miss Slidell had not Com
mander Williams struck the marine and his bayonet
! to the ground and protected the yeung lady.
| [Frcm the London Times, November % ~
OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PREss.-It requires a
strong effort of selfrestraint to discuss with cool
l ness the intelligence we publish to-day. An
English mail steamer, sailing under the British flag
and carrying letters and passengers from Spanish
port to England, has been stopped on the high
: seas and overhauled. Four ofthe passengers have
been taken out and carried off prisoners, claim
ing, and vainly claiming as they were being forced
: away, the protection Of the flag of Great Britain
These are the naked facts. We put, out of sight
the accidents that the fonr gentlemen thus kid.
e mapped were accredited with diplomatic mission
: from the Confederate States of America to the
T., Courts of Europe and also the peremptory man.
ner in which the Federal frigate acted in making
her seizure. The intention of the Federal Govern
ment evidently was to act upon their strict right
and to do so in as little eeremonious manner as
might be. If they are justified by their rights as
s bellgerents in what they have done, the manner
of doing it is a mere question of good or bad taste
If a rude fellow claims the rights coarsely, we mus
, yet give him his rights and, if we weuld not fnd
ourselves in the wrong, we must not quarrel with
! him account of his ilmanners.
Is it, then, true that any officer of the American
navy can stop and overhaul our ships wherever
they may be found and take out of them any per
sons whom he may claim to be citizens of the
United States or officers Of the Confederate Gov
ernment? If we were to admit the Federal view
of their own position, it would be plain that nc
such right exists. They tell us that they are moi
at war, but are only putting down rebellion
They say, or said, that they are net blockading
e their own ports but are simply enforcing law
| az n
+ entry. They insist upon putting their quarrel upoI
e the same ground as if the Queen Of England wert
n putting down a rebellion in the Isle Of Wight
Now. if this were so it is clear that the Fedora
, States of America haye,, in stopping our mai
g steamer, been guilty Of an act of aggression
d which could only be properly punished by laying
g an embargo on every American ship in British
f ports and sweeping their little navy from the seas
They would, according to this point of view, no
j, be at war, and would have none Of the rights o
r bellgerents over neutrals. They would no mort
:. be belligerents than England was after the cele
l. brated Smith O'Brien battle in the cabbage gar
d den, and they would haveno more right to stol
!; our ships and carry off our passengers than VI
6 should have had to stop French ship and TAX
Mr.. Smith O. Brien out OF her. But this assumption
d of the Federal Government has been disallowed
o The world generally has refused to see in this dis
1t rupton and reconstruction of the North American
j. Republic mere rebellion. We have recognized
g both republics belligerent States.r We decar
b neutrality between them as between two warrnl
Of powers. We mete out precise degree of equa
D. consideration for the ships of war of each. Ii
t. everything but our diplomacy we bear ourselve
a exactly equal between them Whenever TIL
Southern States shall have given proof Of such sta
e bility as may make it sure that they can sustai
a their independence we shall doubtless recogniz
3. them automatically, as we already do de tacto
e This is the test applied by all writer's on interna
Is tional law. To support claim to enter into tn
ID comfy of nations, the only proof required of an
IN people is that they able to make their inde
,e pendence respected. Kings and emperors, an
ID even dukes and electors, have sometimes refuse
III to recognize the Government, for the time being
70 of England France, or Italy, but only to their ow
a ultimate rdicule. We have already recognize
ID these Confederate States as belligerent powe
N and we shall, when the time comes, recogni2
le their Government; ), therefore, we have impose
I'd upon ourselves all the duties and Inconvenience
to of power neutral between two belligerents.
TO Unwelcome as the truth may be, it is neverth
ly less truth, thai ourselves have established
he system of intel national law which now tells again
I'd us. In a high handed and almost despotc mamie
of we have In former days claimed pfivieges owe
er neutrals which have at different times banded a
ed the maritime powers of the world against us. W
rs have insisted even upon stopping the ships of WI
e, of neutral nations and taking British subjects o'
of them; and an instance is gwen by Jefferson
at his Memoirs in which two nephews Of Washingtc
re were impressed by our cruisers as they were r
en- turning from Europe, and placed as common Sc
III men under the discipline of ships of war.
hlsr nplT bAn thn