New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-11

to feel harshy toward England since the nature
of her policy has been explained and under
stood. We never asked, nor would accept, any
mid from her in the chastisement due our Rebels.
Strict impartiality was all that We demanded,
ana it was the misconstruc!iOn of Lord John
Russ'!rs words that caused the i'll feeling which
prevailed at one time. When Lord John said
that they must treat our Rebels " as beiger-
I" "ents," it was natural inference that this im-
pied the permission to them to fit out their pirate
ships and sell their plunder in English ports.
This would indeed have been an act Of unpardon-
able hostility, which would have justified the most
angry feelings, if not actual war; Bu. since
these omnous words have been explained away
to mean no more than that the flag Of JEFF.
Davis will not be treated by England as if it
bore literally the deaths head and cross-bones,
which are typcally there, and his privateersmen
hanged nc the yardarm, the British ports being
shut against them, and our actual blockade re-
spected we have no complaint to make OF
England in her corporate and official capacity;
and this is all that We have to deal with as q
nation.
And we must remember too, that it is the
words and actions of our responsible authorities,
civil and military that the English have to judge
us by. The English people have been denounced
as if their Apti.Slavery testimony were smothered
in cottonwood, because they did not at once
generally take the side of the North against the
South. Aud this by presses who are the first to
deny that there is any Anti-Slavery element at
all in the war. We know, aud all Englshmen
intelligent of American aIairs-uuluckiy, not a
very numerous class-know, that Slavery lies ut
the bottom of our dissensiQns and is the one
single occasion of oil our civil gricis. Such men
know, as every intelligent American does, that
this war cannot end let it eDd how or when 1t
may, without most materially modifying the poll.
tic.l and moral status of Sayery-probaby
without leaving it moribund if not dead.
But why should the average Enelishman
SEQ all this, when every utterance OF our
public men, beginning with the exordium OF the
Inaugural has been IN emphatic denial OF any
intention to meddle with Slavery in any way, ex-
ceIt to suppress insurrectiOn and return fugi'
tiyesi The President and his Generals can have
no nuipObt W "N''"St "'
they do, under oath to support the Consti-
tutiou, aud they say so. That they have had to
interfere with it, aad VIII have to do 50 yet
mere striDgently, is through the comPulslon of
events. But the average Of the English people
aud press ought NOT to be blained for not seeing
what We have all along been declaring is not TO
be seen, and for no. believing that our represent
alive men are to become much better than
they soy they will, as events may compel them
TO be. Whenever it is clear that this war has
for its eud the Abolition of Slavery, we shaIl lind
the mass Of the English people distinctly enough
on our side. Even The Times admi's that,
..when, If ever they proclaim tho Abolition o'
Slavery. they will have all our sentiment on
"ths side" But then. Us now, the action oi
the Government must be controlled by certain
fixed principle. OF international law to be applied
according 10 the final course of events, and not
sI.ct.d by their incidental yics STUDIES.