Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-31
From The London Times. lam. IL

ANSOholutl tuc NOle. Adjourned.
From the London Times, Jan. H.
y turn OF the wheel, which the American
CABINET has managed to make as sudden as
possible, brings us new question The four
American gentlemen who nave got us into our
late trouble, and cost us probably million
apiece, VIII soon be in one of our ports ANY
DAY and hour we may expect to hear of their
arrival at Liverpool, and 0their Journey to the
metropolis. Like the rest of their country.
men, they believe themselves to be of immense
Importance to their cause whatever il NAV
be. Neither side can give England the small
est credit tor understanding or wishing to an
derstand, or having the capacity to under.
stahu, line rights OF their case and so nothing
Will serve them but there must be somebody
always DINING into our ears some details or
plattudes to which the speakers attach spe-
cial value. Fedcralist after federalist, conted.
crate after confederate, has arrived i'm this
country, III tile tull persuasion that if he were
once permitted to occupy the attention OF Lord
TaInersiOn or lord RUSSELL night and day for
fortnight, or to ill page OF the Times ev.
cry day tor that period, England would AT last
begin to have an inkiug of the case, and
would rush to the aid of tile federal or the con-
tederate cause. These Two commissioners
anu their secretaries are not unlikely to think
even more OI their Importance than other sim
liar arrivals. having witnessed in their own
persons the rabld anxiety Of their northern
country men not to let them be seen or heard
i'll this island. To the Sedate English mind
this ridiculous rivalry for the exclusive DOS.
session OF the British ear, is only an older yer.
sion OF what Is often witnessed in our nurse
res. a fearful uprOar OF words screams
and blows, reaches the mother, who has.
tens to alay the tumult When she
arrives she finds all confusion. and Mas
ter john and Master Tom each with tale
OF outrages and provocations, each resolved to
have the word, and afraid OF nothing so much
as that the other should get a hearing The
parent sees enough to be sure that both were
abunIanily in the wrong, but that it is i'm
possible to adjudicate between them. The
general i'll preston in this country is that both
sides IN the states have acted as ill as could
BE-, and that 1t is not for England TO decide
winch OF them bears the palm Tor inSoence,
outrage, treachery, and folly. However.
Messrs. Mason and Siidell will not be easily
persuaded but that they can throw much
new light on the rupture, and on its bear
ngs upon our interests. Ii we will only be so
good as to shut both our eyes and our ears TO
every body aud to everything else, and take in
Tor gospel all they say, we shall at last be in
condition to form an opinion on this quarrel,
Is that we must Immediately recognize the
southern states, send fleet 10 break up the
blockade, sweep the northern commerce off
the sea, and finally assist TO lnaugurate Mr.
Jefferson Davis in whatever city Of the whole
Union he would prefer for that purpose.
How, then, are we to receive these iustri-
Gus visitors OF course, they will be stared
at, and followed, and photographed, and made
the subject OF paragraphs There is no help
for that. Mr.. Thomas Sayers cannot walk
the streets with friend, or ask the may or for
PERMISSION to put up II booth in market
place, but the crowd Immediately conclude
the rough, hard-visaged, iliavored pair to be
the confederate commissioners. Messrs. Ma.
son and Slidell with their two secretaries.
though not so handsome and graceful rs their
country man Blondln, would certainly fill the
crystal Palace Ii they proposed to address
the visitors there on the merits OF their cause.
But, tor the benefit of the observation-disclosures
the guidance of the minority that prefers at
least respectable IDOL, and that does
not wish to throw away the confidence and
appliance, we may as well obs, rye that Messrs.
Mason and SIidell are about the most worth,
less booty it would be possible to extract from
the jaws OF the American lion. They have
long been known as the blind and habtual
haters and revilers Of this country. They
nave zone more than any other men to get IN
the insane prejudice against England which
dlSgraces the morality and disorders the policy
OF The Union. The hatred o! this country has
been their stock in trade. On this they bava
earned their political livelihood and won their
position, just as there are others who pander
10 the lower passions OF humanity. A diligcnt
use OF this bal capital has made them what
they are, and raised them to the rank of com.
mSsioners IL is through their life ions
hatred and abuse Of England that they come
here IN their present conspicuous capacity.
The nation under whose flag they SOUGHT a
SAFE passage across the AttaRtic--the nation
lual has now rescued them with all her might
ilom the certainty of dungeon and the
chances OF retaiatory murder, is that against
winch they have always done their best tn
eXasperate their countrymen. Had they per
lshed IN the cell or on the sCatfold, amid the
triumphant yells Of the multitude memory
would have suggested that their own bitter
trades had raised the storm, and that their
death was only the natural and logical con.
clusion OF their own caIumnies and sophst
ries.
so we do sincerely hope that cur country
men viii not give these fellows anything in
the shape OF an ovation. The civility that
Is due TO Il foe in distress is all that thew
can claim. We have returned them good
for evil, and, sOoth to say, we should be ex.
ceedingly sorry that they should ever be i'm
situation to choose what return they will
make for the good we have now done
them. They are here for their own inter.
est, in ORDER if possible, to drag us into
their own quarrel, and, but for the un-
pleasant contingencies OF prison. rather dis.
appointed, perhaps that their detention has
not provoked new war. When they stepped
ON board the TIent, they did not trouble them.
selves with the thought OF the mischief thew
might be doing an unotiending neutral and
il now, by any less perilous device, they could
entangle us IN the war, no doubt they would
be only too happy. We trust there is no
chance OF their doing this, for, impartial AS
The British public is in the matter it certainly
has no prejudice in favor of slavery, which
II anything, these gentlemen represent What
they anu their secretaries are to DO here pass
es our conjecture. They are personally moth
ing to us. They must not suppose, because
we have gone to the very verge of A prpot
war to rescue them, that therefore they ara
precious in our eyes. We should have done
just as much TO rescue two OF their own mo-.
groes and, had that been the object of tho
rescue, the swarthy Pompey aud Caesar would
have had just the $ me right TO uiunnhnI
arches aud municipal addresses M Np,srs
Mason aud SIidel So, please, British publir
lets have none OF these things. Let the com
misslorers come up quietly to town, and have
their say with any body who may have Tine