The New York herald., 1862-02-03

from it, Let II at once pass the Tax bill and
provide the ways and means for keeping our
army In motion. and we promise the country
that within the next 6ve or six weeks a
movement will be made which will enable
the anaconda to effectuslly wind his coils round
and strangle the rebellion, and to compel the
European governments to give up all ideas Of
| Intervention All this, however. has got to be
done within ninety days. Beyond then we
cease to control events.
To accomplish the great object which the ma
ton has in view-of reconstructing the Union
as 1t stood before this rebellion-it becomes po-
litical necessity and duty on the part of Presi-
dent Lincoln, who has already won the admira-
ton and applause ofthe country by the conscien-
tious and conservative course he has pursued, to
by our arms that it is his determination aud that
of his administration to maintain the constitu-
tional rights of every State inviolate, and on
the return of the rebels to their allegiance to
guarantee to them their rights as citizens in
the States in which they now exist. Such pro-
clamation, following close on the heels Of a.
great victory, will prove that the war has not
been undertaken from vindictiveness or thirst
Of power, as English politicians pretend, and
that the position of this country is one of great
strength and conservatism, important alike to
the cause of good government and to the inte-
rests of republicanism throughout the world
The Government ana tho Press In Eng
land and the United states.
Now that we have before US all the diplo-
matte correspondence in regard to the Trent
affair, we are enabled to see precisely how
much and at what points the newspapers of
England and the United States have been at
fault in their representations Of the policy and
the proceedings of the two governments. For
the last fifty years there has been no other cor
respondence so important and interesting as
this, and certainly there has hardly been, dur
ing the existence Of the press, 80 many blum
ders. mistakes aud misstatements in the news
paper reports.
countries, the press was designedly misled by
the governments. The receipt by Mr.. Adams
of Mr.. Stewards first despatch was the first
move in the game of diplomacy, and that de-
spatch, as read by Mr.. Adams to Earl Russell,
in effect settled the whole question and foresha-
dowed Mr.. Stewards final despatch, announcing
the surrender of the rebel "felows." If this first
despatch of our Secretary of State had been
published in England as soon as it was received
there would have been an end of the matter,
and we should have had no popular furor
or governmental expenditure; no prohibition
of the export of saltpetre or transporting Of
troops to Canada; no disturbance in the stock
market or throughout the country But, instead
of this prudent and peaceful publicity, the tenor
of this despatch was so carefully concealed that
the London Times, which is understood to be
government organ, announced that it was very
unimportant, and that there was nothing in it
at all affecting the Trent affair. So the Lon
Of Lord Palmerston's government, assured
its readers that no such despatch as that
said to have been received by Mr.. Adams was
ever read to Earl Russell; and the Post per-
sisted in this assurance long after the date Of
Earl Russells despatch to Lord Lyons detail
ing all the circumstances attending his hearing
Of Mr.. Stewards first despatch, and giving
synopsis of its contents. The other English
journals were in still greater fog than that
which snveloped these government organs, and
knew nothing 1T all about the matter.
II is perfectly useless to attempt to under
rate the facilities or the zeal of the London
journals, and the conclusion that this first des-
r ~. InI; Al.
pressed aud wilfully misrepresented by the
English government is irresistible. We believe
that the editors of the London journals were
perfectly honest in what they wrote; but the
editors and proprietors Of the English journals
are different persons, and there is little doubt
that the proprietors of the Times, Post
and other English papers concealed their
information of this first pacific despatch even
from their own editors, in order to operate upon
the stock market. In this design the English
administration was clearly porticeps crimiais,
although undoubtedly it had also the ulterior
design of raising an excitement in order to keep
itself in power, and in order TO prepare and
arm the country for future contingencies, result
ing, it may be, from the Mexican imbroglio, or
from an armed Intervention in American affairs.
That this concealment and Misrepresentation
were systematic is most evident. The English
government, it appears, sent us only polite
request for satisfaction and the surrender of the
rebel fellows" The English papers were in
formed, and declared, that the demand was
peremptory and insulting. The English govern
ment knew that there was no possible chance of
war with this country, having been so inform
ed by Mr. Stewards explicit disavowal of Capt.
wilkes act The English journals were inform
ed, and declared, that war was imminent. Thus
most intense excitement was caused through
out oil England, and the government was
enabled to ship troops to Canada, augment
It's army and navy, and prepare itself
During this excitement the English money
market iuctuated four per cent, and vast for