Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-10-31
BRITISH RERsIDy AND PIRACY.

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We are at peace with England, any yet
our commerce is being destroyed by a
British navy. This indirect style of war;
faRs gives the great advantages. Their
commerce is safe, and their steamers run
ming the blockade of the southern ports
are unmolested unless caught in the act.
The rebels have no navy, either CONNER
cial or warlike, and yet, as things arc now
going, we shall soon have great naval.
contest on our hands 4 whole fleet of
iron-clad steamers will soon be aaoat,
nominally belonging to jeff 4Davis' gov
eeE;nment, not one .ef which hos ever seen
assouthern popt, hut every ,one built,
equipped, Supplied and manned in Eng
lish ports-and that mot clandestinely
and by stealth, butopcnly and above
board, the english papers freely stating
Nahere the vessels are built, when they
launch and when they sail, and,Ghud1ling
over the destruction they arc about to in
Aict upon commercial vessels. He Ala
bama, whose work of destruction is daily,
reported, was not even bought by the con-
federatcs. 1t is free gift to them Of 200
British merchants 1t has taken the
name of the Alabama, and probably has
confederate paper, but it is no less Brit
ish pirate craft 'desincd to prey upon our
eanmerce. Andiit is believed that for the
oaaer ,ggnboat bpilt and building In Eng
land for the Eebqls they pay nothing,
The English merchants have 50 commit
ted themselves to the success of the re-
bellion, and are so deeply interested in it
that they are willing to risk their mil
lions in it, hoping for repayment after the
confcderacy shall have won its indepen-
dence.
When it was announced in the Liver
peel papers that tho ,gppboat "2Q9" was
being huiltfar the aebele by Laird, g. Co.,
of that city, DIR. Adams, our minister,
brought the matter to notice of the Brit
ish government; that government sent a
committee to lLivepool to investigate the
matter; Laird & Co. refused to answer
questions, and the committee went back tc
London and reported that they could learn
nothing about the vessel. That ended
the matter, SO far as the government was
concerned the vessel was completed, GOV
cred with formidable coat Of mail
armed with the best British cappoG, fur
nished with ample gsval and warlik'
satQres, and sailed from liverpool ,withou
thipaeranso, as other pirate vessels hav'
done before her, and as others now build
hing will yet,lo, Is anybody so weak al
to believe chat the British goyernmen
could not have prevented the sailing 9
the pirate craft Alabama If that gov
ernment had been honest in its neutrality
if it's ministry we're not really acting II
the interest of jeff. Davis and doing al
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they dare to promote his success, twoult
have been an easy thing for them to hav
ascertained for whom Laird & Co. wer
building the vessel, or it would have bcei
the natural and obvious thing for Il hem t.
have instructed their agents, 70 watch an'
detain her until her real character shoul,
be determined and the fullest eviaenc
shad been obtained of her legitimate ,ob
jccts. The British government fails t
; exercise ordinary vigilance in these case
only because the men constituting tha
Egovernmcnt desire the permanent divisio)
tpf this Uuiap, and are mcan enough It
,o0ppivc atplraeyton the high seasstoltha
end. tn tit
a. IF anything were wanting to deepe