The New York herald., 1862-10-19
Engrtsh Neutrality-suspicious. Violation ei
Neutrality.


vernment with most urseemly haste, recog
niyed the rebel confederacy rs a bcligerent
Power, accompanying that net with proclama-
ton of neutrality. Ii was not only in d moral
but in material point OF view that this asti
tude Of England Vas an advantage to the rebels
II placed them before the world ia position TO
which, certainly they were no. then entitled, and
it opened Tie British and colonial ports to their
privateers and smngelers But. as II these were
not sufficient proofs OF sympathy with the re-
beliion, England cndeayored 70 pick a quarrel
with US in the Trent affair, and. failing in that
has ever since been encouraging and lending
aid to the rebels in every possible way. Tie
vessels that have run the blockade OF tho
Southern ports have been English, The ord
nance aud small arms which the rebels have
been procuring abroad have been English, and
it has been at English ports that the rebel priva-
tcers have received shelter protection and out
fts
TIE case OF tho Alabama. which Is now ccul-
mittisg def-eoaiioas on our trading vessels of
the Ganks OF New 'oundiand, affords tie latest
proof Of toe treacherons part which England
y
vessel was built at Liverpool notoriotlsiy
for this very business. She was fitted m
and armed there by English means, under
tho eye Of the English Authorities, aad
seat to sea with crew largely composed
OF Englisbmen. She carries on her piratical
trade with ST Georges cross flying at her mast
head, only charging that ensign for The pirates
FLAG when its victims are allurcd within her
power. Ia this way she has destroyed and
burned al sea, within q week, no less ti,an
ten merchant and whaling vessels, including
one the cargo Of which was owned in England.
Is tnis the neutrality which the British govern
ment proclaimed this the friendship which it
manifests towards nation with whom it pro
fcsses TO bs on terms of peace and amty. The
Engiish government might just rs well throw
OF at once the hypocritical garb which il has
been affecting to wear and show itself at once
in its true colors, as the avowed enemy of the
American republic. II is easier to deal with
an open enemy than with concealed foe.
Oar government should at once in this mat
Ter OF the Alabama, make reclamation on the
English government for all the losses which
through the operations OF that British Confede-
rate privaieer. 1t may no. be polite TO insist
upon those reciamations at this time; but they
can be fled by, to be brought TO light aud
urged with the whole power Of the nation us
soon ~ we have put down the rebels aud re-
stored the republic to all its former greatness.
When that time comes wo will be much sur
prised ii our government does not, in retaliation
for the villanous treachcry Of England, seize
and hold Canada uuti. full aud satisfactory
re<ribution be made for this and all other CO.
verify hostile acts which,, in our time Of tribu-
lation, we have experienced at the hands Of the
British government.
THE FiGhrfNG QUALITIES OF TAX AeseMAN
SoIDiER.At the first outbreak or the war tho
English tory journals indulged in many laugh
al the fighting qualities Of the Americans, North
and South. They laughed at the idea Of ten
thousand soldiers investing Fort Sumter, de-
Tended by garrison Of only seventy half
starved men. and fighting for couple OF days
wiehout killing any one they laughed at the
panic which seized both armies at Bull ran,
and which gave Que the victory without it's
knowing it; they laughed, in soort, at every
ihing the North did, until the fight between the
Monitor aud the Merrimac made them laugh at
the wrong side Of their faces. Then they began
10 discover thai we were "a dangerous people,
q knowledge which is being daily improved by
the desperate character OF the battles--naval
aud military-that mark the course Of the war.
II is no wonder thar tie world should stand
aghast Of the spectacle presented by these con
fiicts Nothing like them, as regards the
tenacity of the conbaiSnts and the amount Of
life sacrificed. has been witnessed in ancient
or modern times. In the wars OF Alexander
the Great, Caesar, and even Of Napoleon, great
stress was laid on tie fact OF an army being
brought to aght second battle within weed
of the time at which the frat had taken place
A longer interval OF rest was deemed inlispeu-
sable to recruit tho exhausted energies Of the
troops. We have changed all that. The Ame-
ricaa soldier not only lights several battles iu
week, but lie can fight every day 10 The week,
from sunrise to sundowa, as WIS shown on the
peninsula aud in the way Of endurance moth
Ing has vet been seen like the work done by
The ragged. shoeiess and haleiamished troops
Of the Southern eouIedelacy. in whose gsilantry,
when the war is over. We shall, no doubt, rs
AnQIo-Saxons, take a. much pride as If we
never were opposed TO .hcm I'm deadly strife.
1t is no wonder that Eoglishmen should feel
an all-engrossing interest in tue physical as
pects of the terrible contest now being waged
here. They Offer to them not merely question
Of the longer or shorter duration OF the war.
but Of prospective considerations involving far
weishtier consequences to them than the con
tinaed dcrsneement Of their manufacturing
interests. AS TO intervention, no sane mind in
England or France any longer contemplates
the probability Of il. To produce the slightest
impression in war conducted on such ire.