, 1862-02-03
WHAT SORT OF RECEPTION AWAITS Sill
DELL AND MASON.


4 turn Of the wheel, which tho American
Cubinct has managed to make as sudden as
possible, brings us new question The four
American gentlemen who have got Us into
our late trouble, and cost us probably a mil
lion peace, will soon be in one Of our ports.
their arrival in Liverpool, and their journey
to the metropolis. Like the rest Of their
countrymcn, they believe themselves to be
Of immense Importance to their cause, what
ever it may be.
How, then, arc We to receive these Illus
trious visitors? Or course, they will he stared
at, and followed, and photographed, and made
the biect Of paragraphs There is no help
for that. Mr. Thomas Sayers cannot walk the
streets with friend, or ask the Nayor for
permission to put up booth in market place,
bntthe crowd Immediately conclude Che rough,
ate Commissioners Messrs. Mason and Slidell,
with their two Secretaries, though not SO
handsome and graceful as their countrynaan
Blondin, would certainly ill the Crystal
Palace if they proposed to address the yisi-
tors there on the merits Of their cause. But,
for the benefit Of the discriminating the
guidance Of the minority that prefers at least
4 respectable idol, and that does not wish to
throw away its confidence and applause, We
may as we'll observe that Mason and Slidell
are about the most worthless booty it would
American lion. They hare long been known
as the blind and ha1itssal laters and regilera
T. Of this country. They have done more than
any other men to get up the insane prejudice
| against England which disgraces the morality
md disorders the poliey of the Onion. The
trade, On this they I1aye earned their politi-
cal livelihood and won their :position, Just as
| there are Others who pander to the lower
passions Of humanity. a, dIigent use
| Of this bad capital has made them what
1 4-o4 %I1 !. ~
Commissioners. It is through the lifelong
hatred and abuse Of England that they
come here in their present conspicuous capac.
ity. The nation under whose flag they song1at
| q safe passage across the At1antic-the nation
that has now rescued them with all her might
chances Of retaliatery MURDERS that against
which they have always done their hest TO ex
asperate their countrymen. Had they per
islcd in the cell or on the scaHoIa, amid tht
triumphant ye1ls Of the multitude. memor.
would have suggested that their oTn bitter Il
rades had raised the storm, and that thei
death was only the natural and logical concl1
sion Of their own ca1umnies and sophistries.
So we do sincerely hope that our country
men viii not give these follows anything i!
due to : foe in distress is all that they CO,
claim. We have returned them good for evil
)" and, to eooth to Say. We should baexceedingl
| soE1F that they should ever be In situation
good we bare now done them. They are her
for their own interest, Ia order, il possible, t
drag us into their own quarrel, and, but for Ii
+ | unpleasant contingencies a prison, rAths
:, disappointed, perhaps, that their detention. h:
not provoked new war. When they ste]
ped On board the Trent, they did. nj
trouble themselves !. with. the thougl
of the mischief they might t~te defl
= an uuotfcnding. neutral; and if no
bJ any less pe1ilous device, theS could eata
! g:a us II TIE w.z, no doub* they would q