New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-28
OF BLOCKADEs ANO BLOCK.
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! Uard.up men turn short corners; and dehat-
ers who think the last word better than tlo
best logic will keep talking long after they
haze nothing to say. Esop did Mt write the
Fable of tho Wolf and the Lamb without
meaning something; and when good churchmen
eat meat in Lent they must compromise b.
making some fshy excuse for the rim. The
most careless reader may see that in this nat.
ter Of the blockade of our coast, English
presses and paramentarans are at their wit /,
end for some bubble which will seem, IN inter-
national eyes, to justify national crime. They
would like to do wrong but they would like
to 90 it by severe process Of reasoning
Now, against them, We pit the man they pre-
tend to pity, viz, Jefferson DAVIS, the putaIi'c
President Of the putatiye Coniederacy. What
says Jeii. Just this:
While the sequ Of foreign nations IN pretended
blockade has deprived of ri.h hem. It 10
fast mailing "a elf.saporins and people Too
bosad, ea-cus and permanent, VIII OF ) serve 20 divert
our Industry from the production Of Ntices for export aud
employ /, of supply ins articles Of dos4e.sio u'".'
Here's richness-the very cream of the cream
OF logical sequence. The blockade Id rascal
able preieusoDs has secured :" the acquIcscebcr
- Of foreign nations aud has deprived u
''oi our commerce." which Is much for
"a pretended blockade TO do. Then
.Jon. tahes the other tack aud come
IN with potent IT," H. ho says,
:. the blockade be eG.ctual and permanent.
Now, the KIND reader Will please to notice that
the SAID blockade ras "by the acquiesccpce
"of foreign nations though "pTcleDded "
- fast making" the Rebels "a elf support
4" ing and independent people" IN thc
fret paragraphs While IN tie ye..
be " electual and permanent" Thus il
will be scen tGot JEFF. fishes IN his de,perd-
ton with two HOOKS. He has one kind Of bait
for home use, and another TO eaten gudgeons
in English waters. The blockade is permanent
and is nj permanent, 1t is enectual and is nj
electual-but it Las been " acguiesced in by
{" foreign Nations" which, with reasonable folk,
should certainly settle the question:; for ii thar
mt an ciIec.ual blockade" which is " sc-
"quicsced ia By foreign nations" we should
like to know, in the name Of old Lord
Stowel's ghost, what is. We say that any
measure which viii make shareholders d" a sell
" supporting and independent people must be-
" eiectual" md Tremendously and inlraculously
eilectual.
But notwithstanding this, according to The
Uondon) Herald, our blockade is not ali
L" electual' one, and Jeh.'s celebrations and
admissions are simply gratutous. "Ihe fleet
iecby trumpcts tins Hsraid "which the Fedc-
"ral Government ought to employ i'll the block.
" acc, 1t deyotes 10 predatory incursions on
" the enemys territory" The Obvious reply
TO this Imp assertion is--Ihen why don't your
merchantmen sal in, lead up with the dear,
beautiful cotton, and sail out again WHY
don't you do this while we are engaged in
some one Of these numerous M.cursions On the
enemy's territory. beautiful English, The
Herahs is, we may say, in pas,pg.) Why rot
watch your chance while the in-cur.ions are
going on1 To our simple mind, that seems TO be
an " ehcctual blockade" which cannot be bro.
ken without pitched battle, 10 matter which
side may be worsted. As for our predatory
" incursions," We never heard of or read of
bOchadiDg feet which did not now and then
make Il dash at the enemys coast. Tho idea
of Tie Herald is that the ships OF the block
aiding squadron must remain with sale slowed
away below, and the best bower rooted in the
mud; az if q blookading squadron must not
from the necessity Of its situation oiten run to
sea for safety, and often, az a matter Of pru
dence, shift its position. Why not soy that
such 1eet must be commanded by an Almi.
rail- must consist of two ships-of-the-ne a.
three .loops; and that the Captains muse nuyer
50 on shore except at I01 O'Clock in the morn.
ing in cutter painted light green, anu then
only in full fg' These illustrations may seem
absurd; but they are no more 60 than The
HeratdS dictum that wo "loss cur right Of