New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-11

raked up, and thus thrust into the face of thu
public at such q crisis as the present
Is it pretended in England at this hour thai
and his associates in the Canada rebellion was
a Just cause of grievance to England If il
is, then what about Lord Dnrbnm's Report, in
which he distinctly says that the Colonists
were qoaded into instruction by the odious
oligarchy which up TO the year of the rebel
lion had msrued the Provinces, and misrepre-
sented the Imperial Government What, more
over, of the general amnesty in favor of the
refugees which, few years later, was granted
by the British Government, of its own accord,
and in cOnsOnance with its own sense of right
II Lord Durham was right in palliatiDg the re-
bellion, and if the English Government, acting
on his Report, was right in pardonng the
rebels, their surrender by our Government
followed by their summary execution-would
have been an net Of judicial murder-iu which
the United States-the asylum of the oppressed
Of every nation-would have stood before the
world as pdrtieeps criminis-an object for
universal scOrn ard contempt.
To the charge of territorial encroachments
in the settlement of the Maine boundary, it
surely might be sufficient answer for The Times
to quote its admission Of only three months
ago-and repeated within less than a month
that the Colonies would be as profitable to
England as part Of the United States; that
they are now virtually Independent of the
mother country, and must reckon only upon
England os their natural and friendly ally. II
these Colonies are of so little account to the
maintenance of British power and British in
nuence, wherein could it be held as On I'm
perial grievance that the American frontier was
extended one or more degrees further northward
thon had been contemplated in the original
disposition of boundaries after the conclusion
Of the Peace Besides, in its own version OF
these grievances, The Times 10 compelled to
the admission that Lord Ashburton was eI-
pressly appointed to his mission in connection
with the boundary question because OF bis
known frendliness to tho people of this coun,
try. And, adds our unconscious npologist,
" Our Enroy justified The confidence re reposed
"in him." SO frantically earnest is the jour.
nali.t in pressing his case to proof, that he
supplies himself, Ms We see, the ampless an
swer to the very accusations he puts forward.
In the slaye-irade cases nothing was de.
manded by our Government which was not in
accordance with its traditional polcy-e policy
which Great Britain, for the first time IN her
history, accepts, when she challenges the over.
hauling Of the Trent, aud asks from u'
the disayowal of the act Of Captain
Wilkes. Need we add hereto any answer Il
the last Of the ordinations against Us in the
case Of the foolish enlistment business Of 1854
Surely it is enough TO say that We had nc
quarrel with Russia that should bind US to Q
quasi participation in the cause of the Allies
and the dismissal OF Mr. CHAMPION as an active
ylolator Of the municipal laws Of the countr,
was surely nothing more than was due to our
selves aud nothing more than friendly Power
like Rus.s had right 70 expect nt our hands
Let IN, Times, then, deal, as is its wont, II
general and indiscrimiDa.e abuse. Its bistori
cal researches only show the weakness of th,
cause it has espoused, and the worthlessness o.
the labor its pursnes.