The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-08
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/ EsetAsD AID YAskzxDox.-Whsn wean
lsazssd ssthsatisaIly that Seward had backed
out. and determined to deliver up Nsssss. Ma
son and SHdsll, although No had expected
sash IN issue, w nsvsrthslsas felt sorry, il
not disappointed We had just = fAint spark
of hops that As wsuld bs fool enough to stand
up to his blnster. We were snxious to sse
the Yankee fleet sunk or burned, the Yankee
intrudsFs as Old Point, Port Royal and Ship
Island cut of from all succor by sea and left
in our hands, New York and Boston bonn
bafdsd and burnt to the ground, the Yankee
steambssts on the Mississippi driven aground
and set on fire, . heavy Confsdsrats force
thrown ON shore in Maryland by tho British
feet, Yankeedom invaded from Canada by q
British army, and the whole vile race redaced
to beg pardon of the civilized world for their
basens0, insolence, and inhumanity. We say
we had some faint hopes Of seeing this con.
summation, and we are not altogether sure
we shall not see it before another sumner
shall have passed over our heads.
1t 10 obvious that Stewards long lst.er, Is
no answer to the demand Of Lord Lyons, iu
at least one important particular. Lord
Lyons, in tho most imperative terms, insists
that the Commissioners ehall Le restored to
the protection Of the British dag. That de.
mand has been complied with. He insists
that suitable apology shall be made tor the
adfont That has not been done. On the
contrary, Seward opens q new question, the
decision of which in his favor, must deprive
Great Britain Of all right to transport any
body whom he may choose to designate as
rebel, on one of her ships, as long as this war
may chance to continue. He tells the British
Minister that. Captain Wilkes had no right to
take the "rebels'' out of the British steamer,
but that he had right to capture that steam
er, to bring her into port, and to proceed
against her as a prize, and against the Com
missioners as rebels after they had been
brought to land. II that be the case either
the doctrine of the British Law, that the deck
Of British vessel is as inviolable as the soil
Of Great Britain is at an end, or the soil it.
self 10 no longer inviolable. Now England,
during the war with Napoleon, harassed our
commerce greatly, by searching our ships for
deserters, and contrabrand goods. But she
never exercised, and never claimed the right
to exercise any such power as this She
never, as far as we know, asserted that sbe
had right to arrest and bring into port, any
American ship which might be carrying
French passenger from one of our ports to
France. 1t is pretty certain that she will not
now, pass over this claim in silence. She
will protest against it, and, if it be acted on,
she will do something more than protest
1t is pretty certain, too, that Great Britain
rM haze the apology which Lord Lyons was
instructed to demand, and which, thus far,
Seward has evaded. She is not wont to be
satisfed with evasion in such case az the
present. Where the subject is one of no great
immediate interest, but only of distant and
contingent advantage, she can take q hand
with anybody at diplomatic TOM .foolery. She
can spin out T. discussion for years, and divide
and subdivide hair, until it represents the
minus side of zero. But when she once says
you shall" or "you shall not,' the answer
AAucs OV - CAVIe 40 POcAeASC3 do UoCloIVo, anu
~ free from quibble or equivocation as the
demand. She says now to Lincoln, you must
apologize, and he win have to do it, or fight
We see by tho extracts from the English
papers, published by us yesterday, that the
possibility of back out on the part Of the
Yankees, under the circumstances, was not
even thought of.
Upon the whole, we are pleased that mat
ters have taken the turn they have. The
Yankees have had the ear of Europe ever
since the war began. No Southern newspa-
per ever finds its way to England or France.
Those nations have heard nothing but Yankee
statements, and our readers are sufficiently
familiar With them. They now see what the
Yankees really are, and will hereafter know
better how to estimate their lies. In the
meantime they are only putting off the evil
day fora short, a very short, space. Yankee
doodlsdom must come down, and that in less
than year from this time.