Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-07-11
British Neutrality.

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readers our conviction that the despOts and
aristocrats of Western Europe are intent or
| the disruption and subversion of this repub
/ lie. The conspicuous proof which it has fol
eighty years presented of the safety and be
/ niicence Of cheaper goEernment, smaller arm
les, and greater Liberty and Equity than mon-
archy and aristocracy did or ever can afford
/ they would gladly annihilate. The United
States have, for the first time in modern histo
~, shown o the civilized world that repub-
! lie need not be abject nor powerless on the one
/ hand, nor yet rapaci ous and volcanic on the
other. Our example has absolutely compell-
ed the abatement of some of the grosser and
more glaring abuses which feudalsm had fas-
tened upon the Old World. Others were
/ plainly bound to travel the same road. Eu-
rOpeaDs were beginning to consider the neces-
/ sity of paying Five Millions of Dollars per
annum for the support of Royal Family
when President at least equal in average
capacity for civil rule could be had for total
cost of $4,000 per annum. And this is but
( one instance among many.
/ The SHAREHOLDERS Rebellion was a godsend
to decaying Feudalism. It was revolt in IA
vor Of inequality and easie in their grossest
4 form, and as such deserved the sympathy and
support of all who believed the laboring class
es born to be ridden and spurred by the PAM
/ percd few. 1t was a revolt against the JEFF
! ersonian dogma that .All men are created e.
quail" and its odor was naturally grateful in
the nostrils of artist tocracy. And the cham
pions of Government by Inheritance and Priv
iIege have never failed to render it all the aid
and comfort they deeently could, and some
times more.
Lord Pa!merston, in particular, has never
missed chance to prejudice the Union cause
and its defenders. His Queens proclamation
of neutrality, issued with indecent haste, was a
studied insult TO our Government, and vio-
lation of the comfy of nations. Had we is
sued such Proclamation of Neutrality be-
tween Great Britain and India at the time of
the Sepoy revolt, the ofFense would have been
no whit more gross and inexeusabIe. He sez-
ed the earliest opportunity 10 ridicule and
tuunt us for the Bull Run disaster. He did
his best TO lasten a deadly quarrel upon US
with regard to the Trent business Now be
presents TO Europe villainOus misrepresenta-
tion of Gen. Buffers New Orleans order, with
palpable intent to do the Union all the harm
aud the rebels all the service in his power.
No fair man who knows how universal, per-
sistent, outrageous, have been the studied in
suits offered to our Union soldiers by the hoop
ed secessionists, will pronounce that order one
whit too severe. The she rebels have presum-
cd upon their petticoats to treat our volunteers
as no decent dog deserved to be treated. The
cowardice of these insults is but one element
of their baseness. Gen. Butler found it nee
essary to protect his soldiers from this wanton,
degrading abuse, or suffer them to protect
themselves. So he issued an order that women
who in the public streets insulted his soldiers
should lie treated ike the strcet-wsllkers whose
manners they imitated-that is, should be ta-
ken to the ca,aboose and lockedup, with 9TH
er disorderly persons. This order did its work
Nobody has been harmed under it-no one ar
rested-but the she Secesh of New Orleans
dried up at once. They have incurred no pen
allies, for they have committed no offense.-I
Their city has been as quiet as church ever
since it was issued-more so than for years
before Gen. Butler took charge of it-and
good understanding between its people and his
forces is steadily djffusing itself. If Lord Pal
merston and his set will simply mind their
own business, the women OF New Orleans will
be well cared for, and thes Union Will be re-
stored.
But this is just what the aristocrats of En-
rope are afraid Of. They fear the collapse of
their American counterfeit-the Soulouque to
their Louis Napoeon-aud are using every
underhand device to prevent it. They seem TO
consider that their last chance to uphold feu-
dalism in Europe is by crushing out republ-
ceuisn in America. Their apprehension may
be well founded, but their intermeddlng in
behalf of the rebels will hardly avail. 1t is
late in the day, aud they have managed to al
ienate and disgust the nation without attach
ing or much helping the traitors Tribune.