Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-02-08
ourr, y,cToR,, AND OURSELVES

QUEEN VICTORIA AND OURSELVES.
The following is an extract from letter I
in the Philadelphia Inquirer, dated Lcudoo,
January IL, 1862
am now going to relate portion Of tbe
history OF this affair, the facts OF which will, !
1 trust, give you as much pleasure as they
did me, when l first heard them yesterday. |
You will not End this episode, now or here. |
after, 10 the English press, unless the few
papers friendly to us copy 1t from your col
umns, and you will be the Grst to publish it
at home. present it, not as statement OF
occurrences that might have happened, but
| as o series OF actual iucts, which | have re.
ceived from o source entitled TO the highest
confidence, and on the exact truth Of which
your readers and all the world NAV rely.
There we're m1er counsels in the Epglish
! Cabinet, bot they failed to be successful, and
the dispatches to Lord Lyons, as first pre-
pored, were Of The sternest and most peremp
tory character. ! do not mistake the facts
when assert that they embodied curt and
almost uDcivil demand upon the United States
! Government for apology and reparation, and
that this demand was 20 be maintained by the
actual presence. Of one Of your harbors, OF o
| feet oil no less than teo war vrssels This, il
! will be remembered, was when they proposed
to net upon the ex parte statement Of petty
! official on board the Trent aud this harshness
was to be used even before it could be known
that you Government would not promptly
disavow the act Of Captain Wilkes. The
dnimus of the Ministry throughout this affair
is, therefore, evident. 1t mOy be mentioned
here that, doubtless the Ministry bad long
been hoping for some opportunity for recog
nizing openly, as they have already done vir
tually, the separate existence OF the Southern
Confederacy, and that this now increased
their determination to push matters to ex'
tremities, by COUGHING their demand in such
terms as would arouse the American nation
to resistance and refusal. But | propose TO
discuss this subject at length hereafter.
The dispatches above referred to being
duly engrossed, down to Windsor, by special
tram, OF course, went a 6eputstion from the
Ministers, to obtain the Queens approval
Hitherto, they had had the matter oil their
own way, but now they found interposed an
obstacle for whose presence they are unpre'
pared, The Queen utterly refused her assent
TO the language OF the dispatches and the
character of the contemplated movements.
How she expressed her objections or what
passed at this interview, am not able to
shy, but certain il is that the deputation was
compelled to return TO London, aud to report
to their associates the Queens positive re.
much care.
Another Cabinet Couuci was held-the
dispatches were modified to some extent
another deputatioE waited on the Queen
and again her assent was denied. She could
not and would not approve, either tie terms
OF the demaod or the measures still proposed.
The steamer soiled from Liverpool on Satur,
, day. but was ordered, by telegraph, TO remain
at Queenstown, where she touched 90 Sunday
urtll further orders. Il third Councll assem-
bled, aud still further alterations were made,
out the terms were still unsatisfactory to the
: Queen, aud on the final meeting at Windsor
the noble woman who rules these realms
proved that authority was merely nominal
aud taught her Ministers that she was their
mistress and not their slave, by compelling
t them to abandon their notion Of sending their
( demand by an armed feet, and TO reduce their
: dscourteous challenge, breathing fire and fury
g to the gentle remonstrspce and dignl6eC re
quest 10 which form the dispatches finally
, received her ioyal approval. That Queen
. Victoria thus acted, to great extent, from
D the honest impulses of her own well trained
. mind and generous heart, there can be nc
e doubt She is mother, and she hos not for
D gotten the kind reception Of the son, Of whom
n she is proud, by the people whom she was
z called upon thus barshly to treat with disre
o spect aud perheps excite into hostility.
:, UoTever little such personalities may bt
. supposed to enter into great questions OF po
y licy, those who saw, ou u certain occasion, not
r very loDg since, this Queen, still woman
1 duriug 2 long visit made at Windsor Castle
d by our then Minister and his wife(uow al home
Il in your mids,), take every opportunity to shoV
: unusual attention to your townswoman. anC
q repeat over and over again her expressions o
. motherly pride and qualification at the manne
and spirit in which her son had just been re
y ceived by the people whom her husband re
}. presented at this Court--dropplng her rega
% dignity, and frankly relieving her heart oi II
Y kindly utteruuces, as woman HUd mother I
lr ore who then conventionaIly represented th
& women and mothers OF the United StUtes
those, | say, who witnessed these demonstra
IT tions might have been sure that that woma
b that Queen would not SO soon forget thos
e impulses that then moved ber aud that
D. troubles ever arose between the two nations
we might rely upon it that would, withou
r. sufficient cause, reader them open and Geadl
er antagonists.
he Tue Queen, ! repeat, acted to some exter
10 from her own promptings; but il is equal!
h certain that during this conflict with be
% Ministers, she enjoyed and avaed herself {
IS the calm councils, excellent Judgment OF
NJ great foresight Of that great and good man, {
to whose assistance in such Ell ergencies sh
r. was so soon TO be deprived. Der husbau
le sustained her in her decisions and euable
ii. her to maintain her supremacy in spite OF tt
III evil suggestions and urgent remoustrsnces
le those who should have been her safe guide
Ii but who grossly aud basely endeavored
Ii. mslead her TO her own GlshoCor. 1t ma
ra safely be said that almost the last act c
i'd earth of the late Prince Consort was thus
re aid in avertiug without doubt the most serOl
in war that the present century has known, at
of | doubt not that, when the facts which ha'
lis related are known, my countrymen general
ie will join with me in the utterance Of a tribu
ld sincere respect for the memory Of the det
lis Prince, who proved himself their friend, at
lis an earnest prayer for the welfare of the y
be dowed Queen, who now sits iu sackcloth
be her palace.
-, THE DESPERATION OF THE TRAIToRs is pt
be treyed in the following extract from an addre
lately issued to the people of Georgia by a col
w mittee Of rebels at the head OF whom stands /
10 thief Howell Cobb
# "The foot of the oppressor is on the soil
/, Georgia. He comes with lust in his ewes, pov,
20 ty in his purse, and hell 10 his heart How sh
oL you meet him 7 With the sword at the thres
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