The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-02-08
The London Times on the Surrender of
Mason and Slideil.


The London Times on the Surrender of
Mason and SlideiI.
The Times of the 9th congratulates
the English nation onthe pacific result
of its honorable conduct in the case of
the Trent, and then proceeds as fol-
lows; Sd
His a great victory, though IL IS but
an escape from being Obliged to con-
guer. We are but ,ohere zoe acere before
zoe soere so grossly iaasulted. We hare
but c,tr6ed for a moment the insolence
Of q meighbor aeho took pleasure i,aco,s-
tiaatally provoking as, and had permit
ted hinssel at last to go beyond the pos
sibility Of suferance. We have done
nothing 10 set up monuments to COM
memorate; we have onl yield our own
in the community of nations, and read
a necessary lesson to an :ill-mannered
companion. There have been times in
our history-times when we had not
the strength we could now put, forth
when we should have had no such real
JOY as we now feel in the hindrance of
such a conflict. There are other ma
tons which even at this age of the
world would not have thought it consis-
tent with their renown to manifest such
patience and long suffering under out
rage as we have exhibited. II. the
same experiment had been tried upon
France, we question whether the same
forbearance would have been afforded
to the aggressor, or the same hardness
to receive tardy and grudging repair
alton. We have manifested a deliber-
alton and tranquility under insult
which even we could not have shown
towards people for whom we thought
it right to make fewer allowances, or
whom we feared more.
The government of the Federal
States had done, in mere wantonness,
what no nation of the Old World had
ever dared to do. They had invaded
the sanctuary which England extends
to all political exiles who seek her pro.
lection; and to this wound, inflicted
on her most sensitive pride, they had
added an Insult to her maritime FLAG
and menace to her security in trav.
ersing the seas. On all hands il is now
admitted that the offense was at once
insult and wrong, and it is great tri.
umph, therefore, that it should have
been followed by reparation. If we
had had to deal with friendly and
coNtcous people, we should have had
no occasion for preparations of war.
If French or an English captain,
while the two nations are upon their
present terms, We're to crafty a crack.
Drained freak or an insane thirst of no.
toriety by some piratical outrage against
the foreign flag, neither government
would wait to see whether any misera.
BILE advantage could be gained by the
circumstance. The act would be nj
once disavowed, and the booty returned,
with apologies and compensation. This
was the course which, if Federal Amer.
lea had been courteous or even shrewd,
Federal America would have pursued,
Mr.. Seward missed great opportunity
when he failed to act as an European
statesman would have acted under sim
liar circumstances. At this moment
there is no great sympathy here foI
either party. The attraction we feel
towards weeker nation invaded by a
stronger, and a richer nation is repealed
by the very general detestation of
slavery; and if Mr.. Seward had seized
the opportunity for graceful and a
courteous act, we would not answer for
how far our countrymen might have
been tempted from their rigorous neu-
trality. 1t was gross blunder for the
shrewd minister of a shrewd people to
miss the chance of great advantage
only to do the same act at last under
circumstances of unavoidable humilia-
ton. 1ts 't ff1se'i ri
We have every reason to be satisfied
with the position this country has held
throughout. We haze neUer deUidted
from grace and courteous discussions,
and haue neUer descended to retort the
'cild inuectiUes schich came from the
other side Of the atlantic. The War
Departments have manifested am eff
cheney which gives us confidence in
ourselves, and will give us security from
future insult. The government have
acted with rare courtesy and temper,
but have displayed, together with dig
nifed deliberations, firmness, prompt
tude and courage. Nor will we refrain
from adding, what every man will feel
while he reads the news, that the man
upon whom we instinctively reliedwh
the crisis lasted, deserves orr warmest
gratitude now that the peril is over
come. 1t is indeed rare triumph to
GAGE the latter years of a life SO happi-
| ly prolonged, that Lord Palmerston has
found, and has used, the opportunity
to curb the arrogance of the only peO-
pie which has on this generation en-.
tered systematically upon a course oil
offense toward England.
| Ts Grants Expedition.
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