The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-01-04
The Correspondence between Lord
Lyons and Mr.. Seward.

ernments Of the United States and
Great Britain, growing out of the arrest
of Mason and Slidcll, will be found in
the columns Of The Wig this week.
Tha. these two arch traitors should
thus escape the punishment their crimes
have so richly ncrited, will be cause
of regret to every true American, and a
cause Of rejoicing to every traitor, who
may, be an American by birth, bu, in
soul slave. Such miserable craven
creatures do live, and crawl about among
those who can feel the lofty pride of
being American CT liens. Their nccks
were formed for the Molch foo: of Tyranny
to rest upon. May God in his Judgment
speedily grant them their wish, by
placing their necks under yokes which
they seem by nature prepared to bow to.
The letter of the French Minis er NJ.
Thouvncl, we were unable to find room
for, on account of the length of Mr..
Stewards letter. The American Sccre-
tary of Sta e refuses 70 comply with Earl
Russcll's demand for an apology for the
insult, alleged by the British Minister
to have been offered to the flag of Ii. b.
NJ. By their demand for the surrender
of Mason and Slidell, the British Govern
mcnt totally abandons its long contested
claim TO the Right of Search. When
the cherished theory of that doninccring
nation was put in practice agains: herself,
she has been found as ready to repudi-
ate it as ever the United States were to
repel it.
That England has acted the mcancst
Of all nations in christendom, toward
this coun ry. since the rebellion broke
out, is apparent to every one. History
proves that aristocratic power to have
taken, in every contes; Letwccn popular
government and tyranny in which she
intcrfcrcd, the side of the latter. This
same instinct has caused her TO aid the
cot, on conspiracy, by every clandcstime
means in her power, while expressing
the strongest professions Of neutrality,
and friendship for the Government of
the United States. A cause for open
interference in our affairs, has doub less
been anxiously watched for by that
trcacherous power and the foes to our
v,rnment, both fore On and domestic,
were sure that preteXt was at last
achieved in the arrest of Mason and
Slidell. Practically their dc cntion in
Fort Warren was of no more Importance
than so many pounds of waste lumber
The moral effect, (if ever their appear
ance in Europe, as ministers (') of JEFF
Davis could have produced any was
destroyed by their capture and imprson-
ment in Fort Warren. That circum-
stance destroyed the eclat of their min
Isl rial enterprise. The dispatches they
were the bearers of reached their dcstin-
alton in safe: y, no lack of minions in the
cause of aristocracy, we're ready to take
the places of the intercepted conspira-
tors-Mason and Slidcli.
England is now left without an excuse
for commencing war with the United
States. Her people have been industri-
ously educated by her hired newspapers
emissarics of the Southern traitors, that
this Government sought quarred with
them. A refutaton is given to these
false statements by the release of Mason
and Slidell, and now VIC stand before the
world, and those of our own Nation who
are half skcptic and half traitor-mort
than cxculpated by having yielded this
point Of dispute. If the English arts oc,
racy have made up their minds t(
attempt the destruction of popular gov
ernmcnt by making war upon the Unitet
States, in an hour when that soullcs:
aristocracy conceives an opportunity ha:
arrived to divide permanently this
Nation, and by that separation, put ono
portion of the country against the other
so as in all future time, by weakening
to domineer over, and control the DIES.
TIMES of America, it is we'll that the
world, and our own people should be
convinced of this fact, shorn Of every
shadow of doubt. That the wish near
est the heart of the Bri ish nation is
smothcred and disguised tho it may
have been-to degrade and reduce thu
Uni ed S ates to an insignificant powe
among the nations of the earth, has be-
come apparent by her course since tn
rebellion broke out The leaders in tn
l camp of jeff Davis Il Co., are ready t.
sell the people, whom they hold unde
military subsection, mo slavery to an.
European power who will buy them b.
forcing the blockade, and debating wha