The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-06
lN0......FEB. 6. lse3
..rimes'' and ear Cen miesienofs.


q. .rimss" and ssr Cen nnissisnsrs.
Our English files have brought us, in it's
,.n<ab and breadth, the philippe of the Lon.
,ss 7,r,ts upon Commissioners Mason and
a,.lA,l The rsvil!ngs Of the leading British
s'.,..l are even more gross and vulgar than
-. nonssn,ed dispatch had represented them
usn,on sra,ui,ous, brutal, and black,
s,,-d The writer must have bought bad
e. :. p;,HnCsgate the cay it was written :;
a hod wrsngle with one of its redoubta-
~T.a,ms. The TRADE betrays an authorship
f,..h from saeh contest.
WIN pitiful want Of taste, justice, and
,.,., the great journal charges these inno-
80, esntjemen with the cost Of the recent
1.+se shipment OF English troops, arms, and
-;I,ary supplies to Canada. This cost is
.,.,osed TO be about three millions of pounds
..s+llog. or fifteen millions Of dollars. and
,onr Me.srs SIideiI and Mason are charged
9Th the sum- Invited by the advertisements
If The British packet at Havana, these gen
,l.neu wen, aboard of her, paid their passage
money 10 Englaud, and betook themselves
,n,s.lv 10 their state rooms. After q few
5sts n luiet sailing the vessel WAS suddenly
,,eugh, TO by cannon shots fired across her
hog she wss boarded, and the Commission
r..witb their Secretaries, after protest and
rsmonstrances, forced OF the steamers AZ
prsoners of war, or apprehended rebels.
Iron his state of facts, with logic worthy
oftne intellectual Times, and of the leading
s1ponen, of British opinion, that journal
cbaalses this affair, not to Commander Wilkes,
norto the Yankee Government, but to the
INNOCENT passive, and helpless victims of the
og.sss. The great complaint Of the British
Cabinet WAS that the British flag had been
ip.nl,ed and British honor outraged, by the
r,oeeedilgs of Wilkes; and with good
d.sl more reason aud logic could the London
Tt,aes call upon the British public at home to
render no ovation to the tag which had been
tic cause of the trouble, and to regard the
British honor that had been outraged AS of
NC more worth than two negroes This
flag aud this honor has cost u.s." it might say,
three millions OF pounds sterling; and we
owe ii to the Exchequer to taboo and pay no
msrk iconsideration to the two baubes that
their way in the Kingdom; we have laid out
TOO much money and suffered too big scare
on their account to bestow on them any further
attention
Take it all in all, this pureile and impotent
puiburst of ill nature from the Times is one
ofthe most remarkable incidents of the war
Our Southern people have not demeaned
themselves unworthily in seeking the recog-
ni.nn or sympathy of Great Britain. Our
tode towards that people and Government has
rsther brsathed defiance than entreaty. We
considered ourselves masters of the situation
being fully as able to dispense with British
gold and fabrics IS England was able to dis
psnse with our cotton and our markets. We
had never approached that country as peti.
,loners for favor, but only as equals, having
bsneh TO confer fully equivalent to the bene
dts We might receive. We recognized the
embarrassments which her large vested in
terests al the North imposed upon Great
Britain; and we were not impatient of tina,
recognition and renewed intercourse which
We knew TO be Inevitable. but which we also
hh must he delayed for time
ltis not TO be denied that the warm svmpathy
which our cause had elected from the English
masses, had kinded a like feeling of cordial
ity towards the old country in our own breasts
aud we had begun to dismiss that antipathy
which hostilities and rivalries Of ninety years
duraiion had engendered and rooted in th.
Southern breast. We had begun to recur to the
,f Al
luton, when it was the pride of our ancestr,
i9pyoelam and inculcate devoted loyalty t.
ths British crown. We rejected that th.
tides of immigration that had set in upor
American shores for so many years hat
spread themselves over the North, and had very
little )verfowed into our Southern boundaries
that our blood was in consequence, still purely
English, and that ties of consanguinity, if they
hsdany force, bound US more closely to tn,
English than to the hybrid and motley race,
that inhabit the North. These remote re-
collections, these obvious reflections, ant
the feelings naturally springing from them
were fast producing sVohg partiality for tn.
mother land in the hearts of our race ant
We were looking with an interest, somewha
dramatic, to the reception which our Commis
aeners would receive-nOt from the British
Government, which we knew would b,
icfma and probably not even public-bu
Hom the people of Great Britain.
!The vulgar vituperation Of the Times ha
hoLas all changed our expectations in this be
nan Weare at loss to know what inhu
eHCes could have lsd that iournal into m rnds
aud brutal proceeding; but the very fac,
mat 1t tinds it necessary to inveigh 30 bitterly
Asainsl probable ovation to our Commission
eeits'PF owes that the temper of the public wal
''suhS strongly in that direction.
Tue specious logic employed by the Time,
~ te protest against measure evidently
Naalns much favor with the British people
nave already remarked upon; but it wat
'esiy unworthy even Of the Itmes to resort
" 'AseAood IN the attempt to mako good it.
assault upon our Commissioners. That these
'I''enen are American statesmen, and, a.
'sSu' nave at times employed free tone OF
srps'h against our late national rival, is not
.s' aea'e, but that they owe the prominence
r. nave attained in our country, as the
e' alleges, to antipathies constantly ex-
r''sssa against England, is positive slander.
~ @. ioglc E1ay be excused in the Times !;
90 saAfdlsm may be deplored; but willful
eehood Is 70 be denounced in the foul
'''n oi The slsnderer who employs it.
Gen. McClsllaA's Plans.