Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-01-03
LET Us gETTLD WITH ENGLAND
HEREAFTER.

: We do cot believe England will hold such
: view Ofthe arrest OF Slidell and Mason Al
to compel US to an humiIiating reparation OF
to 60 to war. But should she demand of u.
! that which viii wound our pride, still let us
by all means, avoid a war with her. This re
bellion must be pnt down. Our own peace al
: home demands it, and the good of republican
principles, the world over, demands it. A
lawyer, on the trial Of a very exciting and i'm
portant case, said to his opponent who was
endeavoring, by insult and annoyance, to throw
him of bis guard, "Sir, my energies and my
time belong to my client, have no right now
even to resent your insults, but when this
case is conclud ed shall be my own man.
The case being over the insulted lawyer took
his position outside the Court House door and
when his opponent came out he measured his
length on the walk. Our cause is the cause Of
humanity; let US not even be snubbed into a
iorgetfulness Of the cause of trial before the
world
If England exacts unjust concessions it will
be because she hates Republic and seeks its
overthrow. In thwarting such a design we
must sacrifice everything.
The Washington correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Press, in speaking of this subiect-af-
ter enumerating the disasters which would
cnsue from a war with England in our present
cond;tion-says
at may be in view of all these grave con-
siderations, and the sad necessities of the case.
that, in order to avoid war which could only
end in our discontinue, the Administration
may be compelled to conceGe TO the demands
noria 4
son and SideH God forbid but in a crisis
| like this we must adap; ourselves to stern cir
cumstanees, and yield every feeling of pride to
maintain our existence. If this contingency
should ever arrive-and l am only specula-
ting upon disagreeable possibility-then let
us swear-nOt only 10 ourselves, but our
children who come af.er us-to repay this
greedy, inso!ent and cowardly Power with the
retribuiion of just and fearful vengeance. II
England, in our time of distress, makes herself
our foe, and offers TO be our assassin, VIC will
treat her as a foe when we can do SO untram-
meled' aud unmenace1 by another enemy"
E~idontls, &c the English tstJiinet except 10
the act of Cammanaer w likes, it will be upon
the ground that he should have gone the
length Of the law bv taking ship and cargo
into port and there passed upon it in prize
court. As We have said, this is the meresl
diplomatic pettifoggery, and will only be re-
sorted ts an excuse "to pick a quarrel"
It should be the aim Of all civilized nation,
to ameliorate the rig0rs of war, but England
By holding such doctrines, would compel MS in
exercising our own rights, to do so at the
greatest possible injury to innocent persons.
The carrying the Trent in'o port, and put-
ting her through an admiralty court; would
lave ruined the owners of the vessel and
hroagAt inea'cnlable ,oss up the innocent
passengers. The European Times very prop
erly, upon this branch Of the matter remarks
1T is admitted that ifthe federal cruiser had
made prize OF tho mail steamer and taken
her into a federal port, with the correspondence
Of two hemispberes in the mail bags and score
of passengers in her cabins, and detained her
here until all the forms and delays Of prize
court had been gone through with, the act
would have been perfectly legal. The federal
clipper. then, seems to have erred, according
TO this showing, not from an excess Of vigor
but from an excess of forbearAnce, and this
gives feature TO the affair, of which the
Washington government ought, at least, to
have the benefit
If England does insist upon an apology for
Com. Wilkes forbearance, let us by all means
apologize, and at the same time, give England
notice that such error, toward "a British bot
tom, shall never be repeated. The New Y ork
Post says;
"Aecording to strict law and rcd tape
Wilkes might have put a number of passen-
gers to great deal of trouble and vcxation.
detained an important mail for at least week,
and put money into his own pockets, all in the |
appointed and authorized way of cap
turing an enemy. But he wanted only the en-
emies of his country, and he put nobody else
to trouble or loss. This may shock red tape
bound officers in Downing street; it may be a
excuse on which to force hostilifies
against the United States; but it cannot fail to
appeal favorahly to English as well as Amer
lean common sense"