New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-13

worship as il is so extensively claimed 10 be, let us
at least agree TO desls from worsiping IL uiui tne
country IL saved Great, too, as may be The dement,
of your proposed colonization let lie at least agree TO
defer realizing it until the country IL saved Bril.
liant and novel, too, a. IL the President idea OF
Swapping eli direct taxes for negroes, let him be
content 10 JOY IN the bare idea until The country !,
saved. la the mean time, let our Statesmen and
commanders be moving their cOnntrymen by appeals,
which are unspeakably more full OF inspiration than
are any all of these things which have enuIner-
ated. BY no such things these Ill Marco ILzirs
seek TO animate his brave band And why should
not Americans H. well as Greeks be allowed 10 ioIBe'
all these and he told:
'Strike-for your affairs and your hre'
strise-for The green graves OF your siresi
God-snd your native and
Although had finished my letter must now, in
consequence OF having just heard the important and
painful news from Eng land withhold 1t iIom The
/ printer until ] can add page or two to II.
Alas that tits news should find us still embarrassed
and still diddiug with the negro question Alas,
/ that we should still have one War upon our haods
while we are threatened with auotherl Had We as
we should have done. disposed OF this question al
the beginning Of the War then would lis beginning
have been also its ending. II Slavery was not, As II
certainly was the sole cause OF the War II never
theess was that vulnerable spot IN the foe at whch
We should have struck without moments delay.
Instead OF repelng the negroes bond and Tree by in
suits and cruel treatment, We could have brought
them all 10 sde by simply inviting them 10 IL.
As il il, the War has grown Into very formidable
one; and the threatened one growing ont OF II VIII
be far more formidable. Whereas had we not &C ed
insaDely the negro question, we should nave
dreaded neither. More than this had we, as u whr
so easy TO do, struck instant death into the hrst
War, we should have escaped the threat oil this
second one.
with War; |, is for compelling the English ship 20
give VI the Rebel Commissioners. SO IT says. This
Is the ostensble reason. But would not England-
she who famous for clinglng 10 an almost entire
Is un1ualied and unlimited right OF search--bave
done The same thing in like circumstances II she
would not then she would not have been herself
Had a part OF her 10 ne Counties reyocd and sent
couple Of their rebels America for help would cue
not nave caught them If she could and III WHAT
ever circumstances they might have been found ii
she SAWS she would not there II not on all the eafth
one jew Apella' 80 creiulous ar 10 believe her. III
she conesses she would, then Is she ssli-convcted
not only of tramplng IN her boundle-s dishonesty on
the great aud bcvOlaied principle OF dong
Ma we would be done by, bat OF insulting us by clsim-
ing thai we ought To betsne ard base enough TO Tor
bear 10 do that which her seli-respeot and l6h ra
would prompt her 10 do.
But perhaps England would not have done IA We
did Her naval Captains bave however taken
thousands 81 sramen from our ,hps-there Captains
constituting themselves the role accusers Witnesses
and iudgea in the IL was chiefly Tor such out
ruges that We deol Jared against Der ia lsi2 The
instance of the San JscintO and Trent IL not Ike
thee In this instance there no question, be-
csuse no donbt of p.r-onal identity. Bot I repeat
that perhsps England would not have done m we
!, did. In case 70 aggravated the w9nid perhAps'
, nav probably, have taken ship and all. ny the
vsy il may be that did act illegally IN rot sen-
ing the ship az we'll the rebels, and subJecng her
, 10 iormsl trial Bat If IN this we fell into mis-
take could England be 60 mean as to make war
upon ma for I. for n mistake which was prompted
by Kind and generous regard for the comfort and
interests OF Englrhmen Surely, II England Is not
noble enough refuse 10 punish for any mere mis-
take she Ia nevertheless not mons rons enough 10
punsh :or tie mistake winch grew solely out OF the
desire to serve her.
Bot wherein have we harmed England in this
mstteri We have iusnltec Der, IA the answer We
have mol however intended 10 iasult ber-and an un'
intended insdl il really insult. IL in my eager
ners 10 oyerske the man who has deeply injured
me | run rudely through my neighbors house, he
will not only not accuse of Insulting him, but he
will pardon W much 20 my very eXcu,sble eagerness
as 10 leave bet little ground Of any kind Of CON-
plain. against the. Surely, If England were but to
ask her own heart how she would feel toward men
i'm her own bosom, who, without the slightest prov
ocation, were busy in breaking up her nation and IN
Numbering and slaughtering her people, she would
be more Disposed to shed tere Of pity for Us than to
make war upon us 49,
/ IL is not possible that England will mako War
upon us for what we did 10 the Trent, and for doing
which sbe has herself furnished nnumerable pre-
cedents II is not possible that che will 40 Ignore,
nav 40 deny ard dishonor her own history. Will
not believe that England, whom have ever loved
and honored almost a. il she were my own country,
and who, whatever eudiced and passionate Ameri-
can writers have written 10 the contrary has hitherto,
dnrng our great and sore trial. done nothing through
her Government, nor through the great body oil her
people, 10 Justify tbs attempt by portion lhapplly
/ a very small and very unworthy poruonl OF our
ore,s To stir up our national feelings against herl
say will not believe that this loved and honored
| England win make War upon us for deed IN winch
we intended her no wrong; in which, 30 ia. as her
own example il authority there IA no wrong; and IN
which IL The light Of reason, aud ~ 1t Will prove III
the Judgment OF mankind, there is no wrong. She
couli not make such canseless War upon us WITH
ont deeuly and broadly blOuing her own character
and tho character Of civilization. But, alter ALL
what better il our modern civilization than mere
blot aud botch ii the nation, which !. prominently
i,s eTponent. can be guilty, and without the least
real cause Of provocation and upon pretexts IN
frivolous as they are false, OF seeking 10 destroy
slater milton IA sister nation, too, whose present
enbarrassments and diaresses appeal 10 strongly 10
every good heart Moreover, how little WIZ IL
argue for the cause Of human nights aud popular IN,
sIutions if the nation which claims 70 be the cheI
CHAMPION of that cause, can wage 30 wlcked war
moon a nation claiming no humber relation to that
I precious catte. !,
What, then, dc hold tia. England should do in
/ this case |
lat. Reprimand or more severely punish the Cap
tam of tho Trent for bis very gross ana very gHy
violation of our rights in furnishing exceedingly iui-
portant facilities " our enemy. ms our "otein'
ment sbould have promptly insissd on and not have
suffered England 10 get the start of ub win her hD-
surd counter claim. This il "a ease III which not we
but ENGLAND should have been made Defendant II
IN her G.ntan who il the real offender. onH ~ ht
The most but d nominal one. In The copduct OF hei
Captain were the spirit and PurF0se, ~ well A. tne
doiu0 AZ wrong Tie conduct of Onrs, on the con
,t.Il u he