, 1862-02-03
a FAIR ESTIMATE OF TIE SURRENDER


The Federal Government have acccded to
all which we thought proper to require, and
if they have not done SO in the Way most con-
dnciye to the saving Of their own reputation,
either for fairness or independence, they them
selves arc the chief, if not the only, sufferers
bY the course which they have preferred. We
cannot refuse, too, to make large allowance
for the difficulties they must have encountered
in contcssing an error to which their attention
was called by the challenge Of 4 foreign power,
aud reversing an act which the unreasoning
public opinion Of their country had hailed
with tumultuous approbatioll.
I'VE have got our terms, lowcrcr, and VIC
accept them, With nnminS1ed satisfaction, in
the spirit in which they are offered. Mr.. Sew
ards language in making the aNze"dc breathcs
Il lofty, candid and courteous spirit rarely to
be met will in the diplomatic comnunica-
tions between Governments which have had
liz. misfortune to fall out. Long may the
iuyc Of right above country and the dread Of
no consequences but dishoner which guide
the movements of the Federal Secret,ry's pen
continue to animate tile relations between t1c
two countries!
From The London Morning Herald: JAM
AT last NC have decisive news from Arlerlc;l.
The City Of Washington brings 4 telegram
from Lord Il yons stating that " the Govern
1ncnt Of the United States had consented to
deliver mp to him the prisoners taken from the
Trent, when and where lie p|cascd.n Despite
| the boasts Of tic New York press, despite the
! comlne1,lation bestowed on Captain Wllkc=ssby
at Boston and New York, aud thr vote Of
| thanks By Which the House Of Representatives
identified itself with the outrage Of tile San
| Jacinto despite even the frantic efforts Of Il
miserable faction in this country to encourage
| resistance to the demands Of our Government
| and TO render inevitable the war which they
passionste}y deprecated, Mr. Lincoln has pre-
1crTed the safety Of lis country to the popu-
laJity Of lis administration, aud has refused 10
| involve ths. United States in L contest which
| must hare anuihilated what remains Of their
power, their credit, and their commerce. We
give to linn, If to no one else, honor for the
part he has played.
Tie friendship Of the Washington Govern.
nlc1t has always borne 4 very close resenl-
blance to enn1ity, and it can hardly behave
worse towards England than It 1as always
done. But its ostent,tion Of yielding to force
and to force alone, is Of i'll au:,ury for the fn-
ture understanding between tile two peoples
The Northern States arc formally told By thell
Government that Great Britain las taken :t
vantage Of their weakness to hnmlfiate them
and tie charge will not he the less re:ldil,
believed because it is as absurd as it i:
false. Our Transatlantic brethren arc goot
haters, and it is greatly to be feared tia
they will only wait for more favorable op
portunity to provoke us to war, anu TINT il
the nleantime tlcy will do What the.
|
1ishnen. They will pay the renalf
Of their passionate unrcason, whenever the
choose to force us to a quarrel, in humiliation
and disaster, and Of TINT disaster the couduc
| of their Cabinet will be the chief cause. In til
meantime VIC have to bear IN mind that th
, American Government has shown no disposi
: tfon to conciliatc u.s. Las IN no way obliEe
, us or earned any claim TO our regard and fol
| bcaEmcc. It has confessed our superiority {
strength, and vii, probably, be more caref,
il, Us 1emeanor lor the future, but this is Il
, that We can expect from the lesson it has no.
received.
IFrom tho Saturday Review.l
!, The Saturday Re'ie,e gives great prominene
T. to tile point that 3lr. Seward would have SUI
rendered the commissioners before any dt
mand was made to that effect, as will be see
from the following extracts:
"N[r. Seward dispatch will not be receive
! in IN unfriend1y spirit It's yoluminous apo
= ogits fer doing right arc addressed, not to hi
nominal correspondent, but to an angry popt
: Gated superior. Tic Secretary Of State, hin
self an eminent lawyer, may probably haE
understood from the first the utter fatility {
| the arguments Of such jurists as Alr. Eycret
5 h1r. Sumner, and Captain Wilkes. AlE: Cnsl
+ ing, formerly a psofessea cnemS Of Englant
Q publicly repudiated all excuses for IL
: seizure except the defense which VT
J: found on q misinterprctation Of L01
I Stowe1l's reference to the rights and nabil
ties Of ambassadors fUnder the prcssul
: Of official responsibility, Mr.. Seward may ha1
G examined the question more thoroughly, an
: Europeans might suppose that he would ha,
served his country better By acting on tt
! conviction which he now avows, before !
q could be supposed to yie1d to coercion. =
G there may have been sufficient reasons for Il
? delay, and England ut least has no right
G complain Of tile policy which exhibited TO Il
II world her own resolution and her great +
> sources, while it involved Federal Politic:ia1
!, in every possible Inconsistency and absnaity