The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-30

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b expe<tsd, and very natural n any civilized
community. Whit must indeed be Tho char
acter Of that proclamation Of Major General
which 10 denounced ~ siJamoxs'' by Min
ister Of the British 0ovenment--an Officer
whose position requires Of him No much dr.
cumspection, and whose habit is to weigh de
fherately every word he attersf Both Lord
palmerston and ESsi Russell denounced the
proclamation Of Butler, and they but reflected
the undivided sentiment of the British public
nay the civilized world. Both of them thought
il iHeumbent npon the Federal Government to
disayow the act Of Butler, and hoped that it
would. Lincoln, thus admonished, may
through Seward, make an explanation and disa.
vowal of the infamous proclamation. 1t may
be said that ia now too late--that the lapse Of
time rreclndes the Lincoln Minister from the
right to disavow it-espscia;ly after the snbse-
squent declaration of Butler, (made AFTER there
was time for thd disavowal at Washington and
his recalD that he had deliberated we'll on the
proclamation and adhered firmly to it. But
Seward cares nothing for the propriety or the
consistency of his acts. lie did not disavow
the act of the arrest of Mason and Slidell, and
had no idea of surrendering them until forced
70 do 10 by the demand of the British Govern
ment. The reasons which he assigned for
their ultimate surrender were as imperative at
the time of their arrest as they were at the time
Ofthe surrender; and any just and magnanimous
Government would have released them with
good grace ut once But Stewards malignity
was gratifed by their detention in the North
ern Bastile, and he determined to keep them
there until the British Government should
force him to give them up. Had that Govern
mcnt never interfered he would have kept the
Ministers immured in his vile prison till death
released them
Now, we shall, probably, see the arch fiend,
for sake of policy, making some tardy conces-
sion to the outraged sentiment of the civilized
world, since it has taken such potent form OF
expression, Whereas but for this, 80 far from
censuring the cowardly and brutal Satrap who
represents the Federal despotism in New Or
leans, he would have inwardly rejoiced at his
cruelties and gloated over the fact had it led
to the violation of multitudes ofwomen.
The Parliament is seconded by the press
or rather, the press of England led of in bit
ter denunciation of the Infamous proclama.
ton The New York Herald, now the meek
slave of Lincoln, whom it ridiculed and sat
irized up to the eve of the day when the mob
forced its editor to hoist the stars and stripes,
is highly indignant at the expression of feel
ing by Parliament and the press with reference
to the proclamation. The Herald declares that
it is all affectation, and proceeds to rake up
from history instances of British cruelty by
way of offsetting the brntalism of Butler
which it neither denies nor defends The
Herald editor himself, dead to all sense of de-
cency or humanity ,.can zee nothing but aiiee-
tation in all that the press and statesmen Of
England say on the subject 1t hunts fos a
motive for a sentiment 50 strange to him. and
concludes thus:
1.-THE real meaning of the mock humanity of
Palmerston. Russell, and the other British states
men, is, that they desire to infiame the public mind
ST England and ell Europe againss the United
States and prepare the way for that intervention
which Earl Russell intmates Is only question of
time on the part Of the British Government"
Whatever be the "real meaning of the
aforesaid, the ..pablic mind of Eng
land and all Europe viii be iniiamed against
the United States, by the act of Butler espe
cially, and by its brutal and cruel measures
generally, in such a degree as very much to
hasten the policy that is to be adopted by
England aIsa France--or rather France and
regard to tine war On this con-
tinent.
i is plain, from the debate in Parliament,
that had Lord Lyons received official informa-
ton of Buffers proclamation, he would have
felt justified in protesting against it. The
British Government, evidently, would have
justified the protest, and will cause one to be
made as early as possible.