Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-27
THE ATTACK OMIT. DONELSON.
The Rebels Pursued and Routed.
A FIERCE FIGHT NEAR CAPE
GIRARDEAU.
Rebels Defeated with much Loss.
ORDER FROM ADy'T eEN. HILL.
Disposition Of the New Recruits.
FURTHER REPORTS OF THE
INDIAN MASSACRES.
LAST NIGHTS REPORT.
A LETTER FROM EARL RUSSELL TO
Seer ETARY SEWARD.


SECRETARY SEWARD.
FARTHER POINT, Aug. 26th.
By the steamer Hibernian, which passed
this point this morning, we have received
the following highly interesting letter,
written by Earl Russell, in reply to a dis
patch from Mr. Seward
EARL RUSSELL To Mr.. SEWARD, I
Foreign Office, London, 28h JuIy. 7
SIR.-I have left hitherto unanswered
and unnoticed the dispatch Of Mr.. Seward,
which Mr.. Adams delivered to me more
than a month ago. l have done so, partly
because the military events referred to in
it were in the opinion of her Maiesty's
Government far from being decisive, and
partly because there was no proposal in it
upon which her Majestys Government was
called upon to come to any conclusion.
Events subsequent to the date of Mr.
Stewards letter have shown that her Ma
jesty's Government, in its opinion on the
first of these points, was not mistaken.
Victories have been gained, reverse shave
followed, positions have been reached in
the near neighbOrhood of the Capital
of the Confederacy, and these posi-
tions have again been abandoned.
great loss of life, in battle and in hospi-
tails, while such measures as the Con-
iscation Bill have passed through both
Houses of Congress and with the pro-
clamations Of General Butler at New
Orleans, bear evidence Of the increasing
bitterness of the strife. The approach Of
servile war so much insisted upon by
Mr.. Seward in his dispatch, only forewarns
us that another element of destruc-
tiOn may be added to the loss of pro-
perty, and waste of industry which
already aflicts the country so lately
prosperous and tranquil Nor on the
other point to which l have adverted have
l anything new to say. From the moment
that intelligence first reached this country
that nine States and several millions of
inhabitants of the great American Union
had seeded, and had made war on the
Government of President Lincoln, down to
the present time, her Majestys Govern
ment has pursued a friendly, open, and
consistent course. They have been neu-
tral between the two parties to q civil
war. Neither the loss of raw material of
manufacture so necessary TO a great pOr-
ton of our people, or insults constantly
heaped upon the British name in speeches
and newspapers, nor a rigOr beyond the
usual practice of nations with which the
Queens subjects, attempting to break loose
from the blOckading of the Southern ports
have been treated, have induced her
Majesty's Government to swerve one
inch from the impartial neutrality at
this moment. They have nothing more at
heart than to see the consummation
which the President speaks of in his
answer to the Governors of Is States,
namely, the bringing of this unnecessary
and injurious civil war to n speedily and
satisfactory conclusion. As to the course
Of opinion in this country, the President
is aware that perfect freedom to comment
upon all public events, is, in this country,
the invariable practice sanctioned by law,
and approved by the universal sense of the
nation. am &c.,
Signed RUSSELL.