The Portland daily press., 1862-08-12
A Brunswick Man Invites European In
terventfOn.

A short time since, when the Press referred
In terms of rebuke to the sympathizers with Sc
cession In the town of Brunswick, the editor
Of the paper in that place took up the cudgels
with little regard to the ordinary rules of pro-
priety, and denounced us for slandering so 10y
d people Is his fellow-citizens. To that ed
itor we wish to commend fact of history that
has recently transpired on the British side of
the Atlantic.
Many intelligent shipowners and shipmasters
in Maine, will remember VIM. s. Lindsay, the
conceited, selfinfated member of Parliament,
'<the member from Sunderland" who, few
years since visited this country, and spent a
few weeks among the shipowners, laboring to
bring them into his view, that our coast-wise
trade should be opened to the vessels of John
Bull Lindsay himselfis largely interested in
the class Of vessels that would take advantage
ofsuch q commercial regulation, and hence
the "disinterestedness" of his mission. He
was doubtless at that time fugling with his eye
on the expected Southern Confederacy, which
he saw rising as the storm rises, not SO much
by his own keen discernment as by the famil-
lar intercourse he had enjoyed with the Sin
fernal spirits" at the bottom of the then brew
ing rebellion. Lindsay went home, and, after
having been petted, and treated confidentially
by our commercial men, he was one of the
first to reveal sympathy in Parliament for the
Southern traitors, and to move with reference
TO recognizing the independence of the rebel
government. For the qualification Of his own
base avarice and to give him advantages over
our commercial men, he would see the Amer
lean Union divided into fragments.
Well, this Mr.. Lindsay recently gave an air.
ing in Parliament to his rebel sympathics, in
which he declared that reunion was hopeless"
said ahe desired to see the South separated
from the North in the interest Of this country"
[Engiand.l He said "they all knew the South
tcouid enter into free trade relations Nth u.s."
lEngland.l In this he shows that he fvors
disunion in order to secure commercial adj
vantages from the South, which he labored to
secure in another way when he was so mod
estly travelling through our commercial towns
and receiving the hospitality of our citizens.
He Is one of the deadliest enemies of our free
Institutions, Of our government, and of the
Commercial interests of the North to be found
on the English side of the Atlantic; just fitted
to be the tool and mouthpiece of southern reb-
els in their efforts to get at the ear of the Eng
lish public.
Now for the @fact of history" After infa-
mously maligning the free North by represent
ing 1t as land of lawlessness and mobs, where
"men Of position, property, and intelligence
'dare not express an opinion because mob law
"reigned supreme" in order to prove that the
mediation of England was desired by the bet
ter class of American citizens, he read part of
aletter which he had received from New York,
and which was dated July A. The writer said
Will England hesitate any longer to offer
meditation? Why, if she had In the first month
Of the war forcibly interfered, no greater ILL
feeling could have been shown towards her
than has been shown under her magnanimous
forbearance. Nor need war be feared If you
recognize the South, ETC., etc. = We
dtcait her action in disnady
"Such," said Lindsay, "are the sentiments
of the [Americanl people, He then said he
"had received another letter from BRUNSWICK
in the State Of Maine, dated also on the 4th Of