Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-11-16


ia ssivisg . ths Cess. 800
I N'hs Londos 4 isses thus cowmepts on
l6s poiOt Of International Law It isses
lTbstwesD the BIttish Government ssd
our osb:
$40 build, arm, and man . vessel Of
war from neatsaI port 10 surely 10 Fl
out hostile espediliou from thst pert,
and - 40 expedition msy be great or
small, It follows that . hsatrsl might
thus take almost any conceivabis sba,e
IN . var, PROVIDED only that The aid il
lent TO one eide was not greater ihsn
the aid il sas ready 10 lend to the other.
But 10 that reasonable dcc,rinc? Il
appears to us ,hat the supply Of moni
tons, money or material difess Ssses-
fisUy IN character from the supply Of -
armed sbip OF var. We can under
stsnd that even such ves.e 9 - are nov
lying in The Mersey might be sent across
the Atlantic, aud delivered At Whining.
ton Or Charleston, without any more
breach Of neutrality than 10 committed
in the dispstch Of = field battery to
New York. In that case they would
be empty hulls, and would only receive
their creve, their commissions, and their
offensive capacities from the beliigerent
State itself. But if tie successive pro
ccsscs b,:which ship OF warts created
are al performed in . neutral country,
that gives the a venture perfectly dlE.
fsrent character, and 0m0unts eishsr 70
Q participation in the scar on the xavt
Of neutrs:s, or to the employment OF
''satrol territory for psrposes Of scay BY
a beH!yerent. II it is then said that =.
neutral powes may, if it pleases, permit
its territory to be SO employed, we re-
ply that the permission imports 50 very
much moro than a mere perm. s.ion to
buy rifles and sunpowdsr that it 10 no
wonder that the latter should be grant
ed while the former is withheld. We
are very sure that il would be bad
thing tor most countries, and especially
for England, if the practice Of equip.
ping vessels Of war in the controverted
fashion we're recognized or established,
DOR do we see that the commercial in
tcrests of country require any such
latitude Of adventure. 1t is certainly
reasonable that the customary trade Of
. shipbuilder in neutral State should
be preserved from injury as we'll IS 9th
or trades, but it is plain that such trade
has no connection with that "equip-
ment" of the ship to which objection i.
taken. 1t is no pert Of shipbuilder's
business to arm snip with cannon or
equip her for action. II it is said that
the builder proposes no snch equipment,
then the reply is that when an equipment
10 maoifestly contemplated by some par
ties or other the Law full intention may be
defeated. The suggestion Of "Histori-
cns" is that such transactions should be
stopped by warning given or complaint
addressed 10 otll'gerent powers, bu. We
profess we should prefer to see q drec.
prohibition take shspe O. Law.
Giea. Brltsin never did grant per-
mission to either North or South to
eqnip their war ship. within British ter
r,tories. The coniederaies, therefore;
have no right to dispatch their steamers
iron, our po' to. and II any such design
- suspected On reasonable grounds, we
are justified in taking measures to pre-.
vent it.
The Army and Navy journal says
that the reason OF the concentration Of
a for the reducing OF Fort Sunp,er,
already SO thorough ruined, ia tina, the
little island on which The fort stands or
stood is Of commanding importance as
. place Of refuge for any OF the iron clads
which may be disabled after entering
the hs,bor. TIE possession OF the ru,ns
Of the tort was therefore necessary pre-
limiosry. The same journal says that
facts in its possession, unsuitable for pub
LEGATION, "inspire the best hopes Of sue
cess Of the grand combined land and
naval attack. The nature Of the OBJ
structions to the hsrbor, which have al
ways been the bugbcar to the fleet, il
now Thoroughly understood"
The New York Times compares the
promptness with which Indiana has fill
ed her quotas with the dilatory ecsion
of New York, and attributes the differ.
ence to the different methods employed
by Governors Morton and Seymour. Tho
spirit which leads it to publish the
shame Of its own State, that it may
make an unjust attack Upon Governor
Seymour, is here openly manifested
The same spiri. led the radical newspa-
per- in the city Of New York to libel
the place Of their publication in ASSERT
ing that it had not furnished ita> quota.
If Governors are to be held responsible
Tor Deficiencies in quotas, what criminal
i,y must attack TO Governor Andrew, Of
Massachusetts.