Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-11-18
A Warning to the British Govern.
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One of the strongest protests that has been
made against the outfit of the rebel pirates in
British Ports appears in the Peoples Jour-
nal, Mt Dundee, Scotland, in an article emit
tied "Is it Right /" The whole case is cley-
erly stated MS follows: Four swift and pow
erful steamers, built under the supervision of
well-knowh Confederate officers, to the order
of the Confederate Government, and tho
roughly equipped for war, in and from out
seaports, have now almost cleared the seas
of the ships of maritime power whose mer-
chant marine is equal to our own. These
four vessels paid for in British gold, con-
structed by British ship-builders, equipped
in British ports, and manned by British sail
ors, now cruise on their work of destruction,
with the British flag hoisted as decoy forg
the entrapping Of the merchant vessels Of fthR
United States. OF the four privateers, onp
two, the Florida and the 4Southerner,
ever been in Confederate seaport, n
are all entirely British in their design
outfit. They belong to no recognized
they obey no recognized law; they
status as the war-ships of any sovert
er. British from their keel to theirJ
|. they have nothing Confederate
except the colorado pretext, of
commission from an insurgent Sy
United States. Built in defanr
nicipal law, equipped under covel M
got out Of our ports clandestinelyJ
out any legal clearance, and now en-
burning ships on suspicion, and withoN
legal testing Of their captures which>
usage, or in other words the law Of nation
requires, these four incendiaries are making
war history, which, in turn, will ultimately
create war, for they are not only firing the
ships of one of the worlds mightiest nations,
but they are, at the same time, lighting in
the heart of that proud and powerful nation
fire of hatred which assuredly will not die
out in this generation nor in the next.
This is a serious state of things. We are
drifting towards war in which the right will
not be with us-a war of portentious dimen-
sions, in which the working class will have
no sympathy with the governing class-a
struggle of giants, into which Britain, con-
demned by millions of her own children, will
not be able to throw her undivided power. At
so grave juncture, we beg of our readers to
remember the example of the United States,
for at this time craftsmanship does not con-
sist in answering with the quibbles of a coun-
try attorney the Just complaints of an angry
nation, but in dealing out to that nation
measure of Justice at least as complete as that
which we have received at its hands. If con-
siderationS of honor have no power to move
the nation, considerations OF interest should
do so. 1t is for the people to consider wheth-
er, in the midst of peace and prosperity, they
wish to fan among their kindred of the West
those fires of Indignation which threaten to
become uncomfortable. It is for working
men to ponder whether they will idly stand
by and see their industrial interests sacrificed
to the interests of two or three shipbuildcrs,
and great nation wronged to crafty the
prejudices Of class. 1t is for good men Of
all ranks to oppose policy which tiifeatens
to throw away peace and plenty in the pur-
chase Of present privation, prospective disas-
ter and perpetual disgrace"