Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-10-23

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One of the strongest protests that has bssa
made against The oatft Of, ths ve6el .piraaes1Ia
British Ports, appears id the PEOPLES Journkj.
OF Dundee, Scotland. The whole case is clev.
ierly stated as follows:
as IT RroHr -Four swift and powerful
steamers, built under the supervision oF uaIT.
kno@h9 9dnkderate ofieers, to the ,oFdpr s,gtbo
| Confederate government, and fhorou0hIV
equipped for war. 10 and from our seauoFts.
have now almost cleared the seas of the shiDa.
Of maritime power whose merchant marina
is equal to our own. These four vessels. maid
Tor in British god conslrneted'by British shin
builders, equipped in British ports, and mans
ned oy British sailors, now cruise on their
work OF destruction, with the British far
holsted as decoy for the entraping OF thee
merchant vessels Ofthe United States. Oftbe
four privateers only two. the FLORIDA and the
SOutherneT, have ever been in a C0nNederate
seapoFt.- they are all entirely- British 10 their
design and outfit, They belong to mo recog-,
nlzed state they obey no recognized law;
they have no Status-as the war Ships or any
sovereign Power.' British from their keel 10
their pennaBiR they have nothing Oonlederatss
about them excepting the cOloFable pretext Of
sO-called commission from an insurqeut SUBJ
ject of the United States. Built in defiance
Of our municipal Law, equipped under cover Of
untrnths, got out'of our ports cla6deStinely
aud without any legal -cleafancs, and now en-
gagged in burning ships on suspicion, and with
out that legal testing Of their captures which
the usage or, 10 other words, the law of ma,
tions requires, these four i1cendiaries are
making war-history which, In turn will ulti-
matey create a war; fOr-they are not only HF-
ing the ships OF one Of the woFlds mightiest
patOns, but they are at the same time, light
ing in the heart of that proud and powerful
nation FIRE or hatred which assuredIv will
not die out in this generation, nor in the
pext. ea zdf sslg aEf .faTaU e 20 rr at SOS
These things are simple facts. American
captains, bronzed with tropical suns, and gray
with age-men who have braved levers and
storms an acquiring. property in their fine
ships-are returning to their home by dozens,
ruined men-men beggared by the incendiarism
Of privateers fitted out by English Members
Of Parliament, in open and impudent contra
Vention Of English law. And while all this is
he case, there is on our statute book an enact.
nent which DEGREES punishment for all who
it out such privateers. or who attempt" to
urnish such, or who q aid or assist" in any at
empt to furnish such, or who are 60 much as
concerned in the aiding or assisting OF those
Who attempt to furnish such. Yet, 10 spite of
his tightly drawn law, which thus includes
lot the chief criminal alone, but all down to
he three removals of those who have the re-
hottest completely in his guilt, more. vessels Of
similar kind are being built, and the often.
Ter is received in Parliament with cheers
This is a serious state of things. We are
rifting towards war in which the right will
ot be with us-a war Of portentous dimen-
ions, in which the working class will have no
with the governing clsss-a strug-
lie of giants into which Britain, condemned
y millions of her own children. win not be
BILE TO throw her undivided power. At 80
grave juncture, we beg of. our readers to >,
member the example Of the. United St -
1 this time craftsmanship does M. oon.;..
n answering with the quib1 "a. or oo,otr"
ttorney the just cor. .plaints of an angry ma.
lon' Ont IN r-.nng out to that nation meas
re ol Ju.sCIee, at least as complete as that
'h'ch we have received at his hands. If con-
iderations of honor have no power to move
he nation, considerations of interest should
o so, It is for the people to consider wheth-
r. in the midst Of peace and prosperity, they
7ish to fan among their kindred of the West
hose fires of Indignation which threaten to
ecome uncomfortable. 1t is for the working.
zen to ponder whether they will idly stand By
nd see their industrial interests Sacrificed TO
ne interests OF tive or three shfp0uiIders. and
great nation wrOnged to crafty the preiudi.
es Of a class. 1t is for good men OF an ranks
} oppose policy which threatens to throw
way peace and plenty 10 the purchase Of
resent DriVation nroenaofiga
etual disgrace.