The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-02
QUA FoRErGN nELATIoNs.

H I.
That able Statesman. shrewd diplomatist,
and erustite scholar, the Hon. Charles
Sumner, United States Senator, from Mas
sachusetts, and chairman Of the Committee
of Foreign Relations in that body, has done
his native country lasting and important
service, in giving. to the world his recently
delivered mastesly address on the subject
Of g Our Relatiepa with Great Britain and
the Empire of France" Touching the
conduct of England, in her false neutrality
towards this good Government Of ours.
Mr.. Sumner proceeds admirably to prove
from history, her former faithfulness to-
wards nations situated similarly heretofore
to US he exhausts the subject Of the prac-
tice of diplomacy, to show how shallow
and mean has been the arguments of her
cabinet officers, and finally he exhausts in
ternational law to show how wrongfully,
how detestably and how illegimately she
has been secretly plotting the downfall of
our great American Republic, simply
through the dictates of sordid envy. We
are sorry that our limited space in a paper
like the THE UNION will not permit
us to publish the whole of this incontrover-
tible treatise. One of the strongest points
which Mr.. Sumner makes in his address,
is where he uses the words of one of En-
glands most ne,ed and ablest of chief JUS
tees, in constituting and expounding the
law Of nations, with regard to the control
which Sovereign should have over his
citizens or subjects, when he, himself, has
taken neutral stand touching a conflict
internacious OF between nations. This
Lord Chief Justice said that il aoos only to be
assumed, that any Sovereign should have
such complete control of his subjects, that
not only NATIONAL interference should be
prevented, buthe was bound to constrain
any community or individual from the
performance II any act hostile to either
party engaged in the conflict, such as fur
nishing ships, men, or material either pub
| liely or handsomely. aes Hsae .e D..
This is international law and now how
are we startled when we think, how Eng
land has violated its august majesty in al,
lowing such pirate crafts as the Alabama
and Florida to escape their bonds and
upon the high seas prey upon our innocent
merchantile marine? 1t is an outrage upon
the rights of the world, and Mr.. Sumner
has shown it to be such; and what is the
effect of their eminent semi-oficial docu.
ment in England? 1t has brought out q
glimmer of Justice from behind the black
pail of disgrace cast upon England by hel
acts. 1t has Seen printed and reviewed
favorably throughout England, Ireland, and
Scotland, sndfhow the rumor comes that
the Anglo IA 1. suspicions . -cased
rams at Livell faol viii be detained BY the
Government bf Great Britianl Good
England-ayc--all Europe acknowledges
the supremacy of right, law, order, and
justice in American diplomacy and states
manship. England, thanks to Mr.. Stewards
liberality and well-known-tact and the Sc.
cundity of Hoes Lightning Press, is food
ed with gratuitously distributed copies Of
this great document .Ss.,, s.., ,...-
In this address, too, Mr.. Sumner is care
full to give Louis Napoleon his "dose,'
without casting single unkind word t.
the French people, whoare known to be fas
friends to the cause of our country. This
will cause the e cradle of this mans des
! tiny" to rock with surprising vigor nj
doubt; and when Gen. Franklin walk,
!, through Texas to the Rio Grand he may
: have a more explicit description of the
manner in which we think our Monroe
doctrine should be respected. ~
We have said thus much to show oul
Union men in Delaware, that if our Gov
ernmentbetraF weakness, European tyrant'
will assist the South to crush us or injur,
us in every way, but if we strengthen oul
government al the polls even by one man
we crush the hopperheads in our state ant
do our country a greatservice, and then W,
| need have N fear 'nf foraion foae