Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1863-02-25

don aud which they remained at liberty to emp .,
against ~ ~ II WAS HrIgil oi which Nu Wei, al
ready IN actual eniuyn eat, .and (which We could
not b. cNIcclc t. rel"unrc haynaar bile as'nst an
adversary possessing an overwhelming superiority u
naval forces, IL was reserved with entire Cuhhdi nee
that NEUTRAL natuns cuud not Tall Ia l"rccNc that
Just reasons existed for the reservation, Nor WAS
This confidence misplaced, iur the official d crmcmls
rubli,h,d 10y the British Governments, usually called
'bluc Buuks," contain the expression nf lhc saismc
iun "l that government Wiih the conduct oi lle ul'
ca who conducted successfully tile delicate business
cUntdpl tu their chuIgc.
These solemn declarations "f principle, this implied
Hgrc, mcnt between the tunWdvrary and the Two
powers just namc have been tuncie,l ~ remain in-
operative against the mUnuCrs aud uTtrugcs on n"G'
trail rights, committed 10y the United Siurs with un-
rcasing and progressing arrogance during the whole
period Uf The war Neutral EuIupc remained passive
when tie United States, with naval force iusUili-
cicut tu blockade, effectively, the coast uia single
Staic, pruclamvda paper bluckad" of thousands "i
miles of coast, extending from III" taps oi he thrN'
apCakc To taos" uf Florida, aud nrr' ilg the Gulf ui
Mexico from Key West tu the mouth Ot the Rio
GrHudr COMPARED with this mons rous prc,nsiun
OF the United States, the blockics known IA history
under the "f the Berlin and Milan dcrrcs, and
the British orders IN Council, III The years lhu and
lSOI sink into nsignIiCanrc! Yet those horktdrS
were justified by the powers that declared them, ON
the sole ground thn they were rralntury yet thn.c
buckrdc- have since been condemned 10y thc puhlic.
ISIS of those very powers rs violations ui nfcnaii"-
al Law; yet those IlJckHdcS evoked angry rci!on-
strauCrs from neutral powers amongst which the nj
ted STATES were thr m"si cnHspcnunS; yet II oe
hlurkplr- became the chief cause uf the between
Great Britain and the United acs in 1872 yet thuse
hluch.ics were of ihc principal motives that led
to the declaration Uf the Congress VI Paris il lS56, in
the nd hope Ot IMPOSING an cEdniiig cheek IN The
very nhil>r pt maritime power, which Is now renewed
hy tile United States ia Is i and Is = under circun
stances and with i,ttns If ~ gravaed wrong With
oGt rcrcd"nt in hi'tnr!.
Ihe rccorns Of our State Department con-
tain the evidence OF the repeated and for
mul rcmonstrances made by the govern
ment 10 neutral powers against the rccog-
milton of this blockade. 1t Las been shawn
by evidence not capable Of contradiction,
aud which las been furnished in lart by
the officials of neutral nations, that the few
ports Of this Contedcracy, before which any
naval forces nt all have been stationed, have
been invested so inetiIc,ently that hundreds
Of entries have been effected into them
since the declaration Of tie blockade: that
our enemies have themselves admitted the
ilct,iciency of their blockade in the most
iorrihlc manner. by repeated official COM
plants Of the sale, to us, of gooCs coutra-
band of war, n sale which could not posi-
hly affect their interests if their pretended
blockade was sufficient greatly 10 prevent
access TO our coast;' that they have gone
farther and have nlledged their inability
10 render their paper blockade effective as
the excuse for the Odious barbnrity OF dcs-
troying the en- trance to one Of our hnrbors
by sinking vessels loaded with stcne in t C
channel; that our commerce with foreign
nations has been intercepted, not by the eff
trctive investment of our ports, nor by the
seizure Of ships in the attempt TO enter
them but BY the capture on the high seas of
neutral vessels by the cruisers of our enc
mics whenever supposed to be bound to any
pu mt on our extensive coast, without inqui-
nv whether n single blOckading vessel was
to he found at such point; that blockading
vessels have left the ports ut which they
were stationed for distant eXpc itions, have
been absent for many days and have re-
turned, without notice either Of the cessa-
tiou or renewal Of the blockade; in word,
that every prescription Of maritime, law,
and every right of neuiral nations 10 trade
witha beligCreut under the sanction of prn-
ciplcs heretofore universally respected, have
been systematically and persis,ently vlO-
lated by the United States. Neutral Eu-
rope has received our renonstrauces and
Las submi. sed in almost uhbroken silence to
all the wrongsthat the United States have
chosen to iniiict on it's commerce. The Cab
iuet of Great Britain, however, has not con-
fined itself to such implied acquiescence in
these breaches of international law as re-
suits from simple inaction, but has in
published despatch of the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, assumed to make
change in the principle cnunciated by the
Congress of Paris, to which The faith of the
British Government was considered TO be
pledged a change to important and too
prejudicial to the interests of the COnfed-
eracy to be overlooked, and against which
| have directed solemn protest TO he made,
after a vain attempt 10 obtain sat sfacto.y
explanations from the British Government.
In published despatch from her Maicstys
Foreign Office, to her Minister ut Washing
ton, under date of the lth February, 1852,
occurs the following passage:
"Iler Majestys Government, however,
are of opinion that assuming that the block
ade was duly notified and also that num-
her of ships is stationed and remains at
the entrance of port sufficient really to
prevent access TO it; or 10 create an ertdeHt
danger gf entering IL Cr lodring ii, and that
these ships do not voluntarily permit in
gress or egress, the fact that various ships
NAV have successfully escaped through it
las in the the particular instance h,r. re-
ferred to) will not of itself prevent the
blockade from being an eflectual one by in
ternational law
The words which | lave italicised are an
addition made by the British Government
Of its own authority TO principle the ex-
act terms Of which were settled with delib- |
Grafton by the common consent of civilized
nations, and by implied convention with
his Government as already explained. and