Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-09
FrOm the palttmore american.
The Copperhead coalition with tho
British CSoyernment

From the baltimore American.
The Copperhead Coalition with tao
British Government.
No,document that has been given TO the
American public since the great conflict
begun, has had more beneficial effect in
making dislOyalty on this side of the lines
take the back trafk, than the remarkable
letter from Lord Lyons to Earl Russell.
dealing with the political aspects and ma
chinery of the late elections as brought
under his own observation. A perfect
bomb-shell under the feet of the corrupt
politicians of the Empire State, especially,
there. is little doubt but that they would
have given everything couldit never have
seen the light; but in print, and read by the
whole people, it ig one of those things con-
stituting great Landmark of these 9imes,
and fairly gibbeting the opponents of the
war. Particularly damage ng are its reve-
latlons to the New York troupe, because,
if the whole country is scanned, there is no
place.where public sentiment is so vindic-
tive in relation to the past conduct of Eng
land-no community that is so sore on the
subject of British perfidy at present in per-
mitting the depredatious of ships from
British ports. Thoroughly commercial as
are the constituents OF Brooks and Fernan-
do Wood. it wiIl'take something more than
"Pewter Mug demonstrations and elo-
quence to reconcile them to fellowship with
the representative of England in wire pull
ing, with the purpose of betrayipg their.
own eou ntEy; something more to reconcile
them to their losses on the high, seas. In,
decd so aneeEad &. ia3 S. g *
is taking place on the ocean that dhdignaf s
ton at the course, of England seems almost.
to have made it forget t6e aspects of the
rebellion itselfin debating what shall be
done to protect its commerce and to de-
mand redress.
And there is more in this matter than
even all this indicates. A feeling inimical
to England is perhaps more matter ira
ditioual there than any where else on the
continent. Evacuation day"-the cele.
bration of the period when the British
troops left the city-has always been one
of their great anniversaries, celebrated
with military parades and every concomi
tant which could mark the glad remem-. J.
brance of deliverance from the presence of
foe;j and when we remember, further.
that one of its regiments refused to turn
out on occasion of tue visit of the heir of
the British throne to that locality. one
might suppose that little additional was
wanting to mark their dislike of any specia1
recognition of England as an Intermediates
in our affairs.
But now, in hunting an ally to second
the Confederate delegate in Euglaud-Jas.
NJ. Mason-in bringing about "mediatiou-
another pameitor s'interyentionp- for wal, !.
the evidence is placed on record that the
Woods aud Brooks faction could find no
one more suitable than the representative
of our old enemy; of that power of all
Iothers-as we have shoWn-least liked in
such a,contlngeucy. Aud the whole tenor
of this letter proves that this movement
was. made steNlthily, in guilty conscious
ness that it would not answer to lei, the
people become aware of what they. were
doing. lis.Is.a -. es
Aud their programme in the case, as
peace Democrats, 2 was pretty much iden-
teal with that of the old "Peace lparty''
here. Like the latter, they were the great
champions of the writ of t'hGBsds corpus;p
they did not believe n.haying any restraints
put upon their scheme for comforting, or
aiding more substantially, traitors who
were in arms to destroy the Government
Like the traitors in the South, with whom
they sought close partnership, they had
come to doubt the power of the disafected
anywhere to put "a stop to the preparations
of the Goyernmentfor crushing the rebel
lion; aud SO they looked abroad, through
the British representative here, to see if
the great Power which had already. inter-
fered in favor of Mason and Slidsll could
not be induced to take one more step, and
by some authoritative "mediationg put a
stop to the war in which their. friends Y, were
getting the worst of .its,f No wonder they
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