The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-10-22

Earl Russell delivered a speech af
Dlairgowrie, Scotland, on the 26th ult
A synopsis by telegraph has been pub
lished, but the following portions Of the
address relating to America will be found
interesting:
BELLIsFREHT RIGHTS.
TLis was the state of affairs when that
which we certainly had no part In broLt
out-when, If remember rightly, niae OF
the Southern States Of America declared
that they would form an independent repub-
lie. Our course on the subject has been at
tackled and blamed in the bitterest terms-
blamed sometimes by the Fcderals and some
times by the Confederates. The first offence
was felt by the Federals. They said we had
no right to grant-so far as We were con
cerned-to the Confederates the rights o,
beiljgerents. Well, now, gentlemen, that
question OF the rights Of beliigerents is q
qu ,stion Of fact; put it to You whether,
with five millions Of people, 5000, O,OOO |
mean Of free men, declaring themselves in
dent State, we could pass over that as pet
ty rebellion. Our Admirals asked whether
the ships they met bearing the Confederate
flag should be treated as pirates or no. II
We had treated them as pirates, We should
have been taking part that contest
(Cheers.l 1t was impossible to look on
the uprising of a community of 5 5,OOO, 600
people as a mere petty instruction -[hear,
hearl-or as not having the rights which at
all times are given to those who, by their
numbers and importance, or by the extent
OF the territory they possess, are entitled to
these rights. [Cheers.l
Well, it was said We ought not to have
done that because they were a community
of shareholders. Gent!cmcp,- trust thai
our adherence of slavery is not in the least
abated or diminished. Loud and prolonged
cheers. For my own part l consider it one
of the most horrible crimes that yet dis
graces humanity. Cheers. But then, when
We are treating OF the relations which we
bear to community Of men, doubt whether
it would be cXpedient or useful f. humanity
that we should introduce that new element
Of declaring that We will have no relations
with people who permit slavery to exist
among them. We have never adopted it
yet; we have not adopted it in the case OF
Spain or Brazil, and do not believe that the
cause OF humanity would be served by our
adopting it. Hear, hcarl
ARE THE CONFEDERATEs REBELs?
Well, it was said that these Confederate
States we're rcbels-rebels against the Union.
Perhaps, gentlemen, / am not so nice as
ought to be on the subject. But recollect
that We rebelled against Charles l. Ia laugh
we re! elled against james ii. and the peO-
pie OF New England; not content with these
two rcbelliOns, rebellcd against George Ill
Hear, and laughter. / am not saying now
whether all these rebellions were jnstifiable,
or whether they were wrong. / am not say
ing whether the preeent rebellion in the
Southern States is justtiable insurrection, or
is great fault or Il great crime. But ! say
that the mere fact of rebellion is not in iny
eyes Il crime Of so deep dye that we must
renOunce all fellowship and communion and
all relationship with those who have been
guilty of rebellion. Loud cheering But,
certainly, il l look to the declarations Of
those New England orators-and have
been reading lately, II not the whole, yet a
very great part, oi the very long speech by
Mr. Sumner On the subject, delivered at New
York; own l cannot but wonder 10 see
these men, the offspring us it were Of three
rebellions, as We are the offspring of two re-
bellions, really speaking, like the Car OF
Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, or Louis XIV.
himself, of the dreadful crime aud guilt of
rebellion. Loud laughter and cheers
THE BLOCKADE.
Our people were suffering, and suffering
very greatly, for the want Of the material
which was the great support of their indus
er we should not break that blockade; but,
in 10y opinion, the name Of England would
be forever infamous II, for the sake Of inter
est Of any kind, we had violated the general
laws OF nations and made war with these
slaveholding States OF America against the
Fe,leral States. Hear, hear And, gentle
men, am not speaking the sentiments Pc
culiar to myself, or to those who have no
immediate interest in the question; but
these are, am convinced, the sentiments OF
that noble hearted people OF Lancashire who
have lived and hourished by that industry,
but who would not, / am sure, allow a sin
gle spot on the escutcheon of their nation in
order to maintain that industry. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.
PRIvATEERs BUILDING AND FITTING.
The principle is clear enough. II you are
asked to sell muskets, you may sell muskets
to one party or to the other and so with re-
gard to gunpowder, shells, or cannon, and
you may sell a ship in the same manner
But if you, on the other hand, train and drill
a regiment with arms in their hands, or al
low a regiment to 60 out with arms in their
hands to take part with one of two bellige.
rents, you violate your neutrality and com.
init an offence against the other belligerents
SO in the same way in regard to ships; il
you allow a ship to be armed and go at once
to make an attack Oh q foreign belligereni
taking part in the war, aud it is an offence
which is punished by the law. But these
questions lead, as you will see, to the
most difficult prOblems-as to whether, fol
instance, a thousand persons may go out az
labOrers to the Federal States, and in the
next place q thousand muskets may &C
: out in another ship, and when they arrive
in America these thousand labOrers, having
had an understanding before, may make 9
formal engagement and be armed with these
thousand muskets; though if that had been
done in the territory Of the Queen, and OF
| the soil of this country, it would haze beer
an offence.
THE STEAM RAM QUESTION.
There are ether questions with rs, ,ard tt
ships that have lately been prepared in thi:
country, because these ships are l. OF like
shiDs which receive the usual equipmcn
known in wars in times past, but they arr
themselves, without any further armament
| formed for acts of offence and war. They
| are steam rams, which might be used for til,
purposes of wsr without ever touching til,
shores of the Confederate ports. Well, gen
| tlemen, to permit ships OF this kind know
| ingly to depart from this country, not Il
! enter into any Confederate port, not TO ente
| into the port of belligcrent, would, rs yOl
| see. expose our good faith to great suspicion
| and feel certain that il, during our wa
| with France, the Americans had sent line oi
| battle ships to break our blockade at Brest
| whatever reasons they might have urged il
support of that, We should have considere,
| it y violation Of neutrality. Such is tn
| spirit in which am prepared to act Every
! thing that tie law Of nafions requires, every
thing that our law, that that Foreign Enlist
ment act requires, | am prepared to do, an,
| even II il should be proved to be necessar
| for the preservation of our neutrality tha
| the sanction of Parliament should be aske
| to further measures. In short, to sum uI
her Maje6ty's Government are prepared I
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