Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-15
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saEtlE speech Of Bon. Charles sumner.
0n Thursday evening, the 10Th instant,
Senator Sumner delivered speech at the
lssi Cooper Institute, New York, to over
Ts1Tr flowing audience on Our Foreign Rela-
tions."
The speech evineed great research and
thOreughness, and pOrtrays in irresistible
historical statenents facts and arguments,
the perfdy Of England, the treachery of
SVp Frsncs, and the covert hostility, and the
unfriendliness Of each toward the United
States
I93 he unfolds our perils from the conduct Of
England and France since the breaking out
h1ih Of the rebellion, commencing with the
Queens PROCLAMATION as early as May,
1851, which raised the rebel slavemong-
ers 20 an equality with the National Gov
eminent in beIligerent rights" and sol
emily declared neutrality between two
equal partiss" as if The declaration of
equality vas not an insult to the National
Government and the declaration of neu-
trality was not a mere absurdfty, offensive
to reason snd all those precedents which
make the gloryO Of the English name. When
this proclamation was issued, the rebellion
had but recently broken out and the sppar-
Z rent relations bstFsen the two powers
we're more than friendly. And yet, be-
fore our Government had had time to put
forth its strength, before even our newly
ia appointed Minister, Mr. Adams, had arriv-
ed, who was known TO be at Liverpool on
his way to London, the proclamation was
aI put forth. By this recognition of the in
surgent slaVemongsrs as ocean belligerenis
their ships, pTeying our commerce were
elevated from the character of pirates to
.rlsslf that Of pri6atsersmsu, and we're acknowl-
= .s edged as National ships, entitled to equal
privileges with the National ships Of the
United States. And thus trade with this
newly acknowledged bslligerent power
might be lawfully opened, and British
1BIH subjects found a customer for Armstrong
.a- guns, end other WRrlike munitions Of
choicest British workmanship, and Lord
PalmerstOn tells us even ships of war too,
to be used in behalf Of slavery, and
p, 1r 81 against the rights and integrity of our
- oiBG GoVernmsnt Lord Chelmsford used the
following words in the House of Lords
= ~ 9n the Southern Confsderacy hsd not
been suknOwled as 5sHigersat pOwsr, he
agreed with his noble and learned friend
d QOrd Brougkam) that under these cir
oumstanees, if any Englishmen we're to
ct cut privateer for the purpose Of as.
sisting the Southern States against the
Northern States, he pOOuld be gully Of pira-
eg." But all this was changed by the
Queens Proclamation.
MI sumner traces the conduct of the
English Government, through its several
cots Of greater and lesser magnitude
SINCE the issuing Of the proclamation, all
eVinSing an unfriendIy spirit against the
United ststes and disclosing a elsrinR
zoo Inconsistency, and total disregard of its
own historic precedents.
Hstouches upon the case of the Trent
where in The -faos Of positive disclaimers
- On The part q the United States Govern
ment, the Transaction was held BY the Eng
lish Government to be easus bell, and
made propositions to take Lart with the
rSbsl slsTsmOngsrs. And when two Eng
lsh subjects, suspected Of participa-
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