New-York daily tribune., 1863-09-24

bc direct p0ssession Of these formidable weapons Of
war as the Indirect mischief which their construction
NAV produce between the Government OF TINS country
and mat tho United States In short Is an attempt
an the mart of the Confederate authorities to bling
ahout exactly that evil which as tie preamble Of the
Foreign Fnistment Act Tecitcs, II was tie Object OF
that statute TO prevent. go
No 70 Government either can or ought 10 en-
dure such course Of conduct on the part any poson
or persons either within or without the allegiance TIC
Crown. If for instance we found the french Go'ern
mont deliberately engaged IN contract, with smugters
10 eyade and defraud revenue laws. imagine that
we should find very little difficulty in knowing how to
deal with the case Or suppose that when tle Order IN
Council was passed year or two ago prohibiting the
eyportaiOn Of seltpctcr foreign Government haC at
tempted By Fraudulent devices to evade its prosisoDs
,holld we not have called such n Government e ac-
countf Yet the procuring Of the construction and
equipment of vessel Of war IN this country by lcli
gcrvnt State is far more andncious and mischVons
Insult 10 our laws than those which suggested. The
southern politicians who exercised the Government at
Washington in the time of the CrnoGn war have ndi-
Gated clearly enough the course to be taken IN such
case. Then they suspected the English Government oi
cndcavorinc cyade tie Foreign Enlistment Act they
did not content themselves with LEGAL prosecution oi
the offenders but they testified their dispeasure by
dismissng the English Minister with the greatest
II seems 10 me that the proper course for Us also Is 10
cu up the mischief by the roots ana n0t entanse our
selves in the legal difficulties by which tie criminal
procedure in these cases are unquesonnby smrounded.
rmonstTancc 10 nm offending state need be drawn
with the precision oi criminal Indictment Evidence
yer, far hol oi that which might suffice 10 convict the
shpbuaer of ISOLATION oi The Foreign Enlistment act
would justify our Government IN treating tie Conedei
ale authorities peIsOIs procuring or medtitAg Ia
procure breach OF ITS spirit and It's letter. In such
cagr seems ~ re Government Is entitled 10 say
and ought 10 Say, 20 tle tonicderlies: We VII MOI
suffer our laws 10 ho yoiated aud rs we VIII MT permit
Them 10 bc OIc,Jy broken, 50 We VIII not cpcuie tfal
they should be made the sport of cunning c 9ns and
Transparent devices. We have distinctly forbidden Nou
10 egp OF procure he equipped N tbis couiify th
for tie purpose of committing hostiics against State
with which are 10 peace.
you know onr lavs and II vou seek 10 viohie them
IN ,uuttc, whether directly indirectly. openly or by
ffaudrlcrf contryanccs We VIII hoid !ou responsible
and make Won answer Tor the oIcnsc. Il ly humble
judgement If this sort II language were held, se shoa.d
ihr.c very LITTLE further difficulty with questions o. ils
Kind and the iron ciads in tie McrsCy would probably
be cfi on 'hc hands of the builders.
IL nay perhaps be suggested that in corseoucncc o
,ho non RECOGNITION Of the Southern Couicdcrny. iher,
u4.at uc dlCglty m bringing 90 pc.i upon ei1 IN y
diplomatic action which would be applied % once "a
any regularly acknowledged C0ycinincn'. llt Ills u
Joi so The Confederation has been acknCNadcoa a.
bcrercn, and it is in IFS bc.gcrcui capacity th-i
the acts complained cf ar done
lfthe Alabama were 10 deal improperly with british
Iilp. there c1lid he 40 difficulty in calling thc Con
even in tie absence of recognition ~ fhe Government
And indeed "a ..gers already iaid before iafIIrnnf
discussions hove bter held between the ~ - Cos err
-clf and tie Sultru President as 10 tAo czeIeise o
/ maritime hc!iroGeLt Iisiis.
Iftit asked upon what evidence ard in Whist manner
we lud proceed io ufc such measure ansv ~
10 the evidence that the passing oi toe nomcios io
D tie hands e tio Confederate Gfern'Lrri
WHEELER directly or nd.,cty Trough .'m'
colorado transfers would b. suficleii psool
ltlu Oh, whole Transaction was oft 90 [.
lafed ard lnfiiratea ry them. y o. tic frtHsnf "a
lcdrcss they wd-id conssi in al those lct 81 Tcpf.
land II necessary 81 hostility hs which aa odcAdco
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