The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-19
TEE BRITISH APPEAL FOR PEACE
MORE IMPEkTINENCE.

From he Tanss
Governor Seymour is made the recipient of
memorial, published in part by us yesterday,
from some three hundred Englishmen and Irish
men, pronouncng our war against the Southern
States wrong, failure, anda ruin to our repub-
lican institutions and asking its immediate dis
cont nuance. This memorial is headed, and was
circulated by Henry dc Houghten, Baronet. That
is appropriate enough, for it speaks for British
class interests. 1t is committed to Horatio Sey-
mour. That, too, is appropriate enough, foT It
speaks 10 American faction and sedition. But
though the authorship and the trusteeship are
apt, the memorial itself is not so. 1t Is piece of
6uptrlative impertnence.
The Amerc n people under5tand their own
concerns. They want nc foreign teaching. They
can al,o manage their own concerns. They want
no foreign advice. Their assurance is that this is
a war for sci Representation. Their determination
IS that it shall be fought through until every
hairs breadh OF the republic is secure. That
assurance ana that det rmiuation are as much
beyond the IL fuence OF the Old World as the sun
in the feaNe ems.
The English people-or, at least, the dominant
classes Of the English people-havo chosen to
take sides against our Government and for the
Rebellion. In the beginning of the war, this was
regarded with great regret by Americans, for
they had no other than good feeling towards
England. Honest and earnest efforts were made
to change the English spirit. They failed Our
people realized the failure, accepted it, and re-
signed themselves to it. Since that time they
have been wholly Indifferent to British sentiment
80 far as respects the positive completely Of the
British Government and people with the actual
prosecution OF the war against us, on the high
seas, they have deferred the reckoning till they
can give it their special attention.
So far as respects the Misrepresentation and
contumey ceaselcssly emitted against us by the
presses most patr N zed in England, we care not.
1t is impOtent. These gentry may befOol them
selves as they like, and rave as they please
within their own little limits. Our only demand
l. that they shall lake it out by themselves Let
them Keep their distance. Our people want none
OF their memorials We meau our loyal people
these millions who are governing, and who will
continue to govern this nation. In their name
we say TO these inermeddlers, Back to your
pl ce.
Was there ever such impudence? We are told
that "the Southern people are only following the
precepts and example of your fathers and theirs"
This hellish Rebellion, conceived without tho
taintest semblance Of just cause, planned only
for the behoof of human slavery, is styled the
counterpart of that revolution Of l776, which was
provoked, as all the world agrees, by the most
intoerable wrongs and which from the begin
ming consecrated itself to the establishment OF a
Government founded on the eternal principles of
justice and liberty. These people have the
audacity to invoke the Declaration of lndepen-
dence.
The declaration sets forth that governments
are instituted among men 70 secure life, liberty,
aud the pursuit OF happiness; it recognizes the
right of revolution only "whenever government
b b'cOmes destructive of those ends;" and almost
the entire compass of it is devoted to specihca-
ton of Ga long trau of abuses ana nsurpations,"
against which all petition aud remonstrance had
peen uYavailing, and from which there was no
escape but In breaking all connection with the
British Crown. These Southern Rebels have
had no grievance nor made an attempt to set forth
any TO the world; aud 50 far from justifying
their revolution on the ground that the Federal
Government was destructive of liberty, they have
IN the plalnest terms, ayowed that their object
was 70 eie;t Government, the cornerstone of
which should be human slavery. The comparison
or this X beliOn 10 the Revolution Is the foulest
IndlgDity to the memory OF our fathers.
Tue memorial asserts that ''the war has swept
away your freedom Of speech, your free press,
and your inestimabe right OF habeas corpus
From Maine 10 Kansas, Copperhead stump orators
are belching forth rankcr abuse OF the President
than was ever before heard of in our political
history, and we are told we have no freedom of
speech. Copperhead newspapers are sErewng
the land as thick as the leaves of autumn with
hhels and provocations, and we are told we have
free press no longer. One man in million is
refused the habcdS corpus, on account OF some
fragrant act of hostility, and we are told that the
writ has porished-tOld SO by people who belong
TO Government which has suspended that writ
dozen times during this century, and which did
so for all Ireland only fifteen years ago. with the
unanimous vote OF Parliament, on the occ ASTON
ofa rebellion that was but a mosquito bite in
comparison with the one now striking at our
Vitals. This is sheer insolence.
We are told that we may "fud out, when too
late, that the pillars upon which rests your repub-
lican form OF government have been violently
torn down, and that your own liberties have been
buried in the ruins" This is the most insulting
of all. II is arrogance in the shape of pity, i'm
pudence in the garb of hypocrisy. What do these
people care about our Republican form OF gov
ernment," except 70 hate it, and TO do their
utmost, as they have been for the last three years
TO stab 1t under its fifth rib
The memorialists are also exercised because
we shave never been permitted as yet an Opp0r-
tunity Of consulting in general convention, for
the purpose OF making known your opinions and
wishes about the war, or any Of the test issues
growing out of it," Let them possess their souls
IN patience for three weeks and they will be re-
neYed, We intend on the Ssh day OF November,
to make known our "Opinions and wishes about
the war," in terms that cannot be misunderstood
even by the most perverse race of men on the
face Of the earth Though il is said that there is
a stupidity that battles even the gods, there will
be lightning next month that will strike some
sense at least into the brains Of those islanders
Let them squat in their fog, and bide their time