Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-28
Getting Alarmed.

The commercial men Of England are be-
coming alarmed. Their efforts to aid the
rebels by assisting them in fitting out pratt
cal vessels have succeeded too well They
have been able, practically, to drive our COM
merce from the seas, and thus mohopollze
the carrying trade OF the world. But they
turn aghast at the very spectacle Of their tri-
umph. A vision of Retribution rises before
their eyes, converting their JOY into fear and
theirhymn Of praise into walls Of lamenta-
ton. The consequences of the guilty part
they have been playing-the sure vengeance
that will follow in the wake Of their crime
force themselves upon them. They suddenly
remember that there is future that wrong
ever reacts against itself, and that the ras-
cally game they have been playing may be
PLAYED back, and with success that will an
nihilate British commerce at single blow.
All at once it occurs to them that IN their
blind zeal to aid Rebellion against
friendly power, they have been unwittingly
establishing precedent that will place them,
for all future time. at the mercy OF any
power, however feeble, with which their
country may be engaged in war
A number of prominent Liverpool ship
owners, impressed with the dangerous atti-
tude in which England has allowed herself
to be engaged, have addressed a memorial to
the Government, setting forth the probable
consequences OF placing at the disposition Of
a Foreign belligerent small number OF
steam cruisers and thereby "paralyzing the
mercantile marine Of a powerful marine and
naval nation" The argument of these gen.
tlemen is selfish but very cogent. They re-
mind the Government that in any future
war between England and Foreign Power,
however insignificant in naval strength, the
example now set by subjects of Her Majesty
NAV be followed by citizens Of other coun-
tries neutral when England is belligerent;" )"
that the act against violating neutrality is
openly trampled under foot; that, indeed
Rebel pirates escape by direct connivance of
British officials, and that British Ports are
made harbors OF refuge for these scourges Of
the seas.
English Statesmen are also becoming un-
easy. They, too, see that the nation has
been Matching horrid brood of yultures that
will be sure, sooner or later, to come home
to roost. Mr.. Baring's note of alarm was
deeply significant of the gathering panic
while Mr. Fosters prediction, made in the
House OF Commons the other day, OF what
would happen to England in case Of war
with a Foreign Power must have made a
ueep lIlpEeSslOu upui Tic puoAiS hiAhu' h'Aiu
he:-
Let the House consider what would be their
position If they were TO experience the same treat
ment from any foreign country which America
was receiving at the hands Of our merchants.
We could not look for course from Francs
different from what we had held towards Amcr
Gu In case of q war with Germany we might, no
doubt, easily seal up every port of that country
but suppose that out Of the port of harseilles Il
ship should make its way, and out of the barbor
of Brest another with ammunition, and they were
to meet of the Italian coast and then go of to
prey upon our commerce in the Mediterranean
sea- What would be our feelings in such Il case
Hear, hear Should we allow France to do that
without doing all we could to prevent III tiear,
hear II they allowed this instance to be pre-
cedence for the future, would it not produce an
immense addition to any future war, unless il
were one so vitally affecting our national exist
ence that we could not afford to take such double
war upon our shoudersf"
The wrong that England and Englishmen
have inflicted upon us in the hour of our ma
TONS greatest trouble, is one which will not
be readily forgotten or forgiven; but it is an
encouraging symptom, not Of returning good
will, but of returning good sense, that our
rivals are alarmed at the consequences Of their
conduct towards US. They cannot undo the
injuries that are past but they may-acting
in the light of their own selfish interests
come back into something like position Of
decent neutrality.-ADdny Journal