The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-11-16
American War Claims.

An important correspondence between
Earl Russell and Charles Francis Adams
relative to claims for damages inflicted
by British pirates during the late war,
has just been published Before the
close of President Lincoln's first term of
Office, Mr.. Adams, as representative Of
the United States Government, present.
ed formal demand to the English Gov
ernment for compensation for damages.
The English authorities responded that
they had done nothing during the war
but what they had right to do, aud
shouldn't make restitution for piratical
depredations. Mr.. Adams then proposed
the arbitration Of q third power. This
| was declined, on the allegation that the
English Government was the solo guar
dian of its own honor, and that the law
officers of the crown must be held to be
better interpreters of British statutes
than any foreign government could be
presumed to be. As Her Majesty's Gov.
ernment refuses to make reparation for
English depreda,ions upon American
shipping, or to adide the judgment of a
disinterested third party, it seems to
leave no other alternative to the Govern.
ment of then lifted States than to enforce
its rights by the strong arm. On this
question the Chicago Republican makes
the following pertinent suggestions:
"The amount of money invested in
this matter is possibly about two hun
dred millions Of dollars. A war with
Great Britain would be long and bloody
one, involving the stability of one or
both governments. The war on our part
would be to vindicste our just claim for
two hundred millions of dollars; and tt
accomplish that we would have to expend
FIVE thousand millions, besides stopping
the industry Of the land, and giving the
rebels the anxiously sought opportunity
Of renewing their rebellion. We are op
posed to war at this time for that pur
pose. We are, however, in favor of ac-
cepting Immediately the British law o.
neutrality, and hope that it will be prac
tically put in operation without delay
The i'enisn movement, now laughed al
and scorned, may assume proportions no
hitherto imagined. Why not an lrisf
navy as we'll as Confederate one? |
the British people, through the inefh
cheney of British laws, and the comm
| vance Of the British government, pu
afoat ten Confederate cruisers, why can
I not the people of the United States will
equal facility, put aaoat fifty armed Irisl
cruisers to prey upon British commerce
Fit be lawful for Great Britain to per-
(. nit armed vessels to be fitted out in he
ports to drive American navigation from
: the high seas, and put the commercia
/. marine almost exclusively into Britis!
hands, why not return the compliment
E and return it 50 effectually that no mai
will venture life or property in any bot
= tom covered by the British flag! BRITISH
honor will not permit its good faith to b
r questioned Let US accept the decision
and give to Great Britain that neutrait
which she extended to US, with oil tn
superior vigor, skill and enterprise of tn
American people. anxious to show Grea
!, Britain that we are keenly alive to wha
! is due to British honor, and that we can
no, permit ourselves to be outdone by tn
! British in such friendly offices as hay
been extended by her to people in rebel
I lion
LAMENrABLE LACK OF CONFIDENCE
We were amused at the Burtis Hous