Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-12
British Aid TO Rebel PrisOners-Let-
ter Of Secretary Seward. 3D..

The President lately sent message to
the Senate in reply to Summers resolution
calling for information relative to propo-
sition of British subjects to give aid to
the rebellion. 1t appears from the CORES
pondence thus laid before Congress that
Lord Wharncliffe informed Adams that
the Liverpool Bazaar produced about
Ell, 900, and asked permission for an &C.
credited agent to visit the military prisons
within the Northern States, and distribute
aid to their inmates. He denied that any
political end was aimed at, or any imputa-
zion that Confederate prisoners are de-
prived of such attention as the ordinary
rules enjoin, and added: 1.-The issue OF
the great contest will not be determined
by individual suffering, be it greater or
less, and you, whose family name is inter-
woven with American history, cannot
view with indifference. the suffering of
American citizens, whatever their State or
pin ions" Adams replied that it has
never been the desire of the Government
to treat with unnecessary or vindictive Sc
verify any of the misguided individual
parties in this deporable rebellion who
have fallen into its hands in the regular
course of the war, and that he should
greatly rejoice if the effects of such SYM
patty could be extended to ministering to
their mental ailment, US well as to their
bodily suffering, thus contributing to put
an end to a struggle which otherwise is
too likely to be only procrastinated by
their English sympathizers.
Seward replies as follows to the applica-
ton received through Adams:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, }
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, '64. !
SIR: have received your dispatch of
the 18th of November, No. 807, together
with the papers therein mentioned, viz: a
copy of letter which was addressed to
you ON the 18th of November last by Lord
Wharncliffe, and copy of your answer
to that letter. You will now inform Lord
Wharncliffe that permission for an agent
of the Committee described by him to
visit the insurgents detained in the mill
tary prisons Of the United States, and to
distribute among them seventeen thousand
pounds of British gold, is disallowed.
Here it is expected that your correspond
ence with Lord Wharncliffe will end.
That correspondence will necessarily be-
come public. On reading it the American
people will be well aware that while the
United States have ample means for the
support of prisoners, as well as for every
other exigency of the war in which they
are engaged, the insurgents who have
blindly rushed into that condition are suf-
ferine no privations that appeal for relief
to charity, either at home or abroad. The
American people will be likely to reflect
that the sum thus insidiously rendered in
the name Of humanity constitutes no large
portion of the profits which its contribu-
tors may be justly supposed to have de-
rived from the insurgents by exchanging
with them arms and munitions OF war for
the coveted productions of immoral and
eneryatipp slave labor. Nor will any por-
ton of the American people be disposed
TO regard the sum thus ostentatiously
offered for the relief of captured insur-
gents as a too generous equivalent for the
devastation and dissolution which civil
war promoted and protracted by British
subjects had spread throughout the States
which before were eminently prosperous
and happy. Finally, in view Of this last
officions intervention in our domestic
affairs, the American people car hardly
fail to recall the warning of the Father of
our Country directed against two great
ana ;rt;n,a,a,v connected public dangers,
namely, q sectional faction and foreign in
rigue. I do not think the insurgents
have become debased' although they have
sadly wandered from the ways of loyalty
and patriotism. think that, in common
with all our counuymen' they will rejoice
in being saved BY their c con and
which Lord Wharnclifs and his ascot
ates, in their zeal for the overthrow of the
United States, have prepared for the VIC
Tins Of this unnatural and unholy rebel
lion. .,...,,s.,.
lam, sir, your o 25s nj servant