The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-19

house at three o'clock In the morning with sack fuh
plate his back for the honest master OF the man
sion Wen may Earl Russell say Of other Parties N .n's
Well may he denounce IT, as he has again ana again. as
scandal and reproach' 70 British law and British
Administration Of neutral law
But there is something in q these outspcken de-
nancat ons Of the For ign Secretary always SO credit
able 70 his cander man, and Indicative OF the high
toned English rentlcman) SO strkingy pertinent my
present purposes that will cite it in final confederation
Of my argument.
of 1854 Earl called Earl Russell To account
for his OF the phrase scandal and reproach, and
demanded an explanation of the sense IN which the
FOREIGN Secretary to employ it, Here Is the Ian
guage OF the noble ears reply, which have taken pains
TO versify in Hansard:-
The noble earl be much shocked be.
cause | that the Aablma) scandal and
in degree reproach TO British law say that here
prevent the enlistment Of her Majestys
the ss Fl here % one rsa
warke purposes without her sajes's sancton say that
a that Of the begercns 10 this American con
efnmeat to 1t out Liverpool such way Ihat
she was CAPABLE Of being made yese MAR mat "a n
portion Of her she proceeded to port IN neutral
Vessel war so that She has since been able capture and
destroy innocent merchant vessels belonging to The other s
Law, say is scandal to law that we should not be
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So the British Secretary Of State for Foreign Affairs
unequvocaly admits that II was scandal and a re-
ITO ship port OF her crew in another port in her
Majcsty's domnions'' than Liverpool or course his
ordshp Is referring to these proceedings in Beaumaris
Bay, As the Alabama touched at no other point IN the
British Islands her way out to the Azores after eav
ing Liverpool except Bcaumars unless, indeed, we refer
to her touching at tho Giants Causcway ON her way
round the north OF Ireland where stn only lay to, to
put ashore her pilot and other person. And the
Foreign Secretary says this, bearing in mind doubtless
that the British had determined to stop her
and bad sent the necessary order TO Liverpool for that
purpose and yet Notwithstanding that that the steamer
bad aAu
in the face and Of that order and in the face and
eyes of Consul Dudeys notice. and In the face and eyes
of the men confession, that they were "a portion
Of the crew, and going TO join the gunboat"
Even this latter word gunboat, in Surveyor Nor
gans report which given in the original in quotation
marks being the precise phrase used by the sailors
Indeed in the first sentence of his report as my readers
will have noticed Mr. Morgan uses the omnous terms
's suspected to be gunboat must have thrown hlS
ordship cold when he first read them in the
original manuscript document Gunboat means ship OF
war as was jurdcay the jury trial OF the
Alexandra case in the Court Of Exchequer where wit
after witness wiredrawn to get at the fact whe
Their and so" spoke of the Alexandra as "a gunboat
And his lordshp must have at glance, when he
this report he virtually admitted in his place
in Parliament that his subordinate had been knowingly
and unrcservedy committing the British government To
Upon this evidence ask the judgment OF my candid
readers whether my assertion is not made good, that
British officials openly and agrantly neglected to seize
the Alabama and prevent the shipment Of her crew.
when unequvocay notified of her character and OF heI
continued presence in British waters, and when unequiv
ocally warned Of the movements OF those engaged In
supplying her with crew, and when day or more had
elapsed since the alleged order for her
to the highest British auhority-mus have been in Their
hands for execution at the command of their own gov
eminent. What think they of the Foreign Secretary
confidence in the justice of his case when he mas 80
undeniaby and repeatedly confessed that the Alabama
ought to have been stopped before the 10th day OF
July; that orders TO that effect were actually issued
that day; that il owing to official ''treachery
that she escaped at all; that II was "a scan
dial and reproach that she should afterwards
have been permitted in open daylight to take board
the rest Of her while lying in port of her MJesyf
dominions that her builders and cquppers stood in the
category midnight burglars that he himself had
lent too creduous to the reports of the Collector
of Liverpool about the onest neutrality Of suspicious
Confederate steamers and that the British government
did right in stopping John Laird from makng war upon
the United Staes when he had not got half far along
with his iron. clads as he had with the Alabama2
Putting these admissions together, perhaps they will
regard the phrase employed by his lordship in one Of
his last dispatches to Mr. Adams deter of May Al hav
ing little significance, where he says-"I contend
that in that the instance of the Aabama) in all
Others her Majestys government faithfully performed
their obligations ncutralsn Is it not merely con
enton the part Of his lordshp, instead Of an honest
belief? GEORGE BEMlS
BosroS, Nov. 8, 1895.