Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-28
ENGEANp'S POLICY DEsERyEDIY
EAIaL. 10 HER EETTRE PEACE

FATAL 10 HER FUTURE PEACE.
The more we reflect upon the conduct of
England in abetting and screening the pirates
of the Shenandoah, the more reprehensible
and even monStrouS does her conduct appear.
The British Government has fastened to turn
loose with their villainous plumber the mean
est sci Of robbers that ever had the audacitv
To appear in the presence of men PROCESSING
respect Tor law; and in the very moment of
doing this, and thus piling insults upon wrongs,
her journals call upon us loudly to step out of
ouI way to put down ''Fcnianism. which, "a
vet, without having committed anything which
might be called an covert act in violation of
our neutral relations has excited her liveliest
fears The London anglo american Times
which has Just come to hand-states the case
of the pirate criminality very strongly, al
though fairly, when it tells the British public
I" New Bedford is small and poor town, the
= inhabitants of which are engaged almost
= exclusively in the whale fishery. Very few
g." Of the forty or fifty whalers sailing from the
sport were owned by large and wealthy firms,
but they were generally held in shares by
INC uuihuiS CllllelS Oh tlt HUE maritime
town, many Of whom were the widows and
orphans of adventurous sailors who had lost
" their lives in the prosecution OF their dan
"gerous avocation. They were manned by
. their owners and the poor Jack-tars who
composed their crews received no wages,
- but depended solely for their pay upon their
" success in the whale fishery" = < = y
. Great Britain has always regarded piracy on
. the high seas as capital crime. She will
mot change her policy now. In every in
- stance in which pirates have been captured
''by her gunboats in the Eastern Archipelago,
= she has brought them to trial and TO execution.
81 And if her laws are competent to punish
Chinese pirates. they are equally competent
''to punish the pirates of the Shenandoah.
Several Americans i'll London, with whom
1--WE have conversed, express their fears that
Captain Waddell will be protected by the
= British au thorities, and thus escape the pen
atty Of his crimes There is not the slight
8 est cause for apprehension of such thing.
IF Great Britain were to afford an asylum
= to this man, and permit him to go untried
and unpublished, she nopld forfeit her place
= among cjrilized nations, and the United
States would at once withdraw all diplo-
matte intercourse from a nation which shell
tered pirates and robbers. But 10 suppose
such thing is to insult the British Govern
'ment and the British people. Great Britain
- is civilized and Christian power. as well as
- commercial power: and not only her ma
. tional interests, but her moral instincts, will
= cad her to the discharge OF her duty in this
matter
Now what are the facts N the face of the
above confident anticipatons? Why, the very
men, her orn subjects, who notoriously left
their dwellings in Liverpool in a craft built
fitted out, and started by British capitalists
come back after their two years of infamous
plundering. parade their spoils taken from
a friendly nation, and are unmoIested. The
poor farce of reparation is indeed gone through
with of handing over the vessel to the Amer
can consul. a. if thereby she could throw off
with the vile craft the responsibility for the
horrors enacted from It's decks. and then We
ara cooly told that the sea-robbers who have
gone back to their employers cannot be inter
tered with. having cast themselves upon her
mercy" We quote briefly from the London
.St0r:
Eve =. the most favorable view of their
position, while the war continued, their APP
''pearance III British port ought to have been
''the signal for their detention and trial. For.
first of all, the ship was a British one,
''StqHdjHg on the regisfci. Of steam eessely al
'Ibe present day as be Sea King. and no bill
''ot sale or assignment from the British owner
having, We believe, ever been recorded al
though doubtless some kind of transfer did
take place beyond the jurisdiction;
SO it seems that nothing whatever is want.
ingto saddle completely Englishmen with the
responsibility for the cnormities committed by
this piratcal cruiser, and now to presume that
the American people will meckly overlook or
forgive these wholesale injuries, these wrongs
persisted in, is to expect degree Of forbear-
ance which borders on utter poverty of spirit
and dasardly concession.
But England caps the climax of her as
Sumptlons when she expects this Government
to take an active hand in suppressng "Fe-
i'''"t''Aii VI "ilotSNSi tioC may give nel Nu-
easness in regard to the safety of her Cana
dian possessions. The London Standard
feels sure that as soon as the attention of the
American Government is seriously directed
Ito the doings Of those foolish persons, who
ARE bent on tomenting disatfection in Ire
LAND, and are even designing, it is said, an
''incursion into Canada it will find means of
convincing them that the business of levy
ling war upon England is inconsistent wih
'the duties Of al american citizen so long as
''Engtaad and Ameyica are not at war.''
Now why could not this view of the case
have been taken in the case of the Alabama,
Shenandoah and other conceded ':belliger-
tents, and how can England, we repeat ex-
pect our Government to step in and actively
interfere with Fenianism or similar annoy
ances to her peace? Her policy for the past
four years, both at home and abroad, has
been to SOW ''dragon's teeth;' and she will
never know to what extent either, until at
some future period her fatal and terribly mis-
chlerous precedents are turned against her.
and she is made to receive that punishment
for her pertidy which, at best. is only post
poned.
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