Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-10-20

The English capitalists visited the Tray
eler's Club IN New York, on Friday, and
some speeches were made. In respond
ing to one of the complimentary addresses
Sir Morton Peto said:
HE hoped the American people would
never forget what England and English
men had accomplished in former times,
and he begged to assure them that the
people of England, in and out of Parlia-
ment, were not really hostile to the cause
Of, the Union during the late war. They
were frequently misinformed and misled
as to the resources and prospects Of the
North, and very many of them did truly
imagine in consequence that the Union Of
the States was eternally broken, But this
was mainly owing to the efforts, of many
Americans then resident in England, and
the statements printed by very many
American presses on this side Of the ocean.
When Americans labored thus in England,
he would ask, was it to be wondered at
that number Of Englishmen believed
them, and thought that the United States
Government had failed? He lSir Morton)
was always Of the opinion that there were
as many friends of the. Union to be found
at one time in the city Of London as could
be had in New York. Of this he spoke
with full knowledge" 80 = - =
There is good deal Of truth in those
remarks. When we had newspapers Of
some pretension, speakers of note, and Ma
tional Conventions, asolefnnly proclaiming
the war to be failure, and the restoration
of the Union impracticable, foreigners, un-
able to understand all the mysteries of
American politics, might be pardoned for
accepting the Union at our own value.
WHAT ENGLAND HAS BROUGHT UPON
tfiaii iafl 3 HERsELF. 'si| raii!4si5e
The London Daily News frankly tells
the English that evil results have come of
their conduct during the war. 1t Says
"The Alabama and Shenandoah>were adj
mitted to all the privileges of men-of- war,
and were allowed to pursue their career Of
spoliation unmolested.| Weare now wit
nesses to the consequence ofour doctrines.
AS we have sown so are we reaping.-
Nor will whining depreciation or clustering
repentance avail us now.-'as7if1 tai fsa''i
1t needs little sagacity now, surely, to
determine which would have been the
more advisable coufse-vthe course that
was actually followed, or that which was
rejected. No one, certainly, who has
watched the course of the war, will pre-
tend that the devastations of the Alabama
and the shenandoah either shortened or
prolonged the war one hour No doubt
individuals suffered great loss, but tits vain
to imagine that the Executive at Wash
ington or of the American people was in
iuenced one jet by their calamities. f}a' 'oi
Probably the effectupon the North was
that the mass of their mercantile marine
was transferred into the names Of British
citizens. The national injury that was
done was done by this country. The peo-
pie of the North felt.with a. bitter .pang
which 1t may take years to assuage, that
if their commerce had been destroyed it
was destroyed by ships built, equipped,
armed, and partly manned by British citi-
zens. Had there been no Liverpool and
no Glasgow there would have been no AL
abamas. What we have done has been
not to aid the North or the South, but to
exssperate both. The North, indeed, felt
that let the British sympathizers do what
they pleased In the way of supplying fast
sailing steam cruisers, they could not ulti-
mately affect the result of the war. But
it is in vain to deny that the depredations
of the cruisers reused spirit of indigna-
ton and rancor in the American mind,
which, most unhapily, is still kept alive by
the obstincy of the Captain of the Shsn-i
andoah. !, Whether or not it is advisable
to treat this man and his crew as pirates
we offer no opinion It is o natural
enough that some who encouraged aud de-
Tended those whowere engaged in fitting
out such vessels should be alarmed at the
results of their doctrines. But they should
console themselves with the reflection
that as the consequences inevitably follow.
ed from their principles, it is notimpro-
bable that their principles need revision"