Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-06-22

triumphed in the attainment Of her wishes
This advice coming from the source it does
from pcoplewho have invariably violated both
law and protessed neutrality to effect the de-
struction of our nationality, and heretofore on
their own part have manifested no mercy to-
wards alleged rebelsin their own dominions,
especially the East Indies, where the cuprlt
tied to the mouth Of the cannon was torn into
fragments,-is extremely rich. Knowing as
they do, that the people of this country are
well posted as to the bitter hostility of the
British Government and of the aristocratic
portion oftheir society towards us, it strikes us
as being not only mmodest but presumptuous,
thus unsought to thrust her advice upon u.s.
But there is another subject on whichthe press
of both countries let loose all their volubility,
IN which they would feign usurp the power
of their dcspotic governments, in expressions
of Indignation against our Government for
giving some clue of its future course towards
them, "after we shall be rid of our home diff
fculties" The French press warn the Brit
ish authorities, that our Government. will in
volve herself in war with their own country on
the subject of their intervention with Mex-
can affairs, and thereafter proceed to imbroil
them in war on account of alleged injuries
claimed to have been committed upon our
commerce through pratical cruisers under the
Confederate flag. The press of England,
however as well also her Government, profess
to indulge in no desire of open war with us,
but rather claim with much seeming hesita
ton, if not modesty, to have discharged their
duty towards us during all our late trials, with
reasonable good faith, and that if the worst
must come, why they too have claims against
our Government sounding in damages,
claimed to have been committed against their
people, something less than a thousand years
ago, which will be pressed as an offset should
our Government become too pressing, rather
in this form to Shuttle off responsibility, than
engage in an expensive war. Our Govern
mcnt is of course prepared for, the adoption
of such course by Great Britain, and the
probability is it will have little or no weight in
the cxaction Of justice for wrongs knowingly
and openly committed, though at a time she
had little reason to suppose our Government
would ever bein condition to exact com
pensation. Such however is now the case,
and the Government in the pcntitude of her
power feels called on to vndicate the wrongs
committed against her people, it making very
little difference whether the wrong was an un-
whiting one, or foun led on miscalculation as
to our future power. 1t would be unbecom-
ing our Government to seek to involve the
country in an unjust war with foreign powers,
but in the questions under consideration in
our relations both with France and England,
the whole subject resolves itself simply into
the alternative, that the one power must let 60
the hold taken upon ncighboring Republic,
and the other must respond in damages for
injuries committed under her connivance on
the commerce of our unoffending citizens
or that the consequences predicted and appre-
hendcd by these powers, will inevitably fol-
low-the choice of which lies with themselves