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

house at three o'clock In the morning with sack full
OF plate on his back for the honest master OF the
business that the Alabama escaped by "treacheryn
Well may he denounce It. as he has again and again,
"a scandal and reproaeh' TO British law and British
But there something in one u these outsposcn de-
nanciaons Of the Forign Secretary always 80 credit
able 10 his candor man and indicative OF the high
toned English gentleman) SO srikngly pertinent my
present purposes that w cite it in final confederation
Of my argument.
Shortly after opening OF the Parliamentary session
of 1854 Earl Carnarvon called Earl Russell to account
for his use OF the phrase Scandal and rcproach and
demanded an explanation of the sense in which the
FOREIGN Secretary meant to employ it, Here Is the Ian
guage OF the noble ears reply which have taken pains
to versify in Hansard:-
The noble tCarnarvon) be shocked
said that that tthe abama) scandal and
as said il in that despatch consider that having pass
ia the service Of foreign Power to prevent the a,tns ont
or e2eppng within her ~ donnons o. vessels for
having passed such law IN the year 1919 scandal and
efnmen to At vessel at Liverpool N such way that
gaIng 70 another port in her Maiesys aominons 10 ship
rrory and there her crew and equipment as
vessel OF war 80 that he mas since been able 70 capture ana
bcgercnt Having been thus equipped evasion Of the
Feb is s6f-v. l73 p dS35
So the British Secretary Of State for Foreign Affairs
uneqnivoca!ly admits that II was a scandal and re-
proach that the Alabama should have on permitted
Majcsys dominons' than Liverpool. or course his
lordsp 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, refer
to her touching at tho Giants Causcway on her way
Do ashore u her pilot and one other And the
Foreign Secretary says this bearing in mind doubtless,
that the British government had determined to stop her
and bad the necessary order Liverpool for that
purpose; and yet Notwithstanding that that the steamer
Hercules had been permitted to bring down these men
tint aapdpv c0fl nd in fhe fnrp and
eyes of Consul Dudeys notice. and in the face and eyes
of the mems own confession, that they we're "a portion
of the crew, and were going TO join the gunboat."
Even this latter word "gunboat,n in Surveyor Nor
gans report, which is given in tho original in quotation
marks, being the phrase sed by the sailors
indeed in the first sentence Of his report as my readers
will have noticed Mr. Morgan the ominous terms
'is suspected TO be gunboat9 must have thrown his
lodship into cold sweat when he first read them in tho
original manuscript document Gunboat means ship Of
war urdicay determined at the jury trial Of the
Alexandra case, in the Court Of Exchequer where wit
after witness wredrawn get at the fact whe
ther and sou spoke of the Alexandra "a gunboat
And his lordshp must have seen 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
breach Of neutrality.
Upon this evidence ask the judgment OF my candid
readers whether my assertion is not made good that
British officials openly and aRranty neglected to seize
the Alabama and prevent the shipment Of her crew,
when unequvocay notified of her character and of her
Ocaly 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 authoritymust have been In their
hands for execution, at the command of their gov
eminent. What think they of the Foreign secretarys
confidence in the justice of his case, when he
undeniaby and so repeatedly confessed that the Alabama
ought to have been stopped before the Goth day Of
July; that orders TO that effect actually issued
on that day; that was owing to official "treachery"
that she escaped at all; that 1t "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 estys
domnions that her builders and equppers stood in the
category midnight burglars that he himself had
lent too creduous to the reports Of the Collector
Of Liverpool about the shones neutrality Of suspicious
Confederate steamers and that the British government
did right in stopping John Laird from makng upon
the United Saes when he had not got half far along
with his iron clads as he had with the Alabamaf
Putting these admissions together perhaps they will
regard the phrase employed by his lordhp in Of
his last dispatches to Mr. Adams deter of May A. hav
ing little significance, where he says:-T contend
that in that case he instance OF the Alabama) as in all
others, her Majestys government faithfully performed
their obligations ncutrals." Is it not merely
enton on the part Of his iordshp, instead of an honest
belief? GEORGE BEMIS.
Boston, Nov. 3, 1865