Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-15
From Dte Boston Journal. NoEa
OUR CLAIMS AGAINST ENGLAND.
Boston AFTER The Rain Chance.

BY the following petition, which was
In circulation on State street Yesterday.
and was signed BY several of our largest
ship-oWners and other merchants, it will
be seen that there are some who do not
wish Mr.. Seward to press our demands
against England very vigorously. The
document wiz be forwarded to Washing
ton in a day or two:
B0sToN, Nov. I, 1885.
To the Hon. wM. II. SEWARD. Secretary Of
state
"The undersigned, merchants, me-
chanics and other citizens, having read
the diplomatic correspondence recently
published, beg leave respectfully to pro-
test against further action by our Gov
eminent in their demands upon the Brit
ish Government FOR compensation for the
d-epredatiOns committed upon u COM
merce by the Alabama and other British
cruisers.
They respectfully represent That 1t
would be q great injury % this country
to weaken, for the sake or a few millions
Of dollars involved in the claims Of our
citizens the prospective value Of the
precedents thus set by the British Gov
eminent.
"They beg you to remember that,
judging the future by the past, the time
cannot be far distant when the British
Government will be a beliigeIent, and
that whether against Russia, France OF
Brazil, or against its Indian subjects, the
heroic Sepoys, or its oppressed Irish prov
inees, its next war, when we are OF peace,
will give Us the same opportunity in prin-
ciple, n n hundred times greater in de-
gree, which her merchants, mechanics
and s~hiD-builders have had TO profit by
our Il isfo-tunes."
" While her commerce equals ours In
tonnage, the value of her merchandise
afoat is always infinitely greater than
OUrs-many Of our ships being loaded by
the help OF British capital.
"Where she built one Alabama OF
blOckade-runner we al builda hundred,
provided her puecedents are allowed to
remain. While she has by destruction
and alarm driven one-tenth of our COM
merce from theoccan, we can, atthe next
opportunity, following in her footsteps,
utterly drive he British merchant nag
from the ocean, except VIXEN conveyed
by a steam friEate. They havemade the
most Of their opportunity their machine
shops and s~hip-yards have enjoyed a
prosperity never before equaled. Their
ship owners and merchants hayefattened
upon our distresses. They can well az
ford T. pay out of their profits the petty
losses which are claimed, and still have
millions of wealth wrung from Us re-
naming. L-ta 1913
"Our harvest Will soon come, but we
shall better their instruction a hundred
( Id, until not a vestige Of British mer-
chant navigation will remain upon the
ocean in rivalry with ours,
I'VE pray yon, therefore, to retain the
vantage she has given us by making nc
further demand in compensation for our
claims, but rather 10 use your influence
with u OWL government to obtain pay
ment from them for the losses thus incur
red by our wi citizens, and 10 retain in
full force the precedent set by Great
Britain as infinitely more valuable than
those claims" I
E The war steamer Sewannee arrived
at San Francisco on the eighth instant,
from N unsuccessful cruise IN pursuit Of
the shenandoah