Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-07

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.'The Government of the United States
having used all the means in its power tC
prevent the fitting out and arming Of YES
sells IN their ports to cruise against any ma
ton with whom they are at peace, and
having faithfully carried into execution the
laws enacted to preserve inYiolate the neu.
trail and pacific obligations of the Union
cannOt consider itself bound TO indemnify
individual foreigners for losses by capture
over which the United States have neither
control nor jurisdiction. For such events
no nation can in principle, nor does in prac-
tice, hold. itself responsible. A decisive
reason for this, if there were no other, is
the inability to provide q tribunal before
which the facts can be proved : > : :
Should the parties come within the jurisdic-
ton of the United States, there are courts OF
admiralty competent to ascertain the facts
upon litigation between them, to punish the
outFages which may be duly proved, and to
restore the property to its rightful owners
should it also be brought within our juris-
dictTon, and found upon judicial inquiry to
have been taken in the manner represented
by your letter"
Earl Russell took occasion, in his cor
respondence with Mr.. Adams, to cite to
that gentleman these expressions of his
own father. In reply, our Minister says
that the President at once took steps to
obtain from Congress more stringent
powers, and among those so obtained were
provisions for stopping vessels going out
with arms to be transferred to a privateer
on the high seas, and also powers to the
collectors at the various ports, to detain
suspected vessels until an investigation
had been made. These provisions, Mr..
Adams pointed out, might have been
effected to prevent the sailing of the
Alabama and Shenandoah; but they are
not embodied in the British statute. How,
then, he contends, can England appeal to
the expressions or ~reasonings of an Amer
lean Secretary of State in reply to Portu
gall when she not only did not do for
America what America did for Portugal,
in making this law more stringent, but
positively refused to do so when requested
by the belligerent suffering the wrong!
The Test Oath and Reconstruction.
y very nicely planned conspiracy to
force Congress to the repeal of the test
oath has lately been discovered in North
CaroIIHa. UoYerHor HOTUeH mas taken
Is special pains to select, in appointing men
to offices, persons who cannot take the
path. Though there have been plenty of
applicants for office who were able to
subscribe to the oath, they have all
been refused, and this policy has
been i~nfexibly carried out. The
is to throw the whole |
of the influence of the State, undi-
pided, into the scale against the lest oath. |
The men who originated this pleasant little
plan seem tothink that this will be enough
that Congress will not dare disobey the
,ehests of North Carolina. Thesegentle-
men will be apt, ere long, to perceive their
mistake. They will find out that Congress
emembers, what they seem entirely to
ave forgotten, that there has been a great
nd unsuccessful rebellion in this country.
North Carolina was u participant in
and that the Government which con-
luered ithas Alright to impose the conditions
N which North Carolina shall be re-
Omitted to her full privileges under the
nion- The clustering and defiant atti-
ude of the State viii not be aptt brighten
congress into the repeal of the test oath.
fact, it furnishes one of the strongest
rguments for insisting on its strict en-
orcement.