Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-31
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oTR REr.ArIoNs WITH ENGLAND.

The correspondence between MI. Adams
and Lord Russell assumes new interest,
taken in connection with the Fenian excite
mcnt now prevailing in England, Canada, and
the United States. In this country Fenian
Congress ha. been organized: and recently the
Continental Bank Note Company of New
York have completed the engraving of Fenian
bonds Of the denominations of SO, $50, $50,
500, and $500, payable six months after
the acknowledgment Of the independence of
the Irish nation These, and many other
straws, whirled high enough to show TO the Eng
fish Government which way the wind is blow
ing will not tend to aay the alarm which the
political weather-prophets in England have
begun to manifest.
The London Times, in reference to the Fe-
man movement, is quite eulogistc towards our
Government, which, it says, has behaved III
The matter with all honorable loyalty. notwith-
standing the fibustering plots Of its citizens"
Gratitude, according to Rochefaucault, is the
expectation of more layOrs to come When
the Times praises us, we may be pretty sure
that It's laudation proceeds less from admira-
tion than from fear or hate. BY way of quail.
flying its culogy and Of torestaing the CON
clusion which every American will arrive at, it
remarks England would have more occa-
sion to complain of America position as
neutral in the Fenian movement than ever
America has had in regard to England S atti-
tude towards the South" The CALLED jade
must vince badly, when it resorts to ''stun-
4 /,
merited reproach.
The Times is well aware that the Fenian
movement, feeble as il may now appear only
needs as much encouragement from this Gov
ernment as the English gave to the late Con
tederacy. to carry dsmay into Downing street,
and make every British ship-owner and mer-
chant pale with apprehcnsions of the bad time
coming. The American press has only to take
sides with the Fenians as emphatically and
perseveringly as the leading journals Of Eng
land did with the rebel leaders at Richmond.
IN order to fan flame that would shed lrrid
glare on the very throne of majesty. All that
our journalists would have to do would be to
look back in the files of the English news
papers, and adapt the very arguments which
these used against our Government in its rela-
tons to the rebellion, to the case Of England
in its relations to the Irish malcontents.
Nay, inasmuch as Ireland is seeking her
independence, without proclaiming to the
world that she intends to make slavery the
cornerstone of her new republic, we could
with a much cleaner moral record than the
English editors exhibited, lend our aid to the
fenians, and, accepting Lord Russelps own
Interpretation of the duties of neutrals towards
belligerents, call on our Government to allow
Mr. George Francis Train and his friends to
fit out new Alabamas and Shenandoahs. to let
the Lairds and Roebucks of England realize
how pleasant it Is to have their ships burnt
and their chronometers stolen.
If our leading men, our members of Con
gress, clergymen, literary men, philosophers,
and merchant princes, were to lend to the
Fenian movement as much Of their influence
and sympathy as the corresponding classes in
England lent to the cause of the rebellion, our
Government would be in danger of being
driven into a course as hostile to English
supremacy in Ireland as the countenance lent
w b"4tplS ny tuC LllSllSI CdDlnel was ualldS-
ing to our own interests in our recent struggle.
The Southern Independence Association"
formed in England, embraced the titled names
of her wealthiest and most powerful citizens to
the extent of thousands. What if similar
classes in this country should back up the three
hundred thousand Fcnians, who are now
agitating to commit our Government to some
measure, negative or positive, in emulation of
the conduct of the British rulers toward us in
our hour of peril?
If England shows disposition to do what
is just and honorable in reference to unsettled
claims between us, we have no fear that Fe-
nianism will become mixed with our politics
or threaten any serious mischief But Lord
Russell's explicit refusal to submit the Ala
bama questions to arbitration, and his recent
declaration that in his proposed International
Commission, all claims for losses by the Anglo
rebel cruisers must he excluded from its iuris-
dlction, do not augur cheerfully for speedy
and satisfactory settlement of the grave ques-
lions now before the two Governments.