New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-28
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layers and holders are anxiously waiting for set
led market. ~ I'd. M. ,Fs,g
EngIaud.
,1scUssroN OF THE sEUTRALfrY QUESTION IN TEE
HOUSE OF cOMuONs.
In the House of Commons, on the I'd inst, Mr..
ireeory moved that an address be prepared TO
er Majesty, praying that she wilEbe graciously
leased to use her influence with foreign powers
or the purpose of making the principle that pri-
ate property should be free from capture at sea,a
,axifn Of International law.
Mr. Baxter asked what England's position would
e in the event of war. We should have Ala
amas spriDging up in every ocean, and Amerlca
you'd take the earliest opportunity OF paying ns
IF with interest for the damage done to the COM
We had now seven millions sterling Of shipping on
he ocean, which was eight or ten times greatef
than during the last war with France but aitnougn
our commerce had increased in this enormous
ratio, our ships of war had not and it would be
altogether inadequate to protect our comm srcaa
interests In the event Of war breaking out.
The lord advocate opposed the motion, on the
ground that priyatsering was one Of England's
The English attorney general, the principal law
oflcer q me crown, thought the proposed rule
which would be constantly provoking imputations
of bad faith and leading To- acta Of retaliation And
be practically set aside. LCheers.1 He would
suppose for moment that the rule could Be
was not likely to happen, hut he could imagine ke
case of a war with the United States. ID sucha
case it would be necessary to provide for an insa
sion Of our possessions in North America. aecamr
pshed by military forces and not having much t0do
with naval operations. What would be our smeAn4
of defense? We must mainly rely our maritime
means and power, 'because the task Of carrying cu
great military operations in America (althongh he
| would not say they were imp0ssible) would be an
exceedingly difficult one. Naval opera tions at once
suggested themselves as the most suitable for us
! ~ IN
and seal up the whole seaboard of the United
States or to capture the great cities on the coast
| but, on the other hand, there could be no doubt
that, as naratime warfare was now conducted, it
would be no light matter to q country like tho
| United States if we were able to infict heavy
blows on their trade and commerce, and, as it had
been said, to drive their maratime commerce frem
the seas. Even if they did the same 70 ourselves,
it would no doubt be serious pressure on the re-
sources of that country. Could it be denied that
if we abandoned the use of that arm under such
| circumstances ii would diminish our power of acr
| ton in such war? (Hear.1
THE LONDON TINES ON THE PREsIpEsTIAL POLICY.
from the London Times March s.h.l
| The president of the United States has just re-
fused his assent to bill passed by both houses
4 and legislative powers of the government into di-
/ rect collision with each other. This exercise Of
4 authority he has justified in long and elaborate
i message Of which it is not, we think, too much 70
say that il establishes, completely and absolutely
/ the wisdsm Of his decision. Tie question at issue
concerned an institution long designated as pecu-
Il liar to the southern states etthe union, but the
! events which have recently transpireG in our own
4 colony Of Jamaica will enable us TO understand
with very little difficulty the political conflict IN
. America. gtii,!s II 81 54 II stss
\ We may perhaps best explain the bill thus re
iected by borrowing an illustration from the his
tory of Jamaica. If, then, we can imagine that
an act of parliament had been passed empowering
the party represented by DR.. Underhill and his
friends to constitute military tribunals In every
parish of Jamaica, and through those tribunals to
administer martial law for the express benefit Of
the negro and the humiliation Of the white man in
y all the transactions of life we shall get q good
idea Of the freedmen's bureau bill as sent up to
s President johnson.
By the projected legislation the en-
|. franchised negro would be made, not a free man
but pauper, supported in an exceptional position
pie Of American institutions. The state had neve
III done, even for its most deserving citizens, what
"a was now asked to do for section Of the popnls
~ ton whose only distinction was-their color. TIL
was not the way to make the black man really an
n truly the white mans equal. If the negro CLAIM
M the rights of freedom, he must accept 1fs Dune m
- and, above all, the great duty Of labor. Thel
was no reason TO suppose that he could not carr
his labor to market as advantageously as an
he other citizen. :,
- States where the negroes dwelt and even itwer
ce otherwise, any man could change his place 9
abode at discretion. Industry and thrift woul
90 enable them beyond all question to get their ow
other class Of the people and the exercise ofthes
al virtues would open the surest and indeed the onl
It. road to responsibility and prosperity. To thes
er unanswerabe arguments President Johnson adde
s yet another irresistible objection 1t was funda
~ ~ mental principal of the. American constitution
la that without representation there should be n
c. taxation; and yet, by the projected measure
I'd Congress was proposing to legislate for eleve
=. States which, although their interests were moi
directly and especially affected, had been exclude
from all share in :the deliberations preceding
= . bis IF he
rp by no means unexpected in fact, the necessity
opposing barrier to the violence OF the radio
o party in Congress had become obvious to the cou
try. So far as we can judge from our present
,st formation, the exercise of the Presidential We
as has been favorably received. According to u
- American Constitution, the veto might be ove
nd jority Of two.thrds in its favor but this maori
at could not be secured, for the numbers, when t
attempt was made, were found to be only thirty
,o- eighteen. Generally, too, it was said the pub
express the determined opposition of the Preside
to sectional and oppressive legislation. Nor sho1
n we expect less from the good sense and judgm'
the people u s me 60
ith confirm the respect in which his policy has be
held, and will entitle him to credit as one OF
ablest statesmen who have ever conducted . gr
md nation successfully through perilous crisis
IAN frmness, moderation and wisdom
~ ,as The attention of plow manufacturers and deal
ST in hardware IS invited 10 the auVeruSeInent
Siessrs. Taylor & Churchill appearing this morn
the in another column. They are offering for sale,
o'' the market rates, large lot of slab iron from
om- best Tennessee mines; also Hunts axes and .
her ton nails in quantity. sportsmen, also, would
hat well to call and examine the newly imported $40
= ~ of English double -barreled shot guns, Warrant
of the best makers, now on hand at No. A MAJ
Vest zine street. sfG ~ .sGa5 = .s1g HE
on Wilcox g. GIBBS Machine will sew, hem' II
rise braid tuck, gather, quilt cord and embroder
The perfect satisfaction. Wicox& Gibbs are repair
one and warranted at No. 5 st. Charles street. Ples
the call and examine.
The indianapolis correspondent OF Cincinn
+ nf Commercial tells strange story. Expects p
been nle to believe it, too. In 1853, Orrin Elder,
,ther ebanc of former city went to California, leav
; 1t wife and two girls behind. In 1860 was killed
eoss : as' drunken brawl. Not long ago Mrs.. Eide
Youngest daughter died. Few friends gathered
Para to sit up with corpse. About 10 o'clock at mig
war all doors and windows being shut, the dead Ell
i.i5 r,,Il-od into the room ain hia naoahJv cart