Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-04-20
What is Said of the Penian Inter A view With the President.

What is Said of the renian Inter
 A view With the President.
 fscm thd l.,ardv Ress@ Nsr.a 2s.l
 {, in fWS midst .of domd tc dis tensions, dpring c trsJsition ffoh (npersti- 0ous fa D in the Consft ttion B acqui- (ocencc h thckparliameIirry Smnipo- tence otHong06ss, 'AmericAp diploma- ey rctp(IRs tr&e to It's own courteous Hnditi0hS Thcre is rcasUff to believe
 that MT. Seward has rejected or dis countenanced the English proposals for
 an adjustment of pending differences;
 and it is even said that, with facetious
 vulgarity, he has proposed as sub 3eftfcf Arbitration the question wheth-
 cr the English Government was justi-
 fled in recognizing the Southern Con
 federates as bclIigerents. Lord Stan
 ley's offers expressed the eArifcst. de- .siee of, ell re}sssesu uia Eselassd to eulti--
 vate the, good will of the American
 people, esealat the cost ofw c0nsitlcra-
 ble sacrificcrof nationals vanity. 9'Hord Russell had demonstrated the ,lawless-
 ness of the English proceedings in the icase of the Alabaiiia. but his successor hat, asiithe Americans still
 believed themselves to have been
 wronged, it was expedient and ,geucr-
 ons 'to abandon strictly technical Jus- stifiGation. Time, however, which oi'- ldinarily, dulls the edge of public, and
 private resentment, has not taught MT.
 Seward good feeling or good breeding. Although lie sometime since declared ,that'no cause. of dispute remained, be- tween the United States and France, Inc still tlinks'it tlesirabfes t6 resent in the cease of Ehgland, d procecding
 which was simultaneously adopted by the English and French Governments. sftis useless to attempt concfiation in
 the face of QstentAtious srtideness.inned
 Yet Lord tStanlcy's oveyture will not have been wasted if it satisfies any
 srruputous conscience in England that .tthet responsibilityltgr lnfsiendly yelx-
 lions rests exclusively on the ;Ameri-
 can Government. That the Secretary of State acts in sharmon yiowith the
 Presidept, may be, inferred from the
 report of late. interview between Mir. 'Jehnson and "a aFenian deputatioh.- lThe Representatives of the freebooters
 showed, in their demand for, a, .recog-f 'hitioti of the bclfigerent rights of the
 Irish. RepdbE a oconAdtncc in the .PresideBts sympathy (which, if it had
 not been justified by the. result, might
 have been called impndent. Instead of rcprooG they obtained an assuEapcelth that the objeat deserves GovGrnmtnt.. Neither party thought it nercssary 10 remember that the war that was toEbe recognized lad noteven
 x>..Ea
 serhblagc'in the digflborhood of Dub
 lin, had not been ,renertqqd n at Washing
 ton when the President undertook to
 consider the grant of belligercnt rights
 to. prospective pirates. It is said that lan utter abandonment of human syfl- ipathy is too painsul u sacrifice forth most resolute of cmisanthropes or of criminals. The President and his principal minister have become, not wholly byltleir' own fault, universally unpopulari; but thengh their xiomestic policy is condemned by .tlre great ma jjority of their ,eountrymen, one unfail- ing appeal stiff remains to the National dislike of England. The FeniaiIs are the favorites in Congress, and an un- civil dispatch has never failed to excite popular approyal in, America. The President and Mir. Seward himself can, cxcccrrt by overt acts of hostility, scarcely outbid the aci for abolishias neutral duties whi ,h was unanimously passed by the late House of Repre- sent atiyes. MT. Seward failed to attract attention when, he addressed 10 the English Goveriitncnt his " onde1.ful de- mand for an opportunity of revising the sentences of the Fenian prisoners in Canada; and Mir. .Johnsons. formal advice. to the English Government to grant an amnesty to the Fenian pris- oners was overlooked among the more tinpaIatabIe portions of his message. 1t tisnotccrtain whether Mfr Seward will now, succeed in stimulating the jaded appetite of his eountrymen. --- .nttn.-. :. L. U. --- .,.ss M ....L " ..