Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-06-03
An English Lfbera o n MIR. Summers
Sneech.

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An English Liberal o n MIR. snmner'i
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Mr.F. w. Newman writes to the Lon
don Star, in relation to Mr.. Summers
Alabama speech, that be does not think
it contains anything which he has not al;
ready said in principle in his speech OF
Sept. 10, 1853, on Foreign Relations.
OF the two. that was the more, exciting.
Mr. Newman says:
L then justified Mr. Summers tone, as
well as hIs arguments IN the interest OF
peace. Cicero, in sreproyipg the vio-
lent language of Roman tribunes, says
that, after all, it must be confessed, IL
tended to make the national struggles
less dangerous, for when the peopie
found that their official protector would
speak up Tor them, They lelt that they
need not take matters in thelr own
hands. So, the evils which the. United
States were suffering from England
being felt in wounas sandl blood, and
death and d-impoyerlslment, no dlss, IiIu-
lation OH the part OF American sLaIe5--
men could do snything but exasperate;
and it tended to sootH them Wien niel
like Charles sSumneHshowedt 10 England
her Injurious conduct aud her SIN. 4
hold this to be nearly true now, but less,
intensely regret t1at il, has been forced
on Mr.. SUMMER repeat, sonew hat less
vividiy, the same bitter com plants. ~
But L can not see jns his ospeeeli any
menace of war, direct or .iItdireeSl or
anything to tfefete that he does n ot look,
on the thought as aiorf4lae, and as an
utterly absurd Remedy tor the past.ii % /.
But there is matter of fact which
Mr.. Summer 4negiects-a fact which, l
suppose, few know. only learned it
last year from the sfrepoEt off the Paris
Anti-Slavery conference OF 1867. In it is
printed an=eisborate memoir of the Hon.
John Jay onefnancipation in the United
States, whiehais an historical review
1t states Up. l02) that in April, 1861, the
Secretary of State Mr.. Stwardt advised
the American Ministers in Europe-andi |
European Cabinets ihastefied sto accept
the assul ance-that the President SO far |
from rejecting, willingly accepted tie
doctrine :tiyat the Fetltf,if Government
could notredilce theoseeedings States t I
obedienceg .lsy = Conquest. ~ which wa
prom tly resi- onded to by proclamations
endowIng the slave power with brlliy-
erent rights al sea, DE. That our Gov I
ernment acted very wrongly believe.
as deeply, perhaps, -as Mr. Simmer. Wel
must suifer'ior the misdepds OF our Gov
ernment. But so must, the Americans |
suffer for the fmisdeeds of their Govern
ment. Friends of Freedom and right in
our Cabinets were paralyzed hy Mr.. /
Seward ssdispatch. If he told them that
the President willingly admitted thai
ha lad rirhf n l,a
how could they deny that when he Tried /
to do it the South fad q right TO o.resisl
him? Well may Mr.. Seward hot wish To-
close the discussion, If 10 open it will fix
upon him the chief .blaipe of that recog7
milton of befligerency which Mr.. Sum
ner justly treats as the prinlaf. cause OF
mischief. 's' = - :.
Mr.. Sumner, alas! has plenty to say +
against US; but Unless the, Han. qJohnI
Jay misquotes the dispatch, / no Iongerl
see how 4 reasonable man could, expecti
a Government constituted like ours, /
and accustomed TO tecIinical routine, mott
TO declare the comhatants equal, when
the President had Volunteered to stelii Il
them that he believed that he had, no
right of coercion. The American people
at last, step by step, brought their Gov
ernment around 10 q sense of its duty ii
and dignity, says the Hon. John Jays-I
Well, so did our people, happily, at last, {
bring our Government round. Adversity !
taught Mr.. Lincoln, and seBse of dam
ger taught Lord Palmerstpn, a lesson.--jss
Mr.. Sumner also unavailingIy asks forI !
expressions of regret and contritian. {
Without total lchangeof menlin power, Z
such expressions could not be; sincere. j
Surely Mr.. Sumner can not desire ilyp- .
ocritical words. Are we ouce, more TO !
show ourselves very sexcilablesnatipn, {
on discovering that an Embasssdorsw who1
was always IN heart and policy with !
the South, has net negotiated accerdinglI II
TO the desires and sentiment of tine a
North? hope better things