Nebraska advertiser., 1869-04-29

Canadian views Of Mr.. Sum
meTsg Speech.

OtlMGbOA84m KHONUH &S1 IAEe Sta Nu
meEsg Speech.
The Canadian papers are very fret
/ in their comments on Senator Sum
ner's speech. Indeed, much more
than complimentary. The Toronto
Globe, the most liberal journal Of The
/ Dominion. SAYS:
tits not possible to guage moral Of
fences by money standard. What
then ? Why, If this talk amounts K
anything, It means, as Mr.. Thortou
said, WAR. Mr.. Sumner says Eng
land should be expected 70 admit that
the recognition was unlawful. No.
body knows better than Mr.. Sumner
that that is the very thing England
will not do. The talk which Summer
indulges in shows very clearly that
the American governments does not
wish the Question settled Forthwith.
It is useful in the business of hoDae
politics, and IL Is regarded as conve-
nient screw for pressing q good bar
gain with Britain in other ways.
Very few in the States. exceDt
among the more ignorant Fenians and
more rabid and reckless politicians,
dream at this moment of making the
Alabama dispute the occasion for war.
Notwithstanding all their swagger,
the Americans have clear ideas of
what is involved in such an eventual
ity, and they have no inclination 10
run the risk, Whenever q hard bar
gain has had to be driven, this, how
ever, has been their cue, and they are
now reckoning upon the ignorance
and squeezability of British statesmen
as in former times, for securing q good
deal, at any rate, Of what they want.
In this we believe they are mistaken.
Formerly they were contented with
large slices Of territory, more than
were justly due. The Ignorance of
Diplomatists made this easy. Now,
perhaps, grown bold by success, they
dream of taking all North America as
a peace offering, and imagine that all
that Is necessary to this is to kick and
swagger, as in the case of the Maine
boundary and the thing viii be done.
Like the soldier that drew his sword
and threatened dreadful things If he
did not get pair of boots at his own
price, they would be the readiest, after
getting what they wished, to reply to
DlAG AOO4G MAACt tllCI MOulA
have done, supposing they would have
been refused, Done! Why! what
could we have donel Done without,
to be sure!" Exactly, and that will
be found to be the upshot ofthe whole
Offair. When the Americans have
discovered that they cannot secure
anything by bullying, they viii eith-
er forget the Alabama altogether, or
will agree TO some equitable method
Of settling the claims.
The Montreal Gazette, the Crown
organ, thus defends British recogni-
ton of the belligerency of the rebels:
If this be ''the head and foot of the
(English) offending" the United
States Government was just as great
a sinner. And why? Let us suppose
that England had not conceded bel
ligerent rights to the South, what
would have been the consequence ac-
coTdlng TO all the writers ON interna-
tiOnal law? Only this, that as soon
as the Sumpter, the Nashville and the
other earlier Confederate cruisers az
rived in England after burning the
Brilliant and other Northern mer-
chant vessels, their officers and crew
having no recognized status, would
have been subject to the law and
amenable to trial and execution as
pirates, although, too, they were ex-
ercising their recognized belligerent
right to make repTisals. England
very properly refused to act as hang
man for the American Government,
and when the same question came up
for trial and disposal in the United
States covrts, in the memorable case
of the Confederate crew seized, almost
redhanded, OFF Charleston harbOr, that
Government abated its previous pre-
tensions, and ended by adopting
similar course. In other words, the
crew in question was tried and sem
fenced to death for piracy but q little
reflection showed Government that it
would be unwise and unnatural to
carry out the sentence, and, jn the
end, the pirates" were exchanged as
regular prisoners Of war. What diff
ference was there, after all, in the DO
sitiOn assumed by both Governments?
England called and treated the South
erners as belligerents. The North
went still further, and by exchanging
prisoners, gave them the legal status
and the recognized position of what
England all along refused to give, not
withstanding the representations of
France-an Independent Power.
Referring to Mr.. Summers elabOra-
ton of the fact that British policy
protracted and greatly increased the
cost of the war, The Gazette says:
It is now rather late in the day to
cry and whine about it, especially
when the reparation so arragantly in
sisted upon, will probably have to be
purchased, if England only possesses
3 portion of her former spirit, at a cost
Of life and treasures far greater than
that poured out in the last American
war - A ~