Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-02-16

these indirect and constructive damages TO
arbitration aud it is to be inferred that
rather tlfan do so She viii Withdraw from
the treaty.
Whereuporrercat indignation among all
the loyal, IA great Tapping Of wings and
gloriiication of the American Eagle, and
fierce dehunciatious of+sperfidious Albion,
whose perfdy consists in agreeing TO submit
certain claims TO arbitration, and then re-
jectinS this arbitration when it is sought to
extend it TO other claims which were In-
delstood 10 be excluded. Upon this point
the logic OF the Hera}fL is truly worthy of
the Jesuit Escobar, of illustrious memory.
NO complainant, it says, ''eyer goes into
court assured that he viii come out OF it
with all his demands accepted and it goes
or to argue that Great Britain should first
see whether the Geneva Conference VIII
allow these consequential damages before
She rejects the arbitration altogether.
Surely if she were la do SO. and then should
fail to abide by the decision of the arbitra-
tors, she would deserve much more justly
the accusation of perfidy than by refusing
altogether to submit 10 arbitration such
prepostero,ls demands. ..-
The fact is, that If England had not been
for years, AMI We're not now, governed by
pigmics, such demands would nave ere
now been answered ut the cannon S mouth.
If the spirit of II Iftt OF even Il Palmcrston
presided over her councils she would have re-
scented us tn insult the bare suggestion of an
apology or Indemnity. Did not the United
States, torsooth purchase arms, ships anu
munitions Of war in Great Kritaiu--ay, and
men too. Did they not procure foreign
aid vastly more tmn the CeDtcdcracy :?
which they could never have conquered
otherwise. Did they not have tho markets
OF tue world To purchase from , Because it
pleased Il section OF this vast country to
declare another largo section in fcbcNiOu, in
qualification of all American history, WAS
all tie world beside TO deny us the rights
OF bcllgelcns. Were VIC not bcIligcreit
cnough-who made occupants for half u
million OF Yankee graves Or else is the
principle TO obtain that icbtlx have 10
rights-equally civilized, humane aud pro-
cressive as that other, which once del
uoed the earth in hood-that tnr<fi~S have
10 rights >
England, during our War, did nothing
more than what all other nations have
done and will do. No more than was
done by this country in the case OF Texas
and the South American republics. Just
,,-oO ,,,;oI>t IEor,DanU tv
and constructive damages from America,
because the Amy Of the Loire was armed
with, and could not have been armed
without, the AIMS sent from this country,
and thus the war was prolonged for six
months longer.
1t was weakness. and folly in Great
Britain to listen to any such demands, and
if there be in her people vestige Of theil
former spirit, they will compel their govern
III M to withdraw from such a pusillani-
nous treaty. But the present difficulty
proves that an incapable and egotstiC
policy is always followed by national
humiliation ard disaster. ii. instead OF
seifishly keeping uloot, England had aided
us to achieve our independence as Justice
humanity and her own selt-interest dicta-
ted, there would have been 4 balance OF
power on this side Of the water instead OF
= braggaft and bullying nation eager tol
her spOils. Last year, again, size saw heI
Staunch and faithful ally crushed and dis
memberel without an effort to relieve, and
she may Yet find that she has given herself
master on her own side of the Ocean, as
well as on this.