The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-02-15


DATED states Demands.
The London Morning Post main
aims that at 10 proved to demon
'trAtion that her Majesty's govern
nent not only did not endeavor to
,lace that Of the United States at .
disadvantage BY securing its assent |
o the abolition Of privAtsering while !
eaving the Confedeates free to avail |
themselves Of that mode of war
are, but that. it limited its action to
from both bslligerents as
tent to those new principles of in
law established by the
declaration of Paris, which in their
operation mainly calculated to pro-
tect the property of neutrals on the
high seas.
THE AMERICAN DEMANDS.
The Saturday Reviep says that
tho admirers of the treaty of Wash.
ington are naturally unwilling TO ad-
NIT that the American claim is fatal
to the reputation of the diplomat
lists who fancied that they had estab-
lished precedent for arbitration as
q substitute for war. A patriotic
completely in every national wrong
which can be perpetrated or contem-
plated is in the United States regard
ed as the most dispensable of public
If they were required to
pay the cost Of a war supposed to
have been prolonged by their aid or
connivance, they would not refer the
question to any tribunal at Geneva
or elsewhere, but would simply defy
the complainant to enforce his de-
mand. The affected confidence in
the justice of the arbitrators
which is protested by disappointed
English enthusiasts probably causes
unmixed satisfaction in the United
States. 1t is true that the admission
of the American claims is SIMPLY in
conceivable but II they are taken
into formal consideration the treaty
will be conspicuously exhibited in Its
true character of an abject capitula-
ton. Those who pretend that the
capture of some scores Of merchant
vessels prolonged the. war by two
years would scarcely deny that the
alliance of England with the Con.
federate States would either have
secured their permanent independ-
ence or have indefinitely post
poned the Northern conquest. The
annual expenditure of City millione
would have amply suficed for the
struggle, abstinence from all partici-
patton is taxed ct ten times the
amount. It is notorious that the
Emperor of the French would have
been eager to concur with England
in the defence of Confederate indie
pendence, for the purpose of insuripg
the success of his Mexican enter.
prise. Mr.. Roebuck and one or two
other English politicians failed even
to obtain hearing when they sug.
gested that the true policy Of Eng.
would be to astist in establishing the
Independence of the oonfedracy as 9
check on the arrogance and ambi
ton of the United States. Ter
years ago it would have been thought
useless to issist that England should
be both neutral and responsible fol
The cost of tho war b0t extreme de
ference, when it fails to arouse gen
erous feeling, naturally invites inso
lence and extortiOn.
INooNaRUITY BETWEEN THE TREATl
AND THE CASE.
Tho Spectator thinks tive ought Il
have very speedy and official ex
PLANTATION from our own govern
ment of the apparent incoDgruity be
tween the treaty and the case. i
the United States in order to wir
popularity at the elections, should
atmos he Go 9Ytty .. s.rsl11ng 70 Inc
spirit Of their treaty, we should hope
that Congress would call to account
instead Of supporting so discreditablt
q proceeding, But we confess our
selves hardly able to believe it, anc
yet, if that has not been the case
our own government has been guilty
of the blunder of painting its own di
plomatic achievements in colors very
different from those which tho result
warrants, and of adding another Il
the list of it's grave recent blunders
That, too, We can hardly believe
but any third explanation of tn.
matter we are quite unable to sug
gest."
A swINDLE FROM BEGINNING TO END
The country, says the Cou,t Jour
nal, will, we hope, never consent u
tho Geneva treaty being signed OF
it's behalf without it is before hearc
and discussed in both Houses o.
Parliament, and the basis of thai
discussion we think ought, and W.
trust will be, that it is necessary, al
times in the lives Of nations, q stanc
up and fight for right, and not yielt
to an imposter who boasts of hi
strength, to an insulter, or to thiel
who would lay his hands on oul
property. We must resist manfully
and to the bitter end occasionally, al
q nation Notwithstanding wha,
Saint Golden said), just as much a.
for mere manly feeling and justice
sake we would resist and not hanc
quietly over our watch and purse tt
any rascal who might stop us on the
highway and demand Thorn. Mos'
men, though the proceeding cos,
them a physical damage that they
! would not have had for ten times
the value in question, would seek tc
bestow q thrashing on the robber. OF
at least resist under fair chances with
all their power. We must tell the
Americans that they are mistaken il
they think we will quietly be robbed
in the way they, with the utmost
GOODNESS, have proposed. They must
not rely on tho present effeminate
English administration. Its hours
are numbered through its various
acts of incompetence and arrogance.
and any further false steps, and rer.
hsps an carly discussion OF what has
been done in this matter, may end
its career.
The Alabama affair is o swindle
from beginning to end. There is not
enc shadow of pretext for the claim
of the United States. 1t was well
known at the time the Alabama
was about to leave the shores of
Ennlnnd that the limited States