Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-02-22
England and the United States.

The following is statement OF the real
point of difference between England and
the United States, as given by Wash
ington correspondent of the Atlanta Sun:
When Great Britain and the United
States created a High Joint Commission,
with the authority to arrangea basiS OF
settlement for alleged difficulties existing
between the respective Governments, the
result was the Treaty Of Washington.
This Treaty specially stipulates that the
respective :" High. Contracting Parties"
shall, by certain dat~ have prepared
their "case" for submission to a High
Court of Arbitration, to be holden at
Geneva, Switzerland, composed of ru-
| ling sovereigns. And it was further stip-
ulated that the respective High Con,
tracing Parties, "sin the preparation and
governed by facts, established usages,
and the well recognized principles Of in
ternational law. ,,
Tho United States being the plaintiff
in the case, in brief, charges and COM
plants that Great Britain, as Govern
ment, during the late war between the
States. was: 1st, friend of the South;
ID. that beligerent rights were accorded
to the South without the consent Of Lin
coins Administration; 3D., that the Ala
bama and Capt. Semmes escaped from
ENGLISH waters and thereby destroyed
the commerce of the United States; 4th,
that the Queens proclamation recogniz-
ing the Confederacy as q Government de
fucto. with the escape of the Alabama
and other cruisers, prolonged the war for
t,co or more years, and for such violations
of the la,cS of neutrality and lnternatlon-
al commodity, Great Britain is conStr'uc-
tiuely responsible for dN losses Gnd er-
penScs incurred by the United states IN
suppressing the "rebetttom' after ana
from certain date, &cs
The lease" as it is called, prepared by
the United States and printed in book
form having been submitted to the Brit
ish Government, is SO arrogant in tone,
and extraordinary insits statements OF
the law and the facts, that it is not only
condemned, but denounced the strong
est terms by the BriGshpubl
| A cable dispatch of the Sd inst. says:
nChief Justice Cockbarn has officially
counseled the Cabinet that Finland must
rccedc Immediately from the Treaty of
Washington, leaving america to decide
between ,,e,U treaty OF war."
The fact is, the g asssas presented by
the United States isS9t tlnsulting to the
English Governmenksfhat her statesmen
and public press decinse that their Gov
ern1neut cannot maiTt dignity and
| self respect by a submission ofsthe case
to the arbitrators, as, the matter now
stands. English Journals received by
the last steamer arc unsparing in their
criticisms on the American case, and as
exponents of public sentiment are unu-
sually denunciatory and defiant.
The sudden and unexpected attitude OF
Great Britain in this matter, has produc-
edvery considerable eexcitementin Wash
| ington. The probabilities of war and its
effects and results, is the all-absorbing
topic. Of course, there will be no war,
which reasons are unnecessary to emu
merate. tits said, however, thatan intense
Radical politician said toa Canadian gen.
tleman on yesterday, that " England dare
not 90 to war with the United States, for
any reason, because England had, lying
at her very door, sleeping lion, in the
Emerald isle.' The Canadian respond
ed. "that such was tho physical fact,
but" said he, sis the United States any
better situated? If England has lying
at her door sleeping lion, in the Emer-
aid Isle, has not the Washington Dynas-
ty a Gagged lion in the Irelandized South,
waiting an opportunity to break the bars
and chains by which it is at present
held?" The Radical enthusiast said he
guessed" our folks would fix it up, and
"as for himself, he did not believe III
wars