Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-11
HOW GREAT BRITAIN PROLONG.
ED THE WAR.

HOW GREAT BRITAIN PROLONG.
ED THE WAR.
The grounds for the claim of indirect
damages made upon England, which
has caused the recent excitement among
English politicians, are set forth in the
case presented to the board of arbitra-
tors as follows:
1.-The 4th of July, 1868, saw the ag-
gressive force on land of the instruction
crushed. From that day its only hope
lay in prolonging defiance until, by
the continuance of the permitted VIOLA
lions of British neutrality by the insur-
gents, the United States should become
involved in a war with Great Britain.
The insurgents had at that time good
reasons to look for that result. The
Florida, the Alabama and the Georgia
had left British ports for the purpose
of carrying on war against the United
Staes, and were, nevertheless, received
with unusual honors and hospitality in
all the colonial ports of Great Britain.
Only ten days before the great battle of
Gettysburg, the judge who presided at
the trial of the Alexandria had instruct
ed the jury that no law or duty of Great
Britain had been violated in the con-
struction and dispatch of the Alabama.
About three months before that time
Her Majesty's government had decided
that they would not recommend Parlia-
ment to enact more effective law for
the preservation of neutrality. Laird
was constructing rams in Liverpool un-
der the existing Interpretation of the
law, and the British Government was
refusing to interfere with them. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer, five days
before the battle of Gettysburg, had de-
clared in the House of Commons, speak
ing not individually but in the plural
I'VE do not believe that the restoration
of the American Union by force is at
tainable. Under these circumstances
the insurgents made great exertions to
keep the Florida. the Alabama and the
Georgia afoat, and to stimulate their
officers and crews to renewed destruction
of the commerce of the United States.
They counted not without reason, upon
inaaming popular passion in the United
States by the continuance of these acts
until the people should force the Govern
ment into retaliation upon Great Brit
ain, the real author of their woes In
pursuance of this policy they withdrew
their military forces within the lines of
Richmond, and poured money into Bull
locks hands to keep afoat and increase
his British built navy, and to send it
into the most distant seas in pursuit of
the merchant marine of the United
States.
Thus the tribunal will see that, after
the battle of Gettysburg, the offensive
Operations of the insurgents were con-
Quoted only at sea through the cruisers ;
and observing that the war was prolong-
ed for that purpose, will be able to deter
mine whether Great Britain ought not,
in equity, to reimburse to the United
States the expenses thereby entailed up
on them.
''On all these points evidence is pre-
scented which will enable the tribunal to
ascertain and determine the amount Of
the several losses and injuries complained
Of 10 the amount thus shown should
be added interest upon the claims to the
day when the award is payable by the
terms of the treaty, namely, twelve
months after the date of the award. The
usual legal rate of interest in the city O
New York, where most of the claims O
individuals are held, is per cent pc
annum In some of the states it is great
er, in few of them less. The United
States make claim for interest at tina
rate. The computation of the interes
be made from an average day to be de
termined. The United States sugges
) the lst day of July, 1868, as the mos
equable day.
, We think it will be the judgment Q
every careful observer, that the opposi
| ton to the denomination of Presiden
7 Grant is not movement of the people
| It began with certain politicians VIII
were disappointed, either by the distri
l button of patronage, or in the oppositio
r of the administration to some scheme {
7 theirs A few newspapers, edited @
7 controlled by men similarly disappointed
e or belonging to that class which mistake
fretting and Tuning for independence
Y have added their influence to the oppos
: ton. The democracy have blown o
d the Goals of dissension with all the
i, breath, and so we have the movement
Z, its present stage. But when you g
e down to the people, you will search Ion
d before you find an expression of hosti
e ity to the present administration, an
$ longer still before you find anybody C;
+ pable of giving reason for all this clan
: or. We have no special reason for Fl
It voring the present administration asid
re from the belief that it has done wei
q But we have not yet seen shadow
: reason for opposing it beyond Il
ii wounded dignity of Charles Sumner, Il
IS injured feelings of Horace Gree.ey, Il
N uneasy ambition of Carl Schurz, or Il
Sc aroused aspirations of Lyman Trumbu
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