The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-12

from those statements is logical. We do
not read one statement or inference that is
unfriendly to England, and we cannot conceive
by our counsel without the suspicion Of
grave dereliction of duty. With the
memory of the Confederate debt bust
ness before us we felt sure that had Eng
land been in our place every circumstance
here printed would have been advanced and
argued with clear, merciless logic, and we
should have been more fortunate than we
were In the Mason and Slidell affair if
the Channel feet and the Mediterra-
mean squadron Of the British Navy were
not lowering around our harbors to en-
phasize the rhetoric of Lord Tenterden and
Mr.. Montagu Bernard. OF course we had
little hope that the Geneva tribunal would
accept our case as its verdict. Questions of
international law, of intent of the efficiency
of our own navy in pursuing the rebels, of
sidered, and by process of judicial elimina-
ton fair award would be made-an award
that would satisfy us even If we did not OBJ
tain dollar. But England's traditions do
not permit this. The policy of Palmerston,
that policy of menace described the other
day, which made 'the lusty Englishman"
terror to Oriental nations; which was eff
cient when applied even to America in
the agony Of our own war-controls English
craftsmanship to-day. We are to be bullied
into withdrawing our case, merely because
Mr.. Gladstone is anxious about the repub-
lican demonstrations of Sir Charles Dixie
and the tory intrigues of Mr.. Disraeli.
The old, old appeal to ''the honor of England"
is made, and as a sacrifice to this injured
honor we are asked to do dishonorable thing.
land; that we made case which the treaty
did not contemplate; that we took our great
neighbor at disadvantage; that in some
Yankee way we were eager to obtain as
much money from England as France has paid
to Germany.
Clearly we cannot withdraw this case! If
arbitration is no longer to be substitute for
war, the fault cannot be with America, who
now stands before tribunal and asks judy
ment, but with that England who, from pas
sion or policy, from ignorance, perhaps, or it
may be from arrogance, suddenly declares
that she will retire from her own
tribunal unless we permit her to revise our
case as well as make her own. This was the
way Palmerston managed the Oriental nations
and made his name terror in Turkey and
puf of
Turks, and having no absorbing war upon
our hands, we cannot submit to the diplo-
macy of menace. We cannot withdraw our
case, nor do we see how in honor we can
adopt the suggestion of Mr.. Fish and accept
sum of money as solace for our wrongs.
We do not want money, but justice.
The money suggestion has base aspects.
The Americans care little for money; the de-
sire for it is altogether foreign to our charac-
ter, and to accept any sum in lieu of our
treaty is to say, swell, we tried to black
mail England, and we did it," We should
be in the attitude of saying 10 the world that
whenever we get into trouble again the only
way of peace is to pay Us sum of money.
In plain terms, England buys us off.
She makes bargain, but does not consecrate
treaty. She would despise US for accepting
this offer, just as the Englishry despised Rob
Roy when he assessed them on the high
ways We do not want dollar of English
money unless 1t belongs to us, and that must
be determined by some tribunal of fair, dis
FASHIONED men like the tribunal of Geneva.
There is, we most profoundly trust way
out of this complication that will do honor
to both countries. We have done our best
to find one. We now stand before q SOL
emn tribunal, agreed upon by England and
America. We have made our case, as Eng
land has made her case. If England insists
upon flying out of court in passion merely
because we tell our story in our own way and
not in hers, we have only to retire in dignity
and come home. Any offer of money Is only
indignity added to indignation. We are not
highwaymen or Highland troopers. We went
to Geneva for peace, not to make bargain
or levy blackmail. And as for the end, let it
come! England will be more anxious to
make new treaty than we shall be to suggest
one. So long as the precedents she wanton-
ly and sel6shly established in the Alabama
case remain we hold her in bonds to keep
the peace with all the world. If wisdom
had ruled instead Of anger she might have
abolished these precedents. As it is we can
wait
A ScoRCHING INDIoTMENT-The history, in
the american case" Of highlands ''aid and
comfort to the enemy" in her neutrality, in
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