The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-27

band, TO mutilate and dictate, his
dispatches. Nor was the Prince
Consort then in his "last," or any
illness. Several months after this
he died, after about q weeks illness
of gastric fever.
England was indignant truly for
the insult offered TO her flag but
there was no cloud cry for war;"
nor did the country "demand war"
In England then as now the political
power was held by the middle classes,
who being powerful in the sense of
ability to control, are not given to
noise, and the surging of a non-en-
franchised mob on one side, or the
shrek of aristocracy on the other,
are powerless to move this iphalanx
of power. +lA AhN# .At
Perhaps the best, if not the only
true test of public opinion, would
be found in the reception of the En-
voy of the confederacy, Mason.
His coyrere Slidell was received
with some show of ostentation by
the French Government as duly
accredited ambassador, for nothing
would have pleased Napoleon better
than to have his Mexican expedition
flanked by the support of even the
confederacy.
The blundcr of intercepting the
''Trent" enabled Mason to pose as
a martyr under the protection. of his
dclivcrer; it was just what a man in
his position might pray for; but
when he was landed in England,
that was all England wanted with
him. His credentials were not read,
nor did he receive any official recog-
milton. He then visited the cotton
districts and lectured, urging the
starving thousands to demand from
the government recognition of
the confederacy, the raising of
the blockade, and cotton and
food would be their reward.
But be it recorded to the honor of
those true men, the starving opera
tives of Lancashire, that when it
was known that Mason represented
a confederacy based upon slavery as
the corner stone of its constitution
they said (after Tom Moore),
Although we love cotton and food il
store,
Sir Knight, we love freedom and honor
| more.
But a greater than Mason nov
came on the scene, and invited
inspection Of another picture the
integrity of the Union without slave
ry-" the free hearts hope and
home" Permit me to give honor
to whom honor is due. Whel
Mason and Slidell were landed OF
United States soil by Commodore
Wilkes, there was one man in New
York who took in the situation at
glance. He knew the English pep
pie, and was known by them as
champion of human rights, and whil
Commodore Wilkes was enjoyin;
a banquet, this man was hastenin!
to London-the scene Of excitement
He was the first to proclaim to tn
world Lincoln's policy of emancips
tion. Armed with this, his peerles
eloquence blew every confederat
windbag of journal to tatters. H
had on his side such men as Lore
Shaftesbury, Golden, Bright. Fo
weeks he stood in :" the imminen
deadly breach, his peerless eloquenc
pounding every inch Of free Britisl
soil from under the feet of Mason il
England, and by the aid of the press
he neutralized Slidell's efforts, il
France. All honor to the Queen
one of whose first acts was to con
code to the States strip of dispute
territory, now part of Maine. Homo
to the people who were true to, prip
ciple on the question of Union 9
confederacy. But when this inc
dent of the Civil War shall be writ
ten by the prosaic pen of futur
Froude or Motley, one name wi
stand out in hold relief, that c
Henry Ward Beccher. ~ at i@3
ID. M. CROWLEY.