The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-09
A WAR OF CONQUEST.


4 WAR OF CONQUEST.
Mr. \. w. savary. OF Nova Scotia,
prints in a New York paper an interesting
communication In which he replies to
those American critics who have never
forgiven Great Britain for her alleged
sympathy with the Southern confeder-
acy:
Mr.: savary calls their attention 10 tho
! fact that II Great Britain was not very
friendly TO the United states during that
| contest there was some reason for it
lie reminds them first, Of tho stopping
by an American war ship OF "a British
steamer ana forcibly taking from her the
two southern commissioners. sliden and
Mason: second. OF the threat OF an attack
upon England as soon as the domestic
troubles should be ended. third OF the
policy of Secretary Seward TO seek TO
unite tho North ana the South by a
foreign war. Great Britain evidently
presenting the most obvious and eligible
point Of attack" Mr. savary thinks it
hardly natural that Great Britain should
have kissed the hand that was thus
shifting her.
As for the claim that Great Britain
should have been in sympathy with the
United States government because ~
the noble purpose" Of the war Mr..
savary calls attention 90 the letter writ
ton by President Lincoln 10 Horace
Greeley on August %. lsc2 in which Doe
said.
My paramount object in this struggle
IS TO save the Union and is not either
to save or FOO destroy slavery. If
could save TIC Union without freeing
any slaves. 7 would do 81. and If ] could
save 10 10y freeing am the slaac ! would
DO Fl. and II I could save It by freeing
some and leaving others alone J would
also do that What ] do about slavery
and the colored race / do because Do
helps to save the Union. and what for
bear / fortcar because I do not believe
il would help TO save the Union
with this letter before them Air. sa-
vary thinks that the English people were
pardonahle for agreeing with Lord
Brougham that the North was fighting
for empire and the South for independ-
encc Therefore he adds. there seemed
10 the average Briton no especial cause
for sympathy on behalf OF either Of the
combatants And this in conclusion.
TO many. the legal right of secession
seemed ncontrovortihlc. on the same
grounds that justified the thirteen colo
MES the PEOPLE being their own Judges
as 10 their grievances. the notion that
the Union being She voluntary act of in-
dependent states might boz voluntarily
dissolved by either seemed plausible and
the expression. "Drring sisters. depart foo
peace" voiced the feeling Of some promi- |
nent Northern MS well rs many English |
people
The British government has often |
shown the tyrannical spirit bret the peo-
pie Of England love liberty and fair play |
and their sympathics are always with /
the oppressed IL is well-known fact |
that when the war of the revolution broke /
out a large portion of the English poo- |
pie sympathized. some OF them openly /
with the American colonies in their fight /
against oppression. It was not strange. /
therefore that these same people should /
have ympathized with the people of tLc
South when engaged in similar -trus-
-ie.
II IS too late 90 discuss the risl- NJ -o,
cession. but That the Southern States
did have the risht TO sccclc was % TACT
recognized by many people of the north /