Year: 1863

,nersbip with one of our arch enemies during


a war like this, in which that enemy is len.


ding all his great power and influence to


conquer and subjugate, or failing in that, to


exterminate us, man woman and child, and


to send to that enemy cotton which is equiv


alent to gold, and to receive from that enc.


my Yankee goods, even though they be
staple articles, the people of this young


Republic have much to do, and.such an
arrangement, as we view it, should not be


tolerated for moment. Mr.. Lamar does not


propose in so many words that Mr.. Wood
shall send Yankee goods, but who doubts
for moment what goods he would have


sent? He is New Yorker. All his in


terests are there. If we are correctly in


formed, he is large manufacturer. What


goods, then, would he send? His own,


or English, or French? Nor does this


matter at all: The profits we're to be the


property of our enemy, and thus was his
hands to be strengthened to oppress US.


We do not mean to say, that Mr.. Lamar
intended to strengthen the hands Of our
enemy. We speak only Of the effect of put
ting into practice the proposition he made
to Mayor Wood.


Let us extend this proposition, confined
as it is to two individuals, and apply it to
many, and see what state Of things We
would have in this Confederacy in thirty
days. If it is lawful and right, and adVan-
tageous to the country, for Mr. Lamar to
enter into copartnership with an alien enc
my, thenit would be lawful and right and
advantageous to the country for every man
in the Confederaoy to do the same thing
If, as he says, awhatever increases the
wealth of one or more Of our citizens, in
creases to that extent the public veal, "
then whatever will increase the wealth of
the whole people will increase the public
veal Just in the same ratio. This as an
abstract proposition it is true, but when We
come to append to it . most important adj:
dition which Mr.. Lamar omitted, which is
that this increase of wealth is to come from
entering into copartnership and dividing
profits with our public enemy, it not only
is not true, but it is pernicious in the ex-.
treme, and would end in the downfall of.
our country. Suppose that every man in
the Confederacy were to enter into such q
copartnership? And fright for one, who
is to be excluded from the privilege and its
advantages? What an aspect will we pre-
sent to the world and to ourselves? Here,
is our enemy engaged in death struggle,
for what? To re.establish the Union for
the UpionY No. To enforce the Law be-:
cause they love law and order? No. he
IS fighting for our commerce. He wants
our cotton, our tobacco, our sugar, and our
tithes to Government. sHe,Rants market
for his manufactures and agricultural pro:
ducts. And shall we, while our brave
troops are disputing the passing of the yoke
over our neck, strike hands with him in
commercial fraternity, and pay him in ster-
ling exchange, or cotton, or gold, for his
and pay him half the profits
of all incoming and outgoing cargoes?-
What spectacle While, with one hand,
we thrust our enemy through with the
sword, with the other, and with the stric-
test punctilio and commercial honor, we
pay over to him his share of the profits
from the safe adventures of running sham
blockade. If it is right to trade with the
enemy by sea, it is to trade by land also.
Let this be declared as law. Let the law
Of nations at war, that their subjects shall
not only not trade with each other, but shall
not hold any communication, verbal or
written, be trampled under foot, and the
Union would be virtually re.established in
thirty days. We=would have no army in
less than that time, for our noble defenders
who are fighting for separation-eternal aland
no longer bare their
breasts to the bayonets of the foe when they
should see the citizens of both North and
South Joined hands in trade-in merry.ma-
king and copartnership. And they would
do right to throw down their arms and re-
turn home; for the Government which
would tolerate direct and unlimited trade
with the public enemy would not be worth
one mans life, and would deserve the con-
tempt of friend and foe.


Mr.. Lamar, in his defence, discusses the
question of blockade running, and insists
that it is beneficial to our currency and the
country. The merits of that question, when
the trade is carried on with any ony except
our enemy, we have not time now to dis.
cuss, nor is it pertinent to the matter In
hand. That is not Mr.. Lamar's case. He
distinctly proposes to trade with our enemy,
and to pay him half the profits. And this
is what he defends on the ground of public
policy, and as advantageous to the country.
If any who has been, or are now engaged
in such unlawful traaic-if such is the sys-
tenn of blockade running-the strong arm
of the Government ought to be laid on the
violators of her laws, and the evil instantly
arrested.


Seizure Of the Steam Rams.


The Hiberniap. with dates from Liver