Show I 1 i THE RAID on tile eth of june last in fit N io lattion of our neutrality lam laws N a military mili tiry cx expedition edition and enterprise ont ent t ter e prise e against tile ho british north american Americ nn C colonies was projected and attempted tobe to be earned carried on oil the territory and jurisdiction of the united states in ili obedience to the obligation imposed upon the execute c by the constitution to see that the laws are faithfully executed all citizens were warned by proclamation against taking part in or aiding such unlawful proceedings dings and the proper prope r civil military and aal faial office officers rsm bic I 1 to take all y nicas measures tires for the enforce anent 1 anent of the expedition failed but itter abnot been without its painful consequences quen cef some of our citizen who rho it was mas alleged m were ere engaged lit in the expedition m ere I 1 and line been brought to trial for capital offenses kofl anses in the pron provinces inces of canada judgment and sentence of death ha lia hae e been unecA against sonie home while others have been ceci acquit acquitted tea runy fully belle belie king ing in the maxim of gos go ern ments that sei ce erity crity of civil punishments for rais misguided guided persons who mho have hae engaged in attempts which havo have disastrously failed is unsound and unwise I 1 so such representations lian ha e been mado made to the 13 british fish GON government in behalf of the convie convicted persons lenons as being sustained by nil an enlightened enc d and judgment will it is hoped induce ili an exercise of clemenc and a judicious cious anil amnesty losty to all who were eng engaged aged in ill the mon movement eident counsel has b een engaged by the government to defend citizens of the united states on trial for cl capital pital of fences in conada and a discontinuance of the lie eions ach instituted in the courts cours of tile the united l states against those NN ho took part in tho the expedition not only political in it its nature but its as also alo in a geat gibat mea measure ure foreign or i in from the untied fluted states in its causes c character ha r ac iter and objects the attempt was understood I 1 sto 0 d to be made in sympathy bym pathy with nil an insul gent party in ireland and by y striking ata lita W british Iri tish province pio vince on oil this continent was designed to aid in ia obtaining bedr re drs ss for political gnei ances which it NA v as assumed the people of ii eland ali liac diac iftner M a at lie 10 hands uso of the e british government during a period of I 1 cent tho the denous engal engaged ed in it NN were ere chiefly natives nahne ot of that country some of whom hall had while ot others nel had not become citizens citizen of tho the united states under our general laws of naturalization complaints of misgovernment in fit ii leland eland continually illy engage the attention of the british nation and 0 so o gi cat an a agitation is now prevailing in ireland that eliat no the british got go en eminent intent have deemed it to su pend tile writ yf tf habeas corpus in that country these must necessarily kodity opinions opinion which might otherwise 11 alj obtained inn gud gaid to an expedition ci prohibited by our neutrality la law a so long us its these laws benum upon our statute bools books the they should be faithfully executed ind and if the operate har hardily bly unjustly or oppressively congress alono alone can apply the remedy by their modification political and commercial interest of tho the united are arc not unlikely tp bp in some degideo ic byc by events which are arc tilam transpiring I 1 I 1 ill in in tho the caste eastern n region ot of lurose at and id ar tho 0 time seems to have corne come when our government ought to have a diplomatic ili in greece |