Show enri 13 olo clo D ad I 1 D S SA ir accustomed Accustom et to a great deal of bluster and menace from sm email alfry try fry politicians and would be agitators it is really refreshing to read the cautions oftie day from the lips lipa of a statesman whose intelli intelligence ence and fine sense ot of honor have made him one of the th ornaments of hill his ag age ee tich is ii lord john jofin russell RS seli seii sell the present representative of britain to foreign nations tory tery he made a munificent speech at scotland in which h reviews review the position ol 01 his country in its relations with russia france and the th states and gives his news on poland and mexico the lilt of our space prevents pre verts us from inythe in ahe speech entire and therefore wa make selection of what be he did say on the tae f well weil gentlemen I 1 coganow come now to another ait Att estion a question interest interesting in to us all a question ques tion tiou on ou which I 1 must beg for your attention because I 1 wish to explain some cir circum cum atances in which the character of this country I 1 think has been bean maligned I 1 am speak in lag ing ol 01 what has his occurred in what a few years ago were vere the united states of america A tew few cw years yeara ago we were exulting in the pros proa parity ot of that country we were happy to see j ji laople people derived demei from the same ancestors ax as OuT ourselves selves enjoying free tree institution sp enjoying apparent harmony among one another and with whom we had at least just before the civil vii vil war broke out oat hardi hardly a difference a dif breace areace wily lenly with regard to the th small island called coed rt juan and which we had proposed to rafer refer to the arbitration of the swiss i lc lic this was the state of affairs when that which we ceri cert certainly finly had haa no part in broke out when it if I 1 remember rightly nine nin of th the a stat Stu thern bern states of america declared that they bay t woud form an independent republic our course coune on the subject has been attacked and blamed in the bitt blit bitterest erist terms blamed bome some bitses by the federals Feder alsand and sometimes by the confederates the first offence was felt by the Fe federals derah they said we had no right to agrant rant so far as we were concerned to the confederates the rights righta of ot belligerents well now gentlemen that question of the rights of belligerents is a question of fact I 1 p put ut it to yoa you oil whether with people e 1 I mean of frea free men declaring themselves in their several states collectively an independent state we could coald pass over that as a pet ay rebellion our admirals asked hether whether the ships they met mst bearing the confederate erata A flag willbe sh should be treated as pirated or no if it we had treated them as pirates we should have baen been taking part in that tha contest cheers I 1 it was impossible to look on the uprising ot a community eoma coma unity unitt of five millions of people as a mere petty hear hear bear hear or as not dot having the rights which at all ail times are given to those who by their numbers and importance or orfey by the extent of the territory they 10 leless are entitled mothese to these rights cheers atvell ell eil it was slid we ve ought not to have done blat t I 1 beaus causs cauls they were a community of slave holdena ho idera gentlemen I 1 trust that our abhorrence of slavery is not in the least abated or dimisher dimi diml shed loud and prolonged cheers J for nay cay own part I 1 consider it one of the most moat horrible crimes that yet disgraces humanity cheers but then when we are treating of the relations which we bear to a community comm unity of men I 1 doubt whether it would be eppedi ant or useful for humanity that we should ln in traduce that new element of declaring declara g that we will have no relations with a people who gaye gave permit ermit slavery to exist among them we have never adopted it yet we ire have not adopted it in tho the th case cass of spain or brazil and I 1 do not believe that the cause of humanity would bs be yer ser ved by our adopt adoption iod lod of or it near neat heat hear hear bear well weil was then it was said that these Conf coat confederate st states tes were rebels rebea against the un on Par hap Y gentlemen I 1 am not BO so nice as I 1 ou douht ht to be on the ta suvit Babit babitch ct but I 1 recollect that we rebelled against chales cila les ies L I 1 fa EA laugh vre we rebelled against jam jamb jams s II 11 and the people of new england na nit content with thess these two rebellions rebelled against george iii lit near hear and laughter I 1 am not e bay say ay whether all these rebellions were verenus justifiable or whether they were 1 am not saying whether the present rebellion in the southern states states 13 a justifiable insurrection or is a great fault or a great crime but I 1 say that the mere fact et at rebe ilon lion is lot rot in my eyes ejes a crime of fo so deep a dye that we must re bounre all fello feilo hip eben Thip bip and communion and all ai relationship with thole those wh rho have ben been guilty of f rebellion re Lud loud cheering ly if I 1 look to the dec der decar a rations attona of those I 1 new few england orators and I 1 have boen reading lately if it not the whole yet a very great part of t the very ion lon long iong speech by mr r on the subject delivered at new york lon ion 1 0 an I 1 can at not but wonder to sea sei them mn mon the offspring as it t wre wore of ot three rebellion aa M wa we are th the offspring of two reb yeb 1103 lion s really sp speaking eakin like lae the cr cair of idaia th rie ris sa 94 tarm tarn of turkey Y z or cr louis liuis XIV himelr of the dreadful adu crime aid A ald cheers id guit gult of rebellion loud laughter and well weil s there camo another com p clarot alid aad khe the ech keh complain hns time tims from those soc so i o c illel stats states who said that w had contrary cont coot ary to koth both th declaration of part parl contrary to tita tin goti ertl eril international law permitted a blieka ao of of miles of olf tue toe southern chibe coast of Amer fea it 1 taus taug we dd so it is quite title true and there were there reamed at leasta least a plausible reason for complis complaint i int that aha lt 1 h this T blocks 4 j nde nse was kept tip up by a sufficient elent clent number umber 1 t f rips alps yoi yot ye these ships ship into the tiie united states navy and sent to sea in iq a hurry and ill III fitted for the purpose did not keep up that blockade so reflectively and so thoroughly as it must mast have been held an a n effective eject blockade required but still uil looking at the law of nations it wat waa a blockade it was wa a blockade which we as a great belligerent belligerent belli terent power in former times would have ac acknowledged now le ded we ourselves bad bad a blockade of upwards wa ads ids of two thou at d mie sand it iid ild did lid seem to me that we were bound injustice to the fede ral States of ota ofA America menca to acknowledge the blockade but there was another reason I 1 confess that weighed with me rne our peo people pie were suffering and suffering ushering uS fuff ering very greatly for the wank wan of the material which was the great support of their industry at 11 was a question of self interest wh wheller wheler elier eller her we should not break that blockade but in my opinion the name of en england edgland land would have been forever infamous it if for the sake of interest of df any kind we had violated the general laws lawa of nations and made war with those slaveholding slav blah holding states of america against the federal states hear bear antis and gentlemen I 1 am not speak speaking in the sentiments which are peculiar to myself myself or to those who have no immediate interest ir the tho question but these thebe ife are I 1 am convinced the sentiments of that nobe hearted people of or lin LiD who hive lived and nourished flourished by that industry but who would not I 1 an ain sure allow a single spot on an the escutcheon of their nation in order to maintain that industry ilear alear 1111 ll ear hear and cheers SHIPS TOR vor THE confederates I 1 well there came new complaints com paints a complaint on the part of the federals that we allowed a ship to leave the port of liverpool which afterwards committed depredations oil on I 1 their commorice com morce gentlemen it woud lead me fair far if I 1 were nvere to go over all the particulars of the qu question aution tion but you mist know that in order to prove an offense offence you require buch auch evidence dence as a can be sifted in a court of justice and it was not till tha the very day the alabama leac Liver liverpool pol poi that in the opinion of lawyers we ha ba I 1 evidence summa sufficient clent to keep the vessel and crew then thep I 1 doubt whether if we bad brought the evide eride ce c before beffre a court of law I 1 it would have heen been found that we had bad sufficient evidence to condemn her because by an evasion of the law the ship ip was a s fitted necessary arb we up without the arms necess necessary arh t tor or her r equipment and aril these arm arms were conveyed to her in the waters of a foreign countr country 71 very far from the jurisdiction of england englan hear I 1 gentlemen these questions must mast be b weighed and I 1 think they will be weighed aa as tt tl ey f frequently re have been weighed bythe by the government of the united states of america in the I 1 bala baia balance nce of equity I 1 we know that the foreign E enlistment act and the whole law respecting the subject is v very a ry difficult of application the principle is cl clear cigar ear dar enough if you are asked to sell muskets ke you may sell muskets to ank ani one party or t the he oth r and so with gunpowder shells sheils or canon can on and you may inay sell tell a ship in the mame name m manner a ln er but bat if you on the obe oae hahl baal train an I 1 drill a regiment with arms in their hands or allow regiment ment to go out with arms la tu their hands to take lake part with one of two belligerents lige rents you violate your neutrality and commit an ortence offence against the other belligerent so in the sams same way in regard 1 to ships if you allow A ship to be armed and aud go at once 0 t make an attack oa on a foreign belligerent you are yourself according to your own law s part in the war and it is an offense offence which is punished puni nuni shed by the law liw but these questions lead laid as you will see to most difficult dilli cult problems alt ait as to heritor instance a thousand perso s here tiers may go out as laborers to the federal Ve deral derai 5 9 ate and in the next placer a thousand muskets haygo may KO out ID in another and when they arrive in america these thousand laborers having had an may mas make a formal engagement ga gement gemant and ani be armed with these tiebe thousand I 1 muskets though if that had bad been done i in the territory of t he the queen and on the soil of this country it would have been in an of fence there are other questions with regard to ships that have lately been prepared in this country becane because these ships are not like which bich receive their th air usual equipment known in wars in timea times past a r but they are arc I 1 themselves without any pur fur further atler armament 1 fo med tor for acts acta of offense offence and vt war mar ar they are steam rams which might be used for the 1 purposes ur of war without ever touching the abores shores of the tho confederate ports well gintle gentlemen men 16 to permit ships of this kind kins knowingly to depart from this courtr country y not to enter into any port not buento to enter r into the po port pott tt of a bel bei belligerent li gerent would as you see expose our good faith to great suspicion and I 1 feel certain that if during our war with france the ame americans icons had sent line of battle shire to break our blockade at brest whatever reasons they mizhi have urged in support of that we should have considered it a violation i of neutrality such ia is the spirit in which I 1 i am i repaired to act everything that the law of nations requires everything 0 that our law that thai the fore agn enlistment act requires I 1 lam iam ani prepared to do and even if it should be I 1 proved to be necessary ene Enc essary for the preservation I 1 of our neutrality chilt the sanction of parlia ment should be asked to further measures in I 1 abort to sum up her majestia Majest ya a government i are prepared to do everything that the duty of I 1 neki neti requires u r es everything that ia f a just jut to a friend y nation lation ti n V ehing as a prin principle ciple that we do to 01 hers here as we should wish to bedane be done to elul debeer 4 1 1 I but ia alt lit c 1 we t 51 we wac will i 11 y not noo of aio sio copt I 1 ay inee inea A oure fure re that we think toe tobe tae tole w waag 0 9 we lil lii ill not nok oj guid grid a jet yet P f british ldla or coly cols sequence of the menace menaces of any ref rei a power iwer loud and prolonged cheers complaints or THE ayle AltE AMERICANS RICANS MR i and now reverting again to th the complaints that have been made it Is singular tn observe how jaundiced the minds of some borne ol 01 those who speak in the new are on this subject of our conduct conduce th ivere lvere ere ete wets were some persons pers onas members of the house of lords who thought fit to complain on an apparent case of grievance and botone ca cabe case sebut but many manx cases cabes of ships of ours that had bad been seized ships in some cases pasing passing from neutral ports porn in other cases on an the th sea but apparent apparently ily on a legitimate legit imato voyage and it was yas urged that we riot not to submit to have our vessels thus seized and our commerce thus interrupted I 1 had to deal with that cabe case and my answer was that according to the law ot natio 9 if a ship had an ostensible osten bibe sibe voyage to a destination which was not her real destination if she waa was bound in fact to an port with minn minu tiona of war the belligerents had a right to stop that vessel on the bi high h beas seas s aas gas I 1 said he the law jaw had bad been laid down ty by lord stowell and other great englith english authorities and that now we were neutrals I 1 did lot loi lot think we wea web hould bould depart from a law we ire hid had bid laid down as a belligerents cheera Cne Cn erg eera 1 Isaid said that in america alt ait although hough bough datre were some ot of the local co courts arts which bad diot riot the ibe authority of such men as lord stowell and sir william grant yet there was a court of appeal there was a supreme court in the ut gilted cited slates sates which contained and had for many years contained men as learned and of as high reputation in the luar and of as unsullied rean tation for integrity as any that have bat sal in our English Courts Court of justice ji stice and that we ought to wait pac pax patiently in aly for the deci decision a ion lon 0 of f those thosa tribunals now what ismy is may ray mur Bur pria to f ind fina what be your a surprise U apri 3 e to fi gina find n a 1 that mr air sumner is so prejudiced that be be brings these of mine against m me saying that I 1 have diminished the reputation of the american courts and that I 1 showed myself biased against the federal states by the declaration I 1 then thin made in parliament A gentleman from the southern states among the company here ejaculated ahle he is not lo 10 be believed jwill not detain you further on agn these subjects bilt but oie ore ot a remark romark rem rom a rk I 1 must dust make cdake on the general tendency of t hese thee speeches and writing writings in Ame america ticla the 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