The land and naval forces of the
United States have been put
in motion to repress the insurrection
The true character of the pretended
State is at onse revealed

new

never won a

It is seen to be a. Praver existing
in pronunciamento only. It has
field. It has obrained
forks that were not virtually
betrayed into it's hands or seized
in breach of trust. It commands
not a single port

the coast

onor any highway out from it's pretended. Capital by land. Hender these circumstances Great Britain. it called upond to intervene and give it body and independence resting by continy ou measures of suppression. British recognition would be British inter

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vention to create within our own

territory a hostile state by overthrow ing dus Republic itself. When dis act of intervention is distinctly performed we from that hour shall cease to be friends and [be. Come once more, as we have twice before been forced to bea Com enemies of Great Britam As to the treatment of pri

naturs in the insurgent service that this is a

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will

Lay

question éxclusively our own.
We treat them as pirates.. They
are our own citizens or persons
employed by our citizens, prey.
ing on the commerce ofour
try: of Great Britain Chall
Choose to recognise them as
lawful belligerents, and five.
them shelter from our pursuit
and punishment, the laws
Nations afford
quate and proper remedy,

of

an ade.

you and we shall avail ourcilved (of ita iftner while you need not to

say

saw that you

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can

nie majesty's Government
avord all there difficulties
It invited as in 1856 to accede

ever.

to the declaration of the bon
gress of Paris, of which body
Great Britain was herself a
enewber, abolishing privatur
ing everywhere in all cases
and for
You have our
authority to propose to her our
accession to that declarations
of the refuse to receive it it
can only be because the is
willing to become the pation
of privationy when armed at

our devastatione

These positions

as war may

two, or even ouvre
one.
War in

European natimes

any case is as exceptionable from. From the habits as it is revolting to the sentiments of the American people. But of it ame it will be fully teen that it results firme the action of Great Britain, aut our own, that Great Britain will have decided to fraternize without waiting to hear finis you

with

on dimectic

monstrances and our

having heard them.

every

either

au re.

wing or after beining War in defence of nativial life

is not immoral, and was in defence of

discipline of nations.

inevitable part of the

to that race

to

The dispute will be between the European and the Amencan branches of the Portish race. All who belong will expecially deprecate it: as they ought. It may well be believed that men of every cace and Kindred will deplore it. A. was not unlike it correct between the Dame parties occurred at the close of the last century Europe atoued by forty years error that Great Britain. of Cuffering for the

committed in provoking that contests

eccon the social care which will peat esc follow away not be to lung hit they

will be

- general. When they shall have ceased
think, be seen, whatever

it will, we

away have been the futumes of other meations that it will artile the United States that will

have come out

out of them with its precint constitution altered or it's honestly obtamed Britain has but to wait a few mouths any depee abridged Great and all her present inconveniences will cease with all on om

troubles of the

take a different course the with calculate. for herself the ultimate as well as the immediate consequences, and will consider what position The will hold when the shall have forever lost the sympathies and the affections of the only nation on whose sympathies and affections she has a natural clain. L making that calculation the will do well to remember that is the controversy the proposes shall be actuated by neither hrive nor

to open

це

paflim, un cupidity, chand simply

nor auction; but we shall

in the principle of self preservation and that on cause will involve the independence of nations and the rights of human nature I am, his respectfully your obtient do

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