TWO DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE: ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA AT HALIFAX; Papers Before Parliament Concerning the War in America (2/24/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/24/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

HALIFAX, Saturday, Feb. 22.

The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, from Liverpool Feb. 8, at 1 P.M., via Queenstown 9th, arrived here at 9 o'clock this evening. She has forty passengers for Boston, but no specie for that port. She brought £50,000 for Halifax.

She passed the Arabia, bound to Liverpool, on the 9th.

The Hibernia, from Portland, arrived at Liverpool on the 9th.

Six sets of Parliamentary papers concerning the American civil war, &c., have been laid before Parliament. Not fewer than forty-five official communications have passed about the Nashville and Tuscarora.

In January, 1861, Earl RUSSELL instructed Lord LYONS, in case of advice being asked by President LINCOLN's Cabinet, to reply that Her Majesty's Government will decline, unless both parties apply for counsel.

The policy of the British Government in February, 1861, in the event of President LINCOLN raising a question with Great Britain, is laid down in the following terms: Her Majesty's Government would, in the first place, be very forbearing. They would show by their acts how highly they valued the relations of peace and comity with the United States, but they would take care to let the Government which multiplied provocations and sought for quarrels, understand that their forbearance sprang from a consciousness of strength, and not from timidity or weakness.

Lord RUSSELL reports the substance of a conversation he had with YANCEY, YOST and MANN, the delegates who waited upon him to urge the recognition of the Confederates. His answer to these gentlemen was, that England would observe strict neutrality. Earl RUSSELL said: Her Majesty cannot acknowledge the independence of nine States until the fortune of arms, or a more peaceful mode of negotiation shall have more clearly determined the respective positions of the two belligerents.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Two Days Later from Europe: Arrival of the Niagara at Halifax – 2
The Campaign in Tennessee: Gen. Buell Working his Way Toward Nashville – 2
News from Washington: Proposal to Send Gen. Scott as Special Envoy to Mexico – 3
From the Southern Coast: Details of Operations Against Savannah – 4-5
Editorial: An Apprehended Amnesty – 5
Editorial: The Flight from Bowling Green-The Situation at Nashville – 5-6
Editorial: Congress and the Rebel Flag – 6
The Execution of Gordon – 6
The Case Concluded – 6

[PeterPrinciple]

There is strong feeling everywhere that the property of every Southern rebel should be confiscated..............

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Probably, however, such a step can only be regarded as a war measure,

Hitherto, we believe, the Government has held that such an act of confiscation would prolong the war, and render fixed and durable peace impossible. It has acted upon that belief, and, unless we are greatly mistaken, the results, thus far, have vindicated the wisdom of its action.

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There is much more wisdom back then. I hope the confiscation of bank accounts in Canada is held as an act of war by the people.

I hope we also consider it an act of war.

Read in context for more info

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Good points.

The quotes PeterPrinciple cites above are from the editorial “An Apprehended Amnesty,” on page 5 of today’s NYT post.

[chajin]

In the very last paragraph is the reference of a letter from Napoleon (III, I think) to Edward Everett. What Everett doesn’t know is that in about a year and a half he is going to have the privilege of giving the “other” Gettysburg Address, the two-hour one that no one ever reads. (Lincoln was second-billing on that day.)

Everett died three months before Lincoln, in January 1865, and didn’t see the end of the war except from wherever he ended up for eternity. The only reason most people know him is that a famous movie character actor was named after him, Edward Everett Horton.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I remember Horton best as the comic relief in Fred Astaire movies. (As if those needed comic relief.)