ountries.' He then gives--all in the same interminable note (page
614)--an extract from _The Morning Chronicle_, of May 16, 1860, of
which I give you this delicious morsel: 'No blacks, no cotton, such
is the finality.' At page 609, he speaks of the 'incompatibility of
confiscation of property with the present state of civilization.'
At page 609, he quotes, with evident delight, the sanctimonious
despatch of Lord John Russell about sinking ships in Charleston
harbor, which his lordship calls a 'project only worthy the times
of barbarism;' and the American annotator, who could use page after
page to degrade his own Government for emancipating slaves, of
course could not be expected to refer to any of the precedents that
would have silenced Lord John, and have justified the United
States; and he therefore passes on with no reference to them.

'At page 669, Mr. Wheaton says: 'The validity of maritime captures
must be determined in a court of the captor's Government,' etc.
This American editor does not so much as allude to the fact, that
while he is writing, the highways of the ocean are lighted by the
fires of American merchantmen, plundered, and then burned, without
condemnation of any court, by vessels fitted out in English ports,
in open violation of the first principles of international law, and
which have never been in any port under the jurisdiction of the
piratical Confederacy!

'Some of his indications of sympathy with the rebellion are quite
in excess of those of Lord John, with whose views, on the whole, he
seems well enough pleased. For example, at page 254, Lord John is
quoted as follows: 'Has a commission from the _so-called_ President
Davis,' etc.; but at page 107 and generally, the American editor,
not willing to imply that there is any doubt about the reality or
permanency of the Confederate concern, nor being willing to offend
its managers, speaks of 'the President of the Confederate States,'
and 'an act of Congress of the Confederate States,' etc.; and when
he reaches page 535, as if to set Lord John a better example (and I
believe there had been some Confederate victories about the time he
was writing that note), he says: 'A proclamation was issued by
_President Davis_, on the 14th of August, 1861, ordering all
citizens adhering to t