faatuftiad :ja spirit; it.is the ac t of a trait* to
his country; it is SOribes. the Turks ,aa, "refusing thejaitee , "'wicked" on his own grounds. We do not 'intend to carry poll.. without saying:that the arbitrators, eau ...frueown mne e, _1104:discussion into personality; and. we are so well aware of the In:short., we believe that there is not a Senteners,*,the'tter which inconeietencieskof Inimen nature, that it iapeSsible to suppose Mr. does net_advauee tlie,peogress of the falsehoocl,,:e, .
mir ol a.yo applied teeit, we will show. . poseeeees-Aerteite powers; is in *kuy respeeteee FrepreSe tr. -;ehn. Bright's letter is false. , It is indeed a tissue of falsehood et .1116,00u0,4rygta4,.their complexpwarillpty24;y* al some -1ti• —of that doubly false kind that uses the words of truth to produce *id is xegarded as a represent4iNt4 me Other pu17.' 4:falses_impression; Mr. Bright states part ef a case as, if be Were tiers of Parliament sot with hi* en,efey rilijecti,i' so statingithe whole. Eem inStance, to -prove 'that Yattel and the,law inthis ease he may be taken to spook foeAtts -of :notions are of no authority, he says—" I have no aeuh..0146 Diens is nothing in his 'letter to,stampitger owal that it Ametilian, war was a just war according to the principles laid dOriee is the.P_MductiOn ef a Men who staode **11-1-PPgfr .reig.ei to levy war, and the right of the citizens also to take up arms lineup- this etatement of the-Itassit% -in defence of the law of the land; it would regulate the law under r !view,isput ou record by: Mr. Jelps, which the contending parties of the community should carry on benefit of.the-suemy of our countiry,, yerfr _theiriwarfare, and more especially it would lay the rules for foruseng that worst office of a tresetReeslegm pifee,* 'the intervention of any foreign state on belielf of either patty t9 striving to underitine the 001111011f ctriViVnilt the quarrel. War, therefore, comes within the purview' of fag:- " When, the tune. comes for theymnen_topeele toed rieyjcifl national law; bat. no civil legist would look into his texts for any answer for these things ?" We a, not suppose t ate abstreect justification Of pelicy, wisdom, righteousness—things de- aot.Of folly will be excused trhf. writar „ou,the seorei, oho teraillied not by the texts, bet by political considerations. Thh have: no effeet—that, it is a ;mere brutune fulnien• , AmeriCsin war was a civil War; there were two parties to it ; its:eh flattish of a thunderbolt en the side of ,ikris1; 711i01,i to sideemaintained that the other had broken the municipal law; an mowhere? Does Mr. Bright for an inetmet,feney that it w it wee, contest that could not be deferred to any but the arbitie- -make-the Government of tins country' deimt,fieereethe proses merit of arias in a civil war. There Was, however, no breach of "of thewar ? Can he have any' 11CPC'thatAwilk t the 04 tela eseigaurists necessarily justified war levied hy a sovereign. prove, to work upon ; it may therefore inghtoe ,1.411, a More) elec,*esing Ids argument thus upon the partial. statenient of an al). natepeeseverance and 4 more energetic aetemitiron. e pro „eka,et rineiple which amounts to abstract falsehood; lifr. Bright of the war. Mr. Brightholds the war to deciAweeked "; heine0:- .„Efe @ to relate the present war, its origin and progress, in a mayed at the bloodshed, -the disturbaned of trade, the taxation .„'exactly parallel to that which the- Czar himself has used which it involves; and he;takeseitecourse to prolong that wicked ' _diplomatic payers. Mr. Bright says, "Two independent 1 waritterinerealie thelexation, to widen itheedlitt414angikiP4 t'3:PP- elqi aizients had a 'dispute, and we thriist Ourselves into the Oar- nonrage the priine author of the bloodshetle AAR:RI 714114Y we have by Writers on: the law of nations• andi Yet no men in his se3, HefindUlgee in tirade against- the wiehe .neeeee siddier „ will now say, that the policy, of' George the Third towards. p theibattlo-fieldetbeir Prueltiesathlundereugss SEE knerieen colonists was a wise policy; or that war a righteous of our:Roll:2e clueing the War didtPnit firer." Civil law would distinctly recognize the rights of the sore- gross m feeling arnOtitst te interentional law; and the civilian would be of no -authority on °La, people moved by such uneuinal.V.444 ,thepehject, unless the contending parties had broken the lalra lekd _people now exhibit? Intoxicating PAPA wee fof emir warfare. The case therefore is not in point: but if which the author of such an epistle mushwere, there was an American as well as an English side to thit that. But certain effeet it will bave.. 41i,t, and if the American war levied by George the Third Was deputation—deliberately Published by a Would not Mr. Bright be bound to confess that the Commons who has not hitherto stood:01 can war against that wicked George the Third was right- Czar toimagirie that suckqpinic04)#tyst, _ 'Yet he treats the war as if it had only its royal side, and and it'may make.him think that there gat au „ Mr. Bright chooses to overlook the fact that we had already es with Turkey which made us her ally; that the existing a tribution of Europe has been, during the whole of the present egeptury, as well as before it, a matter of oonsultation and arrange- Inv kekween the European Powers; and that the Russian °Can- pati n of Turkey would enable that Power to close-the Black Sea
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&kir compared fothefitftifandinterinitting oppression of Turlie. beings elan MI:kW* flePTeXtiatcrial,. ifflreaM St-tu,that note. skifya actieeneq,Cu ,One whose centralized rule would be'edifi6 ' be t', proceeds, e"(wenitl..:140YeJlUe%g 01?0 . 'fir onaFIP hanian plIooviRciel neegnatest „tItAs the Itusso-Greek Church, mining and the Vienna note, winch was afterwards ed upon , 4.0, yieegeresit in the Euiperor of Russia, that is to be reitsteitlighCilen reeommended by Alie OoyeeTmeeitteeef.,4 de cue Ane a, fke7Bos Torus. But, unless We are much mistaken, the Phrake, atul Prussia." 4344 " our,,Gov'Crilglqnt'WOn . lf, Pe Pcl- .sta eelted is purposely selected to point not to any recent period peite,te be,eettled ,.. e Lerd,Stratford de *del 9,c, Ory, not to any .priYileges in fact or by treaty best0YeW tateMpromisiogannedeeepiehsnee," and instiga, R.919PrOk ippni,the Greek religionists b grace of Sultans past or regent- ollateOmmodatiou evithilneeia." This stateme*„ e riWPIP 2 ieltiF protection of RussianEmperors or Czars of Muscovy; it. rents the wholCeeinue nf Invents. The storhesfetue„ %man kseipti to a far remoter period of history, when Constantinople anditseuthorehipis ntot.443gnite clear.) timisacret hietierm w the seat of universal empire, and all the glory and power diplomacy has yet sto be:Witten) -lux", 'nil afkle9me PeX Icirgam aidtuig his coreligionists. the Powers ou,git,t0: greened for the diepute,'' he atiye,1",icadmitte PrITi sf 431 r genre tia,d t tins,meeg, q,,' ru =have aSitea, and obtained fret* the..Ttirks privi2. .against 'Mir' Itridejto isthieh, ruliti3rgilifesi paresitgeo 1 livr those ma. lp to the hopes of NicheIaS., He wants no dittii tatechortistahlishingeany d'entIgniminn y, out of imer doetrine ; he wants no _holier faith, no purer respectdOnher powatelnd heThPresvisue vecn glish But he does want millions more of obedient gla1.8 Idinister at :CeinefunitiPopls,./and. the— ñs net yeagifig war to the death in the deadly breach—in the more praeti- times of the text which made lt.liSsia430,gosg:totg„ 'e Vienna eal. forms in which these emotions are manifesting :themselves. note were inserted by Prussia, - in: the Rues f, at. The The would-be Emperor of the East will inaugurate his ambition diplomatists of the other • Powers suffered Ike yes to he with the moatfamous siege of,iniodern times. Will he be content hoodwinked ; the Turkish Goreinnient 'was 'the, *1st to per tie accept the augury? His march to ConStantineple. How' ceive the stratagem; find it ,pereavered in resiefinee, notwitlie nearer.Will he be to that.long-dreamt-of goal, when the standing Lord -Stratford Be4er4fee idesire to settle the were of Sebastopol are level with the ground, end his Black Sea ter on the faith of the guaranteed beteepretation intendedlti —1.trialuigulphed by his own despair beneatiithe waves that have the four Powers:- the- arm deaes istanee eAigii;ad was Kifit tamed on through the whole of.-Afrtelikig Bright' to be honest, faithful, and humane in feeling and pun. -,71 It is the aet. of :a-traitor to bikeometryfe.; lin Bright is —of that doubly false kind that uses the words of truth to produce *id is xegarded as a represent4iNt4 me Other pu17.'
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