"Judge Lynch" and an English M. P.
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Thurlow Weed's last letter from
Europe contains the following:
I have met distinguished personages, members of the Ministry, the
Government, and of Parliament, at dinners and breakfasts, with whom I have conversed fully upon American questions; and while I am not at liberty to use names or publish conversations, I may say that the
Union has many and strong friends here.
And I am sorry to add that, although the
Trent trouble is out of the way, we shall need all that those friends can do for us. The moment Parliament meets, agitation of American questions will commence.
The blockade will be attacked from one quarter, while another section will demand a recognition of the independence of the
Confederate States.
Nor is it from
England alone that this kind of pressure will come.
France is even more restive than
England under the blockade.
At breakfast, a few days since, a distinguished member of Parliament, who has been much in
America, remarked with emphasis that he had formerly entertained a high opinion of ‘ "
Judge Lynch,"’ looking with much favor upon that species of impromptu jurisprudence known as ‘"Lynch Law,"’ but since it failed to hang
Floyd,
Cobb.
and
Thompson, of
Buchanan's Cabinet, he had ignored and was disgusted with the system.
Mr. Sanford, our Minister to
Brussels, who is indefatigable in efforts to aid our Government, has purchased a cargo of arms, saltpetre, clothes, &c., and chartered the Melets, an iron steamer, which he dispatches from
Antwerp on Sunday under the command of
Capt. Eastman, of
Maine, a thorough sailor and devoted Union man, of whose experience and daring the
Government will do well to avail itself.
