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The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Drought in New York. (search)
English sentiment upon Butler's Proclamamation.
We have late foreign news, through the New York Herald of the 25th Cop e found in our columns this morning.
It will be seen that Butler's proclamation was the subject of a debate in both Houses Palmerston and Earl Russell denounced the proclamation of Butler, and they but reflected the undivided sentiment of the Bri ncumbent upon the Federal Government to disavow the act of Butler, and hoped that it would.
Lincoln, thus admonished, may, isavow it — especially after the subsequent declaration of Butler, (made after there was time for the disavowal at Washingto of British cruelty, by way of offsetting the brutalism of Butler, which it neither denies nor defends.
The Herald editor h will be inflamed against the United States, by the act of Butler especially, and by its brutal and cruel measures generally ment, that had Lord Lyons received official information of Butler's proclamation, he would have felt justified in protesting
The sentiment of France.
The latest foreign news brings nothing with reference to the sentiment of France upon Butler's proclamation, that unparalleled document not having been received there at latest dates.
The French are a very sentimental people, and there are none more critical in the matter of the proprieties of life and the rules of delicacy and humanity.
We doubt not that they will be fully up to the English in the proper feeling aroused by the barbarism of Butler.
They were somewhat more slow in their waking up to the real character of the present war on this side the Atlantic, and the cruelties of the Northern despotism; but being awakened, we believe they will travel a little faster than the English.
Butler's proclamation will stimulate their feeling and push them ahead much more rapidly.
It is creditable to humanity that great Governments are, through the people, influenced by sentiment as well as policy; and in the judgment upon our cause before the world, t