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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], England and the United States. (search)
ustment is at hand. Great Britain, through her Ministers, will require of Mr. Adams an explanation and back out from the "pass;" but Mr. Adams will be saved from any humiliation from the fact by the contemporaneous act of seizing the Alexandria in compliance with his impudent demand that the British Government should allow no vessel suspected to be destined for the rebel service to leave her ports. Could there be a more amicable and mutual settlement of threatening difficulties? As Mr. Laird said in Parliament, there is no difference in principle in furnishing one belligerent with a ship and another with guns and powder and saltpetre. But Lords Palmerston and Russell, in the language of their great countryman will, no doubt, "like scurvy politicians seem to see the things" they "dost not." Meantime, of this quarrelling and embracing of the lion, and the whatever he is of the White House, let us continue to whip the Yankees and we shall shape diplomacy to our own taste ul