--We take the following significant and symptomatic remarks from the
Bahama Herald; (Nassan, N. P.,) of the 16th instant, which has reached us through the efficient and legitimate blockade:
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The Gladiator brings us the recent important debate in Parliament upon the outrages committed by Federal cruisers on British commerce, and upon the extraordinary conduct of the
American Minister in furnishing certificates of exemption from capture to certain British vessels.
We republish an article from the London
Times, commenting upon this debate.
Our readers will share with us in the general gratification that the repeated insults to Britain and the
British flag by the
Yankees, have at last moved Parliament to take some action.
The debate exhibits the return of a healthy state of public feeling.
Even Earl Russell was tempted to express indignation against the
Yankees.
We trust the home Government will now act promptly and vigorously.
If reparation is not immediately forth coming from our braggart neighbors, the honor of our flag demands that we should respond with a blow.
We have been long suffering, but patience is no longer a virtue.
It would now be a sign of pusillanimity.
We know this — if
England and another nation were at war, and an English cruiser captured a Yankee vessel bound on a legal voyage from
Philadelphia to New York, or if our cruiser charedand fired upon a Yankee vessel within full sight of the whole population of
Boston — we know that the entire
North would be in convulsions at the outrage upon the
American flag, and war meetings would be held from one end of the country to the other.
Our flag and our honor are just as dear to us, and we ought to be quite as quick to resent an insult to them.
If the blockade of these islands is not withdrawn, and if the unwarrantable seizures of British vessels bound on legal voyages between British ports or between a British and a neutral port, are not apologized for, the bitterness existing towards the
Yankees throughout.
Her Majesty's dominions, will lead to a serious collision.
It is for the
Yankees to decide.
If they choose the sword, so do we.
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