The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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English neutrality.

An Irish paper very pertinently suggests to Lord John Russell that whilst he under takes to have the existing legislation of England amended so as to prevent rams being built in England for the rebel service, he might as well have the enlistment laws amended so as to prevent men being enlisted for the Federal service, 75,000 having been supplied already from Ireland alone, and Lincoln being engaged in perfecting measures for enlisting a great many more. Lord Russell has now an opportunity of showing exactly what British neutrality amounts to. We have no idea that he will act upon the suggestion of the Irish journal. His sympathies are all with the Yankees, and he would rather that Ireland were stripped of her able bodied population than not. He wants Ireland for his own people, as Seward wants the South for his, and what becomes of the Irish is a matter of profound indifference to the model philanthropist. The day may come, however, when they will be needed, as they always have been needed, to fight England's battles, and then the just retribution for the inhuman and hypocritical policy of the British Administration will begin.