The New York Chamber of Commerce and the Alabama.
The New York Chamber of Commerce is still much exercised on the subject of the
Alabama. --At a meeting on the 2d instant,
Mr. Low, in consequence of intelligence being received that four more Confederate steamers are being built in
Liverpool, and others on the
Thames, offered the following resolutions, which were adopted:
- First--That through the active instrumentality of the subjects of Great Britain the so called Confederate States are furnished with ships, men, arms, and ammunition, with which to war upon the United States.
- Second--That without such foreign aid the States in revolt against the Government of the United States would be powerless to effect any injury to American commerce on the high seas.
- Third--That this war upon American commerce, carried on by ships builds and manned, in Great Britain, is not rebuke by the British press generally, is not discouraged by the public sentiment of a once friendly nation, claiming, to be governed by high and honorable principles, and most effectively and thoroughly arrested by the strong will and stronger arm of the British Government.
- Fourth--That as a result of the foregoing facts and conclusions; the more ants of the United States are subjected, in a certain degree, to the evils that would attend a state of war with-Great Britain, and are compelled to witness the carrying trade of their country transferred from their own vessels to British not my under all the sanctions and advantages of peace and neutrality to the later, while the source of this great perkily threatening to drive American commerce from the ocean, is of British origin Now, therefore,
Resolved, That a committee of ten be appointed to take into consideration the foregoing, and to report at a special meeting to be called for the purpose, what action it becomes this Chamber to adopt in the promises.
