The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-28 00:00:00

commerce, derange our national resoUrces/ and
throw us back for half a century, in respect of
pidsperity, wealth, and development' Whether_
we estimate tiiirsetiree as helplessly at his mercy,

or as abundantly powerful td conquer him, is it
not folly .on -our part to provoke hied to war P
Thus anxiously have we been remonstrated

as to our unhesitating denunciations of Louis

I\IAVoLtoN,
.by many largely interested in the.
petite difd p'tosperity of the country; Whose
patriotism we dare "fat question, and for whose
judgment and wisdom vie ctitertBin profound
respect. • We would now respectfully ode' t one

or two .“•reasqlis why" -we have so written.
What is the great mission of this country, by a
faithful adherence to which in times past., she has

prospered, and in time to come she may Continue

. .
td Mantairt the foremost place among the nations P.
What*anici tilf,tirdiict be without a free cfonstitu-
tion, representative gtilieinnienfi the right of
private judgment, the liberty of the press, an'd an

unfettered and enlightened public opiniori? For
these the founders of our present prosperity and

comfort Sought and died ; and we, their des-
cenddnts; as we respect the memory of Our fore-
fathers, and N;ali?e the privileges they have con-
ferred upon us, „ maintain our blood-bought
freedom as our most precious* and efest sacred
birthright. Peace may be necessary to ite
enjoyment and further developmeut of ,our
patrimony ; but, when peace endangers our

most valued inheiittiricef war becomes an

imperative duty. The reigning pecter in France
is a great military and aggressive desgatistn,
under whose baneful shade liberty can exist only
in name,—a tyranny under whose meretricious
gaze .tiie freedom even of other nations is an irri-
tating eyesore, fa blot out which is the
tyrant's evil mission. Look upon. this
picture and upon that—upon free England and
despotic France. Each embodies an anta-
gonistic principle so diametrically opposed to
each other that one of them is necessarily destined
to annihilation. England is sustained by the.
affection and devotion of her people's hearts
while France nictintains her position by virtue of
six hundred thousand bayonets, An alliance.
between England and France, tis presently
governed, is a highly artificial, unreal, and
merely temporary expedient, devised by the
Emperor far his own aggrandisement,. and for
the humiliation cif England. When the sun
grows weary of giving light, and darkness
assumes the place of day ; when the most oppos-
ing elements in nature commingle in closest
affinity, then, and not till then, can we believe
in a cordial alliance between this country and

the present ruler of France. Louis NAroLEosz's
policy towards England is as insidious and
dangerous as it is adverse. Cloaking himeelf
under the guise of friendship, and uttering pro-
fessions of peace, he is secretly engaged in
undermining us at home and abroad; Ice would
destroy our prestige among the nations;
would derange our financial resources and rob us
of out commerce.; and, having thus gradually
and stealthily crippled us, he hopes ultimately to
make our country an easy prey, and on the ruins
of which he would plant a throne from which his
imperial mandates might issue unquestioned to
all the world.
Be the French Emperor's intentions what they
may, we know that he maintains-a land. and sea
force, which can only be useful for aggressive
purposes; and thereby he forces us either to trust
for our national existence to his forbearance, or
to arm oursslves, even in time of peace, at a cost
which renders the choice between a hollow alli,
ante and open war, practically almost valueless.
Can we trust anything to his honour or truth-
fulness after the 'affair of Savoy and Nice, in
regard to which even Lord JOAN RUSSELL con-
fessed that LOUIS NAFOLE6N had deceived Eng-
lanct? And again, even "were he inclined to
avert a rupture with us, is he not, _in a great
measure, the slave of the enormous military
organisation he has called into existence ? Arm
then we must, and that to the teeth. Subject
to the terrible expenditure which this involves,
we are, moreover, constantly open to those
anxious and disturbing panics which torment us
like nightmares in our sleep. It is part of Louis
NAPOLEON'S. scheme to do so; and we may not
escape from them while he occupies the throne of
France. Freed from the fear of invasion at-home
by the perfecting-of our Volunteer Army, and
the completion of ample fortifications all round
the country, we should still have the anxious
responsibility of maintaining inviolable oy..r
wide-spread colonial dominions, and of keep-
ing open a highway on the ocean for
free communication between them and the mother
country. Were it a question, then, of mere
expediency or cost, we donbt much whether, in
the long run, an immediate declaration of war,
not against France so much as against its un-
principled ruler, would not be found the more
economical course to pursue. Upon England was
devolved the costly mission of removing from
Europe the great originator of the present-French
policy ; and we believe it .is her unavoidable
destiny to perform the same service for his
nephew, and the sooner she is ready for the task,
the easier will be its accomplishment.
The Emperor of France is an astute and power-
ful Ruler; and it were well if we could live in
_ peaCe and enjoy prosperity in alliance with him.
Believing, however, that his ambitious sway is
incompatible with freedom in his own or in neigh-
bouring nations, and that he contemplates our
subversion and humiliation, we denounce the
alliance as a hollow truce. Knowing the.incon-
trollable restlessness of his 'armed hordes, and'
bending beneath the costly armaments they entail
upon us, we consider that truckling sycophancy
and stifling silence on the part of the people or of
the press of this country would be • unworthy of
our courage and rosources as a nation ; inconsistent
with intelligent conviction and prudent fore-
thought, and more likely to provoke aggression
than to prevent it. We have no wish to offer a gra-
tuitous personal insult to Louis NAPOLEON, far
less to the brave and generous French. nation.
Defence, not defiance, is our motto. But we
should fail in our duty to justice, to humanity,
and to patriotism, if we did not declare the truth,
that a powerfully-armed burglar is at large in
Europe, that he has designs upon our freedom
the desire
slur:
and our property, anNe, at least,dthatif
haywedoenot se
to hunt • him down, v
and the ability to protect and to hold our own.
Silence under such circumstances would be suicidal.
The people of this country must be aroused to a
full sense of their danger. Our statesmen must
be given to understand that we will endure no
more trifling with thilk archenemy. Let him
reduce his army to a peace footing, and cease
intermeddling with the affairs of his neighbours,
and then perhaps we shall believe that " the
Empire is peace." Until then, we shall not hesi-
tate to denounce his insane policy, and to expose
his treacherous schemes.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On 'Thursday morning an old man
named William Lindop, sixty-three years of age, a boot-
maker, who lived in 16, Pleasant-street, was got lying
in -Warren-street in a state of -insensibility, and was
taken to the Workhouse, where he died. lle was not
sensible after being taken to the 'Workhouse. An
inquest will be held on the body this day.