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London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

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LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 2.

N a land of liberty, where freedom of speech is the
rule, a man cannot lie deprived of it because his brain
is softer in ti tome or Its% in %olum‘ than that of his
neighbour. The inconvenience is not confined to
public nu clings and the press; it extends to the
legislature- fe. where all classes and interests are
represented, blockheads must, in common fair-
news, be represented too. Hence it comes that
while the s"ability and progressive in.provss
sent of Eeglish and United States institutions
clearly demonstrate the rulers and legis-
lators of tho as countries to be Mr superior in practi-
cal sense to those of any other country, more non-
sense is sp ....en in Congress or the House of Com-
mons in a week, than escapes from a crafty despotic
government in years. The last mail from America
absolut, 1, flooded with the washy outpourings of
the no wen— of Senator I form. ts.
A fair specimen of the Donnus rant is the absurd
language he held respecting England. Adverting
to tin accusation brought against him by one of
his fellow-senators, of " attempting to comae un-
kind fi clings between the United States and
Englild." Mr. Ifuvimss " denied the charge its un-
just." And to prove its injustice he immediately
went on to .av:—‘• He had said frankly that ho did
not think I miland loves us, and that it was useless
to pretend we love her. In this connexion he re-
ferred to the fact that England is continually arming
on our coast, planting cannon on every barren
rock, pointing her gulls to Americo- If she is
friendly to us why dues she do this' If this be an
evidence of Our frier.dship we ought to reciprocate it
and point our guns at her." 'l'he pacific tendency,
veracity, and common sense of this rhodumontade
are quite on a par.
One of Ilimemiturs Doem.as's charges against
our unfortunate country is extremely rich. Mr.I3I.:TLER
having modestly remonstrated that England was not
quite so contemptible as Mr. Detect. ts represented
it—ray that America had iu some things received
useful information front England—the conciliatory
Doutit.ss rejoined, " While the Senator spoke of
Baglind pouting in her streams of refreshing iota:
ligence, I thought that the streams of abolition,
treason, and insurrection, which she had poured into
South Carolina and other slaveholding states of this
Galen, would at least excuse him from endorsing
these streams of literature under the name of ' Uncle
Tom's Cabin,' and other works—(tremendous ap-
plause in the gallery, and cries of 'Good, good')—
works libelling us and our institutions, and hold-
ing as up to the hate and indignation of the
world." Mr. Doect.as. it is evident, knows,
as the theatrical critics say, " how to bring
down the galleries." To see him " en-
dorsing a stream"—like a new Antos without his
dolphin—must have been a splendid melodramatic
spectacle. But, with all due deference for Mr.
Doent.as and his gallery admirers, it is scarcely fair
to hold Engl old responsible fur " Uncle 'font's Cabin,'
that unieniaLle piece of American pi oducc—a genuine
web of " American domestic." The hint, however,
may not be thrown away upon certain gentlemen on
this side cf the water who have recently shown them-
selves desirous of notoriety, and have aimed at
it by ostentatiously disclaiming sentiments
of hostility towards the French people which
:mac of their countrymen ever expressed.
These gentlemen have sent a deputation to
the Emperor of FRANCE to protest in courtly
language that they neither believe nor sympathise
with the National Assembly which protested against
the coup dYtat, nor with any one who calls in ques-
tion the wisdom and paternal benevolence of its
author. This they assure us is the only way to
preserve peace with France. Well, as it is to be
presumed that they are equally anxious to preserve
peace with other nations, they have nothing for it
but to get up and procure signatures to another de-
claration, and send another deputation to Ame-
rica, to vow and protest to Mr. DOUGLAS, and other
chivalrous assertors of the great " national
institution," that they neither believe nor
sympathise with the author of " Uncle Tom's
Cabin, or any other impugners of the abso-
lute wisdom and humanity of negro slavery and the
internal slave trade of the United States.
In sober earnest the outburst of Mr. DOUGLAS, in
the Senate of the United States, ought to re-awaken
the courage of our panic-mongers who believe that
war must be the necessary consequence of any free
and fearless criticism of the acts and character of any
foreign Government by the press cr people of Eng-
land. if bard words pelted at the heads, not merely
of a Government but of a people themselves,
could have brought on war, England and
America must have been fighting long ago
—for wo have I fOUGLASES on this aide of
the water too. Well-founded blame of a foe
reign Government does not irritate its subjects ; if
England is unpopular in Germany, it is not on ac-
count of its recent tree speaking about the despots of
that country, but on account of reminiscences of the
time when a CASTLEREAG 11, in the name of England,
and supported by an immense majority of the Eng-
lish Parliament, aided those despots to trample on
the liberties of Germany. It is as safe as it is ho-
nourable for the English people and the English
press honestly and openly to speak out their abhor-
rence of injustice and oppression wherever they
exist.
The good sense of the great majority of the Ame-
rican people rebukes the folly of " stump orators " of
the DOUGLAS school, and keeps it from doing mis-
chief. And here be it remarked, that in justice
to the American people who refuse to be misled by
such firebrands, it is the duty of English statesmen
to abstain from anything that may impart plausibi-
lity to their misrepresentations. The theme from
which Mr. DOUGLAS diverged into his amusing rho-
domontade was the alleged conduct of the British
Government in Central America. Now we for our
part feel morally convinced that neither the people
nor the Government of England have any hankering
after territorial aggrandisement, or the obtaining of
political influence to Central America, or among its
wretched anarchies. But the English Government
has been too ready to lend a credulous ear to
English adventurers, whom bankruptcy at home, or
an irregular unsettled disposition, have sent forth
to smuggle and intrigue in those regions; and the
consequence has been that while it has only sought
to protect Englishmen whom it fancied aggrieved, it
has sometimes had the appearance of countenancing,
promoting, and taking advantage of their brainless
and dishonest machinations. The sooner the English
Government backs out of its interference in the
paltry squabbles of the savages of Mosquitia, and the
semi-savages of Honduras and Nicaragua, the better
will it be for its own reputation.
In speaking our mind thus frankly, however, of the
errors of our own countrymen, we are bound in fair-
ness to speak with equal frankness of the errors of
Americans. And to this end we must protest against
the monstrous assumption that no European power
has a right to interfere in the politics of American
States, or to establish colonies in American waste
lands. There is no European nation that carries on
commerce with Mexico, Brasil, Chili, or any other
American State, but has an equal right to contram
alliances and conduct negotiations with thaw States
that the Republic of North America has. The
citizens of the United States have no " dog-in-
the-manger' right to exclude European settlers
from waste reguns in North or South America
which have not yet been taken possession of, either
by erllSOVell or any other nation, or to prevent
them
from forming settlements within the territories
of other American States by the consent cf the Go.
vernments. The " Mosaor. doettinu" was honest and
endurable as Mospos conceived it. In the infancy
of the Republic, he feared that European monarchs
might loirromid it by rtl.,uitr Mt tP.t to :set agares-
sivel agaiest Republican i..stltu'a..l., Of that
Wen is now no danger. The men who affect to
adopt the Mosnot: policy, now contemplate applying
it to the justification of very different ends -
dream is of isdednite nceer-ending " annexation."