The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-24 00:00:00

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MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1856

INFORMATION of a vital character came to us at
one time by a direct line from its legitimate
sources, and the world has been led to believe
that the telegraph wires would have rendered this
course more certain and expeditious. Silly
thought! Good things are not thrown out of
official windows for the benefit of the undeserving,
nor are great or little evils to be suffered to go
forth to afflict the virtuous. Thus it is we hear
from newspaper correspondents in the Crimea,
what diplomacy contemplates in that western
hemisphere. To this " great circle sailing' in
politics we are, however, indebted for this strange
piece of intelligence from the camps before Se-
bastopol :—" A favourite camp rumour now is that
" two divisions of the army, under Sir COLIN CAMP-
BELL, will embark for Canada the moment peace is
" officially declared with Russia. The Highland,
" and Third or Fourth Divisions are likely to be
" the ones selected." To these momentous tid-
ings were added these few insulting and alarming
words :—" And right glad will they be to have
" look at the Yankees with Sir COLIN CAMPBELL
"as their Commander-in-Chief." The corres-
pondent of the Daily News is the author of these
war-fermenting contributions, and the exponent
of the political designs of the English Go-
vernment on the American Continent. Three
entire divisions of our army 70,000 strong to
be sent to Canada ! For what ? and at whose
desire ? If the people of this country do not
speedily demand an explanation, and an authori-
tative contradiction of these rumours, those of the
United states will. They will not wait to be
overtaken by the avalanche of war, and surprised
when least prepared. The news carried out by
the last mail will throw the entire Union into the
greatest excitement, even assuming that the
rumours" from the British Camp are wholly

had no dispute with America. The' broil corn.
menced with the Administration, and are we to go I
to war—to commit one of the, worst of henious
sins—to substantiate the folly of a, or any, govern-
ment ')

Experience suggests, and the wise
exercise of a high Constitutional right by the legis.
lature has given extraordinary sanctity to a very
different course. Lord CLARXNDON'S dispatches
are written in the temper and style so exclusively
the heirloom of undergraduates at our universi-
ties. He states his case in all its broadest phases,
and having magnified all the minor detail°
of the subject under consideration, to the last
degree, the noble Earl discusses them on the nar-
rowest logical basis, and with the utmost warmth
of a pedant. It is not denied, however, that
enlisting men within the territories of the United
States is a violation of the American laws. If it
were not, why should England appeal to the
Government of the Union to prevent filibustering,
expeditions against Cuba, Mexico, and the Mos-
quito territories ? If we urge the Washingfon
Cabinet one day to enforce the law against others,
what right have we to ask them to abrogate it the

next for our purposes ?
The Palmerston Ministry have offended in this
case, and they only are answerable for the conse-
quences. The President and congress of America
expect that reparation will be made ; and all they
expect or ask is, that the persons who acted con-
trary to their Municipal regulations, with a perfect
knowledge of what they were doing, shall be
recalled. This, the country must admit, is getting
well out of a scrape, in which no sober or orderly,
management of foreign affairs could have placed
us, If, therefore, the British troops in the Crimea
are to be sent to Canada, it is simply because the
Palmerston Ministry will not withdraw Mr.
Crampton from Washington, togethor with two
Consular agents, who, in the inlistment of soldiers
in the States, acted on our Ambassadors instruc-
tions. Being enabled to fix the burden of war,
in the present instance, on the right ;shoulders, the
community will, it is hoped, know how to act. Our
good sense, our morality, affection for one
common origin, and all that is imperative in
religion, prompt us to cry aloud—there must be no
war with America ! No shedding of the blood of
kinsmen, to gratify personal piques, or Ministerial
ambition—to gratify aristocracies by the publica-
tion daily of lists of brevets, and the distribution
of medals, which are becoming as common as fry-
ing pans, and other culinary utensils. These things a
NAPOLEON looks on in the present age as " epi sodes,',
and the sooner we abandon scars for cotton, and
cuts for breadstuff's, the better.
Canada certainly needs no coersion, and the
Americans will not submit to intimidation. Why
then send, or even talk of sending legions of men
across the Atlantic, who would be better employed,
better fed, and paid in working to support them-
selves, and supply the wants of a kindred people, and
drawing closer the ties of friendship, by which
civilisation must stand or fall ? This cannot be
advent of Pharisaical age, when men will make blood
sacrifices at the altar of mammon, and bring down
the eternal vengeance of Heaven upon the earth.
Is England to become a second Jerusalem, and
her people driven forth into the wilderness to mourn
°ver her lost grandeur and the sins of her rulers ?
To escape this, it behoves us to beware how we
embark in that accursed thing—war. It would be
the height of immorrality to introduce figures or
ordinary calculations into such a discussion, to
show on which side the interest of the people of
these isles, and those of America, are the most
apparent; or whether one could exist in peace and
affluence, without the other. It is enough to know,
that commerce is the harbinger of peace and plenty,
of mutual confidence and brotherly love among
all the nations of the earth ; and that those who, in
their policy, repudiate this well-proved fact, are not
fit to direct the destinies of civilised and Christian
countries. Men who are opposed to the strict
moral feelings of their times, caunot govern with
honour to themselves, or safety to a state. Those
who wilfully embark in a bad cause, cannot secure
a good effect; and is England going to brave what
she dare not believe to be right, and give way to
political dreams, which have filled the world with
enduring monuments of desolation ? To a war-
loving and blood-shedding Minister, we would
simply say—" Hot braves like thee may tight," but_to
the people of America, " keep to your ploughshares,"
and to those of Great Britain, " stick to your

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