The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-18 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

We take the-following sensible article from the NOW York Daily
Times received be the Areble : —Any one who bas ma le a practice of
perusing the orations of Arasrieen l'ilinisters at Lord Mayor's dinners
in London, or of British Ministers in Washington, or whereas listened
to the oratory at Mr. PEABO 01 Ss Star and Garter dinners; or, in fact,
at any festive gathering is Weiser Eugeishmen and Americans And
themselves in company, and feel called upon to make a speech, will
perfectly understand us when we say that we are heartilsolsiek of
°fraternizing "ia the ordinary teceptation- of the term. We find it
abSelatcly ilauseating to be told anything mere about the identity of.
origin and of laiegnage of the two peoples. We know vary well that
SISARESPEan't is ours, and Ssittesoel 19 ours, and JACK CAVE and OWEN
GLItiNDO KKK are ours.' 'We ktiow that we drew a long bow at Creasy.
and sparred very hard at Agincotere. We know that we extorted
MsgnaCharta from John at Runnymede, and had our throats cut in
the Wars of the Roses. All this, and-a great deal more of the same
tort of intelligence, is pourer' into our ears every cloy by benevoientindi-
vidnate Wire ate ro deubtsincerely anxious that the two countries
should be united in the bonds of harmony and good fesiine„ but who,
we astat sty, are yearly be:muerte greater bores The grest truth
that America toed England are mo e closely united in all sorts of
ways than any two countries in the world is now an well established,
that we eernestly counsel sll postprandial orators to leave the time
a!ene and' find some more inters ping topic on which to- expend their
enera'tee - There is one breech of the suejeet. howsver, which has
not been, be eny means, so wall explored, and eel whieh a good dean
of light might be - thrown, if our jeurnalists were a little more
honest. and our pontielana a little les knavish. We commend most
cordi-s'ly to the attention of ell " representative mere" w oie tongues
may be isioiest by good f cd arid good wine, the delnsion se rile in
this coantry, that the English are devoured by je lousy of us, and et
forever ',hitting our detriment and flowage. it is high time we got
rid of this tarriiee incubus. It has as yet served no purpose on earth
except to furnish a ladder for dernagoeues to climb Into power, and
to creeks the uneirupelous and arabi ions to trwle in our fears and
our hater. We are glad to flail that Lord Napier addressed himaelf
to t niS point, at tee St Gaorge'e Dinner, elth groat farce and felicity.
and we hope his example may do something toward driving haekoeyd
compliments oat of use Hs said—
" Gentlemen—l tiave, since my arrival, sometimes oboeeved an line
pres eon in the United states, that the development of this country is
reeerdee with jail insy by England, this Is ail erroneous eteinten.
(Chests ) Yon will bear me out lit the assertion that the last vestiges
of termer prejudice, founded on the animosities of two unhappy wars,
are being very rapidly extingulehed. The peaceful and legitimate
expinsion of the United Staten forms a hitter of satisfaction and
pride to every reesoaaele Englishman. That typension forms the
best newt and relief for our superabundant population ; it forms the
best maiket for our increasing ind.istry ; it is the triumph of our
labour and orr erte, of our laegea te, our religion, and cur blood.
(Loud cheers.) No thoughtful Englishman can contemplate this
ueparalleled spectacle of future greflominance without emotions of
thankfulness and praise. No thoaghtfal foreigner can regard it
without a sigh, because Providence has not re:ter-eel the future em-
pire of the world.for his own tongue end his own raise." (Cheers.)
No one who possetees the slightest familiarity with the current
opinions of English society upon American progresa and institutions,
can avoid feeline the truth and force of these remarks. Oar absurd
estimate of our own importance has prevented a great number of
good people Wills country from getting hold of the very obvious
and simple truth, that it is possible for the same events to aear very
different iespecte on different sides of the Atiant'e; that Are impor-
tance of almost every incident in history la en importance purely
relative, and that the lees deeply our interests are involyad, the less
strongly are our passions roused. It is a common weakness CO Pain
persons to suppose that the attention of the public is absorbed by
their duinge,and sayings, and looks. When Jones. the dry goods
clerk, walks down Broadway in the morning, he fancies every one
he meets is horrieled 17 the annoying pimple which but yesterday
sprang up on his nese, just as he imagines t tat his loots or his coat
-are the of jeers of universal admiration. There is jnst as much that
is undignified and pitiful in constantly suspecting people of hating
te, and plotting :against us, as in suspecting them of envying sad
admiring ut Both spring from over-susceptibility to entwetd Rifle-
ences and want of self confidence. The War of Independence was,
by ao means, as stupendous 11,1 event for the English as for us. The
melee' the people in England knew end said little about it. Those
who did were violently opposed to it. The ablest orator tltah England
ever bad spent his last breath in protesting against it. It was °seen-.
daily a war begun and carded on by a corrupt oligarchy for base at.d
cermet m dives. It has left no impression except a purely historical
one upon the minds of the English public. Eiglieh school hisrories
speak of it with marked disseetrobation. English boys real of
)honker's Hill and Lexington with almost as hearty. a apt-neater, for,
the Coloni ita es they ever feel for Clive on the Sold of reesy, or
Napier at Moodkee. Americans are net their natural enemies. They
do not fight them on the pliy-..round.• They are taught •to recite
Patrick Hsnry's speeches with-fereour, and piece Weseington's in the
same cateeory with Hampden', and Falkland, and Sydney. No Eng-
lishman ever speaks of the father of his-country as a foreigner with-
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air, cling any perceptible indication of the fact that he was not from
top to toe an Ensll-h genie:eat). The United States have been
tenfold mere profitable to the Mother .Country as an indepeneent
, nation, than they could ever have teen' as dependent
Colonies. Everybody in V nglaud inowa alt. this. If we
owned the whole of the continent from Gre,enland to Cape Horn, no
one would profit more by site exzermioe of oar dominion that Eng-
land herself. -Wherever the star-strangled banner waves, it waves
over a goodly and rapidly increasing market far English goods. The
rah-le tenitoncy of the Briti di colonial pre icy* for the last 20 years has
been to reader the Colonies indep ndent of her: or abandon them to
their own devices. As tar as ee:egoverninent g es, Canada is ro-day
in as good a posit= as the Unite I States, plus scene thcoreandi o I
ssliliers for the defenCe of her frontiers, supported out of the British
tressary. Mir certaiaiy does net indieste much deiire on
-the part
of the Crown to repress our growth. To allow he process of asstaii-
lation to go oa Inoue of her own colonies lying on oar frontier, with-
out affording the sl-ghtest evidence of qualm or mie,rivlng, beertainly
not evidence of hatred of our institutions, or jealousy of our progress.
We certainly cannot think at this moment of anyth ng In the Prei,eiit
state of pestle feelleg more discreditable ant more wonuding to oar
pride, than the fee-. that the meanest stamp-orator has only to month
demanciations of Great Britain in bad Eng iih, to call sown thunders
of applause from assemblages of the frce.t and most enlightened
people on the globe.