The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-28 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES

The Administration sent one of its members to
this city last week to make a speech which, from
beginning to end, consisted of little else than a
violent invective against the Government and the
ruling classes of Great Britain. It seems deter-
mined to inflame to the utmost the natural resent-
tnent towards that country aroused by the escape
from its ports of vessels built for the rebels to prey
upon our commerce. All the Administration
press chime in with the Administration orators in
such a manner as to indicate a concerted attempt to
kindle popular feeling on this subj€ct, in respect to
which it is so sensitive. But what is the Adminis-

tration driving at in these appeals to popular pas-
sion ? Hs it been seized with a new madness, and
is it attempting to prepare the country for war with
England? Has it counted the cost and the hazards
of such a war, undertaken at a time when it has
already on its hands one of the greatest wars of
modern times—a war which demands all the vigour,
courage, and resources of the country ? It is not
possible that the Administration can be so de-
mented as to undertake two wars while it is doubt-
ful whether it has ability to succeed in one.
What does it, then, mean by this industrious fan-
ning of dangerous passicms ? The object is per-
fectly transparent; it is to crutch its feeble popu-
larity on the strong anti-Anglican feeling of our
Irish population. It will find itself entirely mis
taken in the effect of its demagogue appeal. Our
Irish fellow-citizens are too intelligent not to see
through the trick. In fact they have seen am
es,
at-
tempt to play a similar game by the s tim
and their remembrance of the huteiliat
ng result rti-
too fresh for them to believe thatrthcis
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England than the spurious e e towa inistra
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tion will ever exhibit any
°oth rage of a bully. No
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saallmheanAgthinist our headsAdministration than
boldly bearded the
British lion,
until he began to show his teeth, when
it turned tail like a whipped spaniel. For God's
sake, let us have no more, of that ! It does not be-
come a great and proud Governnaent to vapour and
bully and utter idle menaces. That Mr. Lincoln's
Government will ever do any thin
and bully toward Great Br' • g more than vapour
Britain is whatnobody
be-
lieves. The idea that it
larity among on Can win any cheap popu-
r gallant Irish l
other class of cit',ZEWS b popu ation or any
y assuin I
a ugh tone o- ward a nation before -wh om g
it so so lately coweredt is
simply Preposteroi is. Its recourse to such arts be
tokens b
conscioli - weakness with the people. The
President cannot declare war even if he were so
disposed, and he has
no right to complicate our re-
lations with a foreign Power,
and thereby bring on
hostilities without the approbation of Congress.
Congress is clothed with the war-making power,
and we are confident President Lincoln has no in-
tention to usurp the functions of that body in this
respect, unless he has made up his mind that he
will never succeed in subduing the South, and wants
a foreign war as an excuse for backing out. But
we do not believe this of him, nor can we believe
him blind to the fact that a war with Great Britain
would insure the independence of the South.--. Yew
York World.