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

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES

The A4ministration 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 iLflime to the utmost the natural resent-
ment 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 subject, 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-

fulw
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tthois
succeedin
industrious
fan-
ning of dangerous passions ? The object is per-
fectly transparent ; it is to crutch
its feeblepoopnue
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Irish fellow-citizens are too intelligent not
en an at
through the trick. In factm thbeyy
thhaey;ainsee parties,i
tempt to play a similar
atonodcon
ratlly. No
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oa ted,wants
fresh their for them remembrance to i:.:)7t:tvheee
that - humiliatingb is dwriet,7Bwittar
toward
ab'cri made us
England than everthan thexelelipbuittrhi:ourYsnative or
American citizen, wn?tha disgrace w
rho Trent affair. The
boldly bearded the
sitatokt
eus,erneleeatadrue
us.
our
Liead°:
all hangthen
sme Adrninisttirit'bteiSgen to show his teeth, when
British lion,.
tail like a whipped spaniel. For God's
tahave no more of that ! It does nut be-
and proud Government to vapour and
come a g "
ttter idle menaces. That Mr. Lincoln's
halls.
Government will ever do anything more than vapour
and bully toward Great Britain is what nobody be-
lieves. The idea that it can win any cheap popu-
larity among our gallant Irish population or any
other class of citizens by assuming a high tone to-
ward a nation before -whom it so lately cowered is
simply preposterous. Its recourse to such arts be-
tokens conscious 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 Soutb, 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.--Fetp
York, IVorld.