The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-01 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY.

Many rumours have been in circulation regarding the
sympathy of the United States in the war. It is an-
nounced by cable that- the leading journals in America
favour Germany, and that, with the exception of the
Tti orld, no daily newspaper of great influence takes the
side of Ffance. At Brussels, while the American squad`]
ron was at Antwerp, it was believed that the Washir

Government desired to avail itself of the opportum,
now offering to repay France_for its attempted establ;-
ment of a Latin monarchy in Mexico during the k.
War. Again, it has been said that the American Vt,,„,;,
would be influenced to take the. side condemned by the
English, and more rubbish of the same sort has
been freely set afloat. There are two considers'
tions which ought to be duly weighed hi
those who desire to estimate correctly American
opinion on the war. The first, and by far the greater
is the rignt and the wrong of the question which, as lin°
interested neutrals, Americans can view impartially and
decide justly. If the American ' press has gone against
France it is, because the information placed before the,
people by the cable leads them to believe that France
in the wrong. The point will be discussed on its merits'
in America with less prejudice and more truthfully than
anywhere else, for the Republic is far enough off to see
all in one view, and having no direct interest involved,
that view is impartial, while its acquaintance with the
hostile countries is quite as intimate as that of alai
other people. Hence the greut value of .the Ameri'
can decision, which must impart its influence to the'
sentiment of the world. The other consideration
may perhaps tend to impair that value, being the
exercise on the nation of a strong Germau sentiment ira'
parted through its large body of citizens of German,
extraction. Had the Germans the clannishness, the taste
for political combination of the Irish settlers, a consider'
able pressure would be brought to bear on Government.
But what has made the Germans such good citizens 10
lessened their politicel influence in rendering them hi'
capable to act in a body. Above all things is it desirable
for the Republic that those who array themselves in ft°
nationality should put off all foreign garb •, that they
should cease to have foreign designs : that' their objects
should be wholly American. The Fatherland may be
loved and visited, a tender recollection may be preserved
and instilled into the American - born children
of German parents ; but it is essential for the
good of their new country that they should cast aside th,,,°,
politics; the aspirations, the hatreds they left behind. r
is because they do this—it is because they seek the mate'
rial objects for which they emigrated, and in promoting
their own prosperity promote that of the communitl
among whom they have cast their lot, that. the Gerrosl,
excel as settlers, whereas, in this it is that so many IrfsPel
fail.' But the Germans rule no great cities ; they have no
their Fenian representatives in Congress ; they do 11°'
threaten to defeat the choice of the native-born majority
for President, unless some object, wherein America 1155
no right to meddle, be interfered with. There are said t°
be 3,000,000 of Germans in the States, which we imagine
to be a low estimate. That 3,000,000 of an educated
a,ntithinking poople will exercise an influence on a natioi
even of forty millions among whom they are intermixe
is certain, and all the more in their quiet, non-politiel,
way ; in that their demonstrations are not noisy, n°
paraded with music and banners, with arms and uniforo
and buncombe of the tallest kind. Our point is this'
That German citizens will exercise a very considerable
influence over their fellow-citizens in America, but 10t
that sort of influence which the Irish so direct as to 3;11
upon the governments of States and of the Union, str'
such an influence on opinion as tells more and Inoo
daily if the cause they advocate be just and which nn'6
eventually produce results. The cause of t?•
Fatherland, however, is not calculated to exc,n,
,tile sympathy of a nation so much governed n;
sentiment as the Republic, nor can the cle:i
sense of the Americans be in the slightest degree deceived
on such a point. It is the fight of two bullies for supre'
macy, and howeverinteresting, however grand and plug
may be the combat, however enthralled the attention
,°
the world, no enthusiasm by it can be evoked in a fore*"
breast for either. There is nothing calculated in this Of;
to endanger American foreign relations, although whe,
Spain was supposed to be involved, how France, with hr.'
commanding navy, might act against Cuba, was the que"'",
tion of interest to the Republic. The idea that th
United States would run directly counter to the opinfi):4
expressed in England is one of .those outragel
assertions which impose upon people who will lei
.not WY
or cannot reflect. A more just and discriminatM
community; taken as a whole, does exist. He •
imagines that in the question of the right and wrong of j
great crime against mankind, as it is held to be, a war •
overwhelming importance, the citizens of the. Republic,
will judge on any other
,grounds than the ample eviden,
they will accumulate; in his ignorance does them wront
The principles upon which the Republic is determined
act were laid down in strong language by Mr. Dawes io{
the debate in Congi ess on restitution to British owners,.,,
ships illegally seized by American cruisers. These pia
ciples received the immediate sanction of the House, sf-d.
were endorsed by the nation,; and they may be broscw•
summed ,up in these words Because a natd"i),•
has done a wrong, is no justification for ty.,
United States, which, in dealing with that nr
tion, should be most careful not to permit tbee
example to influence its conduct, for it can seek redre•
for an injury against itself on the case complained 01
while tendering the redress for any wrong it may liss
committed. The farce of visiting upon the headriQ
Frenchmen, or of Germans, the sin of English sympst
with their cause, may be enacted in Dublin or Cork ; 1",
that man must be anlrish citizen who states that suell
course could be taken, outside the Irish pale, in AmeriO.
There are no two countries between whom Americo!:
would be more likely to be impartial than between Fran ti„
and Germany. The one was their close ally in the dal )
their Independence ; the other has become the gre,,e
feeder of American wastes, and the blood relation of ti!
Republic. Both stand well in American 1
mation, while for the Government of neitl;o
is there any sympathy. To many Ameri
papers and ardent Republicans the person',l
rule of the Emperor is hateful, but th!,
cannot turn to the King for relief, the different
to them being slight indeed. The policy of America
not justly appreciated, either, with the masses in Englan:
What makes the people 9n the other side the Atlantis 'O,
jealous of European interference with the Cabinet, ae
demns American interference in European affairs. 3,,Yi
upholder of the Monroe doctrine would be convicted ,'
his own creed who advocated anything beyond the ex.PP,:,
sion of an opinion, which is the right of the world, WI
especially of a world injured by the wrong. committer,
Englishmen finding the Republic exacting in Amen
questions, imagine it likely to be exacting in Europe?
questions, but they arrive at a false conclusion, bees:4
they do not rightly comprehend the premises from whiff
they deduce their argument. We believe that Anierij
will get the fullest information, and will arrive at the In'e
just conclusions during this war, while preserving
most rigid neutrality.—Anglo American Tin Les •

The Ipswich Journal states that the
town has given notice to the Town Council
to advise the Corporation to ask the Governi.
the grant of £lOO to Ipswich races, as the Queen's
and to give it instead to the Suffolk Agricultural A
ciation.

A. NOTABLE BANKRUBT.7-A petition for adj udi°l
tion of bankruptcy has been filed againstDanielde Castle
solicitor, of Mitre-court, Fleet-street. The case will
and
remembered from the remarkble circumstances
which it was recently before the public. The debter
the misfortune accidentally to shoot a gentleman who Vic;
dining with him, and being sued by the relatives a verl)l
for £3,000 was given against him. Execution for the de
and costs was levied on Wednesday and on the folloW!V,
day a petition for adjudication was presented by Mr. fot
R. Burton. gentleman of Hampstead, and a creditor
£lOO. Mr. Linklater now applied for an order to restroid
the execution from proceeding until after the-day appointof
for the hearing of the bankruptcy petition—the 12th
August. His Honour granted the application.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCVt
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THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of
Savoy, in t County of Middlesex.
Monday, August 1, 1870.