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London, England, 1870-02-10 00:00:00

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(From Me Anglo-American Times.)
The Spectator repudiates Mr. Louts, and calls his
application for American citizenship, as well as /14i
reason for making it, " silly," while it cannot but
acknowledge the fact that eleven years ago he Was
au editor of that paper, and ten years ago a pro-
prietor. It says, too, that Mr. Louis'
opinions are
new; that when he edited it, the Spectator was more
bumptious in its Imperialism than the ,!•;tandard.
The Spectator does not appear to be aware that in
this it advances a strong argument against its as'
scrtion that Mr. Louis had done a silly thing. Front
the period when he ceased to write for the Spectator
he was, as he announces, studying the Colonies, and
the lands wherein English is spoken, as well as theco-
lonists,and various parts of the Empire ; that is from
the date when he left his chair in the Wellington-
street office to the time when he submitted his views
to the PRESIDENT, he was training himself by
special course to form an opinion on the subject ou
which he has expressed his views. While Mr. Louts
looked over the dreary street to Somerset House,
he held ideas differing widely from the Mr. LOUIS
who had spent years in Australia, New Zealand
India, and other countries, but who (except the
man now occupying his seat) will assert that hie
former opinions were wise, and his latter opinions
" silly ;" yet this is what the Editor does, which
simply amounts to maintaining that it is folly to
learn. The Standard reproduces our words in a
" chaffy" style, expressing the wish that we and
others, who, as it asserts, magnify America at the
expense of England, would flit away to the belauded
land after our valued pioneers, Mr. Louts, GOLD WIN
SMITH, and BROADHEAD ! We are not going to retort
in the to quoque style ; we have no fancy for seeing
the place of the Standard vacant, the more so as
we care nothing for Whig or Tory, Radical or
Copperhead, believing them all to be useful in their
way; that the jarring, the striving, and the pulling
against each other are still in the direction of pro.
gress. But it is not our fault that America is so
big and England so little, as we did not make either
the island or the continent. It would be just as
senseless to drive us out of the land where we have
made a home, because we state that the Republic is
very large, rapidly growing in population, in great-
ness and power, and therefore that the seat of An-
glo-Saxon dominion must soon centre there, as in con-
fining GALILEO in gaol, because he asserted that the
earth went round the sun. He merely stated a
fact; and we merely state a fact, which, whether
palatable or not, ought to be generally nue'. rstood
in England. It is because the English du not pro-
perly comprehend it that it is unpalatable. No
one will dispute that the Republic spreads over the
richest part of a productive continent, well adapted
by climate for the settlement of the Anglo-Saxon
people, that Britain in comparison is but a small
place; or, in admitting this, that the vast expanse
when occupied by the same energetic race must
become much more powerful than the smaller tract
already overcrowded. Suppose that instead of an
English-speaking people, the French, the Spa-
niards, the Italians, or the Chinese were to oc-
cupy that continent—Does any Euglishinau iu [Lis
senses imagine that there would be a gain in
this to England ? Yet, carrying the argument of
the Standard to its legitimate conclusion, a gain, it
can only be considered. North America must be in-
habited; the people that can occupy it as one nation,
whether of the Latin, Celtic, or of the Anglo-Saxon
race, cannot fail eventually to become the greatest
of Powers. England has had the good fortune to
have stamped au indelible impression on the nation
destined to occupy it, in union, and therefore to
become the greatest of powers; but if the argument
of the Standard points to anything, it points to this
as being a misfortune to England. We are sneer-
ingly alluded to as men of grand ideas; might we
not with more truth allude to the Standard's people
as men of small ideas ? We simply recognize and
adapt ourselves to events, rejoicing in the beneficial
direction they have taken for our race, preferring
that the Anglo-Saxon should rule on earth, though
the rule be from America, where the dominant
power must centre, than that that rule should be in
the hands of the Spaniards or the Muscovites. It iS
worthy of remark, that those whose travel over the
countries occupied by the English-speaking people
has been the widest, are those who have all more or
less arrived at the conclusion of Mr. Louis. Tney
learn that race is of more importance than locality ;
that the proper study of mankind is man ; and con-
sider it above all things important that if one race
oust he predominant, the dominance should pass
into the hands of that family which has already
developed the highest intelligence and made most
progress in civilization, which has proved itself the
,fiest industrious and equitable. Will the Spectator
inform us what is silly in the assertion that with
two similar people, the one of 40,000,000 must have
an advantage over the one of 30,000,000; that if the
country of the 30,000,000 be over-crowded, and its
inhabitants hastening to occupy the vacant places of
the country of the 40,000,000, that the difference
in favour of the latter will very soon be largely in-
creased ? Hence, that the more important section
will be the United States, and that Anglo-Saxon
power must there centre. The Standard may chaff ;
the Spectator may pronounce the man who says this
and acts on it to have done a silly thing, although
once an editor and proprietor of that journal, show-
ing, at any rate,.that a man may edit the Spectator
and still have a spice of the silly ; yet we assert that
facts and the forecast of the future are with Mr. Louis.
We cannot have a better illustration of this than in
the island of Great Britain itself. Formerly county
was arrayed against county ; we had Highlanders
cutting each other's throats, and combining to cut
the throats of the Lowlanders, and both joining
against the English. We bad the English harrying
the Welsh, and a bitter warfare carried on along the
Scotch Border. Now this island formerly of such an-
tagonistic elements is as a unit of population. The
English, as. the larger and wealthier portion of the
inhabitants, absorbed the others; not as the superior,
for we never heard any race assert a superiority over
the Scotch, and we are not aware that the Welsh have
ever acknowledged any inferiority. Here, then,
we have the greater number drawing in the smaller,
and centreing the power in their own capital, and
this will be found, where the nations are similar
and speak the same language, to work in the same
direction, the greater making its influence very
strongly felt on the lesser. Such an influence will
most assuredly be exercised on England by the
United States when the population of the latter
doubles that of the former, a disproportion which
will actually be the case a few years hence. What
was our little brother whom we used to thrash
will then have grown big and strong, and can
thrash us. But why howl over the inevitable, in-
stead of being thankful that the powerful animal is
our brother, and does not want to thrash us, unless
we exhibit towards him a vicious disposition. We
recognise the facts as they exist, and are likely to
exist, and wish to live in harmony and brotherhood,
believing it to be wise to cultivate such relations,
and the act of a maniac on the contrary to provoke
and to keep alive ill blood.