The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-08 00:00:00

.AMERICA AS A PROTEC7OII.

Among the angry, ill-considered, even inalic:ous,
articl. s which Senator SUMNER'S phillipic has called
forth in the British press, is one, in the number just
out of Blackwood's, Magazine, entitled "American
lleasons for Peace." Why it is so called we know
not, as it gives no reasons for peace, nor for any-
thing else that we can see, though it contains a re-
mark in harmony with the present British tone,
which, however natural, may rec.ive a misdirected
bent from the men of the Old Ebony school. The
.spectator not long ago rebated a conversation be-
tween-an Englishman and a Frenchman, wherein the
latter remarked " formerly we thought you Anglo-
Saxons all one race, related in love and kinship; now
we know you are. two distinct nations, whose en-
mity can be relied cu to neutralize each other. Some
day the Americans will destroy you English, then
be sorry for what they have done, and begin to glorify
yen, writing and speaking of England with venera-
tion as the old homo and Fatherland, proclaiming
aloud their pride iu the descent." Blackwood puts
the idea in another form, basing is remark on this
saying of a very distinguished American genera],
who 'won his knightly spurs in the war against
Mexico :—" Nothing would give the American
people greater pleasure than to see poor old Eng-
land beset by a coalitian of the European Powers,
and reduced to the last extremity ; in such an
emergency it would be the duty and the glory of
America to come to the rcseue,to save the laud of
their forefathers, and take her under American pro-
tection henceforth and forever." Ebony resents this;
the idea of England's decadence being hateful to
that hard, everlasting old stick, and it scornfully
alludes to it as a notion held " by ignorant Ame-
ricans who look forward to the day when America
shall exercise a paternal guardianship and protec-
torate over her old grandmother." . Maya's anger
has betrayed it into - come confusion in describing
the relationship, as Miss COLUMBIA is represented
as exercising a paternal protectorate ; but we think
there is a greater error in Blackwood's wrath at the
notion. Unpleasant as it may be to feel strength
foiling, to know that age creeps on, that the course
must be to weakness, to decrepitude, to death,
yet it is the career and end of nations as of indivi-
duals, which England-can no more escape thin the
many empires that have preceded her's. According
to some savants the tropics are on their way to the
poles, and the poles to the tropics, an eccentric
111°V`"ler..' hi' Which tlv‘v accoent for the remaies
of tropical pro it,!t, i 1 regiaus of i •:', and of P"tviT
dial wlliala!s peculiar to the :vigil z me being four) i
in the tropics. All is change, nothinbgeeins
perma-
nent, and civilization and power have
,1..
stead
travelling westward from the plains of . Solon to
the shores of the Pacific till young America bumps
against the old Chinarnan,a nd e cYcc
plete:l—to begin again or to go back. Great
oi
ate
Bri-
tain has had a fair innings,4i)uri 1
itiildt, tflioerzsnpye cat sdt ie
el
ardee-
mains of her empire . -c,
to come ; but the Engli•li must
recognize and re-
cmcile themselves to the fact that the resistless
course of events is carrying the seat of empire into
the it as clear as anything
iii the United
fuid u
is,
s-
cat rn i
he that
tthe dominant influence of
the v
or soon must be, there. Knowing that
l,
r t States,e,
political importance, commerce and wealth, litera-
ture and science build up their metropolis, but
eventually take flight, soon or late according to the
I
energy, wisdom, and virtue of the people, combined

with their luck, yet still goes, England should not
grieve over the inevitable, but seek her consolation
in the very feeling Ebony so scornfully rejects.
The Roman Empire was crushed beneath the armed
tread of barbarians ; the Turk once threatened a
combined Europe, but now lives by its dissensions;
even the Mogul, whose throne England herself
usurped, gave place to an alien, differing not only in
language, manners, and customs, but even in colour,
and hateful each' to the other in religion. Of all
the numerous races who have r:sen to sway the
councils of the world, but one, when approaching
decay, has hid tlio good fortune to see the transfer
of power passing into the hands of her own child,
and we ask any Englishman of sense whether this
be not a matter for congratulation instead of for in-
dignation ? lle m•vy deny that the decay h a con-
tneace,l, and we r..adily admit that England is
likely lung to flourish ; but if the reverse were the
case, digl►t not the fact that the transfer is to her

kindred in Ai.crica to be a suject of intense sa is-
faction? It is not so much that England is in de-
cay as that the. United States are in a marvellously
swift groove of advancement and presperity. Be-
tween 1850 and 1860 theiucrease of the population iu
the Republic was 35 per cent., that of Great Britain
less than 1 ; while the Republic's wealth rose 126 per
cent. against GreA Bti-ain's 33. F.om Liecrpoolt
as we write, the exodui to the States is unparal-
leled. From all parts of Europe come the emigrant
swarms, and pour across the ocean in a continuous
stream, which freights the magnificent steamers of
that port with cargoes of human beings. On Tues-
day of last week the Cunard steamer Palmyra left
the Mersey for New York, via Boston, with 600
steerage passengers ; the next day the Idaho sailed
for New York withB76 passengers. The Ottawa and
the _Nestorian carried out to Quebec and Montreal 866
passengers. The City of Baltimore had about 793
in the steerage and cabins, while the National Com-
pany's steamer Dennzark had 927, and the Erie
1,242 steerage passengers, for New York. The
Scotia, which sailed from Liverpool on Saturdays
took out no steerage passengers, but had a full
complement of saloon passengers. The number
was swelled by 2,000 embarked in sai.ing shins,
making a total for the week of 7,500 souls. Here
is the report from the chief depot in America. "From
Ist Jan. to the 15th May there arrived 81,658 emi-
grants from Europe at New York. Of this num-
ber Germany contributed 25,431; Ireland, 17,441;
England, 11,890 ; and Scotland, 2,931. Over 10,000
emigrants have arrived each week during May.'
Now what does this mean but empire? Mr. Rog-
BUCK may call it a " feculent torrent ;" we call
it the bone and sinew, the manhood, the enterprizel
aye, even . the virtue of Europe. It is not your
beggar who emigrates, but he who has the resolu-
tion and the" courage to sever his connection with
the land wherein there is no future for him, nor ale'
quate present remuneration for his labour. Whild
the Republic and the Monarchy compete for politi-
cal influence and commercial gains, jealousy will
generate bad blood, and eacn w,ll say hard things
of the other; but when the swift march of events
has catried the Union far beyond her small but
great competitor, is it to be regretted that even
white running the neck-and-neck race, America Cg- •
hibits an irresistible tendency towards sympathl
and kindliness, not lessened perhaps because she feel?
as won the goal of which she is so sure? Is the 011
grandmother, while fast dropping astern, to herd
back in anger America's desire to serve her as 3
strong person serves the weak, as the rich serve the
poor, when the rich are the children and the poor are
the parents ? If there be an uncomfortable sense °f
,
dependence when the approaching stage is reachet',
surely England will find a solace to her vanity ih
knowing that blood is thicker than water, and tilt
t
if America becomes a protection to her age as w
as a material gain, that it is but a fair return, for'
say what we will, many of the things the Republi'
most prizes have been derived fr. in her. Now, 'whi•
should Blackwood and the class that magazine re;
presents fume over the inevitable and repudiate
instea 1 of rejoicing that England 1:
not in the category of the Empires that hal:
seen their power pass iuto the hands of
.e
alien, inspired more with feelings of hatred th3rl
th )se of attael,nr2nt, and having egthing in Co'
i mon ? To gratity th it little vanity, they r,,jeet tb°
bountiful gift of a kind PROVIDENCE, and tbel
stor.n and rave over a fate tlett cat no rr ore b.,°,
helped titan can the limits of the island be extenjecji
a senseleSs course against which this journal is 1f
has been a living protest, for it enters into some
W o,
t t;
the greest questions aff,:cti! g E•ig'and's iner
anal the progress an 1 happiness of the Aegla-S0•°0
race. When A•te r:ea has desired to draw cloEe t
bowls of kindred, die Las ben enswered blth
Teor,eoreE or a Dlcia:Ns, al connection
the " feculent torrent" being rt pudiated.
racy, recognizing in the Reublic an enemy, 1,45 ibL
p e
deavoured to direct English feeling against
States, and to create a social dislike. Every
.attetolvel',
to adjust a balacce to the Republic, either la J‘'l,o
rica or elsewhere, has failed, or will fail ; every ,0
raised by secession has been buried in the grev:iti-
the Civil War ; then let that class, the most e'tbe
voted, and certainly not the least patriotic, cease ica
vain strife of enmity, learning to regard Alecrotl
as the eventual seat of Anglo-Saxon
ace
extracting therefrom_ all the pride they can. 'OOO
this is done, there will be an earnest desire tot
only to cultivate the most intimate relations, 0.
to see American rower estab:i_hed on the ..13dest
dest founlations, and erected on the hr°L,70.17
principles of what is noble and good. it
wood may call this Utopian ; and stigui3tl",,ek.
as un-English, &c., &c. ; but we regard
wood's course as little less than idiotic ; as
kicking against the pricks, as a dog haYiploil
tit:- moon, as the angry bud running at ti hose
train, as a scream against the inevitable. se.
who recognize the astounding growth of ,
public know that its settled enmity hereafter 'lot
be little less than annihilation to any nation aFet to
which it is nursed. Is the endeavour wise hr6,itli
implant that feeling, and to work vigorousll3lo
those bitter haters of England already iu the !liaica
for the eradication -of the friendly sentiment
has hitherto resisted every effort cf both the .(t-ij'e
and the English, which withstands the spite ot
one and the folly of the other, but which 11°,-,0
grow luxuriously if Albion's idiotic children'
but cultivate it, working for that end whereilitbert
safety and continued prosperity, not for the °",,9'
which, as we see it, contains exactly the.revets".
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