The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-30 00:00:00

SPANISH DIFFICULTIES IN CUBA.

The telegram by which we announced that the Spa-
niards in Cuba had found a new and formidable enemy in
the shape of the yellow fever is fully confirmed by intelli-
gence through Madrid. The malady has broken out at
Havanna with great virulence. More men are wanted--
the cry from Cuba is always " More ;" but the Madrid
Government thinks it unwise to send them until October,
on account of the fever,

NEW ENGLAND ENMITY TO ENGLAND.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

One of the dangers of placing reckless and inex-
perienced men in power is, that though they may
appreciate the immediate effect of what they do,
they may not see, or perhaps do not care, what will
be the ultimate, more lasting, and more important
effect. When General BUTLER was instilling into
the orphan children of Gloucester, who came to
decorate their fathers' graves, a hatred of England,
he was setting an example to be eagerly followed by
Southerners from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.
The conversation, he imagined, between parent and
child won'..' come with greater force when spoken
by Southerners over the graves of those who had
died to uphold the " lost cause," and we have little
doubt that these words will be transplanted from
the soil of Massachusetts, and bear their fruit of
bitter hate in many a Southern cemetery. Ile thus
turns a mournful ceremony, conveying to the mind
the blight and horrors of war, while furnishing a
touching lesson in favour of peace, into a thirst for
revenge. As if he intended to make the feeling
lasting, he selects as his cause, events which oc-
curred a hundred years ago. Thus he combines, in
this speech, doctrines the most opposed to Chris-
tianity, and the most detrimental to the progress
and well-being of his country. First, the propriety
of nourishing hatred ; next, that the feeling should
be everlasting, going back to affairs impossible now
fairly to adjudicate on, as bald facts alone remain,
without the motives and influences which led to them;
finally,reveuge,and the necessity of handing it down
from father to son till accomplished. No man knows
better than Gen. BUTLER that there are tens of thou-
sands in the South who could, from the bottom of
their hearts, speak his words to their offspring, to
inculcate detestat;on against himself and the very
people he was addressing at Gloucester. Had he
heard such a speech made to an assembly in a
Southern graveyard to implant an undying ani-
mosity against New Englanders, he would have
thought it as wicked as it was foolish, but he well
knows the fact that no New Englander hates an
Englishman in anything like the degree that the
Southerner hates the New Englander. If England
accepted the feeling he taught as inevitable, she
might place the Union in jeopardy merely by
directing the full force of her emigration to the
Southern States, where it would be absorbed and
acquire as is usual the ruling passion of the Southern
people. Continental unity can be attained only by
a community of interest and sentiment ; and of all
nations the one which has most to lose by scatter-
ing broad-cast over its territory seeds of hate is the
United States. That just, eminent, and upright
Judge, SALMON P. CHASE, wrote what really should
be engraved on the American mind, in reply to the
invitation to decorate the graves of the Union dead
at Charleston, words which we last weak gave_
There might be some reason in a speech so wholly
opposed to the sentiment of the Chief Justice as
that of BUTLER, if by turning American hatred into
a foreign channel he could get it all out of the
country, or at least directed away from the con-
tinent ; but its effect is the reverse, for, like other
noxious weeds, it has a habit of spreading on the
spot and where not intended, choking the growth
of good seeds, the truth of which is shown by a
glance over America. No man can read the papers
of Canada or of the S6uthern States without being
aware that it requires little fostering to grow large
crops .of animosity. here is an extract from a
Quebec paper

"There must be an end of concessions, an end of
humouring, an end of all attempts to keep peace between
the two countries, except by acting so as to allow the
Americans to realise the fact that, nation for nation, we
are, and shall probably continue to be, their masters. If
it must be, we will fight them, and to a certainty we will
thrash them." On annexation, it remarks, " Canada will
be more likely, in the distant future, to annex some
ion of the United States."

A New York paper, alluding to the spirit of the
Canadian press, gives several extracts, which it as-
serts to be a fair sample of the bluster usually in-
dulged in with regard to American affairs all over
the Dominion. Here, then, we have undeniable
proof that both north of the St. Lawrence and south
of the Potomac the feelings are hostile to the Union,
feelings not generated by any diversity of interest,
by any distinguishing marks of race, but arising
from " pure cussedness," such as good men as well
as wise men should do all they can to eradicate.
While Gen. BUTLER depicted England as a power
of monstrous selfishness and iniquity, the Canadians
uphold a connection which makes them mere colo,-
Lists, preferring that status to the dignity of Ame-
rican citizenship, a citizenship many Southerners
would join an invading army to shake off. In this
there is doubtless food for reflection, as it ought to
teach those BUTLER addressed that there was some-
thing wrong in his deductions. If we, they might
ask, are so good and such a suffering community, how
comes it that we are disliked by Americans who know
England best, and who cherish their association with
Britain, while others, fellow-citizens of our own,
prefer the Britisher to us? It would have been an
awkward fact for the orator to deal with, and would
have struck with most effect at his doctrine; for this
cultivation of enmity in children, is at the root of
the matter, the vice having spread and tarned
against palpable, not abstract, enemies. Those who
are educated to hate get an object they can see and
which can feel their spite, and this is most readily
done at home, wherein lies the reward•of love, for
harmony prevails where love has been successfully
taught. By falsifying and misrepresenting a people
the young may imbibe prejudices against that na-
tion difficult to overcome ; but the example is catch-
ing, for the ground being prepared one section of
the Continent can readily be rendered inimical to
another, and the foundation is laid of those differ-
ences which may not only prevent the fusion into
continental unity of North America, but split up the
Republic. It is, then, as a home policy, unwise
teaching, and it is as unjust as unwise. Surely,
if the children of New Englanders are to re-
venge acts done by the English great-grandfathers
the existing generation, they ought to weigh
iu the other scale the benefits derived from Eng-
land. Did the thought suggest itself to General
BUTLER, or any of his hearers, that he in English,
with an English name, was addressing others
also with English name in a town called after an
old cathedral city of England, while the coun-
try around Lim was known in the States as New
En ? Did it occur to any of them to go back
to a period prior to that descanted on by BUTLER,
when the Mayflower lauded her English freight
from Old Plymouth at New Plymouth, and com-
menced a settlement, whose principles were destined
to permeate the Continent? What are those prin-
cipks but the genuine birth of English freedom
seeking a more congenial atmosphere than feudal
Euiope in which to spread. England colonized
New England, and New England colonized the
States. From England then carne the language,
the laws, the religion of the Republic, and if there
is much that w,4s hostile in England to the ideas
with which the colonists of the Mayflower were im-

bued, it was inseparable from the increasing civiliza-
tion contending against the remnants of barbarism,
and the best, purest, and most thoroughly English
sentiment was that carried over the ocean in the
breasts of the Pilgrim Fathers. That their teaching,
their liberty, laws, religion, and social habits have-
but little differed from those gradually assumed in
the old country, is evident from the fact that no
two communities so differently situated as regards
the physical features of the countries they inhabit
could at this moment be more thoroughly in har-
mony. It is a marvellous fact, which we cannot
too often repeat, that this is the case ; and yet, if
we are to believe the assertions of many, there is no
part of the United States in which England is more
hated than in New England. We know this to be
untrue, while we fully admit that, under a sense of
recent injury, a strong feeling of irritation pervades
the New England community. But it is worthy of
careful investigation how it comes to pass that men
who directly derive their origin from England,
whose names are nearly all English, who assert that
they have preserved the tongue in its greatest purity,
where English literature is read only in a lesser
degree than in England, who seek the graves of
their fathers in English churchyards, should politi
cally cherish such an animosity. No one cares for
the rowdy scum of New York, the tools of vile
agitators, and the organs which represent them, be
they Democrat or Radical ; but the case of New
England ought to be understood, so that the cause
might be ascertained and the evil removed. It
bears absurdity on its face, and it surely cannot be
difficult to bring into harmony those who have so
much in common, and to neutralize such a senseless
course as that taken by General BUTLER and other
leading men of Massachusetts.