The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-10 00:00:00

congregated. Had there been less of the Irish and
more of the English, it would have been all-the bet-
ter for the Republic, for the law-abiding, Protes-
tant element would have been strengthened, nor
would wealthy Americans have found so many
tools to forward corrupt designs as in the Empire
City. In another decade, unless a rapid stream of
English emigration flows into the States, the Union
will doubtless become German whether New Eng-
land likes it or not. While most of what the Re-
public treasures has been derived from England—its
religion, its laws, its literature, its language having
had their birth in that island—the broad stamp of
the inhabitants will be German, and this result, if
it follows, will actually be caused by the direct de-
scendants of the English themselves. This will not
be what New England families intended, or the old
families of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and
Georgia, or their descendants the early pioneers in
the settlement of the West, though not the less will
it be so. The old names now so familiar in the
Senate Chamber end in the Hall of the _Represen-
tatives will then give place to those indicating
another race, and the eloquence which once stirred
Congress will not be after the came model, nor
Sue ve its inspirations from the same feelings. The
tenacity with which the old families have held their
pl :ces in the Union may be seen by those who
glance down the names of the Senators and Repre-
sentatives. That English descended families still
rule is apparent from the list, and this should be
considered with the fact that for generations Eng-
lish emigration to America had almost wholly
ceased. That these families should encourage the
enmity which has barred the influx of their race,
and which must eventually make dominant a
foreign element, may surprise, though it is not
more astonishing than that both nations should have
indulged a feeling alike dangerous to each, giving
little else than pain, and leading to incalculable in-
jury. Whenever America conceived a project, the
effort of England has been to defeat it, or to substi-
tute something else. If, for instance, by construct-
ing railways, digging canals, and boring through
mountains, a route could be made shorter to China
than that via New York and San Francisco, any
amount of English capital would be forthcoming
for the work. Whatever is American has always
had to fight against the battle of prejudice in Eng-
land, and American talent recognized here must be
so palpably superior that Americans may accept
such success as the best proof of merit. There are
numberless American inventions which would have
been useful beyond description in England, and
would have been introduced were this prejudice not
so generally believed in. Often, in such ways, losses
are inflicted which tell as heavily on the one coun-
try as on the other ; but great as has been the in-
jury in the past, it may be as nothing compared
with what may accrue in the future. Instead of
working together as two sections of one race to
whom PROVIDENCE has been very bountiful in be-
stowing a magnificent domain, each appears to con-
spire against the power, progress, and tranquillity
of the other. It is undeniable that England's legi-
timate influence in the affairs of Europe is counter-
acted by the knowledge that under present circum-
stances she could not go to war. A tiger in a cage
is an animal at which a child may snap its fingers,
and a powerful nation thus neutralized will be but
an object of contempt even to the weak. Arma-
ments must be maintained where a struggle for
life always threatens ; and it is natural to sup-
pose that England should desire to see the
strength of the nation breaking against whom she
may at any time be called to fight for her veil
existence. Viewed in this light, her course was
not surprising during the Civil War, nor the recent
unscrupulous attempts of the Times to damage
American credit. Supposing that a war did result,
it is not too much to say that the national securi-
ties of each country would be almost worthless ; for
two such obstinate nations, once fairly embroiled,
would resemble the Kilkenny cats, in leaving little
more than the tail of each ere they finished. Sup-
posing that such a war lasted for years, what would
become of the swelling tide of emigration to Ame-
rica? for that tide once turned into other channels,
cannot easily be restored. The nonsense talked by
men like Senator CHANDLER may deceive the
ignorant, but it is surprising to hear- in the same
Chamber a Senator make such a statement
as his, almost before the words of another bad
ceased to vibrate announcing the astounding
damage done to America by the mere sympathy of
England. Senator CHANDLER undertakes to con-
quer Canada from an Empire of unknown power,
perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen, with
his 60,000 Michigan Volunteers in thirty days, and
to conclude a short, sharp, and decisive war in the
annihilation of England ! Senator SUMNER, on the
other hand, asserts that the paltry supplies fur-
nished to the Confederacy by England in vessels
and munitions of war prolonged the contest for two
years, and led to half the blood and treasure ex-
pendedin its, suppression ; while Senator CHANDLER
will contract to conquer 4,000,000 of Canadians,
backed by England, with his Michigan Volun-
teers in thirty days. But the Senator must not thus
take the bread out of the mouths of the Fenian agi-
tators, who will do the job in a shorter time, and
on cheaper terms. If England has to pay for the pro-
longation of the rebellion it is a thousand pities that
so doughty a general was not early sent South to
finish it off under contract with the English Go-
vernment, and that a man so useful, discussed too
as an earnest patriot,should have carefully abstained
from going there, indeed have located himself
tenaciously in the safest part of the Union. Such
people persuade those as ignorant as themselves
that that is easy of accomplishment which no single
power in creation could achieve, and thus fortify
fools to rush into more ruin which was heavy e,nough,
one would imagine, in the case of the Confederate
war, to satisfy moderate men. Let Mr. CHANDLER
reflect on this fact. The leading statesmen of the
Union before the war were Southerners ; with all
the knowledge that their official positions could
give of the United States, they deliberately pre-
pared for and entered on that conflict which de-
stroyed them all. These men were at least as wise
as Mr. CHANDLER ; they had far better means of
knowing how the conflict would end between their
Confederation and the United States, than he has
of knowing what England would oppose to' the
resources of the Republic. Yet, pitting their lives,
their property, their all, on this die, they delibe-
rately did that, which the few who survived groaned
in agony to recall. We can assure Mr. CHANDLER
that it is easier to do those shocking things than to
escape the consequences, and if the English Govern'
went has conceded more than Englishmen approve,
it has been because long experience has taught 010
almost anything is better than so dreadful au alter"
native, and perhaps another great war would teach.,
the United States the same lesson, which would
effectually prevent the return to Congress of such
members as CHANDLER. Both nations have suffered
enough from enmity, and it is not like the east wind:
or an earthquake, or hurricanes, that which cantle'
be prevented. Though more disastrous far than they,
it proceeds from our own vile nature, which fosters
evil rather than good, and may, if encouraged, en'
in the ruin of one or both countries, and must en-
tail a loss fearful to contemplate on the worlde--
Anglo-American limes.