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

AMERICA AS A PROTECTOR.

Among the angry, ill-considered, even malicious,
articl, s which Senator SUMNER'S phillipic has called
forth in the British press, is one, in the number just
out of Blackwood's Maga:ine, entitled " American
Reasons 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 receive a misdirected
bent from the men of the Old Ebony school. The
Spectator not long ago re'atcd 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 arc two distinct nations, whose en-
mity can be relied on to neutralize each other. Some
day the Americans will destroy you English, then
be sorry for what they have done, and begin to glorify
you, writing and speaking of England with venera-
tion as the old home and Fatherland, proclaiming
aloud their pride in the descent." Blackwood puts
the idea in another form, basing its remark on this
saying of a very distinguished American general,
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 coalition 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 rescue, to save the land 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 scorefully
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." Illaga's anger
has tetr.,ycd it into cane confir-iioa 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
Liling, 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 Euglaad can no more escape than 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
movement by which they account for the remains
Of tropical prolucts in regions of ice, and of petri-
fied animals peculiar to the :rigid zlne being found
in the tropics. All is change, nothing is perms
vent, and civilization and power have been steadily
travelling westward from the l
the shores of the Pacific till young
against the old Chinaman, and the eyee is Cam-
to go
- Great Bri-
yi'lg tins
America?fina bumpsrto
I.,Ve I—to be,;in again or
tain has had a fair innings, and prospecttfhoernianya still re-
mains of her empire flourishing
rec
the resistlessognizeandre-
ot
%ciie come;
themselvesheE ntgo the l i mast
faot that
course of events is calarryi-ti, i
carrying the
ahes clear a
seat of esmapniyrethiiuntgo
the United States, 11k
in the future can be that the dominant influence of
the world is, or soon must be, there. Knowing that
political importance, commerce and wealth, litera-
ture and science build up their metropolis, but
eventually take flight, soon or_ late according to the
energy, wiadora, and irk G4e 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
tre„d of barbarians ; the Turk once threatenei a
combined Europe, but now lives by its dissensions;
even the Mogul, whose throne England hervif
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 numerom races- who have risen to sway the
councils of the world, but one, when approaching
decay, has had the good fortune to see the transfer
of power passing into the hands of her own child,
aud we ask any Englishman of sense whether this
be not a matter for congratulation instead of for in'
dignatiou ? lie may deny that the decay has eon"
!Deuced, and we roadily admit" that England is
likely long to fliurish ; but if the rev,:rse were th°
case, ought nut the fact that the transfer is to her

kindle 1 in A.r.e ica to be a seiiieet of intees., sa 13"
f tction ? It is not s' much that E igland is in de-
cay as that the IJuited States are in a tnarvellouslY
swift groove of advancement reel prosperity. .13e"
t ween 1850 and 1830 the ittereas • of the popular fen iU
the Republic was 35 per cent., that of Great B. it-sill
less then 1 ; whi'e the Repu!lic's wealth rose 1231" r
cent. against Great Britain's 33. From Liverpool,
as we write, the exodus to the State. 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'
d ly of last week the Cunard steamer Palmyra left
the Mersey for New York, via Boston, with 60:)
steerage passengers ; the next day the Idaho sailed
for New York with 876 passengers. The Ottawa and
the Nestorian carried out to Quebec and MontrealB66
passengers. The City of Baltimore had about 196
in the steerage and cabins, while the National COm'
pany's steamer Denmark had 927, and the Erin
1,242 steerage passengers, for New York. Tile
Scotia, which mile I from Liverpool on Saturday,
took out no steerage passengers, but had a full
complement of saloon passengers. The number
was swelled by 2;000 embarked in sailing shils'
makinj a total for the week of 7,500 souls. iler`3
is the report from thechief depot in America. " Fr°.
Ist Jan. to the 15th May there arrived 81,658 caw
grants from Europe at New York. Of this num'
ber Germany contributed 25,431; Ireland, 17,441 e;
England, 11,890; and Scotland, 2,931. Over 10,00 u„
emigrants have arrived each week during May'
Now what does this mean but empire? Mr. ges•
;
BUCK may call it a " feculent torrent ;" we n3'
it the bons and sinew, the inanhool, the enterptil°;
aye, even the virtue of Europe. It is not you
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 ade'
quate present remuneration for his labour. Will°
the Republic and the Monarchy compete for poll
Xll
cal influence and commercial gains, jealousy wl5
generate bad blood, and eaca will say hard throb
of the other; but when the swift march of evel)ts
has carried the Union far beyond her small but
great competitor, is it to be regretted that even
while running the neck-and-neck race, America el;
hibits an irresistible tendency towards symPtbi's
and kindliness, not lessened perhaps because shefeea
,
as won the goal of which she is so sure? Is the e'
grandmother, while fast dropping astern, to burl
back in anger America's desire to serve her as o
,
strong person serves the weak, as the rich serve ti`e
.
poor, when the rich are the children and the poor
AP;
of
the parents ? If there be an uncomfortable seuse_e
dependence when the approaching stage is reaehe"'
surely England will find a solace to her vanity 1t
knowing that blood is thicker than water, and that
if America becomes a protection to her age as well
as a material gain, that it is but a fair return, for'
say what we will, many of the things the RePub
most prizes have been derived from her. Now, wiil ,
should Blackwood and the class that magazine re-
presents fume over the inevitable and repudiate tujo
beneficial, instead of rejoicing that England
not in the category of the Empires that lia%o n
seen their power pass into the hands of a
alien, inspired more with feelings of hatred 63
those of attachment, and having nothing in Coll;
mon ? To gratify their little vanity, they rejee the
bountiful gift of a kind PROVIDENCE, and ti%
stor.n and rave over a fate that can no wore b
helped than can the limits of the island be exteudedd
a senseless course against which this journal is aof
has been a living protest., for it enters into sonic
e
the grea'est questions affectirg England's inttloa
and the progress ,au 1 happiness of the Anglo-Sa%tbe
race. \V i.eu Atntrica has desired to draw close
bonds of kindred, the has been answered 11.
TROLLOI'PE or a DICKENS, all connection
the " feculent torrent" being repudiated. Arl'leo,
racy, recognizing in the Republic all enemy, 111 the
deavoured to direct English feeling agaiittept
States, and to create a social dislike. Every
.attZioe-
to adjust a balance to the Republic, either ln 'bope
rica or elsewhere, has failed, or will ; every aof
raised by secession has been buried in the gril.niti-
the Civil War ; then let that class, the most ee-the
vated, and certainly not the least patriotic, ceaSe,'"rics
vain strife of enmity, learning to regard Aln'Aed
as the eventual seat of Anglo-Saxon einPirebnee
extracting therefrom all the pride they eau• not
this is done, there will be an earnest desire bat
only to cultivate the most intimate relations,,,tio.
to see American power established on the sucieet
dest foundations, and erected on the brnp,eia,./c-
-principles of what is noble and good. 41 eit
tnizitick,,
wood may call this Utopian ; and stigrea
as un-English, &c., &c. ; but we regardas
wood's course as little less than idiotic ; as 3 at
kicking against the pricks, as a dog baPngoieil
the moon, as the angry bull running at th,e,,booe
train, as a scream against the inevitable.
who recogniz, the astounding growth of the,est
public know that its settled enmity hereafter
,!.itist
be little less than annihilation to any nation ft,,,"st to
which it is nursed. Is the endeavour wise rwith
implant that feeling, and to work vigorousi,llttateg
those bitter haters of England already in the bielt
for the eradication of the friendly sentiment which
has hitherto resisted every effort of both the the
and the English, which withstands the spite e`te
one and the folly of the other, but which Is:ttilel
grow luxuriously if Albion's idiotic children,w°lee
but cultivate it, working for that end wherell3ter9
safety and continued prosperity, not for the eri•
which, as we see it, contains exactly the revers
Anglo-American Times.
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AraP!,,s
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to the thousands lleva e nor 1)1 err ;0
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0r reel,
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.>„:
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BIRTIL.
, Chatham, the wife
Fisher, C. 8., R.E., of .
a son. f Sir
GRANT—On the 6th inst., the wif° 0-
'
Alt xander Grant, Bart.,
.1 at Edinburgh,
of a son.
MARRIAGES. ~.., ..reb,
DUDGEO P
N—.. oND theOasth • rne Uu-,,,
inst., at Lambou A„oat
Essex, And • '
E, L Andrew Tilstone, youngest son of joLn 1--)1•1"„"'‘,..eot
daughter "don, to ElizAboth Oriana Frances, yoll-.
_ of John Pond, Esq., Abridge, Essex.
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PAGE—BE " '
MI p I'EN —On the 7th inst., at Woodchurch,l of
... Hge, of Forest-hill, to Alarv. eldest ii•iiiffh,ter.
Geo. I.l.:litn, Esq., of Piurenden, Woodohurcliel3"
DEATIIS. ucor
PEUMPTRE— On the sth inst , at Worthing, of eons a,
lion, a!ter upwards of two. years' illness. aged 33, '16,1.,
laide, the beloved wife of Charles John Plumptre, oci,
barrister-at-law, of 15, Belgrave-road, St. Johu's-sv° of
and youngest daughter of the late Major Dental
Cannanore, Madras, India.
SHEPHERD—On the a Ist May, at Devonshire-lorlleceej
•,_ of ColonBl
If6yde-park, dee?ly lamented, George Sheplierd, f_,..,,,,,
ta,tifkorpnerly a Professor at Prior Park College' l'
ovirs.
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