The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN PRESS.

The Watchman and Reflector indicates, in an ar.
tide on " Threatening England," a change in th
tone of a large section of New Englanders toward
the old country with which they could never, unies,
galled and driven into it, make up their minds tc
fight. On the subject of Mr. Sumner's speech that
religious organ says :
" We have endorsed that speech as a statement of the
American view of the subject, but we never expected that
the English people would receive it as a fair statement of
their liability for the acts of their Government. It wee,
but the extreme statement of one party in a controversy
of viewe designed to offset the extreme statement of the
other party. Both parties look at the subject from their
own point of view ; each disagrees, and each sees that the
two methods of adjudication are by wit,: or arbitration.. ..

Mr. Sumner has stated our claims, now IF-t England state
her just.neation of her acts ; let a case be mule up tad
submitted to impartial arbiters. And let the American
people remember that injured sentiment has no cause for
damages in any court save that which adjudicates 'arm a
breach of promise of marriage. Whatever we do, don't
let us be maudlin. Catholic Europe would hail with ar
jubilate a war between England and America."
_ _

The Sprinfifield I?eipttlican expresses astonish-
ment at English ignorance of the state of American
feeling, which for England it coneiders to be the
most important feature of the case—

" With a natural incapacity for understanding other na-
tions, the London editors took for granted, when Reverdy
Johnson was wandering wound the United Kingdom,
gushing with admiration for Xngland, that ho represented
the groat majority of our people ; and now, when they find
that the Senate, by a vote practically unanimous, has
eschewed Rovordy and all his works, they insist that Awe-
rica cherishes a deep and passionate hatred of England—
such a feeling as leads a man to bite off his ncse to spite
his face. And even as they justified their former notion
by the vinous eloquence of Johnson, so now they try to
prove their case by another American, Dr. Joshua Leavitt,
who is quoted as saying, 'The protective pclicy cannot
stand in America by the admission of its advocates, ex-
cept as it is deemed an expression of hostility against Eng-
land.' We can scarcely believe that Dr. Leavitt has said
anything so foolish—but if be has, he no more represents
or understands the sentiments of his countrymen than
Reverdy Johnson did last autumn."

America's real feeling is a mixed one, differing from
what it was ten years ago, but not that of an
enemy nor likely to lead to war In declaring in-
dependence in 1776 America assured England that
she would be regarded as an enemy in war, and in
peace a friend. It has taken the Republic nearly
a hundred years to realise that assertion, and it will
take England nearly half a century more, but the
sooner she finds it out the less amazement and
mortification she will have. England, to use an
Americanism, is in " a fix :"
" She has no allies in Europe on whom she can depend.
She has destroyed the sentiment of affection with which
the Anglo-Saxon race on this continent used to regard hor,
and her own relative strength, great as it is, compares but
poorly with her power in the first half of this century.
These things being so, the less she tries to pick a quarrel
with a nation she confesses to have injured, the better will
it be for all concerned, especially for herself."

The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser alludes to the difficulty experienced
by the British Embassy in that city, as to who in
America has the power of making treaties, and
what is the nature of the offence committed by Eng-
land for which satisfaction is demanded. It is not
the British Embassy alone to whom the last point is
a puzzle; but it is to be hoped Mr. Motley knows,
and will be able to explain.
The New York Evening Post says the Alabama
treaty creates little anxiety, or indeed gives rise to
thought of any kind, in the minds of the masses.
American relations with England is a subject so
little discussed that scarcely one man in ten re-
flects on the matter at all ; and we can bear out the
Evening Post in this judgment from the tone of the
American press, which is full of the May meetings
in New York, of the opening of the Pacific Rail-
way, of the course of the markets, of money, and the
state of the currency, the disposal of the Treasury
surplus, and the tariff question.
The New York Tribune, while doubting the truth
of the coalition report it had received from its cor-
respondent in London, remarks—

"We are at peace, and unless assailed will remain so. It
will hardly do to fall upon us without a pretext, and this
we shall take care not to afford. Sending in your bill for
damages endured or Fervices rendered dons nct justify a

order him never to show his face again the utmost show
of resew ment that consists with decorum.

The coalition shows animus, and the desire of the
potentates to throw back the power and pre:r-
age of the Republic, if they had a fair and safe op-
portunity. The best American policy is that taught
by Washington, to avoid the entanglements ai_d
complications of European politics.

" Europe vnds us little beside robust, industrious emi-
grants that we might not butter do without— little that
wo are not impoverished b) taking. Let us, then, with-
draw ourselves more and more from auy connection wi: h
her interests and her aspirations. if we build more steam-
ships, let us run them to American ports, and so build up
our mechanical industry at home and draw larger and
larger supplies of raw staples from our less skillful neigh-
bours in the West Indies and on the Spanish Main."

The Herald reporter has been again at work; this
time with Secretary Fish. " England (he says) had
her hands full already, and hei peculiar territorial re-
lations in America would make her hesitate before
entering upon hostilities with the United States,
France, Mr. Fish thinks, will be slow to enter into
any such alliance while Bismarck lives, and Prus-
sia stands among the first, if not the first, Powers
in Europe. As for Spain, she can do nothing.
Such a proceeding, in the opinion of Mr. Fish,
would give rise to a general war in Europe, and end
in a reconstruction of the map' thereof. Prussia
would take care of France, Russia would walk down
to Constantinople and settle the Eastern question
in ber own way. Spain would lose Cuba in about
72 hours. The State Department has no advices
from Minister Reverdy Johnson on the subject."

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