The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1881.

What the Northerns will think of our sending
a few regiments to garrison our Canadian towns
properly, we may well imagine from their unac-
countable indignation with England for the mea-
sures of neutrality which we have adopted.
Among the New York mob, and in the columns
of the New York Herald and Times, edited as
they are by emigrant Irishmen, bitterly hostile
to this country, we should not be surprised at
anything, however unreasonable and furious,
against the British—but that the intelligent cor-
respondent of a contemporary writing from the
well-educated and half-English city of Boston
should describe the feeling as increasing there, is
very remarkable. In a letter by the last
mail, dated 4th of June, he says :—" The
feeling against England is much on the increase
in this country, and threatens to bring about
a return of those bad old times when it was held to
be the first duty of an American to hate all Eng-
lishmen. The telegraphic report of the royal pro-
clamation of May 13 had a favourable effect, but
the publication of the text of that document has
had quite the contrary effect. It is contended that
the tone and language of the proclamation are in-
sulting to the United States, and that we are
ranked in it with the man-stealers of the Con-
federacy. The debate in the House of Peers on
the proclamation has also given offence ; and the
announcement that• the British Admiralty were
sending Armstrong guns and other weapons of war
to Canada is construed into a menace against the
American Union. Nor is this feeling an ill-founded
one, for assuredly there is not a man in America
who thinks of making an attack on Canada, except
as the consequence of a war with England; and
such a war we no more desire than the Rothans
could have wished for a Gaulish invasion when they
had Hannibal on their hands and Cannre fresh in
their minds. Men reason that such preparations
are directed against this country, and that your
Government are making ready for a war that they
regard as ineTitable. They may be wrong. I pre-
sumo they are ; but you might as well expect the
ascendancy of reason in a fever hospital as here,
remembering in what a state of excitement we have
been living for six or seven months, and that now
our sole business is connected
with war, for there is
literally nothing else doing or to be done' in either
the Union or Confederacy."
We would charitably believe that the last re-
mark gives the true account of the case, and that
our cousins have really lost their heads with ex-
citement. He adds that the people are ready
ady
thefor
anything, and seems to fear that they may
upper hand as they did at the First Revo-
lution in 1790, yet speaking, as it were, for
himself, as well as others, he says—" We are not
conscious of having done anything to deserve the
treatment we have received from your Government,
and it is supposed that you believed that it was all

over with the Union, or else you wouldn't have

made such haste to endorse the Confederacy." To

Which we may certainly reply that we are not con-

scious of havinr, endorsed the Confederaey.
In-
deed, we know of nothing to which such an expres-
sion would apply unless it were to our having
acknowledged belligerent rights to the South,
which, we hardly need say, is a totally different
thing. We need not defend that step either
for our own country or for France, since
the able New York writer whose views we
has shown, in the most con-
Rave a few days ago,
cluive manner, not only that it was the only view
We e°'-ild justly take, but also the only one which
would justify the Southern blockades, save the
North from responsibility to us for Southern inju-
ries to our commerce, and avoid placing us in the
position of umpires. What we could have done
more, as neutrals, we cannot understand. We
have not denied the right of the North to hang
Englishmen if they find them on board pirate
vessels, though We more than doubt whether it
dar® treat a Southern privateer as a pirate ; that
is their concern; but we decline ourselves to re. .
gard the privateers as pirates, we have forbid- I

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