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duces more evil than coed, can no more
be admitted in the community of nations
than tic in community of individuals
But, we are OBTAINING the reader from
the criticism in question.
IRON rte Edinburgh Re0iego Of November
1872
ART. ~. american Stcte Pahers: Con-
tanning the Corre$ttondence 6etseen Hes
srs Saith, Pinkney, Marquis. W. aeSleJ
&c 8vo. PIP. 90. London, 1911.
SO little is to be gained, and so much to
be lest by an American war, that though
cur preposterous policy has at last brought
lhe disputes between the two nations to this
issue, no class Of politicians seems whollv
satisfied with the result. Strictly speaking.
indeed, we have no real quarrel with Anne :.
rica; our contest with that power arising
out of our main quarrel in Eu-
rope. America invades US i'm no substantial
interest-she crosses us not in any fayourite
walk OF policy-she aims no blows at our
prosperity or independence and being e3
Guided from all the common scenes of Euro
pean ambition, her case afforded, to aliap-
pearance, no great scope to the common
Jealousies OF politicians. After twenty
years war with France, however, we are
row fairly involved in an additional war
with this apparently harmless power,-ha-
wing for this purpose sacrificed all those an
cient connexions of trade which gave the
TWO countries SO great an interest in the
maintenance Of peace. The exports of G.
Britain to America amounted annually to
ten millions. All this vast trade, andth
ind
which it produced, the war lays waste at
one blow. But it is not merely as a case of
profit and loss, though in this view il is
sufficiently important, that the subject ought
TO be contemplated. The trade between
Britain and America, independent of its
profits to individuals, accomplished objects
which must ever bedear TO the friends OF
human Improvement Our readers are M
doubt aware, that America, like all other
rising communities, having her whole spare
capital embarked in agriculture, must ne
cessarily depend on other countries for a
supply OF manufactures, in exchange for
which they receive an equivalent in rude
produce. Such was the nature of the trade
Carried on with this country; by means of
which America, assisted by the wealth and
industry of Britain, was left free to pursna
the great work of domestic improve MT
while Britain found, in the demands of A.
merica, ample employment for her over.
flowing capital and her numerous artisans,
The trade thus diffused industry, nlentv
and smiling looks through this once prosDe,
rous and happy land; while it gave energy
to the spreading agriculture of the
New World, and extended cultivation over.
its Ion ly wastes.
From picture so delightful to contem.
plate, we turn with no pleasing emotions ~,
the policy by which it has been defaced
The correspondence before us relates to
the Orders in Council, and TO Qtherunfriend.
ly acts committed against the American
tvade; and though we have no inter, ION of
reviying thesehateful controyarsles though
we would willingly. forget <js EVERLASTING
stats on the character and p.f.cy of o,,I.
country,--yet there is one VitH. of the case
suggested by these papers W hicIfeye cannot
avoid laying before our rSa<IeSs It in.
strucavsto look back to whathas happen
ed, that we may draw lessens, foIVtRe flu
ture, from the dear bought experience of
the past.
1t was long the anxious business Of the
American minister, Us appears from the do
cunents befoHe us, to procure by persnasi-
on, an aband0iment of the measures hostils
to the American trade. lie urged his CASE
on views ofjustice and of general policy.
he calmly combatted the pretext by whc;h
he was met-he boldly and poihtedy asser-
ted that the claims of his Country must
sooner or latter, be abandoned aud he ad
ded, what ought never to be forgotten. that
they were unJust,--and that time, therefore
could do nothing for them. His representa-
tons were met by declarations of what his
Majesty owed to the honor, dignity, and es-
sential rights of his crown and by all the
other sounding common places usual on such
occasions. These sentiments were after-
wards explained at greater length, and pro.
mulgated TO the world IN the deliberate re
cord OF state paper. But in spite of the
honor OF Majesty thus pledged to these OBJ
noxious measures, they mere Teheaked. A
laOorious investigation into their merits end
ed IN their unqualified reprobation and a
bandonment ;--their authors were unable
TO look IN the fac the scenes of beega ".
disorder and wretcl edness, which their no.
icy had brought on the couutr, ;--th, vwere
borne down by the cries OF suffering milf;
ons land they yielded at length to neces-
sity, what they had formerly refused To inc.
tice. This was clearly, therefore, an ace
OF unwilling submission. Ii bore not five
stamp OF conciiation & the only inference
to be drawn from IL was, that the plottera
OF mischief, being fairly caught in their own
snare, were glad to escape, on any terms.
IRON the effects of their i'll considered mea-
sures. How torcibiy does this transaction
teach the necessity ola prudent aud mode
rate conduct How strikingiy does it mark
the contrast between insoience, which de-
hghts IN abusing power, and true digni-
ty, which, being founded Oh a reverence for