Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-12-14
From Ias Boston Courier
RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.

The October. number OF the North
American Review contains a lengthy ar
ticle, in which our relations with Eng
land are discussed with great ability. We
will remark, however, that the article re.
lerred TO is written in scrt of "of.hand
slyle," not dissmilar 10 that Of the late
address 10 his constituents by represen-
taGye Of Congress from Massachusetts,
and il may have been from the same
source. Mr.. Cushing is believed TO
have as good a knowledge of our foreign
relations as almost any other citizen Of
the United States: and the position Of
Chairman Of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, which he has held for some
time past, has certainly given him great
opportunities for deriving information
upon this subject.
There are some matters referred 10 in
this article which are of vast importance
to the citizens Of the Union, involving, as
they do, questions between the United
States and England which may not be
amicably adjusted. And we proceed to
give few extracts, embracing these,
with such remarks as they may suggest.
A large portion Of the paper is oc-
cupied in a discussion of the Caroline
and Mcleod affair; but as Mcleod is
now disposed Of, we will pass over that
portion Of the article. The following ex-
tract from the closing portion Of The re-
marks under this head is, however, too
imnoTtant TO be omitted:
'.The real difficulty will begin when
Mcleod is al large; for then there will
be no longer an excuse for neglecting
to look at the great question of the com
manded and avowed outrage upon the
American territery. y No ma
ton which means 10 holdsits own, and tc
extend protection to its ciIizens-none
which has not made up its mind to be-
come by-word and prey-con think o
sitting down quietly with such an assault
unexcused or unatoned for"
1t will be seen, therefore, that the
Caroline affair is not settled; the mos
difficult matter is still to come.
Another question for adjustment be.
tween the two powers is, that the seizure
of American vessels by British armed
cruisers, under the pretence that they
we're engaged in the slave trade. No
less Than seven cases of this kind have
occurred, and papers setting forth the cir
cumstance in the cases. have been sent
by the President TO the House Of Repre-
sentatiVes. Our minister at the Court OF
St. James has, in accordance with the III
structions Of Mr.. Forsyth, forwarded OF
the second Of March last. demanded re-
dress of the British Government but has
given no answer. Upon this point the Re-
view remarks .,,
"One thing is certain about the matter
that If England means forcibly to insis
upon and exercise the right of search
which she has ever been able to exac
from US by negotiation, and allow herseI
TO treat us in IA manner which, holding
our own argument, she refuses to ALLOW
Hayti to treat her, she has first made VI
her mind to push us 10 the issue of war
Two other questions of equal difficult,
in adjustment, exist and may hereafter
if England persists in her unloundec
claims lead to hostile collision. TIT
encroachment of Great Britain upon ou
territory along its northeastern and north
western boundary, are fruitful causes o
difference; and they appear TO be no near
era settlement now, than they were year
AGO. The position taken by the write
in the North American, in relation tc
these questions, seems TO us to be sount
and manly one; and we should be pleas
ed did our limits permit, 10 give liberal ex
tracts. We agree with the writer mosl
fully, in the declaration that "it is moi
safe, any more than it is right that. we
should acquiesce in encrochments and at
fronts from any quarter, however formId'
able" The Review adds:
ave must insist, at all hazards, on
having our boundaries recognised and re-
spected; and must refuse to be subject to
have our villages entered at night by a
partv of desperate men engaged to follow
any future Capt. Drew "to the devil"
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