The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-04-13
OUR RELATIONS WITHENGLAND. I

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There is party in the United States who seem
determined to get I'D war with Great Britain
They hope, in the desperation of their circum-
stances, to profit by hostilities, while there are
others who are panic makers on all occasions and
behold the most gloomy portents in the present
aspect Of affairs, which are significant to them oil
nothing but international collision. It requires
long series OF mutual provocations to drive Two
civilized nations i1.er!accd bv thousand t:oS,
commercial, pccnr:aryaHd social, into hostiltios.
For our part we can conceive nothing in the eX-
isting relations between the two countries inca
pable of adjustment. The North Eastern boun-
Diary question TO doubt admits Of pacific settle
Inent on basis Of reciprocity. The elements
forsuch set;lemcet have been obtained by sci
entihc surveys, which afford something geo.
graphically definite on the suhiec.. The topo-
graphical which hung over this ma'-
ter being removed, an arrangement will be facili-
tated andwll no doubt be made mutually salts
factory.
The question ofthe Right OF Search can pro-
tluce no difficulty in period Of profound peace.
Such right in the form il has now assumed can
lead TO no other result than prot!e2s negotiation.
The British government never entertained so ab-
surd purpose as to enforce such pretension
on non-consenting nations. Ifshe could arrange
it by diplomacvit it would be a triumph to her on
favorite branch Of her foreign policy; but that
she was prepared 70 encounter the risks of a
prolonged contest for this object no one can be-
leve who can comprehend her inducements to
continue at peace, when such a contest with the
United States would inevitably complicate her
political relations with other maritime powers.
The alarm, however, into which the quntuple
treaty has thrown the people of France is a sure
guarantee that this question of the Right Of
Search will not, during general peace, disturb
our relations with Great Britain.
What other causes arc there for wari The
Case of the Creole is one purely of pecuniary
Naturalization, and this ofitsef is surely not
sufficient TO drive two countries, having such
mutua, inducements for the observance of pa
cltic polt'y, into war. Mr.. Webster in his de-
spatch to Mr.. Everett places it on the ground,
merely, Of az ordinary claim for compensation.
But while We can perceive no signs of rupture
of our pacific relations with England, we are sor-
ry to perceive such efforts made in Congress,
and by the publ prints, TO defeat by anticipation
the objects OF Lord Ashhurtoas mission. 1t
must give pain 70 every lover of decency to be-
hold the traduction of his character and the dis
parageiaeat OF his motives by the prohga,e por-
tcn OF the american press, which makes no
eN' ap-e VI ''"'d!''S tiS Ordinary rucS Ci Giplo-
matte courtesy and national hospitality in its
attacks on hi:H, for party ends. The most -ab-
surd purposes, equally at war with the ordinary
objects Of negotiation and the knowledge that
must be supposed 10 belong 10 an intelligent En-
glsh statesman, are attributed 70 this nobeman
such as to effect by diplomacy, the assumption
OF the State debts by the general government
and other equally visionary objects. This has a
tendency to throw impedmaa;s in the way of a
permanent arrangement by the exhibition of a
temper which is the very opposite 10 a spirit OF
mutual coacession.-C ChGrleSi0n PQtriDt.