Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-04-30

JOHN BULL AND BROTHER JONATHAN.
The London Sunday Times of March 9
has an amusing article on this country, con-
demhing Lord ABERDEEN's mild and con-
ciliatory speech, with respect to the Oregon
as calculated to raise brother
Jonathan's vanity. The following is an
extract therefrom
''It is not what the speech Lord Aber-
deen's) Will do here, but the effect it will
produce there. 1t is read with disgust in
ngland; it will be read with triumph in A.
merica. Our transatlantic brethren-and
we call them brethren from our hearts-are
like all young communities, they are the
very last persons on earth 10 whom it is
safe or proper to make concessions. They
are apt to attribute to fear in us that which
we really meant in kindness to them. That
they do not hate US we can believe; but has
any one ever travelled through that mighty
land without finding them catching at any
and every opportunity to belittle and malign
us? A sense of inferiority awakens this an
Itagonistic feeling-hurt vanity hates the
admission of known truth. Thus with q
few glorious exceptions) Americans under
rate English talent, English industry, Eng
fish enterprise, and England's power. 81
like you, but damn your countryn' is &
common cofee-house salutation. Go down
Broadway-every shopkeeper announce;
his goods, if possible, with the prefix o.
I"English" as a recommendation. Yet the
very dealer abuses England, while he is sci
ling lis articles. America has been callet
the land of verbal novelists (to give flight:
of fancy mild name,) but it is assuredly ;
land of boosters.
A true Yankee AYERS that their ships sal
faster, their horses run quicker, their mer
fight harder, their women love truer, thei
manufactures are better, their. commercial
schemes more extended, their political views
more just, and in short that everything tina
in their land can be invented or imagined
far transcends whatever exists in England
We can afford to hear all this-the gasco'
made hurts us not-We hear it as we pa.
Itiently listen to child talking of encoun.
tering a vast giant; but what we endure WE
must not foster, for the child's sake. Eng
land is no blusterer, and certainly never
sought to intimidate America; but it viii
not do to let her make such ''mighty tall
walking" as Lord Aberdeen's speech is
likely to accelerate. All he said-his leav-
ing no stone unturned to promote peace
is in contravention of the Premier's manly
Internationally have" said Sir Robert
Peel at the close Of last session-"we have
rights, and having, are prepared to assert
and maintain them" Has Lord Aberdeen
forgotten the cheers which this annuncia-
ton of his (Peel's) intentions elected? il
SO, he is the only man in England who has
Lord Aberdeen wishes for peace; so do
We-so does every sane man in Great Bri-
tain-but we would not cringe for and i'm
plore it. Admitting that, in anxiety for the
we'll being of the whole human race, Lord
Aberdeen wishes for peace-he is taking
the worst possible means to procure it
worse, because impossible; worse still, for
that it is AFFECT. To attempt, by amplora-
ton, to procure peace is to promote war.-
We have had enough of folly in what seem
led like warlike preparations. The Belle
Irophon is fitted for service in eight and for
fty hours, to show what England could do
does she not know what she can do? After
playing at soldiers, as it were, she returns
re intecta, is unrigged, and laid up in ordi-
nary. Must not other nations have imagin'
ed we had something serious in view by
ISuch marvellOuS celeritV. and cOnld thew