Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-09-23

sing TO serve them, as she did Spain during
the wars of the Empire. How did the
English Legion conduct itself in the midst
of the armies of Spanish independancs?--
She raized the Notifications in her retreat;
she destroyed the mills, broke up the
looms, demolished the forges, man facto
ries, the industrial establishments and
thus poor Spain, ever since these .jrater.
nal acts Of zeal Of her good allies, has
been unable to recover her prosperity, and
lies PROSTATE and perishing in her mar
kets, dressed out il ihe cottons Of England.
Such is the true, constant, and, Imight
say, fatal policy of England in her rela.
tions with other nations. n .-, - led
If she cannot insult you openly, she has
recourse 10 cunning and hypocrisy, to limp.
ing and masked treachery, by which to
undermine, enervate, or entrap you. 90; q
Thus England, which. Of. old date pre-,
tends before the world to play the part Of
missionary, and profess desire 10 open
the great Chinese Empire to Europe, in
order'to bring it in contact with eur civi.
lization, commences her work by poison-
ing its inhabitants. She coldly speculates
upon assassination, as she would on an
article oftrade. She will make you be.
leive that she only seized upon America,
India, and her numerous colonies in order
to carry there new spirit, and implant
her liberal institutions ), and yet every one
knows with what fury she struggled with
the United States, once depending upon
her; how she holds down Ireland in servi-
tude and misery-1reland, that lis of her
own blood and bone; aud how, fer cen
tury, that she retains India in her grasp,
she has not even deigned to accord to her
a single one Of these pretended liberal
institutions. IL, s.s =.a,. AZ. ~, ...,f: I'd
She boasts Of having been the first to
liberate her slaves; and yet this tardy act.
which republican France had accomplished
in 1892, she only decreed in order oodis-
organize the rival colonies of other nations,
and the history of theright O visst soon
taught the world what was really at the
bottom Of this piece of British liberality!
England, in short, has arrogated to
herself the sacred title Of protector Of the
oppressed of all nations laboring for their
Independence and yet when France,
sixty years ago, at an immense sacrifice
Of blood and treasure, opened crusade
against despotism, England allied herself
with despotism against France, against the
rights Of nations and the world. And
when, lsngued with kings whom she had
paid during twenty years, she had recon-
structed the old oppression, she presided,
proudly at the distribution and sale Of
nations and countries. r.. zszis .s:=5rg'I7 =
Libefty, religion, progress, civilization,
the sacred rights of fconscience Or of sover-.
eighty, are mere words and pretexts for
British hypocrisy. When her tongue
utters them she blasphemes ), for, in heart,
no other sentiment, no other law, predomi-
mates than the passion for lucre, and the
selfshness other grandeur. Every page
Of her history tells this story, prenounces
this Judgment. ~
Is it, then not logical to say, that a ma
ton which is the very slave of facts,
whose institutions manners, and powers,
are all made snbseryient 20 fact-whose
idea of progress, Of eternal law, of the
rights of man, whose education scatters- to
the four winds Of heaven the great princi-
pies of equality and fraternity--is9 it. not
logical, l say, that such nation can only
practise cunning and brute force?
Z Let those nations and governments re-.
fleet upon'it, who are unwilling to submit
10 slavery or to the eternal exploitation of
man by traders! Z esssss +-a
2 With England there is no absolute right
either for Independence or for sovereignty.
I With England there is never any rela-:
tive right of q certain, character, neither
for the contracting parties, nor for allies,
nor 'neutrals. & ''7 ''-''" -'1'''
{ AsTfor France, it is quite unnecessary
that /, should caution her for sheihasl but
to read again her own annals, and she is at
once sufficiently enlightened and, put on
her guard. Under the monarchy, French
ministers sold us to England for ready
money. .oa We have q glaring proof in the
exeerable conduct of. Dubois, ,liwhosa trea-
son was paid by Walpole. But under the
republic, Pitt, finding it impossible to buy
er,ssought to subdue her by famine, and
by bringing down upon her the armed as
sassins Of Royalty Thus, from the very
time Of the conquest, the political conduct
E'of England towards France has ever been
coupled withnor aided by assassination or
eorrup,ion..s,.!* sa+e y; *sab ~ =.
| The internal spirit of Pitt is not yet OK,
1ainct among the English aristocracy, who
still hope to recover by a war they nre
losing every day. But the prepondera'
ting interests of commerce are fora peace.
In any event, should another coalition be
formed, it is net in Belgium or. Germany
we [ [Frenchman] must fight. With steam
every island is accessible, and England
has no army worthy of the name of army
w ellington himself lately declared tina
s'considering our state Of defence, the fac
that our war material has been sufficient!
kept up sincs 1915, and that our fleets can
not protect us it would be impossible t
hold out a week after a declaration of war
II am seventy seven years Of age, passed il
service for the most part. hope | shal
never witness tragedy which | hav
vainly entreated my countrymen to pre-
vent by precautionary measures" Ad
miral Napier has lately not less ssriousl
ii declared that the naval forces of the cour