The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-01
England and the United states.


1t is noticeable that throughout the speeches Of
Kossuth, he speaks Of an alliance between Eng
land and this country, to rebuks tyranny and en-
courage freedom. 1t 10 true thst he specially
disclams inviting either nation to take up arms
in behalf Of his cause, but he calls upon both to
command imperial tyranny to keep within certain
bounds !; and as the command may not be ebeyed,
he certainly asks that they shall take position
which they cannot hold without war. Singularly
enough, at this very moment, Sir Henry L.
Bulwer, recently the popular English Minister
to this country, has come forward in one of his
brilliant and impassioned speeches, to urge an
alliance Of the most intimate nature between this
country and England, and has had much to
say of how, jointly, they can uphold the cause
of liberty and bid triumphant defiance to its foes.
There are in this country great many un-
reasonable prejudices against England, in which
we have never participated. We are not insen-
sible to the sympathies of blended races and a
common language We admire her past history
and her present greatness, and we have but little
| respect for the humbuggish cant, which, but a
short time since, made her so fruitful theme Of
abuse in American politics. We fully appreciate
Sir Henry L. Bulwer's brilliant invocations to
common literary and historic memories.
But we must confess that we suspect design
to flatter US into yielding desired results, and
admire the skill with which Sir Henry Bulwer
and Kossuth manage their games. England
wishes free trade with US; Sir Henry Bulwer
has indefatigably worked to secure SO desirable
a result; English organs have left no course
untried to reach it; the English Parliament has
specially acted (by republishing Walkers report
to advance it, and the leading free trade cham.
pion in this country, one not the most distin.
guished of our statesmen, has met with recep.
ton in England singularly fattering in com.
parison with that extended to Webster and
others not SO conveniently agreeable in their
views. The gentleman we allude to, Hon.
Robert J. Walker, now in England, has just made
a sweeping free trade speech, which English
journals have appauded to the echo. These
facts may well suggest suspicious of England.
motives being none of the most dsinterested
The remarkable vigilance with which las in the
Nicaragua matter and the Cuban Expedition
she watches and embarrasses any possible ex
tension Of our power or territory, would go far t,
confirm these suspicious.
| Whenever England performs a Illustration ant
does justice to unfortunate Ireland, when she nj
longer makes Irishmen melancholy outcasts ant
exiles, we shall be prepared to appreciate her in
vitation to ally ourselves with her in R5erattnl
/, the rest of mankind. In the mean time, we hav
doubts of the honesty of the invitation no les
than of the propriety and usefulness of the ALI
; ance. We certainly can not afford to establish
free trade with her, to destroy manufactures
to remove all chance of competition with her pau
per labor, in order to secure it.
Kossuth has his game, too but it is a noble
! one. Every thing with him is secondary to hi
life-dream of independence for Hungary. That i
the unrisen sun he worships, and from the path O
which he asks to scatter the darkness. Gu
sacrifices, our peace, our progress, are nothing t
him in view of this result. For this he is ever
thing to all men. No man can read his address t
the people of Marseilles, without concluding tina
/ it is calculated, if not designed specially to ap
peal to the prejudces of the Socialists and Re
. Republicans. He lands in England, and issue
one of the most eloquent of eulogies upon cor
stitutional monarchy-sets himself up as its spe
, cial champion, and de6es Socialism and Red Re
publicanism and all their works. Louis Blanc
the most celebrated of Socialists, waits upon him
and he Immediately re.endorses his Marseilles ad
dress. He writes to America, and the vision q
Hungary, great republic in the heart Of Europe
charms our republican sympathies. We do no
question the patriotism, or devotion. or honesty O
the Hungarian chieftain; we do say he looks a
nothing but his one heroic idea, and that he woul,
sacrifice forty such republics as ours, twenty suc
kingdoms as Great Britain, to make it real
Our policy, through all this deceptive mist @
popular phrases, is clear. If any are oppressed
here is our own land, the mos. favored and glo
\ rious in the world, in which shelter and protsc
ton may be found. Not all the powers an
principalites could snatch from us one singl
refugee. Should he not like our land, should h
scale it below his own-what then! Shall W
enter upon a great war for that! Is Hungar,
is glorious old Ireland, nobler land than ours
Shall we battle for every mans prejudices +! Sha
we interfere in every struggle! Safe as in
Temple, safe as in Gods House, let every ma
repose here. If he refuse this magnificent ASYLUM
his the contest-not ours.
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