The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-25

UREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES-
THEIR MUTUAL Observation-Disclosures
The London Times, in an article recently trans
ferred to our columns, referred to the revenue
of our government with much satisfaction, and
ridiculed Mr.. Secretary Corwin's tariff propen-
sites and calculations as absurd In the course
of those remarks, that journal said
For all practical purposes, the United States
are far more closely united with this kingdom
than any one of our colonies; and while these
communities are colonies in name, but in reality
either prisons, garrisons, or independent COM
munities, the United States keeps up perpet-
ua interchange of the most important good
offices taking our manufactures ard our surplus
population, and giving US in return the materials
of industry, of revenue and of life There are
no two countries in the world be they ever 30
adjacent, where frost in spring or blight in
autumn--a speculative mania or commercial
collapse false opinion or an unwise enthusiasm,
in either of the two, so Immediately and certain
ly tells upon the other.
This ia unQuestionaby true in very large
sense; and it is an admission as honorable to
English feeling as it is unexpected MS public
declaration. In literature and in some degree
in social life, we discover the same truth, though
the United States, in literature, take from Great
Britain great deal more than they give back.
England has greater influence on the mind of
this country, than in her own colonies, and it Is
but too true that in many respects that influence
is pernicious. The political opinions of Eng
land are widely disseminated here, and social
peculiarites are recommended and enforced by
works in every grade of lteratu.e--elevated or
degraded. There is a constant current of Eng
lish thought, levelled not only at our social
equality but at our system of public economy,
and at the necessary existence of slavery in our
Southern States. England and Englishmen.
except some few who have travelled in this
country, are anti-slavery in feeling and in thought
and thereby politically hostile to the union of
this country, upon which so much of the manu-
featuring and commercial prosperity of Great
Britain must depend. All the trouble we have,
springs from fountains opened by English liter
ature, and English agents of antislavery societies
such as Thompson of the Tower Hamlets,
and the like--and against the influence Of which
we have but single species of defence
The newspaper press is the only barrier to
oppose the great flood poured upon us from
Great Britain. The press battles with England's
books-with England's self constituted agents
and is constantly engaged in exposing and
checking the tendency of English literature to
interfere with the welfare Of the Union; but,
with the increase of the hostile works published
against American institutions, the duties of the
press became exceedingly onerous. This fact
already has been perceived, and, in the Southern
States, has been felt The consequence is there
fore, that strong disposition has sprung up at
the South in favor of an international copyright
law-there existing belief that with such n
power to regulate the publishing trade, our
country may be spared the mnlign influences
which are constantly exerted for mischevous
ends. In this view of the subject, the PROPOSE
ton for an international copyright law will meet
with more favor than has hitherto attended its
discussion, and there is probability that the
question will be revived before the next Congress-
with fair chances of an issue in something prac-
ticable, and beneficial to the country. All lovers
Of their country will desire such result---NeW
York Herald