American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-12-15
Ko.suth ana england.

the United States, says:
SPY this time, we think, he must have per-
ceived that almost insuperable difficulties exist
in relation to this fundamental point. lie must
have learned that here, at the very outset OF
his scheme, obstacles present themselves when
neither logic nor eloquence can surmount. IalK
as we please about the common language, laws,
literature, and interests Of the two nations, the
fact is indisputable that our progress and pros
perity are the causes of endless manifestations
of narrow indedness and ill-will on the part
of the leading presses of Britain, as well as of
its aristocracy; and that the chickering's thus
created and nurtured are at present fatal to ey-
erything like an alliance of the kind proposed.
The events, that have just transpired in Central
America, are Of themselves sufficient to excite
distrust, and, in the hands Of willy politicians,
will doubtless be converted into material to in
crease the anti English feeling, which always
has existed amongst certain portions Of our
population. Commodore Stockton's speech in
the Senate ON Wednesday may be taken as a
fair sample of this feeling as it is found in high
places; and the action of the New York mob
who, on the same day, compelled the host Of
the Irving House to pull down the British flag,
is very significant illustration of its intensity
amongst less enlightened classes.
"We do not allude to these circumstances to
exult over them, or to aid in perpetuating them.
They are unfortunate in themselves, and deeply
to be regretted. But their existence is too pal
pable to be ignored or explained away to serve
the purposes of any theory, warlike or pacific. ;"
We quote the Republic thus at length, that
we may put that print on record, as admitting
the fact that the public sentiment of the coun-
try is opposed to any such alliance with Eng
land as that which is proposed by Kossuth, and
at the same time give another and better rea-
son for that "anti- English teeling,'' which the
Republic says is found in ''high places and in
the "mobs' of New York. Yes, it does exist,
but it is attributable, not SO much to the mar
row-mindedness and ll-wil of the British press,
as to the measures and policy of the British
government, and to the fact that our people
know that these have been, now are, and ever
will be, hostile to us and to our progress.
Why did Kossuth go to England before he
came to the United States? Was it not be-
cause he knew that he was liberated from cap
tivity in Turkey by the interposition of Eng
land? And does he not know that England
interposed for his liberation, because England
is jealous of Russia and wishes to strengthen
Hungary and Turkey as barriers to the pro-
gress of Russia towards India? When did Eng
land exert her influence, or expend her sympa-
thy, but with view to advance her own selfish
purpose of dominion or profit? Did not Kos
suth himself, in one of his speeches in England,
allude to the fact that England was interested
in arresting the progress of Russia, because,
unless England does interpose, Russia will send
her Cossacks to Indial
Now, we ask the Republic, why intimate that
Commodore Stockton is q " willy politician ?"
Why insnuate that the declarations, which cleo
trifed the Senate and all who heard him, were
not the sincere promptings of a virtuous indie
pendence-of an earnest and patriotic purpose
to protect the honor and interests Of his own
country against the intrigues and diplomacy of
England? Why assimilate his speech in the
Senate to "the action Of the New York mob ?"
Why thus characterize the multitude who, having
assembled to honor the principle Of liberty, re-
fused to recognise the British flag as one of its
symbols Was it because Commodore Stock
be nominated for the Presidency, and because
those who regulate the Republic fear that the
people will contrast his fearless advocacy Of the
honor and interests of his own country with the
known and admitted subserviency of their can
didate to British policy? Is it because they
fear that the people of the United States will
prefer his "snti-British," American feeling to
Mr.. Webster's craving for British commenda-
toni We ask these questions because the
Republic has taken moro than one occasion to
dispsrsgs Commodore Stockton, and we re-
spect and honor that American, that "anti-
English feeling" which the Republic would CEN
sure, if it dared do SO.