The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-14
England and the United states.
From the London Tines.

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From the London Times.
History supplies but few instances Of man
States politically distinct, yet linked together b
3 perfect community of race, of language, OF Gus
TOMS and social institutions. Those lew Instances
howevers have been very remarkable. The mos
prominent, If not the only, up to modern times
have beeH the Greek and the modern races, boil
of them under some mysterious law; which mad
common character itself the stimulus of separa
ton and dispersion. Each Of these races has per
formed great part in the economy of civilization
which would not have been 30 well performed hae
their genius tended more to political unity, tt
perfect uniformity of laws to conquest any other
form OF national egotism. Conquerors and states
men not less able and successful have endeavorec
time alter time to construct out of the copious and
splendid materials around them Greek or Ger
man unity, but the grander the attempt the more
conspicuous the failure; and Greek and German
to this day remains the name of races not of States
Both these great instances seem likely to be eclipsed
by one which bids fair to occupy the same pronli>
nent place in the history of the whole world as the
Hellenic race did in that lesser world which was
limited to the shores of the Mediterranean. The
English language, carrying with it no small part
of the genius and traditions of this country,
is the dominant tongue of North America, OF
Australia, and many other regions which may one
day be the seats of populous and powerful States
At present no other language and national charac
ter present the same appearance of diffusion and
propagation Germans and French, not to speak
OF lesser nations, absorbed and assimilated into
the great English staple of the United States In.
deed, the day lie not tar distant when the language
wespeak will be the chief medium of communica-
ton throughout the Atlantic, the Pacific the In
dian, and the Southern oceans; and wherever the
weary emlgran seeks to rest the sole of bic foot be
will find himself compelled to change the language
OF his fathers for that of Queen Victoria and Pres
dent Fillmore. Disappointed, then, are of
unity and conquest, are at least sure of seeing
our race the most numerous, the most diffused the
most powerful in the world, and of exercising an
influence far beyond the scope of Emperors and
Cars, beyond the reach of Cabinets, and the or
ganlzatIon OF armies. Whatever may befall the
community that peoples these little isles it will be
consolation that wherever we go, whether follow
ing gain or flying oppression, we shal everywhere
ma our own countrymen, hear our language in
every port, and everywhere discover that we have
changed the cline, but not the generous freedom
the industry, the literature the worship of our own
native land.
tits the prospect of these expanding and strength
enlng ahnties that mparts so much interest to the
mutua! inequalities shown by British and Ameri-
can citizens to the diplomatic representatives of
the sister States. We have lately seen not only
the hrltlah Minister, but ALEC distinguished mer-
chant OF this metropolis, magni6cently entertained
at more than one city of the United States, and it
Is now grown up into a custom, not easily to be
broken, that the American Minister should receive
mere like welcome at our own principal seats of
commerce and manufacture. London, Manches
WI ana OtQeF Clues, as
occasion may offer, afford the American Minister
an opportunity of hearing and returning the ex.
presslons OF that confidence and friendship, and
that sense OF common.interest, which are felt by
every rational person on both sides of the Atlantic
Nor would these festivities be SO popular, or the
speeches then delivered be listened to with such in
terest were it not for the almost business character
OF these occasions. mere interchange of politi.
cal sentiment between two nations with little to
bind them beyond mutual respect and affection
might have q nOetica1 characfer hl,tvu
grow into custom. 1t is that business character,
tnat evident prospect of advantage, that constant
reference TO commercial affairs, which deprives
these festivities of sentimental character but also
gives them far more sensible and enduring signi
hcance In truth, these international banquets cele
brate not sentiment, but fact; not name, but
q substance; not historical recollection, but flu.
ture ful OF promise. Ever since the epoch, so
dePioraDie IN the eyes of politicians, which vio-
lently removed the United States from the legal
pale OF this realm, the actual connexion between
the mother country and her transatlantic colonies
has been closer and closer. It has attained to
q pass that our Georgian Statesmen never dreamt
Dr. The relation OF England to Scotland or Ire
land, OF the metropolis to the provinces, of towns
10 countless is not more intimate and beneficial
than that of the British Isles to the United States
Inc vast and fertile territory there brought under
cultivation by our kinsmen supplies our increasing
population here with the materials of labor and the
means OF existence, without which they must have
long ceased to increase and multiply. We contri-
butte the bone and snew, without which the planter
ana the colonist would never have had encourage
ment to penetrate the interior, to cut down the
crest, to drain the swamp, and cover half CONT
nent In one brief generation, with a network Of
railways and Geographic wires.
II used to be said that if Athens and Lacedemon
could but make up their minds to be good friends
and make common cause, they would be mas
ters of the world. The wealth, the science, mari.
time enterprise, and daring ambition of the one,
assisted BY the population, the territory, the war
DO rytn Joto.x ..,.I.
not fail to carry the whole world before them.
That was project hostile to the peace and pros.
perlty OF mankind, and mnistering only to ma.
[lonal vanity. far grander object, of more easy
and more honorable acquisition, lies before Eng
land and the United States, and all other countries
owning our origin and speaking our language
Let them agree not in alliance offensive and
defensive, but simply never to go to war with one
another Let them permit one another to develop
as Providence seems TO suggest, and the British
race will gradually and quietly attain to pre-. emf
hence beyond the reach of mere policy and arms
The vast and ever-increasing interchange of
commodities between the several members Of this
great family, the almost daily communication
now opened across, not one, but several oceans,
the perpetual discovery of new means of loco
motion, in which steam itself now bids fair
to be supplanted by an equally powerful but
cheaper and more convenient agency-all pro-
mise to unite the whole Rritieh race throughout
the world in one social and commercial unity,
more mutually beneficial than any continuance of
politics. Already what does Austria gain from
hungary, France from Algeria, Russia from Sibe-
ria, or any absolute monarchy from its abect pop
0lation, or what town from its rural suburbs that
England does not derive in much greater degree
from the United States, and the United States from
En- lands What commercial partnership, what
household exhibits SO direct an ex-
change OF services? All that is wanted is that we
should recognise this fact, and give it all the assis
lance IN our power. We cannot be independent
of one another The attempt is more than unso-
cial; tits suicidal. Could either dispense with the
labor of the other, it would Immediately lose the
reward of Its own industry. Whether national
jealousy or the thirst for warlike enterprise, or
the grosser appetite of mercantile monopoly at
Tempt the separation, the result and the crime are
the same. We are made helps meet for one an
other. Heaven has joined all who speak the Brit
sh language, and what Heaven has Joined let no
man think to put asunder,
BANKERS AssocIATIoN.-There was large
meeting OF delegates from many of the New Eng
and banks held in the room over the fremont
Bank yesterday, for the purpose of organizing
Bankers Association for the detection and preven-
ton of counterfeitng. After discussion an asso-
citation was formed, by the choice of fifteen mana
gers, who are to have the direction of the afairs
and to device and carry out plans for securing the
objects contemplated by the organization.
Any bank in the State may become participant
in the association by paying assessment of five
dollars for every hundred thousand dollars capital
And as the Legislature last year made an appro-
fofIn fnr hso oh. i n .