Polynesian., 1853-01-29
From the London Times Of oet. 18th.

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| The public writers of England and of tn,
United States have few duties to perform
beyond the immediate circle of their domes
tic interests, which can vie in Importance
with those they owe to each other AT the
present time, especially, when the press o
these two nations enjoys all but complete
monopoly in the free discussion of public
affairs throughout the world, they are bound
by the highest motives to keep in view the
common welfare of the race to which they
belong, and to defend the common Interests
Of the liberty they enjoy. For ourselves, we
hold it to be not the least of the privileges of
our position that we may sometimes address.
in their own language and with congenial
principles, those mighty multiudes Of free
and intelligent men whose onward tide has
already joined the Atlantic to the Pacific
coasts; and that the opinions and convictions
Of England, multiplied ten-thousandtold by
the innumerable journals of the Union, and
spread over an incalcuIable extent of terri
tory and population, may sometimes weigh
with the influence of kinsman's voice upon
the mind and conduct of the American peo-
ple.I To promote those sentiments of esteem
and goodwill, which every tie of nature and
Of. policy prescribe to us and to the people of
the United States, has constantly been our
desire; and though we have never forborne
to express with great frankness and severity
our regret and Indignation at occurrences
indicating departure from the strict path Of
national morality on the part Of The United
States, we are confident that the views we
have expressed On such questions as repudi-
alton, anne xation and piratical warfare are
those of the best and most eminent citizens
of the Union,, and we may hope that these
opinions acquired some additional force when
it was found that they were echoed and sup
ported by the independent judgment of this
We take small account of class
Of turbulent and noxious writer's in The United
States Who follow the opposite course, and
who endeavor TO infiaIne the suspicious and
Of the popuIace against Great
Britain Those mischievou5F productions
originate, as we have reason 10 believe, with |
irish renegades and English ,ouicasts.~ far |
more than with the educated classes or even
he genuine population of the American !
,ities; and their. authors are animated by
morbid hostility TO the country they have |
abandoned rather than by an enlightened |
egard for that which they have adopted q
" hene yer, on the Cceatrary, the discussions
4 7the two ,counirIss are carried On, IN The
emperate and friendly soirit which is alone
onsonant to their. close relationship and 4
heir enormous common Interests, :hey ought
D strengthen those ties which can never be
or broken without inAicling most |
erious Calamity upbntile world. EI
Such were the Intentions with which we Z
not long ago, on the two great $
ysiensi Of poiicy---the policy ofeoiHssercel (,
ndths policysof conquest-which lay open
J, the inc xhausiible energies offhe Anne riranI
eople; and we learn with pleasus thatsourtd d
designations haze been read beyond Tthe 4
rdinary limits ,ofour own -cireulifivn.s But, FI
there. be any value in the crliicisms sug-
est-d 10 Europeans, and 10 Englishnen BY lr
le course Of events in the United States, il Ie
onsists manly in the more strict and binding Il
one-piibs oF legal rights which we are woni II
, apply to'pubiie affairs. The great peril Of