The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-10
SYMPATHY OF ABoLITIONIsTs AND NORTHERN
WHO'S WITH GREAT HRITAIN.


WINGS WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
We do not propose to-day to recapiulate remarks
in reference the Greytown affair We simply wish TO
state the impressions which the attitude of portion Of the
American press particularly the wing and abolition press
of New York and New England in respect to this event
suggests to mind
We aude to the relentless persecution TO which Amer-
can citizens are subjected from the moment they devote
themselves to public service We that there are
many who thrust themselves into the political arena who
have not the proper qualifications for the task but we are
as well aware that there many others who mpeea
only by the purest motives of patriotism are well worthy
of the confidence of their feow-ctzens.
tn condemn all citizens because portion do not under
stand their duties is not only unjust but mpolto and I'M
patrotic IL creates prejudice in the national mind
against public service makes many worthy citizens shrink
from it with disgust and tends lower the character Of
the country in the eyes of the world.
Another sad feature in tho character of the wing and
abolition press is the morbid worship of the London Times
and generally of English opinions.
The New York Tribune and New York Evening Post for
instance do not tell the American people what is going
in the different States of the Union excepting only by
quoting miserable odds and of Geographic dispatches
or of accidental travellers but their columns are filed
every day with extracts from English papers and paltry
bubble is brought before the English courts of law which
does not furnish them materials for characteristic edito-
rails full of contrasts insulting the American people
American citizens take of course powerful interest in
all that is going in Europe but still more powerful
intere ST in all that is going at home
American citizens respect honest convictions by whom
soeyer and wheresoeyer they expressed but look with
contempt upon and treacheous organs of opinion
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all honest men, has become by-word for all that is
tyrannica contemplate and repusye in the institutions
of Old England.
In New England know there are many men and
women full OF love for Old England and full of luminosity
for Young America They full of words of resentment
for their own country account of the institution of a-
very but have only words of enearment for the dear old
mother country which brought slavery to our shores
They are the same small class Of persons who faithful to
the spirit Of caste and exclusveness of those whom they
atter are anatca in republican professions, but mpotent
in republican performances Democratic in words, but
arsocrac at heart they like the wings of Old Eng
ana-atorn but not "i" the people! They talk beautifully
abou, universal equality, aud do with perfect ease
and immunity since they are very well persuaded that
come what may the hardness of their nature will forever
protect them from being taken their word from being
called upon 10 40 Wlal ENeH IL they
would they could They may have intellect to grasp
principles but they love in their hearts to carry
them practically out.
We know very we'll that the population OF the United
States is made up of all the different European national
tiles and that this little clique OF impure English de-
scent is like pebble it the We know very well
that New England not America but most of the wing
papers in the North little than copy the New York
papers and many of these papers give evidences Of their
morbid worship of Old England by reporting with so
much enthusiasm English opinions American affairs it
may serve good purpose to expose this species OF
warfare against American republicansm. The tone and
manner in which the discussion of the Greytown affair has
been conducted is n fair specimen of this warfare
Let the abolition and wing rest assured that they
do raise the character of the country by lowering the
character of the public men, Let them assured also
that the boosted power of the press will dwinde into
nothngness if they do not change ther tone instead
of using nvecves they do not begin discuss pub
lie matters in spirit of love- truth, and patriotism.
they have intellect enough to discuss public events
without heaping insult after insult upon the Chief MagS
trae of the republic and the other of the people
let them exhibit sefrespect enough and repe with
Indignation the arrogance of soules foreign critics so thai
the future historian may have the melancholy satisfaction
proclaim that if American papers choose to adopt the
tone of Bingsgate it american" and not English
Billngsgate