The true Democrat., 1854-11-08
From the New York Journal of Comme England and America.

AC 10 Sld1lI HiS IO oUSeINe Clle improved tone of the English press toward America. The present and the rising generation of English men are great improvement upon their fore fathers, in this respect, and in many others They know us better-they fraternize with us more generously-the appreciate our institu- tions,-or, at any rate, they regard them more justly and considerably.
 We do not con6ne our ideas of England's press to its newspapers, reliable though they un- doubtedly are, as directors of the public opin- ion, and refexes of the public mind of Eng land. We include therein the review and Magazine literature of the country And whether we look at one or the other, there is the same better spirit-which tells us that we can no longer be treated slightingly we are too important, too powerful people to be regarded with indifference.
 These reflections have been suggested by reading an able review of Mrs. Stoves last work" Sunny Memores"-in Backwood's Edinburg Magazine for this month,-one of the most talented, and therefore, must influential. of British periodicals. The subject of slavery, with special reference to this country, is there considered with degree of justice and fairness which formerly we might have looked for in vain in any such publication. They do not like slavery,-we knew that long ago,-none of us like it, for its own sake; but they admit that it is a thing with which they have no bus mess to intermediate "Opinion in this coun try (England,' '') it observes, "n 50 far as it can be expressed-and 1t has been expressed thou sand ways-is unanimous for the emancipation of the negro. Still, what we have said Is the expression of an opinion only. We may ob- ject to slavery in America, as We may object to the same institution in Turkey, or to serfage in Russia, or to anything else beyond our cogni- zance and jurisdiction; but we are not entitled to usurp the right which every separate nation possesses, of regulating its own laws according to its peculiar positon. This is the just and the common sense view of the case. We had slavery bequeathed to us by the British nation itself; or, at any rate, it came down to us from British colony. They have succeeded in get ting rid of it, a0e have not yet been so fortu- nate. But 1t Is a matter of our own-it Is a thing fo- our own consideration; and every req sonabe man must admit that we have a per feet right to deal with it " according to our pe- culiar position.'
 The occasion of such remarks in the able and influential periodical referred to, was, as we have already hinted a critical notice of Mrs. Stoves recent work. That lady, as we all know, has become the impersonation, as it were, of a principle and the representative of fac ton which has positively invited foreign in reference with the laws and institutions of this country. As the writer in Blackwood ad- mts-'' of late years the tendency towards pop ular demonstrations and sympathizing meet ings in Eugland has increased to such a de-. gree as to embarrass our relations with foreign powers" And the authoress of "Uncle Tom" was made public show and spectacle of as the pretext for a new special series of such "popuar demonstrations and svmpathzing meetings" which, however, it is confessed, were in the eyes of the unexcited, purely ridi- culous.
 We would not wish for better, more for cible justification of our course in this question than is incidentally given in the article alluded to- In the first place, there is calling to mind of Englands own recent responsibility under the self-same question. "We ought,' it is re- marked, in common decency, to remember that no very great tract of time has elapsed since slavery was abolished in the British colo nies; and as in matters of this kind, interest is always a ruling motive, we should also bear in mind that the prosperity of these colonies has not since increased by the substitution of free or paid labor" And then the writer proceeds to show that-with such objects of remini- scence, above all-it is matter of which Ame- ricans themselves may fairly be left to be the best judges. "Very few of us,' it continues, Ion the side of the Atlantic are able to give a competent opinion as to what effect immediate and unconditional emancipation might produce upon the slave holding States of America; and therefore we are hardly entitled to do more than assert the general principle which con- dems the absolute property of man in man." Englishmen are entitled to that--it is a right of opnion-but no more. " Emancipation must be left to the wisdom and discretion of the To- cal legislatures Of course it must. Besides, as it is added with truth and good sense, No change so great as this can be wrought sudden ly. Christianity itself must be inculcated not coerced; for violence never yet made con- verts.' It is refreshing in these days of mor- bid excitement, and fanatical zeal, to find that Englshmen have sober views of such ques- ton, and so rightly estimate our real position Many of our own countrymen might profit by the example.