The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-18
A." HATRED OF ENGLAND" AND ITS EFFECT
UPON OUR DOMESTIC POLITICS.
SECOND LETTER.
To the Editor ofMe National Era !:

To the Editor of tile National Era:
Let me tell the Free-Soilors, Wings, and Flu
sionists, that they will yet have to face this
question of Hatred to England" before they
are victorious at home.
The Democratic party has t,co main princi-
pies left-Slavery extension at home, and hate
Of England abroad. You combat it's domestic
error, bat you let it have all its own way in for
eign affairs. Outside of Massachusetts, or at
least New England, no attempt has yet been
made to combat its foreign error; on the con-
trary, in the Middle and Northwestern States,
the Democratic politicians and presses are al
lowed to proselytize the people to the creed of
Hatred of England" unmoested and unan-
swered by their adversaries.
Take the last eighteen months for example.
From one end of the country to the other, An
glophoby has "stirred the great heart of the
nation" The Hunker presses have showered
down upon the British every species of insult,
misrepresentation, and evil wishes. Have they
been met step by step on this ground by the
Fusion presses? No. But it may be said in
their behalf. "the Fusion presses have abstain
ed, and held themselves aloof from this mania"
Granted but, alas this is not sufficient. The
poison is emitted, and you will be obliged to
administer the antidote before you win.
Look at the prospects of the great struggle
of 1856, for which you are all preparing with
so much ardor. You will be beaten, to a GER
tainty. 1t is admitted that California will 90
against you and l tell you, you have no chance
of winning Pennsylvania. So, your labor will
be lost. | assume that you will win Illinois,
although that is doubtful. When, in the hour
of defeat, you come to analyze the elements of
the Hunker vote in California and Pennsylva
MIA, will you not find the anti English element
lying at the bottom of them both2 Are not
these the two most rabid anti-English States Of
the North? / have seen nobody yet venture to
touch upon this hidden rock, which threatens
to sink you in 1856. When this catastrophe
takes place, let thinking Free Sellers remember
my explanation of the cause.
See how S. A. Douglas is playing this anti
English article of the Democratic creed in Hi
nois. He is going about, charging that your
great sectional party of the North is the result
of British gold piled among you; and ignorant
people will give credit to it, for they have al
ways had Great Britain painted to them as
monster of tyranny, fraud, and malice. See
how Mr.. Wise hurls it forth. Your great Sec
tional party is called "a combination between
New England and Old England to ruin the
Union" You Fusionists, have you set Great
Britain in its true light before the masses, so
as to disarm S. A. Douglas of the only weapon
he has left to him? Never, outside New Eng
land. Well, the retributive effect will fall upon
you in 1856. You will not be able to shirk
this difficulty much longer; you will be COM
PEELED by stern facts to recognise it. 1t is not
sufficient to combat John Mitchelism at home !;
before the game is over, you will have to com
bat John Mitchelism in its external aspects
lake courage, then, take courage.
respectfully suggest these ideas to the lead.
ing minds of the Fusionist cause. They have
dawned upon me slowly; awakened first by
study OF your past revolutionary history, they
have been confirmed by what have beheld for
the last eighteen months. For my own part,
do not believe that The people who can cult
vate rancorous national hates in this year of
grace 1855, are either morally or intellectually
ripe for great movement or stroke for Free
dom. That the people of New England are
ripe, as well as those of Ohio and Wisconsin,
| can see; but the people of the Middle States
and several of the Northwestern are not so far
advanced l have heard much spoken against
:" the English" of late, and very few words spo-
ken in their favor, yet permit me to make this
observation. The British people have proved
themseles equal together with their chief ally)
to the task of saving Eastern Europe from an
extension of Russian serfdom; now let the peo-
pie of the United States prove themselves equal
to the task of preserving Kansas and the great
Northwest from an extension of American Sla-
very. If the British succeed in their enterprise,
and you do not in yours, of what weight will be
your eternal sefassumptions against the Eng
lish?" Truly, yours,
A PLYMOUTH NoNCoNFoRMIsT.