Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-05

adherence to the one, and strict enforcement
Of the other may be insisted upon by British
rulers to calm their Jealous apprehensions of
our progress. The British seem to think these
laws and the laws Of nations may rightfully
bs dispensed with for their benefit.
The past course Of the British aristocracy
towards the people Of this country, chimes
most beautifully with the proceeding just re-
ferred to. The psusity in numbers of our
regular standing army, the imputed ineficisn-
cy of what Ox-yoke Hay" the Marquis of
TWeedale "a few seconds before he received ct
Lundy's Lane "a bullet and twa buck shot'
in his seat of honor,) called, in his broad
Scotch, the "dommed gray booked Yanksy
Molsshay," has been the occasional theme of
British parliamentary orators, and of the Brit.
ish press, and of the British army officers
ever since the war of 1872 Since that era,
they have said less Of our navy, and have even
found out that most of our best navy officers
are actually of British ancestry. All that
are old enough to remember their conduct to
US thirty, and forty, and fifty years ago, have
not yet departed, and the descendants of those
who have gone, read history. We will not,
however, press these matters We are con.
WINGED that most of the American people are
disposed to allow ancient wrongs and Injuries
and insults to be buried with those who per-
petrated them. The grave.psys all debts l.
is enough that each generation demands atone
ment for aggressions upon itself. Well we'll !.
We are content with this. Be it 90. Lot BY
cones be by.gones. Jonathan will, like tho
virtuous son of Noah, walk backward and
throw blanket over the ancient vices and
nakedness Of his indiscreet parent The PEG.
pie Of the United States can afford to do this.
No one should ever harshly advert even to
the burning of Washington in 1914, nor In
any wise except as a mere historical Incl.
dent" like the capture of the Guerrero,
Java, Macedonian, DO, &c. The Inteliisen.
Ger sets an admirable example in this respect
Admiral Cockburn, in 1914, knocked that
office into pr, and yet the worthy editors har-
Dor no personal malice, but pass over the affair
as mere event in the fortunes of war. Really
calm, enlightened, and rejecting statesman
will, if he weighs the matter we'll, soen per.
ceive that affair was of decided profit to this
country. Who, except claim agents and trea-
sury weassls, care fig for the few hundred
barrels Of old musty papers that were burned
in the Capitol and in the public Offices The
original, Declaration Of Independence, !"
and the Constitution of the United States"
were not destroyed. Besides, We are q Christian
people, and the event alluded to will afford
US an opportunity, probably before many
years pass away, Of manifcsting by our con-
duct brilliant and glorious illustration of
the heaven-descended rule of returning
good for evil" and In this respect, of setting
the first example to the nations of the earth
Of the practice of that holy and cardinal vir.
tue-forgiveness of those "who trespsss
against US.
1t is no. by any means impossible that even
the present generation may witness old Albion
soliciting Brother Jonathan to lend her a
helping hand, and send her few thousands
of our western hunters, with Hartteys deadly
rife, that will kill an enemy ut 1900 yards,
to prevent some of her continental neighbors
land as likely France as any, from turning
her out of house and home. If Jonathan
makes up his mind to 90 into said speculation,
VS. reckon he will not fail to IS do his duty, up
to the handle;" and it is quite as certain that
he will, as that he will not consider it best to
engage in the cause of the English people,
when the crisis comes. Some how or other
our folks generally, except the Irish who
have good cause for detesting the British, the
French who b ave an une ztinguisha6ls hered.
itary hatred of them, Notwithstanding tho
present temporary alliance; and the German
Red Republicans who despise all monarchies
and monarchists,) every now and then exhibit
strong likation for the land of Shakespeare,
and Milton, and Sidney, and Hampden, and
Pym, and for the venerable common law, and
magma charts and several things of the olden
time. Our children read the life of Robin
Hood, and the history of St. George and the
Dragon. Our young lawyers study Coke and
Lyttleton, and Somers, and Bacon, and Holt,
and Hale, and learn to denounce Jeffreys, and
Scroggs and Bromley. There are a great
many OF our citizens whose great great grand.
fathers served the Lord under Cromwell a.
Marston, Naseby, Preston, Dunbar and Wcr.
cester. We have even seen Yankee pride
displayed in narrating the fact that the author
OF the first British navigation act, in the Lord
Protectors time, which law is said to be the
foundation Of England's maritime greatness.
was Salem boy named Downing and th at
Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst and his daddy, the
painter Copley, and the painter West, wore
all Yankee born. Though the English iris
tocracy and some of those who ape them for
profit from other parts of the British realm
than England proper, do abuse and berate us
and our institutions-though such titled scrib.
blerS as the msndacious Mahoy, 1.-THE blood
kin Of disgraced British navy oficer that
broke his parole Of honor as prisoner in tho
Revolutionary war; the blathering Sir Henry
Bulwer, (who hates rs beoause wa Iauoh al a.