Washington sentinel., 1855-01-11
sse things require no comment.
ENGLISH APPEALS TO AMERICAN
LOVE OF FREEDOM.

HNeLASh AFrhALS TO AM
LOVE OF FREEDOM.
The London Weekly Times, speaks as iol-
lows of President Pierce last annual Message /:
+" 1t seems scarcely credible that, when a
great war is being waged between freedom and
despotlsm, the chosen representative of great
and free nation like the United States addresses
his people at length upon the subject but scru-
pulously avoids a word which may be con-
strued to express sympathy with the cause of
freedom. To this has it come, that the coun-
try of Washington has less courage, less gen.
eroslty, than q poor little province like Pied.
mont. Both are neutral; yet the Sandman
statesmen express their sympathy with the
good old cause, without evincing tremor or even
hesitation"
No doubt our good cousins across the water,
who oppressed US in our weakness and in
fancy, waged seven years war against us in
our early youth, forced another war on us in
1872, during which they committed crimes on
innocent females that savages would be ashamed
to perpetrate, and then burnt our Capitol; no
doubt our very amiable cousins would be glad
to see these wrongs blotted out from our mem
ory. But, they, bad as they are, do not com.
plete the story. Defeated in their attempts to
reduce us to grinding colonial slavery, and
in their efforts to conquer us in their last war
with us, they took another mode Of gratifying
their revenge. They endeavored to cover us
with contempt and obloquy by representing us
in their conversations, their books, and their
newspapers, as low, ignorant, half savage
people. This was kept up systematically for
years As soon as we began to expand and to
take prominent part in the affairs of the
world, their hate and ungenerous rivalry we're
exhibited in the most offensive forms. Eng.
land has constantly sought to hinder and EN-.
barrass all our plans of territorial acquisition.
She has never extended to US either help, en-
couragement, or sympathy, in our wars or our
difficulties with other nations. Indeed, it may,
on the other hand be safely asserted that her
sympathies have always been with our enemies
Yet these our very amiable cousins grumble
because we do not encourage with our sympa-
thies the four great nations who are now en-.
deavoring to crush out the single Empire of
Russia
But they call the war in which they engaged
from motives of ambition-a war "between
freedom and despotism, and express surprise,
Indignation even, that the Chief Magistrate Of
this great and free nation" makes use Of no
expression of sympathy "with the cause of
freedom
Now the four allies are Turkey, England
France and Austria. Which of them is the
free country? We think it would sadly puzzle
our amiable cousins to say. Is it Turkey
When was that arbitrary government changed
Is it Austria? If so, at what period was that
grinding despotism, that great foe of freedom
and destroyer Of nations, reformed and re-
modelled? Is it France? 1t was but the
other day that new Emperor was inaugurated,
who ambitiously and recklessly established
himself on the ruins of free institutions. Is il
England2 If so, when did she renounce roy-
atty, abandon aristocracy, and erect herself
into republic like ours? II is neither and
none of them. Two of them are as despotic
as Russia. Instead of being war "between
freedom and despotism," it is war between
jealous and grasping despotisms. 1t is vain
to endeaSor to establish a claim to our SYM
pathy on the ground that this struggle is
struggle between freedom and despotsm. It
is no such thing, and nothing would more
alarm the parties to this war than the discovery
of any tendency to aid and foster free princi-
pies and popular institutions. They would
patch up peace the moment such tendency
was developed This is not war of the peo-
pie, but of the ambitious despots of Europe
But, asks the Times, has "the country of
Washington less courage, less generosity than
a poor little Province like Piedmont?" Now.
as to American Courage" our kind cousins
have had occasion, more than once, to witness
its exhibitions, and to feel its effects. For the
matter of generosity, we have made the for.
tunes OF her wretched tribe Of scurrilous au-
thors, who have shown their gratitude by ca
us.
There is one thing that the Americans pos.
sess, and that keeps them out Of the war in
which their cousins desire to entrap them-it
is good common sense. That common sense
also teaches them that sympathy is not due to
England or the Allies, bY to Russia, who has
always been our friend and ally. Had the
President expressed sympathy with the alliance,
he would have expressed what is not felt by
one American in a hundred. Their sympathy
is all with Russia.