The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-01
THE BLuSDER OF THE LONDON TINES.

Lord Eesmee speaks Of the people Of the United States
as warlike They are known 10 be impusive and
ageous Their patriotism proyerbial All the foreign
writers in pronouncng them eminenty sensitive
and easily offended If there is single point upon which
they most easily roused-so we have been toid 10y
British book-writerst when their courage question:
ed or their institutions deprecated Our Atlantic
cousins however will be somewhat surprised TO observe
that the thunderburst Of the London Times against
our and people has not been followed by the
shower Of sparks and birthstone which many OF them no
doubt expected We have read with the opn-
ions Of the American newspapers called out by the article
of leviahan journals which arrogates to itself more
power than Kings Commons and which, in the instance
referred TO- assumed speak only with the air of
peror command but in the and by the authority OF
the ministers of her blessed Majesty the Queen And there
is such concord Of amable good humor pervading them
ALL that we regret inability to spare the room in
order to let the country read and profit by them Those
remote from the great centres Of political thought and
commercial influence seem to have fallen into the
strain of quiet satire and kndhearted indifference which
marked the columns of the seaboard press Now we
very far from sayn that the article of the London Times
was not most indscreet and incorporate efusion. II
had an air of magnity which made it look if it had
The intention of the writer and the Of those for
whom he spoke palpable on the surface and yet
its effect upon public opinion in the United States has been
inconceivably slight.
Had the article been printed in JAPAN 1t might have
excited more curiosity but not less ridcue II was like
the oath OF violent man, the threat of great bully,
and those against whom it directed have SO received
and answered It,
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Let u.s. however do justice to the discreet and thought
full newspapers of Great Bitano those who when they
saw the designs of the London Times, promptly stepped
forward prevent the threatened danger and threw them
selves into the melee the side of right reason and fair
dealing These were the antdote that accompanied the
bane and would be unjust not to admit that their exam
pie went far encourage the response from our country
men TO which we have alluded.
On the whole too not disposed to quarrel with
the London Times We ought rather to thank the Great
Thunderer that roared loudly and in such good
son. He las pnconsciousy contributed to elicit inter-
change friendly thoughts between those who have been
scoding each other for past and he has not
come out of this adventure with as much dignity
as would have been appropriate to his grave assump
tona he may consoe himself that the result is one
that will produce general coed was Mr. Champion who
said that the United States trembed at every mercantile
failure that took place in the city of Lverpoo but we
have got over more that terrible ernavewe have
survived the assault Ct the London Times will say
"he failure Of the London Tml because disposed
to take it granted that such oraca always speaks
by nspiration. bunder is somewhere called worse
offence than crime and by this standard the Times de-
serves to be executed tncorgble criminal Prob
ably it will realize the truth Of this observation when the
attention of its aris.ocratic and ministerial editors is
called TO the broad grin which has settled upon
Brother Jonathans face from the Atlantic to the Pa
ci6c and from the White mountains of the East to
the Rocky mountains of the West It ray be that our
poraries of the press have spoken from the
seriousness of superior power may be that they have
been impeed ali tits showing Of quiet satire and good
nature from the fact that they are well supported BY the
sound common sense Of the English nation. But we are
not disposed pry into the of these wholesome
demonsrations take such things as they are content
with the result without inqgiring after the motive
The London Times its bapering braggadocie
It no longer speaks to partial jury. Hrish intelli-
gcnce and discretion taken the place Of American i'm
pulse and irritation and well afford to leave this
Jupiter Tonans this giant among the pgmie to those who
are nearer his psson and best understand his nu-
ences and his authority