Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-07
ENGLISH COMPLAINTS OF SYMPATHY
WITH RUSSIA.

ENGLISH COMPLAINTS OF SYMPATHY
WITH RUSSIA.
The English Press make bitter complaints
of an alleged sympathy with Russia by the
United States.
France makes no such complaint; the feel
ing of America toward France is of the most
friendly character. We have had few causes
of difference with the people of that country.
We have many causes for friendly reminis-
cences. We have not been habitually and
Systematically slandered by her press and her
writers, as we have been by England and her
writer's, not only among her own people, but
throughout the world.
There is little of the asperity of rivalry be-
tween France and the United States; they
mutually regard with complacency every evil
dence of each others progress and prosperity
The success of the one does not infringe upon
the prosperity Of the other and they both have
the good sense to perceive this.
very general desire pervades this country
to cultivate the most cordial intercourse with
France, and to keep out of the way every pro-
DdDle cause Oh irrlLallOn.
| 1t is true that the people of this country saw
| with uneasiness and regret the transition from
| republicanism to almost absolute monarchy.
But should our apprehensions. of harm, to
the French nation, not be realized, and the ma
ton shall, under its present government, con-
tinue its progress in prosperity, we shall have
no cause of complaint but rather rejoice that
our fears have proved to be unnecessary.
Our sympathies and kindly feelings toward
the people Of France are enduring They can
view with pleasure our advancement, as we
will always rejoice over their prosperity.
England has started this most bloody war to
secure her possessions in the East Indies, ac-
quired by bloodier war, and one marked with
every species of outrage and oppression, to
which even the most unhallowed wars of con-
quest give rise.
1t is a remarkable fact, standing out in black
and blasting relief, that the acquisitions of
England are bought with seas of blood, and
maintained at the expense Of oceans of tears
England, the great censor morum, holds no
property that is not the product of robbery.
She robs the weak and calumniates the strong,
evincing truly her descent TO be as described,
from cross of the bully and the hypocrite."
The incessant streams Of deliberate calumny
and misrepresentation of all that pertains to
the United States which England ceaselessly
pours out, inevitably impresses upon the Ameri
can mind the conviction that such foul and
putrid streams are not the outpourings Of
springs from good feeling-that candid minds
and honorable hearts could never give vent to
such unvarying misrepresentation and depre-
citation of everything American.
Because we engage in many pursuits in com.
mon with England, and in some of them sur.
pass her, and are rapidly approaching her
excellence in all things, England angrily
contempates every step of our progress, and
leaves few opportunities to pass without show.
ing this. Our progress in prosperity, in all the
mechanic arts and sciences, in everything
which can give strength, stability and wealth,
is SO steady and so rapid, that we are disposed
to be in good humor with all nations, and feel
much offended at the coarse snobbery Of En-.
gland.
There are many, very many enlightened and
liberal men in England, who perceive no cause
Of offence to her in our rapid strides TO the
front rank in the scale Of nations; their voice
is but seldom heard, and still less needed by
the great mass Of the ,press-writers, who do
their utmost to instil this jealousy and to give
it deeper rancor.
England, whose history for so long period
is but record Of aggression and robbery,
should have some little modesty in denouncing
other nations whose escutcheons are not thus
blotched.