Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-19

The tenor of certain articles which have of late
made their appearance in the Times would seem
to Indicate that there exists across the Atlantic
in the breasts of our near relations, the inhabi-
tants of the United States of America, feeling
of hostility to US, our institutions and undertake
ing, and feeling of sympathy with our Russian
antagonists. We do not believe it; but, on the
contrary, we believe that blood is thicker than
water, or in this we might say than oil
that though the Yankees might have no objection
to have shot at us themselves, they wish no
other people in the world to do with success
that republican liberty can never sympathze with
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES intelligence with hope
less ignorance-progress with obstructlon->that
the antagonsn of qualities and races and institu-
lions between Russia and the States is gulf too
stormy to be passed, and that the ties of kindred
blood and kindred sentiment between the States
and Great Britain are too strong to be easily
lightly severed. Should it ever be otherwise
should it ever unfortunately come to pass that
this country shall be placed in hostile position
to America, or should we even witness the unto
ward event of American sympathy with OPP
ponents or its absence from ourselves, we cannot
imagine consummation more unproptuous, and
more calculated to damage our influence and our
cause in the eyes of the whole civilized world
Will it be believed that we, or at least the
small fry who represent us, doing their best
to bring about this state of bitterness; and that
the rumors of American indifference to our sue
cess, or of American sympathy with our enemies,
have their origin, not in the acts of our Brethren
but in the contemptuous. Sights and caloas in
difference of ourselvesa The promptngs of an
evil conscience inform us that we have mcrited
the resentment, the existence of which we are
beginning to assume; and that persistence in
the studied insolence with which the friendly adj
vances of our transatlantic brothers seem to be
received may possibly, at no distant PERIOD con-
vert these rumors into facts. Several instances
of the species of conduct to which we allude
have lately been brought under our notice; bnt
we shall content ourselves for the present with
the mention of two
The Morning Post testify to the courtly
career of every whiskered, bearded, bagzy-
breeched aid-dc-camp envoy from Pumper-
nickel or Schaugenfat, whose business or whose
pleasure leads him to visit the capital of England
special train receives him at Folkestone; a
court-carriage at London bridge He is presen-
ted to Majesty by the ministers his name is in
serted in the Lord Chamberlain s album for royal
banquet, concert, and ball; he appears at the re-
ceptlons OF secretaries; and, as necessary con-
sequence, he runs the gauntlet of aristocratc
hospitality and ostentation in crescent, lane, and
square, from st. Something in the East to st.
Somebody in the West till a surfeit of soups,
lobster salads, and LATTE drives him back with
an Indigestion to the baths and Brunnens from
whence he came We find no fault with his re-
ception--reception though it be of the envoy or
hanger-on of phantasmagorian kingdom or
dukedom, whose treasury is n gambling house,
whose territory is fisherman 5 walk and whose
army is an officer. 'sWhile we feast the great,
let's nee forget the SMALL Great Britain can
afford to allow Lilliput TO stalk powdered and
pigtailed across her palm. But while she reigns
Hospitality and consideration on the small ought
she to reverse the caution Of the song, and ut
terly despise, neglect, and ignore the great' We
think not.
In the month of March last, three of the Anne
rican veteran officers Of the Mexican campaign,
in the three several departments of engineers,
artillery, and cavalry, selected from the gallant
army of the United States by the President and
his Cabinet, worthy from their talents and SER
vices to represent their countrymen, were drec-
ted by the government of the United States TO
proceed to the Crimea for the purpose of studying
the art of war. The names of these officers were,
and are, Major Richard Delafeld, of the Engi-
neers; Major Mordecai, of the Artillery; and
Captain Mcclellan, of the Cavalry. Did they
proceed TO the Russian lines where the art Of
war can be studied quite efectually as in our
own, TO which they would have received and
would still receive hearty welcome, and with
which nation they are falsely represented TO sym
pathizei They did not
They arrived in England with letters fpom the
British minister at Washington, authenticating
their mission, and which were presented by them
last month to the Foreign Secretary in London;
but beyond civil reception which we believe
Lord Clarendon vouchsafes to all men--an inter-
view with Sir John Burgoyne, and letters of re-
cognition to the authorities in the Crimea no no.
tice whatever taken Of them or of their mis-
sion. No special train received them at Liver
pool; no court-carriage at Easton Square; no
presentation TO Majesty; no inscription in the
chamberlan's open-sesan1e; no pasteboard for
minister's reception or aristocratc soiree; and
the only surfeit which they received was sur
felt of neglect and disgust, which they have
doubtless carried with them to the court of
France, whittier they have bent their steps, and
which it will assuredy defy all the bSfas and
Brunnens Of Pumpernckel to remove.
Towards the end Of last summer the United
States sloop of war Prebe arrived at Spiihead.
IL is rule in the American navy that all naval
cadets, who compose the material out OF which
are fashioned afterwards the naval commanders
of the republic, shall serve their time before tho
mast; and a good and wholesome rule il is, for
reasons too obvious TO descant upon. The Preble,
a training ship for this purpose, and manned al
most exclusively by young gentlemen from
amongst the most respectable families in the
States, to the number of two hundred and up
wards, came to Spithead for the purpose Of naval
education.
She happened 10 be the only man-ofwar on
the station at the time, and her presence on that
account, and account Of the frequent oppor-
tunites which she had Of saluting the Royal
Yacht, was made more than ually conspicuous
She was left wholly unnoticcd by the authorities
OF portsmouth, her cadets were refused admis-
sion TO the dockyard, and she ultimately lefl tho
station, with two hundred young naval hearts,
the future upholders of their country's naval
fame, fully impressed with the nature Of their
reception in their fatherland.
These are two instances of the pains which are
taken by our representatives 10 secure for Great
Britain the sympathy Of the United States. We
have others at command, but we conceive the
foregoing quite sufficient for present purpose,
and we plcdge-ourselves TO the accuracy Of the
details. We can also tell readers how her
majesty sloop of war Pearl sailed from Bcrmu-
da in the winter Of 1899 or 1870, with dispatches
entrusted to her gallant commander, Lord Clar-
ence Paget, for the United States Government
she experienced a succession Of gales on her pas
sage; how she arrived in the Chesapeake Bay,
with battered hulk and exhausted crew; how the
naval authorities of Norfolk, the Portsmouth Of
the States, sent shipwrights and riggers board;
how the good ship refitted without charge
Or demand Of any kind, and how the British
officers and crew were welcomed and feasted on
shore.
II is fresh, TOO in the recollection of the public
how the two Russian men of war were reftted and
repaired at Portsmouth last year, their officers