The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-11-21
TIL -SPIRIT OF De Ne 0CR A G Y.
there is no great danger of a war with

there is no great danger of a war with
her."
The following is from the mails of the
last steamer. The matter has created
great excitement in England.
On Friday evening, the I'd instant, the
Liverpool Post issued an extra, containing
these words:
RUPTURE WITH AMERICA"
Private message by telegraph states
that the American minister in London has
demanded his passport, or an equivalent
to it,from our government. News so as
founding might be received with incredul-
ity, but we can only say that holders Of
cotton are acting on the report, and there
is a sensation ON Change"
We have to thank Mr.. Buchanan for
his courtesy in favoring us by telegraph,
through our Liverpool agent, with the fol-
lowing explicit contradiction to the ru-
NOR:
LONDON, NIGHT OF Nov. 2-7He H.
mcrican Minister to the Agent Of the asso-
ciiate press, LtuerpooL-It is not true that
the American minister has demanded his
passports from the British government.
There is no foundation for such a report"
Our agent, not feeling at liberty to
make use Of this information, gave it no
publicity in England, where, as yet, the
rumor of arupture remains unc~ontradicted.
The London News of the 30th ultimo,
speaking in a very conciliatory tone in
regard to American affairs, says:
The letters Of the Attorney-G General
of the United States, and the concealment
Of the concession made by the British gov
eminent, betray a disposition on the part
of President Picrce's cabinet to drive mat
tcrs to extremitics.
"And we regret to add that the con-
duct of our own Cabinet, in giving its
sanction to &c parte and irritating state
ments of the case in no less than three
newspapers, proves that it is equally
wrong-headed. The bad blood between
the Cabinets at " Washington and St James
does not, we fear, date from yesterday
We haze been cogniSant Of the factMat the
communications bet,ceen Our foreign Office
and the american Embassy hare been an
imated by anything but q cordial spirit.
"U~nwarrantable aristocratic supercili-
BUSINESS on the one side has been met by
unwarrantable personal susceptibility on
the other. This deriorsble state Of affairs
is the only cause that seriously endangers
the amicable relations of two great people,
allied in blood, attached to each other by
millions of ties Of social and business con.
nections, each unable to conquer the 9th.
er, but each able to inaict incalculable
harm on the other.
Twill the English and American PEG
pie allow themselves to be dragged into
war by the sordid self-seeking calculation:
of fractions, and the personal susceptible
tiles of their respective Cabinets for thu
time being?"
The following is from the second edi
ton of The Liverpool Journal Of Satnr
day, 3D. instant:
can active interchange Of diplomatic
notes has taken place this week between
the Earl of Clarendon and the American
minister.
The Mosquito question is the on
which imperiIs tho peace between Britain
and the United States. 1t has been 70
some time a source of diplomatic Dispute
between the two countries, and now tend
to an open rupture. The American gov
eminent considers a war highly probable
and the probability proceeds from certai
conceptions of views entertained by Lor'
Palmerston.
"Mosquito territory extends from Cap
Honduras to the river San Juan, and i
proximatc to Honduras and Nicaragua
1t was a trouble to us in 184S, and is tina
part of Central America where diferen
national and local interests now concer
f trated. To quarrel about it would b
madness