Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-22
A WHITE sQUALL.

WHITE saUALL.
The political and commercial world have,
within the last week, been thrown into state
of no little excitement, by sudden and uucx-
pected movement Of England, which has been
viewed as the precursor Of q rupture of the
peaceful relations existing between that country
and the United States. That movement has
been the fitting out Of large feet Of war ships,
by Great Britain, to the American waters around
the West India Islands, for purposes not yet
officially declared and with no other warnings
than what may be gathered from the bold, and
somewhat threatening, articles which have re-
Gently appeared in the London Times, and other
leading British Journals, ostensibly In response
to the fareup communications of our Cabinet
against Champion, the British minister at
Washington, and other British Officials, in this
country, for the alledged sanctioning of the en-
listment, in our cities, of Sesiiers for the Cri-
inca. AT the commencement Of the Russian
War, England received from no nation stronger
assurances of sympathy than from America ; and
the former seems to have Supposed that if our
government could permit, with impunity, the
enlistment of men for fillibustering expeditions.
against Cuba, it would, at least, raise no objec-
ton against the enlistment, from our foreign
population, of soldiers. in cause for which
such assurances of sympathy had been volun-
eered at the outset. But the British Cabinet
did not make any allowance, in their calcutta
tions on our friendship, for the working Of one
element, in our own institutions, which has re-
Gently shown itself more omnipotens than all
the rest. Our Cabinet backed up by the united
voice of the people of the free States at that
time, did tender to the Allies their warmest ex-
pressions Of sympathies and limitations of
eventual assistance. But they had not then
consulted their masters, the Slave-holding oil
garchy of the South. That oligarchy, through
the force of the natural congenialities, ever
existing between great Slave-holding powers,
soon set about coanteracting our sympathies for
tho Allies by working up sympathy for Russia,
the great Slave-holding power Of Europe. And
our Cabinet no sooner discovered this disposition,
in the South, than they began to take the back
track. The cause of the Allies was suddenly
forgo item, and that of Russia was discovered to
have great merits and 50 far were these Rus
sian sympathies pushed, under the dictation Of
the Slave power, that the announcement Of the
fall Of Sevastopol, it is said, caused day Of
mourning at Washington.
} The British have seen all this, and when the
arrogant dispatches of Secretary Gushing, that
supple tool of the Slave power, virtually de-
manding the recall of Champion, attended as
they were With the knowledge that prosecutions
originated in the same source, were in progress
against several British consuls, on charge Of
sanctioning cnlistment,-whe these dispatche.
reached England, it is no great wonder that they
called forth the structures of the British press
But this is not all that the British Cabine
have seen in oar government to awaken thei
jealousy. Our government has set up con
struction of the Bulwer and Clayton treaty
which amounts to ON entire REIMBURSEMENT o
all voice in the affairs of central America II
this the British Cabinet do not agree, and gu,
government, in accordance of proviso in tina
treaty, have recently notified tho former of it
termination. This, with the fllibustering expe
dition,, Of Walker, now promising to subject al
central America, the attempts to sieze Cuba
and the intriguss to control. if not to secure
, Hayti, has been seen by England, and has, doubt
less, led to the fitting out of the feet of obser
vation, to the West ladies, which has caused 81
much squirming at Washington, and at thu
! South for the South too well know what nigh
r by the result of Il war with England on tbe
darling institution, to provoke her far enough
to declare it; nor would they have ever pushed
matters as far as they have, had they not sup
. posed she was too much entangled in the Rus
sian war to mako any demonstration on this side
Of the Atlantic. Bat nobody need be troubled
, There will be no war, except newspaper war
The British do not wantit and the South, who
control everything, and who are at the bottom
Of this interruption Of friendly relations between
the two countries, will be the first to back out
. Oh what a tremendous political evil, to SOY
: nothing Of ito intrinsic wickedness, has this
Slavery become to the American people! 1t il
r the source Of all our national troubles, with
y powers abroad. 1t is rapidly demoralizing th'
whole nation at home, and if unchecked in it
. career, must soon lead to the utter subversion
e eur Republic. And il our Constitution con-
taius within itself the power of selfpressrvation
a shat power should be excused in graduating shi
. evil without much further delay; for it vii
II soon be forever too late.