The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-30


MONDAY MoRNINo........ :. July so, 1855.
SENTIMENTS OF ENGLIsHMEN TOWARDS
AMERICA
In maintaining that, in the present quarrel
in the East, Russia holds the right, and that
the war on the part of France and England
was unnecessary and unjust, we are not ac-
tuated by illiberal prejudices against either
of those countries, the former of which was
our efficient ally at critical period of our
struggle for freedom, and the latter of which
we must still remember as our mother land
inhabited by race from whom any people
may be proud to have sprung. We venture
to say that there are few Americans posses
sing English blood, who would not feel hu.
initiation and regret at any event which
should pfict serious and irreparable injury
upon the greatness and fame of England.
In this connection we are pleased to see
some evidences that old prejudices against
America in England are beginning to give
place to more kindly aud generous senti-
ments. Several gentlemen, who have re.
Gently visited that country, say that the mere
mention of the fact that they were Ameri.
cans was at once passport to British hos
pitality. In the speech of Mr.. Warren OF
Massachusetts,, at the Peabody 4th of July
dinner in London, that gentleman stated
that, while listsDipg'to late debate in the
British House of Commons, the Attorney
General, in the course of his speech. alluded
to the war of the American Revolution,
which he characterized as war in which
the Americans We're in the right and the
British government in the wrong. At the
same dinner, Sir Emerson Tenant, respond
ing to tie toast proposed by MIR. Peabody
Perpetual friendship aud amity between the
people of England and the United States
gave utterance, among other friendly senti'
ment5, to the following
A,noog the many advantages which two cot R>
tries have derived from the scceeration of inter-
course II ia not the least gratifying for the present
nor the least sig ncAnt of hope tor the iutur 1t
has facilitated and iuducH the ob5ervsnt and intel
igent traveller from the s., to bear back with him
to bis own home bis personal attestsfon a. TO the
feeling which be must have discovered to be preva
lent In Great Britain of respect and attachment to
of the eighteenth century, and all the ealousies
eendered by the struggles of the civil war. have
either passed away. or remain only as a record on
one of the least credible pages OF our hstory-the
generation which they sniTated has taken them
down with them into the tomb, aud 10 the minds OF
the living of to-day they survive only ss
pleasant tradition ITO point moral or sdorn
tale" Nearly three quarters OF century had
elapsed since the Commons of England conveyed
an intimaton to the Throne that the people of
these countries would no longer supply the means
for prolonRing unjust war against America,
(cheers,) but would regard as enemies to the
Crown who should advise its continuance, subver-
sye as they felt 1t would be OF ell prospects of fu
ture reconciliation. (Cheers) Aud the King him.
SELF the occasion OF receiving the first accredited
Minister from the young republic, greeed him with
the assurance. that although be had been the last In
dividual 10 recognize the Independence OF the U.
he would also be the last to infringe on the sover
san rights which they had won )" aud with that
stubborn honesty which Is the characteristic of bis
race, the Monarch added his earnest hope that
between the two countries already united as they
were by blood, religion and commerce, there would
continue for ages that friendship and confidence
which ought tn characterize their inter.
course" [Cheers The same impulse which then
constr aimed the Psrliem OF EnelaDd to insist on
peace, and the same conviction which induced d the
king to wish 1t perpetual. has since been diffdsed
and thorsuely implanted In the breasts Of the ma
ton, and be (Sir J. E TenpeO solemnly believed
,hst there prevails at this day but one sentiment
amongst the people OF these countries towards those
of the United Statesthst of admratio OF their lib.
erty, won from an imbecile tyrant [cheers and the
habess corpus which your ancestors and ours con
trved to extort from the least exalted of our kDgs
We are aware that after dinner sentiments
are not always public sentiments; but, in
this case, if the testimony of all American
visitors is to be relied on, the speaker from
whom we have quoted reflects tie feelings
of the enlightened classes of Great Britain
If England could but rid herself of anti
slavery fanaticism, there would be no longer
any obstacle to the cordial fraternization of
the two countries.