The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-07-04
From the Caledonia (Enc.) MERCURY.

of late made their appearance in the Times
would seem to indicate that there exists
across the Atlantic, in the breast of our
near relations the inhabitants of the Uni
ted States of America, feeling of hostil-
ity to us, our institutions and underta-
king, and feeling of sympathy with our
Russian antagonists. We do not believe,
but on the contrary, we believe that blood
is thicker than water, or in this case we
might say than oil-that though the Yam
KEGS might have no objection to shot at
us themselves, they wish no other people
in the world to do so with success-that
republican liberty can never sympathize
with despotism-enlightened intelligence
with hopeless ignorance-progress with
obstruction-that the antagonism of quail
tiles and races and institutions between
Russia and the States is gulf too stor-
my to be passed, and that the ties of kin
dred blood and kindred sentiment between
the States and Great Britain are too strong
to be easily or lightly severed.
Will it be believed that we, or at least
the small fry that represent us, are doing
their best to bring about this state of bit.
terness; and that the rumors of American
Indifference to our success, or of American
sympathy with our enemies, have their or
igin, not in the acts of our brethren, but
in the contemptuous Sights and callous
indifference of ourselves? The promptings
of an evil conscience inform us that we
have merited the resentment, the existence
of which we are beginning to assume; and
that persistence in the studied insolence
with which the friendly advances of our
transatlantic brothers seem to be received,
may possibly, at no distant period, convert
these rumors into facts. Several instances
of the species of conduct to which we al
lude have lately been brought under ouT
notice; but we shall content ourselves for
the present with the mention of two.
The Morning Post can testify to the
courtly career of every whiskered, bearded,
gzy-breeched aid-de-camp or envoy from
Pumpernickel or Schlaugenfat, whose bu-
siness or whose pleasure leads him, to Wis
| it the capital of England A special train
receives him at Folkenstone; court-car-
riage at London bridge. He is presented
to Majesty by the minister; his name is
inserted in the Lord Chamberlain's album
/ for royal banquet, concert, and ball; he
appears at the reception of secretaries;
and, as q necessary consequence, he runs
the gauntlet of aristocratic hospitality and
ostentation in crescent, lane, and square,
/ from ST. Something in the East to St.
Somebody in the West, till surfeit of
soups, lobster salads, and Laftte drives
him back with an Indigestion to the baths
and Brunnens from whence he came. We
find no fault with his reception-recep-
tion though it be of the envoy or hanger
on of phantasmagorian kingdom or
dukedom, whose treasury is gambling
house; whose territory is 6sherman's s
walk, and whose army is an officer
While we feast the great, let's ne'er forget
the SMALL Great Britain can afford to
allow Lilliput to stalk powdered and pig
tailed across her palm. But while she
reigns Hospitality and considerably on the
small, ought she to reverse the caution of
the song, and utterly despise, neglect, and
ignore the great? We think not
In the month of March last, three of
/ the American veteran officers of the Mex
ican campaign, in the three several de-
| partments of engineers, artillery, and cav
airy. selected from the gallant army of the
United States by the President and his
Cabinet, as worthy from their talents and
services to represent their eountrymen,
were directed 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
Engineers; Major Mordecia, of the Artil.
lery; and Captain Mcclellan, of the Cav.
airy. Did they proceed to the Russian
lines, where the art of war can be studied
quite as effectually as in our own, to which
they would have received and would still
receive hearty welcome, and with which
nation they are falsely represented te
sympathize? They did not.
1 They arriving in England with letters
from the British Minister at Washington
anthenticating their mission, and which
were presented by them last month to thu
Foreign Secretary in London; but beyoni
civil reception-which we believe Lord
Clarendon vouchsafes to all men--an in
terview with Sir John Burgoyne, and let
ters Of recognition to the authorities in
the Crimea, no notice whatever was tax Ell
of them or of their mission. No specia
train received them at Liverpool; nj
court-carriage of Easton Square; no pre-
sentation to majesty; no inscription in the
Chamberlain's open-sesame; no pasteboart
for minister's reception or aristocratic sol
T rec; and the only surfeit which they re
ceived was surfeit of neglect and dis
gust, which they have doubtless carried
with them to the Court of France, whith
er they have bent their steps, and which
it will assuredly defy all the baths an6
Brunnens Of Pumpernickel to remove
Towards the end of last summer thu
United States sloop of war Preble arrived