The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-05

olgarchs say Of the horrible and distressing
" white slavery" of the Free North, and how
much better it would be for the workingmen of
the North to become slaves, together with their
wives and children, and enjoy the blessings of
the patriarchal sytem. But this is strange doc
trine for the Tribune to hold. The free-born
Briton is no slave, except by the literary meta
phor of an Anglophobe. The humbug about
white slavery" that holds good against Eng
land in the mouth of an Anglophobe, holds
good also in the mouth of an opulent planter
of Alabama against the free labor of the North.
Again, sir: England has bought $4,000 Sar-
dinians. This is not the fact That able
statesman, Count Cauvour, declared upon his
irreproachable honor, to the Sandman Lower
House, that no sort of compulsion had been
used by either of the Allies. The men are in
Sardinidn pay, and commanded by Sandman
General. The assertion to the contrary is
worthy only of an INSCRIPTIONS Anglophobe.
You say, sir, England sympathized with
Hungary. The Tribune denies that the CON-
munify of England did so. Well, did the COM
munity of America? What is a crime in one
is a crime in the other we are in like delin-
quency. At the same time, am at a loss to
understand why the non-rescue of Hungary
from Russian bayonets should be imputed to
us as a fault by the Tribune. If it is good for
w
er, to be swallowed up" in order to undergo
the experiment of the Russian industrial sys-
tenn, why is it not equally beneficial for Poland
and Hungary? Austria is less hostile to West
ern ideas and British Free Trade than is Rus
STA it will be a splendid step towards "the
emancipation of the people of Germany, France,
Italy, and England" when Hungary is added
to the domains of the great serf empire.
The Tribune does not like the Anglo. French
alliance. l am sorry for him. No reactionist
on either hemisphere does like it, l say, "God
bless it, may it live a thousand yearsl" The
reactionists Of the Old World, and certain An
glophobistic Republicans of the New World,
like to see an international feud perpetuated
between France and England. The British
people have lately shown their cosmopolitan
superiority to this barbarous feeling, and this
manifestation has called forth expressions of
spleen and chagrin from the Anglophobes. /
have no respect for the motives for these mar
row sentiments, whether they are found in the
breasts of mostserene kinglets and bureaucrats,
or the untitled sovereigns of America.
1t is said the British nation has no friend in
the world. If the Kings, Mobiles, Popes, and
Bureaucrats, of the European continent, hate
and dread us with sure and keen instinct, it
hardly becomes an American Republican to
throw this in our teeth. IL the Southern slave
owner hates us because we are one with France
sin the desire to abolish Slavery, and the hope
of amelioration for all the countries of Eu-
rope" it i'll becomes, repeat it sadly, an Amer
lean freeman of the North, or an avowed Anti
Slavery organ, to gloat with Joy over this posi-
ton. 1t is not the common habit of the patri-
OF statesmen and orators of the United States
TO inhame the zeal of citizens to fever point, by
America as the object of dark
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World stand leagued against her. ENGLAND of
course at the head y Is it not quite usual in
this country to exaggerate this isolation, in or
der to make boast oft? How much we heard
of it at the time of the Koszta case. when the
four great Powers protested agaikt Captain
Ingraham's act, and when England (which our
noisy Democrats insisted was at the bottom of
the whole coalition was, in point of fact, the
marked exception to the all but unanimous
demonstration?
If we then are isolated so are you, and for
the same cause, our democratic deveopement;
it is only another reason why we should now
draw closer to each other. We plain English
men do not like the dynastic alliances of our
Crown with the Continental Legitmist Powers;
it is just now our boast that we have at length
succeeded in detaching our Government from
them once aud forever. Non tail aurilio, non
destiny. Frankly, we say, we esteem your all-
ance above that OF every other Power except
that of France; and the necessity and mutual
benefit of an entente cordiale between our two
peoples will eventually be universally recognised.
in spite Of naughty aristorcrats on our side, and
ignorantly- prejudiced Democrats on yours. |
am sure, sir, this writer does not express the
abiding sentiment of the intelligent Anti Slavery
men OF the Northern States; those men who last
year so sublimely overthrow their traitorous Ne
braska Representatives, cannot be suddenly con-
verted into Russophiles, and friends of the un-
limited extension, by brute violence, of the Mus
covite Power. 1t is too absurd that the inge-
mons version of the last words of Nicholas, about
the high-hearted people across the Atlantic"
and America always finding friend i" in the
Autocrat Of all the Russias should turn all sober
American heads crazy with enthusiasm. If
America has gained and England has lost Rus
sian good will, We plain Englishmen do not be-
grudre the change. If Great Britain has lost
the Russian and Prussian alliance, will tell
what better thing she has gained-the once
alienated affections of the 5000 900 of her peo
pie; and these she now possesses to a degree
she never did before. The contributions to the
Patriotic Fund have poured in from every quar-
ter of the world where British sentiment has
penetrated. Germans, Danes, Swiss, and Poles,
are Hooking to the banner of our foreign legion
Your American seamen are leaving the Stars
and Stripes, to take service under the Union
Jack.
The existing discomfort of the British peo-
pie is not directed against the policy of the
war, but against lordly mismanagement of it.
The war policy itself has our fervent aspira-
tons and prayers to God for its success, because
it is in behalf of the weak against the usurping
strong, and for the enforcement of information.
al law. 1t is for this that we have not grudged
an Immensely increased taxation for its sup
port. The dreadful calamities of war have not
been brought upon the world by us or our al
lies, but by the piratical swallowing up
process so warmly advocated by the Tribune
Ii further assurance be wanting to the most
skeptical, of the rectitude of our purpose, it NAV
be found in the circumstance that our antago.
nists on this continent are driven to occupy Mus
covitish and Southern ground, in order to at.
tack US.
In second, and trust much briefer let
ter, hope to deal categorically with the past
and present foreign policy of England. shall
be able to show your readers that few faults
OF commissions and many more of omission, are
to be found in the indictment of England i
have temperately criticised.
l am, sir, your obedient servant,
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