Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-25
Our Relations with Great Britain.


From the N. Y. Courier Enquirer. Dec. ie.
You may rest assured, that in no possible
contingency, can any serious difficulty grow
out Of the late att empt on the part of the
agents of Great Britain TO enlist in the United
States men for the Crimean army; and it is
equally certain, that this Government, never
asked for the recall of Mr.. CRAMPTON-a fact
| which we proclaimed to our readers long since:
but which a certain portion of the Press, has
! Systematically dsregarded and ignored. Mr.
Secretary MARCY from the commencement of
the correspondence, held the British Govern
inent and not Mr. CRAMPToX, responsible and,
therefore, expressly disclaimed any intention
of asking toi Mr.. CRAMPToN's recall Beyond
oil question, If the British Government had
refused to nske the onlyreparation in its pow
era full and ample apology-Mr CRAMPToN
/ would Lave been dismissed by orr Govern
ment not however, because he had offended.
! bat because the Government he represented.
had offended and refused 20 make PREPARATION.
And what then 2 Would the dismissal Of
/ the English Minister and the suppression of all
diplomatic intercourse with Great Britain,
/ have been q casus JslH? Far from ii. Orr
! Government dismissed the French Minister in
/ iS49, upon the most iidcnlnus cause ever in
vented for such grave proceeding; and yet
it produced not war In fact, it is matter Of
grave doubt whether the author of that I'M
gracious net, has ever precisely understood
why he dismissed NJ. POUssANT Only two
years preceding that extraordinary act By
our Secretary of State, SIR He RY LYTTON
BCLwER, the English Minister at the Court of
the EScurial, was sUm'narIly dismissed, and all
diplomatic intercourse with Great Britain us
pended for period of nearly two years. Yet
no war between Grea. Britain and Spain re-
/ suited from his proceeding; TINS clearly dem
Onstrating, that it Is a wei settled principle OF
/ the Law OF Nations, that the dismissal of the
! Envoy of q country and The suspension of d.
I piomaic intercourse, do not constitute a cdsus
belj 50 that had the British Government re.
fused to make the Gm6ade honorable for its alleg-
/ ed violation of our Neutrality Laws, it by no
means follows that war would have been the
consequence We admit that such conplica-
/ ton OF our relations with Great Britain, might
have resulted in war; and under any circum-
stance it would have been greatly opposed by
all right minded men; but still there would
not have been war with our commercial rival
upon any such trifiing canses as those which
created such sensation of late, on both sides
OF the Atlantic. Nothing but down right in-
justice by one of the parties towards the other,
or conduct affecting the honor OF one or both
of them, can ever produce war between
the two great Protestant and Commercial
Powers OF the world, rendered almost INSOFAR
able, by common origin, common language,
common situation and common interests, aris-
ing ont of annual exchange of more than two
hundred millions Of the productions of the two
countries between nations, whose laws and
institutions are, in their spirit and tendencies,
almost identical and which have for years,
been the great exemplars of civil and religious
freedom against the combined Despotsm o
Drspolic Europe; aud one of which, is at this
very time in connection with our most ancient
ally, generously pouring ont her best blood and
freely expanding untold millions in defence of
the freedom aud civilization Of Western Eu-
rope.
TIE question which directly affects the peace
ful relations between England aud the United
States, and which, therefore, is the only one
in which the people are greatly concerned as
connected with the late "h4re up" is, in what
spirit did the Government of Great , ritain
receive Our remOustrauces against the al
alleged breach of our neutrality laws by her
agents here2 To this we reply, that Lord Clar-
cndon, in q letter to Mr. Buchanan, promptly
and empha'ically declared, that the most slrin-
gent Instructions had been given by tie Brit
ish Government IT, their agents, to do nothing
which might be construed into violation di-
rect or Indirect, OF our Municipal Laws; thar
they were not conscious of any such violation
having taken place, but il so. they Cery grcatly
req etted H0t 1t should haze 0ccurred; and t.
demonstrate that they were determined to
guard against any such contingency in future,
and al the same time to prove the sincerity Of
their expressions of regret for wha had nc
cnrred, they had directed that all recruiting
for the British Army on this side Of the AtLIn
TIC, ecen iH their 01on POSSESSIONS should be at
once discontinued.
The declaration alike full and frank, was at
once declared to be satisfactory" by Mr. Bu
chanan; and no one but a mailman or a fool,
could have hesitated 50 TO consider it. We do
not doubt the entire sincerity Of Lord Claren-
don in this explanation; but whether it was
or was not sincere, there can be no earthly
question, but our Minister was bound to accept
of it rs an ample and sufficient apology for
what had occurred. In truth, no other apollo
~ or explanation, or satisfaction, can possibly
he devised Neither General Pierce, nor Mr.
Marcy, nor Mr.. Gushing, if called upon to die
tate the apology to be offered, could have pen
ned anything more ample, or which will prove
more satisfactory TO the American people
Here, therefore, all possible danger OF a rup-
ture growing out of this question, necessarily
ceased; and it is TO be hoped that our CONNER
ca men will at once dismiss the subject from
their minds, as one which cannot possibly have
any influence upon the future relations of The
two countries.