Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1855-12-08
CAUSES OF NATIONAL ANIMOS-
ITY AGAINST ENGLAND.

CAUSES OF NATIONAL ANIMos-
ITY AGAINST ENGLAND.
Beside the inveterate prejudice of the
American people, sedulously nursed and
INDUCED since our two wars with Great
Britain, there are now other causes tend
ing to keep alive and to aggrayate our
national animostiy. The constant inter
ference Of England in the affairs of the
West Indies and Central America the
lmpudent Infringement of our neutrality
laws, in the enlistment Of men to carry
on the war with Russia; the utterly un-
justltiable character of that war; but,
above all causes of aversion, now ar
gravated to a feeling of absolute animos-
lty, if not of hatred Or revenge, there is
that monster-pet of English birth and
foster-nursing-Nego aJoltiionisn..
English abolitionism means any thing
and every thing that can injurc the COM
merce and agriculture of the United
States; but especially the production of
the great staples Of our commerce-cotton,
sugar, tobacco, and hemp. Any injury
to the trade Of the United States in either
Of these articles, could not be otherwise
thar advantageous to the trade of Eng
hEd, and most especially to that of Brit
lsh India. English abolitionism means
transfer of the productions and com
merce on cotton, tobacco and sugar from
the United States of America to the
British possessions in India.
This is the only meaning in the English
protested benevolence for American
negroes-in English abolition of the
slave trade-and all other English negro
isms, too readily caught up and trans
planted within the astffty years. There
is nothing benevolent, much less consci-
entiously just in the English national
character All history may be ran
sacked in vain for single instance dem
onstrating any such feature. Quite the
reverse. There never was a nation on
the face of the earth, the course of which
is stained with so many national crimes,
or so uniformly and consistently unjust
and extortionate. There is no history
| showing SO little national magnanimity.
nor such entire abandonment of moral
right, to say nothing of Christian prin-
ciple. Hypocrisy, cant, and falsehood,
especially in transactions with the United
States, have become established matters
of English State policy and diplomacy.
All that English philanthropy requires
IS, that its object shall be respectable and
involving no self-denial. The fact that
every fifth person to be met with in the
streets of English cities, is either a thief,
beggar, Or a prostitute, and that there
is q greater accumulation of hopeless
misery in England than in any other
country the sun shines upon, is Of no
consequence to English philanthropists.
The style of beneyolence which would
reform these shocking features in the
English system is not sufficiently re-
spectacle. Abolitionism is respectable,
having received the necessary endorse
inent OF the trading classes and of the
aristocracy.
The time is close at hand, however.
when there will be an end to English
Interference generally, and especially to
English abolitionism. As suitable and
altogether proper finish TO the present
war, England will, in all probability,
lose India. 1t is of the deepest interest
to the commerce of the United States
that she should now quietly disgorge all
her Indian conquests. Such consume
alton would annihilate abolitionism
That ebony woman Of American politics,
whose silly but impudent face bushes
not, nor betrays emotion, though spit
upon, would then disappear forever.