The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-19

British press has INDUCED itself in general wholesale
system Of rdcue sarcasm caumny and downright abuse
Of the government people, and institutions Of the United
States Their have been carcatured their faults
grossly exaggerated and distorted picture held up to
the perpetual contemplation Of the civilized world calcu
lated and intended only blast the character Of the
people but to impose on mankind belief that all this
the natural and inevitable result Of the freedom they
enjoyed Thus at one and the time the reputation
Of whole nation was assaed and that beneficial infu-
ence which the example they presented of the blessings
derived from the possession of liberty sought be under
mined and destroyed.
The London Times which has undertaken the supern-
tendence Of the affairs OF the world in general and the
United States in particular, has lately uttered
ous roar in consequence attack the rulers Of the
people Of England by New York paper which has not
OCCASION Our watchfu monitor is moreover MORALLY in
dgnant that the people of the United States decline to
sympathize with the AngoFreneh alliance in the present
war of civilization against barbarsm which according
late revelation the real policy of its champions s
for Turkey but against Russia The Times accordingly
makes formal appeal to the people of the United States
against such unbecoming liberties with its countrymen
and seems to think il has right TO demand as matter
Of courtesy not Of justice disclaimer apology We
notice that portion Of the American press has
sponded to this call but the amende honorable has been by
general
Now take this occasion to assure the London Times
that though the paper in question not the organ Of the
feelings of the government people of the United States
and that though that paper may have ransgresed the
bounds of national courtesy in the article referred to-
do hesitate say that the past and present of
great portion of the British press in all its branches in its
structures on the United States, in opinion, ustihes
any retaliation however We might refer to the
Times itself and to the general tone of almost all
the leading British journals periodicals, and reviews
illustrate the ordinary of that press towards
the and people of the United States and quote
innumerabe specimens of peevsh jealousy, sly malgniy
exaggerated caricatures downright Misrepresentation
if not falsehood which, think should have deferred
the Times from appealing to tribunal it has 50 often out
ragged and nsulted IT. in retaliation for this long series
Of sarcasms insults and aspersions far irritating
than actual injuries to patriotic highspired people
if in retaliation for all these attacks the patient laborious
OK so long gored by the BULL at last wheels about and
cores him in turn surely he has right to complain or
if he does is unworthy of sympathy At the moment the
Times giving circulation throughout the civilized world
to wholesale be the United States, such it has
Gently sent forth, il would better, we think, become that
paper be silent the subject of national caumnes
Every reor part is but part payment of an old
score Even the is allowed to turn when trod upon
We have stood the defensive long enough and it is
time to return blow for blow
This selection elegant extracts would however, cost
us more trouble than it is worth, though it would
doubtedy comprise complete compendium of national
courteses But it is scarcely necessary as most of them
have been carefully copied by the press
the gene echo Of the Times and other British oracles
There is however before article exquisite
in style and tone and happily expressive of the general
character of British couresies towards the United States
that we cannot resist the temptation of laying specimen
before our readers of the first exemp6catons of
that friendly "recprocy lately established between
the royal colonial subjects of her Majesty of England and
that adrty sneaking dog Jonathan To be sure it is ta
ken from Canadian Journal and therefore only second
hand expression of the feelings OF the mother country
But as the old cock the young learns and all
know that the rampanty loyal of British subjects
your petty colonial officials, whose zeal sometimes APP
proaches to anacsm especially when excited by the hope
of promotion The following extract is commended to the
attention of the Times a companion-piece to Kossuths
letter. and we advise its publication forthwith in that
paper:
Beyond all controversy, Jonathan is of the dtest
and most sneaking dogs which the world present
hbits.
"Tbe denizens of Doardom, taken openly pro-
fess sympathy for the yrannica Carl Yes the peo
ple who perpetrated the damnabe sin of rebellion against
their legitimate sovereign because they mendaciousy
serted nfringed upon their natural rghtthese very
reprobates, say cheering the most overbearng
and Unsuitable bully who the insignia of royalty
"Right thankful that Jonathan has out in
such an open and undsgused Canada is enthusiast
ticay watching the waging in the Crmea and
grudgngy aided the with her and substance.
ever she had the slightest leaning towards incorpoa
ton with the United States that leaning must be thor
oughly destroyed Never will she dream of amagamating
with race of whe-vered scullions, who shuttle out Te
Dcus Of graduation every temporary check which the
arms Of our sovereign received during the present
paignw
We scarcely think it worth while to adopt the
the Times its appeal to the people Of the Uni
ted States against the structures Of the New York paper
But assuming as we do and justified in doing by the
present tone Of the British press at home that the colonial
organ only echoes the feelings of the mother country
may well ask if such language thus sanctioned conrs
those who il right to complain demonstrate how
bitter the retaliation it may provoke? If the British
press expects the government and people of the United
Kingdom be treated by that Of the United States with
cordially forbearance let it the example of
national courtesy This il has done towards any
nation except when in the present of France it
becomes its wheedle coax and fatter II has al