New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-18
JOHN BULL AND BROTHER JONATHAN.

The London Tim,s urges forc5ly ia our col
umns this morn ng the policy of abstinence By
Great Britain from insult to or outrage upon
this cOuntry-during the war. This counsel
might well have been given earlier, but better
late than never Sixty years ago, when Great
Britain and France were just warmiog up in
smother great war-not then with Russia, but
agsinst each otber-our fathers labOrrd anx Gus
ly aid faithfully to impress upon the belliger-
ents he truths which The Times now iOculcates.
We sent minister after minister, embassy after
embassy, entreatng them to break each Others
beaos, if they must without willfully, mali
ciously, pitching their miss les into our crOckey.
We tried hard TO convince them that black
eye presented to US by one Of them was no valid
reason why broken nose should BE- dealt US by
the other-but this logic they professed them
selves utterly unable TO comprehend. We
wished 10 trade with both and fight for neither;
bat each beIligereni insisted that we should
fetch and carry for him and keep clear Of the
oiher France Cat frst) professed to be fighting
for Liberty and the Rights Of Man against oil
gsrchy add kipgcraft, and could MT see how we
should stand neutral in such a contest; England
proclsimt herself the great bulwsrk Of Order,
Professionalism and the Independence of Nations;
wherefore she would have it that we were bounf
to afford her all possible aid and comfort and de-
test Der great adversary. But all this time she
searched our merchant vessels on every Sea,
robbed them of part of their crews i'm pressed
even our native seamen into her naval service,
svd cut up our commerce by most outrageous
"OrceTs in Council" for which her only excuse
was Bonsparte's still more unjustfabe but far
less effective "Decrees." Thus, by the prossest
inyasions of our rights as neutrals, we were
driven to the very brink Of war with France, and
finally driven into war with England-s war dis-
astrous to both parties, beneficial to neither
All the good it ever did was to beat into the
muIish head of heavy old John first faint glim-
merirg of the truth now so forcibly set forth by
The Times
Why will not England understand that we do
not regard Louis Napoleon rs an apostle Of Lib
erty and political regeneration The Tunes
used TO tell the truth as to his usurpation and
its cor sequences: it cannot now afford to re-
iterste that tTu b; but must We therefore, be
held to have forgotten it Must we forget that
we have first found in the British Government
the deadly emmy Of orr Libertes-frst, of our
liberty on the land then of the Freedom on the
Sess-and that we have never been mOlested
nor injured by Ru, sia-On the contrary, We have
found in her ali enlightened and consistent sup
porter of those doctrines Of Maritime Right
which are to us Of vital cOnsequence-which
Great Britain formerly resisted, but which we
Understand her at length to have tacitly asssnted
to, Why will not our kiusmen across the water
perceive that there are others than Shareholders
aud their apOlogists in this country who do not
desire the triumph of Louis Napoleon and Pal
meIstOnl
The Times msunderstands us on the point
which it more especially discusses. " 1t is the
will of the American people" says the Thun-
eerer, "as expressed by their laws, that their
" citizens shall not be enlisted in the service of
ga foreign State" Not exactly. American
citizens are free to engage in foreign service
do so epgsee-are now fighting in the Crimea,
without infringing our laws or diyesting them
selves of their inherited rights. But il IS our
fixed resolve that foreign recruiting officers
shall not ply their trade in our streets-that
hostile expeditions against nations with which
We are at peace shall not be fitted out in our
ports and dispatched from our shores. The
justice and propriety of this resolve are so mani
fest that 10 one disputes them. To be re-
spected, it need but be understood. And if
The Times would but state fairly our manifold
reasons for declining to lavish any sympathy in
the cause Of the Allies we could well afford to
keep silence on that point also. As it is, but
few words are needed