The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-29

with which America is regarded in England Those
convictions have been deliberately formed after careful ana
extensive observation Of English society, and We com
mend them 10 the consideration OF readers IL
is indeed time that the great nations which out Of all the
world best represent the harmony Of liberty with law
should come TO thorough mutual understanding and
that those persons In either country who neither love lib
erty respect law should be longer permitted TO
evoke the prospects OF mankind the dark and danger
clouds Of eiug and il-will between Great Britain
and the United Sates.-N " Albion, NoV. !.
The above it will be perceived is taken from tbs issue
Of the New York Albion Of November three days before
the presidential election. 1t may not be generally
known that the Albion, edited it is with much ability,
is remarkable may infer from its name for its Eng
sh procliytes We happy to believe that its crcua
ton is limited to subscribers whose literary taste seeks
pabulum in its usually weseected clippings, and its
racy editorials and contributions chiefly drawn from the
"we of pure English undOfed" To these may be added
Of the British residents among who read it for its
early of local interest em Great Britain and Ireland
Its editor, the apologst OF English sentiment when
1t in conflict with American interests
in the beginning of the above extract that he has high
authority for his satements-no lower indeed than the
Bench Of Bishops London editors Bondstree Swes bank
ers, and country gentry-auhority which may ques
ton, orsooh, when certified for by the Albion and its
American friend
We assured at the beginning of The second para
graph that the american friend" of the Albion pecu
ary impressed with the universal interest taken by Eng
shmen of all classes in American affairs" and their de-
sire for information concerning social cond
ton; which, construe it. nothing else than
that they, the London Cocknies" wante4 anxousy to
know If abolitonsm the rise and what Free
monts chances of success But only they anx-
ous and eager disciples Of this American friend but they
evnced very little OF that will which we benghted Amer
leans have supposed to exist among people whose national
pride and arrogance have been wounded deeply when
ever she essayed comparison between these once thr
teen rebeious colonies thrtyone sovereign States
whether she drew the parallel between in deeds OF
or forgetting her past defeats confined her scrutiny to
the science of diplomacy the familiar and better
understood offices of ordinary craftsmanship According
the Albion the bitter memories of the past fast
fading away and like the Trollope and Martineau ltera
ture, branded iHium tua Upon the convictions of
the reading public who deign to be led by Sir Charles
Lyell 0lios they acting, says this wary cham
pon of England And yet will venture TO suggest to
the Albion that since the day of Mrs Trolope and her
mitaors class Of authors have arisen this side
Of the whose ISLANDERS of their country have
found listening in every household in England,
while Scoand's Dukes and Duchesses have opened wide
the portals of their old barona castles welcome the
Harriet Beecher Stoves.
Surely have to be proud of newly -found
friends endorsed they by the Albion and its Amer
lean friend y and most devoutly should thank Provi
dence for these invaluable allies who have risen up the
most pressing emergency, when England assured
is better prepared for war; its expenses and endurance
and certified for too by French officers that she out
the Crimean far stronger than when she entered
upon it.
But should the reader desire to know the motive that
prompts this spenec burst of hate let him peruse the
third paragraph Of the above article and he win find that
the almost universal sympathy of people for Russia in
her had excited the indignation OF this arrogant
people, with whom the Albion cherishes such erven friend
ship and hence as necessary consequence this mouth
piece of British insoence and advocate of British interests
feels called upon to fling its what it desgnaes
the american authorities" and which informed
does represent the respectable ambition Of the United
States Nor does it stop here, but in the breath we
told that the Osend diplomass longer be-
eved have given utteance TO the voice Of people
Says the Albion, it is dawnng upon the English mind
that not absolutely homogeneous nation in POI
liuca sentiments and social ideas We that the
light of true patriotism will break in upon the Al
bons miud-at least enough for it that
be homogeneous nation, either politically socially,
while English predictions and antrepublcan prejudces
shall sway and control the columns the Albion and Its
American allies
But let TO the fourth paragraph Of this artfu doc
ument prepared believe aid the Of black
republication the North, and which, that 1t has
fallen hurtless at the feet Of the great constitutional
democracy might pass unnoticed were not for its
shameless slsehoods We told with an effrontery
which could equal, unless he enemy
country and the democratic policy which has ever gov
erned It's diplomacy when successful that "the settlement
Of the matters issue between the countries Great
Britain and the United States) was long and heed
lessly encountered with Fictitious difficulties by the
persons who should have been foremost TO make II
easy Now what this but that the present
administration ia 70 blame for insisting upon proper
and common-sense construction OF plain treaty. This
"mntters issue have either all been settled or placed
in train Of amicable adjustment by Mr. Dallas the
representative in Mr. Buchansns stead under instruc-
tons Substantially the same, from the american
authorities" those that guided the President elect But
nov there ia a way by which may sleep easy. "Ths
English disposition" says the Albion, ITO meet US in a
spirit Of good will and honorable rankness gathering
strength" though her pacific temper is dependent upon
the solution Of the intricate problem whether the "cabar
supported Mr. Buchanan for the presidency is herea
to be known not the great american people,
Well now athere the rubn The election IL over and