The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-02-29
NUMBER l73.

both Houses the correspondence which has
taken place between the two Governments-a
correspondence, which, as Lord Clarendon
states, is still in progress Upon this subject,
however, also, Lord Clarendon tells us more in
few words than President Pierce told US in.
many. .A,s,,. =
Q From the Liverpool Times
The Bullyingyof the London Times Answered.
Ths Commercial Sentiment in References to a
War with the United Standardization upon
| President Pierce and his s'Myrmidoms.''
IF we are to credit m T ing paper which is
known to speak occasionally by the inspiration
of Downing street we are by no means. at the
end of our troubles with the United States
Our metropolitan contemporary argues the,
point in avery bellicose spirit and is indiscreet
enough to talk of the naval Armament which,
!if the war had continued, would be seen in
the Baltic and the Euxine in the spring, being
employed on the coast of America. "1he
naval power of England, never more fully de-
veloped than at present." he says, comprising
"a force Of ships of the line. frigates, and NOR
tar and gunboats, in COMPARISON with which
the entire navy of the United States, is but
weak ami inefficient squadron, will, with GER
tainty of peace, be set at liberty to act in vim
dication Of the nat,Cnll honor in whatever
Quarter it may be assailed. The change,
Therefore, which has come over the drama of
European politics will, no doubt, have its
proper weight with all rejecting men in the
y United States, and they will wonder whether
in a point of mere international punctilio-4
VIII ch has been the subject of explanations
war should be rashly and, wickediys provoked
which would sweep 4EInerican commerce from
the seas, and lay the whole seaboard of the
Union open to the attacks of the greatest ma
val power in the world.''
We have quoted this extracts oily to con-
denim it. Vaporing Ike this is exactly calct-
lated to bring about the crisis which the writ
er affects to deplore, and it shows the grossest
ignt rance of the feeling of the United States.
to suppose that whatever may be the Presi-s
dents policy with regard to his own re-elec-
ton, the sensible people of the United States
would tolerate such madness in the indulgence
of personal ambition. The President is not
omnipotent. he cannot plunge the 'cotfnery
into war about any whim which he may take
up, and it is we'll known that he would receive
no support from the Senate, and very little, in
all probability, from the House of Represen-4
tatiyes, if he attempted to provoke hostilities
between the two Powers on such grounds.
References of this kind to ships of the line,
and guns and mortar boats, cannot fail to
wound the pride Of high spirited people. 1t
geon in his hand, threatens to knock down any
one who declares that 'black is the white Of
his eye" Surely it is time enough to write or
talk in this style when the danger is imminent
of which we confess we can discern few symp-
toms. -.5-.,..-., d
No doubt can exist that the attempt To en-
list American citizens on American soil as
soldiers in the British army was sad mistake
one which the English government and its
in America both regret. At the
same time it is susceptible to explanation and
apology, and both Have been rendered. TIE
very confession of error in case of this kind,
oa5ht to disarm hostility, and the published
of Mr.. Champion to his subordi-
mates showed deep anxiety on his part to
keep within the letter of the laws. Lord Clar-
endon is known to have rendered such an
apology as would have been instantly accepted
BY any European count. To push the affair
beyond this point can have no object but q foul
one, and if President Pierce should attempt
to do so. the enlightened portions of American
society will rise as one man to resent it. 1t is
well known that the neutrality lawssof the
United States have been much more grossly
violated in former tffnes by the representatives
Of other Powers but we do not dwell on this,
because, as the homely adage has it, ''two
blacks do not make one white' The whole
thing lies in nutshell. It cannot be tortaE-
ed into acause of war by any insanity which
the President and his myrmidons may adopt;
but ii behoves the peaceably inclined on both
SIDES of the Atlantic to keep their eyes open,
and prevent by every means within their reach
a calamity the direst which could aff1ct the
world.