Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-02-29

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From the London Times Of the 3th.
| From the tenor of the recent Intelligence iron'
| tho States. il is plain that the President Is as
| mncb absorbed in one of the parties now dvlding
| the Uouse of Representatives as the merest place
man in orr own House Of Commons.& he was com
PEELED rive his friends such desperate aid ms could
be expec ed from an act of ANNOYANCE tn TINS cnoh
| try Every day expect to hear our Minister
| at Washington has received his passports una Is
| on his way home. That of course, VIII compel Il
similar nroceedinp on onr part with regard to the
| American Minister, and Mr.. Champion and Mr..
Buchanan. the two innifensve gentlemen repre-
senfing their Governments at Washington ana
London. will probably cross each other on the
Atlantic.
Happily the relations between the two coun-
tries do not wholly depend on these two gentlemen
IL we know by European experience thatltlspossi-
BILE fortwo States to 60 on as weIl-lndeed' IL mas
been malicously asserted better-wlthont
Diplomatic repre- sentatives. A channel can
always he found for any communication one Gov
eminent may with to make to another. 1t Is pos
sible, then, the only result Of this msnnderstand-
ing will he that for some time we shall only have
one Engl shman the more and one American the
less among US. We would very much rather It
were otherwise; but, as England has really apol-
gzed enough to satisfy ten European empires.
we cannot hold her responsible for the estrange-
ment. There are people whom it Is impossible to
quarrel with. and there are people with whom
the impossbity is of the contrary sort; ana II
the United State refuse to be pacified with thu
ample satisfaction already rendered, We must put
them down in the latter of these classes. We
can honestly declare our entire belief that III all
England there is not one reasonable man who
would desire to see the United States insuted or
lowered in the eyes of the world by being COM
PEELED to any act of self abasement. 1t would be
felt that the disgrace rocoiled upon those who had
compelled it, and that if we had compelled it there
would have been something unnatural IN the ex-
gence of our pride.
We are perfectly aware, none more so. of the
extreme loss, difficulty, and risk of such Il war es
Il class of Republican zealos are endenvorlng
to force upon US. We are aware that we should
Mt once interrupt the most valuable portion OF
our commerce and manufactures and that our
merchants would find foe, well rs n rival. III
every part of the world. We are aware that
we should have to deal with an enemy inheriing
all our enterprise and daring, but not burdened,
as we are. by national debt and host of inca
pabies, or trammeed by Court, an arI-tocra-
cy and the routine. of which the Report from the
Craea we publish elsewhere, discl",es such
sadly fantastic examples We do not forget how
quickly the United States raised the armies that
reduced Mexico. and wrested from her whole
provinces. We know that 25,00DO00 of men,
Of European aud chiefly British blood, are not to
be despsed. We could hardly expect to suffer
much less damage than could lnhict. New
nrtheless, we have not the least doubt in the
world that the British people, with all this put
before them, would rather go to war at once than
submit to national degradation. They would
rather their manufactures shut up, their
machinery rust, and their ships rot in port, than
require Government to render to any foreign
Power a more humbling apology than the
sion required. The Americans NUT therefore
reckon on an obstinate resistance, if they drive
to it, Let them count the cost be fore they take
oag fTt0l steps, else, after t,co or three yedrsMey
rW make The calculation IN rain. Ihe British
people are very slow to go t" war but they are
still slower to make peace, and will never make
& d>honorable one.