The Placer herald., 1856-04-12
From the S. f. Morning Globe
England and America.

| li9ut Is IFOfH ualkneSS. Inc FORMER Is marx
ed by moderation, forbearance, justice, and
good faith. The latter is distinguished by
chicane and tortuous dealing. Our motto is
'to demand nothing but what is right, and
to submit to nothing that is wrong" Ian
guage natural enough to the patriot hero
Jackson, but which would sound strangely
from the lips of a Castlereigh or Clarendon
Englands rule on the contrary, is to bully
and override the weak, and to Weld nothing
to reason and Justice except from stringent
necessity. To her the idea of national con
science is something subimated-too meta
physical for the practical affairs Of every day
life. Our policy was founded in the struggle
of the Revoluton based upon the abstract
rules of justice, and was enunciated from the
clear minds and honest hearts of men like
Washington, Madison, and Jefferson. 1t
spurned all concealment and trampled upon
those wiles of diplomacy which for centuries
had been the accepted vehicle Of intcrnation-
al intercourse It's trainers were men who
could not condescend to lie. They We're,
moreover, far seeing sagacious men, who saw
the strength of the country, and who, di-
vining its future, knew well that all we need
ed was to demand and insist upon our rights
to entitle us to the first place among the
nations of the earth. Not 50 with England;
her government is successful usurpation,
and has been deeply infected with the min
gled spirit Of fraud and violence which has
marked the history Of European countries.
Her royal family have been noted for their
vices, her peerage a compound Of hereditary
imbecles or successful political traders, her
commons farce and a stain upon represen-
tatiye government. Struggling for centuries
ostensibly to preserve a balance of power,
but in reality to add to her own dominions,
when has she hesitated at a corrupt intrigue
of diplomacy, or a shameless robbery by the
sword? For many years she resisted the en-
treaties Of America for justice. Her answer
was the insoent taunt or the sneer Of indif-
ference. For seven years she shed the blood
of our people, because they would not brook
her infamous thrall. "Black, smoking ruins"
marked the habiations of our ancestors and
pointed ont the track Of the cruel and un-
sparing foe. After exhausting every resource,
from the wholesale massacres OF Stonington
and Wyoming to the gold of Sir Henry
Clinton, vainly offered to cur leaders, and
the forgery of letters purporting to be from
Washington, despairng Of the contest -
slowly and suiicnly she withdrew from the
contest, and nOw her writer's take great cred
it for admitting the Justice Of the American
cause. A three years war was forced upon
us, because we would not concede her right
so insoently asserted, of boarding and search
ing our ships on the high seas Blood flows
like water in the struggle, and again she in
volles the aid and arm Of the merciless say
age to stay her chvalrous armies. The tom
ahawk of Tecumseh and the bayonet Of
Proctor, honorably allied, avail not, even
with all the proud associations of the Thames
before the daring of the Western pioneers
Years after all this the British Government
abandons the right Of search, and by legit-
innate and direct consequence, assumes the
responsibility of the blood shed in an unjust
quarrel. Light load, however, on the Brit
ons conscience. Whatever wrong may have
been done here, is more than atoned for by
her efforts to stir up discord among our peo-
pie by agitating the question of Slavery. So
great is her horror of this system, that she
looks with great pleasure to the dissolution
Of the Union as the prelude to the accom-
plishment Of her darling humanitarian
schemes OF ellldncl lpallOn.
If we turn to her dealings with other
countries, it is the same story. Ireland is
ground to the dust, denied an equal repre-
sentaton in Parliament, loaded with taxes to
support government in which she has no
voice, and charged with the support of
priesthood whose doctrines are repugnant to
the convictions Of her people. In a land
blessed with fertility is converted into a scene
of want and wretchedness. A million Of
victims expire by famine in one year, but the
heart of the Briton does not soften nor his
grasp relax. His gaze is turned to the slave
upon the banks of the James or Of the Mis-
sissipp and the tears falling fast attest both
his deep sympathy with imaginary woes, and
his happy torgetfulness of his own acts.
France for years the beast of burden to
the dissolute Bourbons and vet viler aris-
tocracy, rises at last from her degradation,
and throws off the yoke of the oppressors
She claims the right Of self government, but
not without a protest. A conspiracy is form
ed by the magic power of the gold of Eng
land, the grand freebooter at his head, to re-
instate the expelled dynasty. Coalition after
coalition is formed, aud the masses of Europe
are hurled against the republic Of France.
Long did vaor and patriotism resist in the
unequal cotnbat. In vain the courage of
Ney, Murat, and Massena. In vain even the
genius Of the great Napoleon. Fraud, vio-
lence, wrong linked with numbers, and nour-
ished by the gold of England, triumphed
over the rights Of France, and again the
yoke of the Bourbon is placed upon her un-
willing neck.
China too must take her place among the
victims Of English lust for power. Her gov
eminent objects to the introduction OF opium
among her people BY the English merchant,
but her helpless millions are forced to yield
to the stern eoquence Of the British cannon.