New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-25
AMERICAN WAR QUESTION.
BRITISH SENTIMENTS on WAR WITH
AMERICA.
From The London TtH", FEB. l.

AMERICA.
From The London 1izH, FEB. 1.
Alta moment when an honorable peace is likely TO
BE- deartr tlan ever, and when we have been nade ~
feel the momentous significance that may attach To
n. mercst trife our readers viii not hear without
concern the frs overt act If the American quarrel
The Executive of the United States has internal az
well as external difficulties To encOunter-the fornef
MT so much Of It's own making the latter, and con-
siderebly more urgent. In fact, it appears that the
whole machine Of the Legislature has been brought to
dead lock, and that state OF things exists SUM
ci, nly alarming to IL patriotic aud sensible citizen,
vet ofeIing decided opportunity to dashing ana
i,ckless craftsmanship. II is not for Us to say how
knots Of this sort ought to be united. Men any
thing Of the kind happens IN our own falmmeht-
and il has happened more than once IN the present
g.neraop-the good sense Of the country l. sure To
sneak out and not IN VAIN. The truth II,
that in this country factions strong ne they are,
do not constitute the whole OF the community;
but from the Court 10 the peasant there are
nLmherless persons and Institutions independent
Ct party ard ayerse 70 s exceGes' II 10 evidently
far Otherwise in America. social tyranny there
eenpels almost every man TO choose nr sde' ana 10
act hi. part II be does not always feel II. So, whea
the sloes are struck and the actors told on there re-
main 10 mOderstors Of the controversy, no umpres W
the strife scarce indeed dspassionate spect. tor OF
the scene From the tenor OF the recent meul5eHco
f,om the Ststes il is plain that the President Il as
much absorbed in of the parties now dividing the
House of Representatives as the merest Pacenan IN
our own House OF Commons, and he has been com.
peled TO give bis nlenus utbpeIdtc OOuu
be expected from On act Of annoyance to this country
Eyery duy we expect TO hear that our Minister Nj
Wssfn gton has received his passports and Is on his
way home. That, Of course, VIII compel similar
proceeding ON our part with regard to the American
Minister and Mr.. Champion and NJ Buchanan, the
two iIofeIrive gentlemen representing their Govern
uepts at Warrington and London, will probably cross
each Other on the Atlantic.
Happily the relations between the two countries do
not wholly depend on these two gentlemen; and We
Lpox hui
two States TO 90 on wel-indeed, it has beeg mali
cously asserted better-wthout diplomatic represent
stives A channel can always be found for any COM
uunicaton one Government may wish 10 make To
another Ii is possible then, the only result of this
Misunderstanding will be that for some time we shall
only have one Euglshman the more and one American
the less among We would very much rather 1t
were otherwise: but az England has really apOlOglZed
enough to satisfy ten European Empires, We cannot
hold Ter responsible for the esrangcment There are
people whom II II impossible toquaTTel with, and there
are people with whom the impossblliiy !. OF the cOr
tra!y sort and If the United States refuse 10 be psc
FED with the ample satisfaction already rendered,
must put them down u the latter of these classes
We can honestly declare our entire belief that In al
En- gland there is not one reasonable man who would
desire 10 see the United States lnsuted or lowered IN
tie ewes Of the world by being compelled to
any act Of establishment. II would be felt
that the disgrace rccoied upon those wo had con
PEELED it, and that if we had compelled it there
would have been something unnatural in
the e1igence of our pride Surely there must be many
in the tates who are still much ike Engishmen
to have the same feeling for those from whom they
have sprungl To the world al large, the difference
between an Englishman and an American Is not so
considerable, may even say, as our national vanity
might suggest. The son thought not 40 very unlike
tie parent and when they fall out enemies only say it
is tie same arrogant temper developed in two different
relations, In tsis instance, the parent has shown a
more than common anxiety not 10 shock mankind with
tie spectacle of domestic quarrel We have made
apolc gies 10 our flesh and blood ssch az earthly
power could have eytorted from Bet there are
limits hey Ond which no consideration whatever shouh
carry us seeing that Is the duty Of every State,
Of every individual TO preserve its sefrespec which
Is, in fact, its moral existence. The British Govern
ment has only to ask the people whether they wish i
to make more satisfaction TO the Government of the
United States than gentleman makes 10 another,
and the answer viii be the same, quite strong and
quite as anmCus, as when that people were lately
asked whether they would allow Russia TO eKtinguish
cur ally in the Esst.
empire just brought to reason in the Old World put q
false construction on the reluctance of the Western
Powers 10 90 TO wer. We have even been ourselves
accused o! fostering her deIuson. IL Is necessary,
therefore 10 guard against that mistake We
perfectly aware more 20, Of the extreme loss,
dfeuliy and risk of such war as class OF Republi-
can zeaots are endeay Orng TO force upon We
aware that should 81 once interrupt the most valu
able portion of our commerce and manufactures ard
that our merchants wo I'D find toe, as well rival,
in every par of the world. We are aware that We
should have to deal with an enemy nheritng all our
elterprise ard daring but not burdened as We are,
BY national debt and bost of incapables, tram
meled by Court aristocracy and the routine, Of
which the Report from the Crimea publish elsewhere
dsclosss such sadly fantastic examples. We DO for
get low quickly the United States raised the armies that
feduo ed Mexico and wrested from her whole provinces
We know that q, 600 900 Of men, of European and
chiefly British blood, are not to be despisod. We
could hardly expect 10 suffer much less damage than
We could nfict Nevertheless, We have not the least
Dc ubt in the world that the British people even with
once tlan submit to national degradation. They
would rather see their manufactures shut up their ma
chin cry rus and their ships rot in port than require
Government to render TO any foreign power a more
humblng apology than the occasion required. The
An orleans must therefore reckon an obstinate
distance II they DIVE to il. Let them count the
cost Def re they take any fatal steps ele after
three years ihey will make the calculation in vain.
TIE British people arr very Glow 10 &c to war, tie.