The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-23

AASy
or blusterers imagine. We are growing larger
breadth of wheat this year than usual, and
few bales more cotton, on purpose for |
the English. We have few railways |
too ON hand, that will pay from twenty-five to
forty per cent per annum on the investment; and
we want John Bull to try few shares, and few
bonds likewise. We shouldn't mind if he sent
over few of his first rate engineers with few
of those sterling pounds which are increasing in
his great bank-so the returns say-at the rste OF
six or seven hundred thousand pounds week, to
open some of our coal mines. Also, acOpper
mine or two, few silver, and likewise some gold
and lead mines Nor should we object in the
beast if he built few more steamers like the
Great Eastern, and sent them 70 Portland or Nor
folk, or wherever eMe they could SO, and asked
us 10 load them. Having these views in our
mind, we say we do not understand John Bull
when he puts on an air Of dignity, and intimatee
that it rs only hecausete is tig and we are little
out Of pity in sh0~t-thst ne does not knock
us about theelead. This is ca;lds talk, quite un-
worthy of q sensible nation, or sensible press.
Mr. CHAMPIONS dismissal was perfectly right
and proyer-tha. is the sentiment not only Of
tine "noisy rakole,n but of the I" conservative
classes'' of America, almost without exception.
He had violated the laws. He had written in
sultngly of fne government. He had placed
himself in hostile collision with Senators.
ANY of these were sufficient to render him
an unsuitable minister of a friendly power
near this government: the first rendered
his dismissal necessity. Had Mr. Cramp-
ton been Prrssian, or had he been
an American, in France OF Germany, and
acted as he did, no journal would have been
prompter to advocate his dismissal than the
London Times; for no journal has e juster know
ledge of history, or truer recollection Of the
numerous cases in which misehievous ministers
have by their errors and their sptes, caused great
and calamitous wars. Mr.. Champion condemned
this country's laws Mr.. Champion derided and
sneered at this country's government Mr..
Champion grossly belied honorable Senators Mr..
Champion did what in him hay to nurture feel
ing of hostility against this country among the
governing classes in England. And for these
things Mr.. Champion was most righteously dis
mssed-most properly dismissed.
We are not the friends of Mr. Pierce-hr
from it: nor are we given to chaunt the praises
of Mr. Marcy-God help as! But we are bound
to say that both of these gentlemen are at this
time receiving most harsh and unfair treatment
at the hands of the British press. The greatest
fault that can be laid 10 the charge of the Pre-
sident and Secretary is want of nerve and
promptitude, as evinoed in the failure to dismiss
Champion the day after his roguery came toiight.
But it must be borne in mind that the British
were then in the thick Of a war. They were get
ting the worst Of it; or at least people thought
SO and their own jclrnals said so. There they
were numbering up the ground before Sebasto-
pol, and doing no sort Of good for the which
they-government and governed-were sorely
distressed. If at this crisis the President had
dismissed Mr.. Crampton, what would have been
the consequence? The embarrassment of the
British would have been terribly increased and
we should really have seemed to be secretly but
effectively laboririg in the cause Of Russia. In
view of this consideration the President tempo
rized, resolved to wait ; did wait in fact, till all
the British troubles were over, and their great
feet was free to crush us. If we may blame him
for this, the British may not. He may have act
ed weakly towards u.s. but he acted like gentle
man toward them. And it shows their press to
be really in the hands of men Of the class to
which they aseTibe the direction Of onrs when
they wholly overlook this generous and manly
action of the Presidents, and meanly ascribe his
whole conduct to Cincinnati considerations.
Mr.. Pierce mag be very bad President Mr..
Marcy bad Secretary; that is our affair not
that Of England. They are good enough, at all
events, to hold their own against the practiced
statesmen of ENGLAND Lord Clarendon, we ven
ture to say, wiz not risk a second tilt with
old Governor Marcy. Nor are they in any wise
inferior to their English rivals in point of princi
pie. Lord Palmerston is in fact more unprin-
cipled man by far than Mr.. Marcy, and less re-
spectacle in every way he is nearer the calibre
Of Caleb Gushing orsSoule. He does not tell the
truth. He does not care for peace, or prosperity,
or honor. He thinks Of nothing but the glory of
being Prime Minister of England and making
fine speech in the House of Commons, in which
he will avail himself of his age and rank to gross
ly insult and bully better but weaker or more
modest men than himself To gain these ends
he will sacrifice anything from his friends to his
country. With such Ia politician our Cincinnati
schemers need not fear "a comparison.
THEGuNBoAT SYsrEM-AN AMERICAN POLICY.
The possession Of a large number of gunboats,
moved by steam has been deemed powerful
and a 6a90crous accaasian tn tho naval poUar of