The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-20

NsbOb of Dude, and STIMULATING to allow him pension Of
100000" What next r asks the organ OF the BRUSH
Premier This pension the East India Company have re-
fused pay and the last representative of Tanghs Khan
and Amengzebe is in England appealing to the justice
Of the British government Unfortunately, he lacks the
OdOy Of sanct and that indispensable requisite for ex
citing British sympathy--a wooly head. We predict
therefore the Nabob will meet little redress either from the
British ministry the British Parliament and that I'M
Gle Tom" will cut him out completely at Exeter Hall
With the policy and of the British government
in the East for the last hundred and fifty years the gov
eminent of the United States presume has not the
slightest intention to interfere. 1t is this continent
alone that they feel it we'll their interest their duty
watch the independence of nations and foster that
infant liberty yet but in its cradle and struggling
against the combined efforts of its nveerate enemies But
without any unwarrantable interference with what does
Immediately affect interests safety, may
be allowed to express opinion. The loyal and ortho-
dox scribes of England continually setting the
ample of taking cognizance of the conduct and affairs OF
the STATES and kingdoms of the East and assuming gen.
eral superintendent the great family of mankind
They have hesitation in bringing nations and their
ers to the bar arragning them denquents before the
grand tribunal of the civilized world and any oppos
ZION 10 the pocy OF pelenslons oi 1fet Dfith III sig
nal for the condemnation of whole people.
The United States especially have in for liberal
share of this censorship They have always been and still
are the obstinate and recaimabe cuprits and the
British Scrbes and Pharisees have been able bring
them to condgn punishment they have at least the
aon Of having ruined their character in the estimation
of their neighbos There is another why
tempted occasionally take the liberty of critcsng the
character and conduct of government and people which
have presumed to set themselves up standard for the
imitation of all the rest of mankind the only nation
whose arms have never been suied, whose faith never
violated and whose foreign and domestic policy present
brilliant example to its contemporaries If it can be shown
they live in glass house they may perhaps cease to
throw stones and who knows whether, in process of
time Brother Jonathan may not be destined among other
great achievements to unmask the successful imposition
and expose the world the wolf in sleeps cothing2
The truth is Great Britain is besotted with vanity
and selfshness Misled by its partial onesided history,
which never acknowledges defeat pleads guilty to
breach faith mpeed bya selfish and exclusive patriot
ISM which never makes the slightest concession to the feel
ngs interests of other States and supremey arrogant
from hayng so long domineered the ocean by its
superiority the British nation, however individually
proud couceited and exclusive Shut up in
their little oggy island and surrounded BY An ocean OF
which she boasts with some degree Of justice Of being
queen and hitherto safe from all INVASION at least IN later
times Great Britain, by her commercial policy which IS
always aiming at extension not monopoly, has for
ages been the common dsurbe of the peace of the world
If she cannot by threats nrgues or intimidation obtain
a market for her haberdashery, she opens 1t with the
sword she bues, busters, and bombards if argument
fails the screw propeller infabe and she has lately
adopted new way Of collecting old debts at the mouth of
the cannon which, almost the whole world is her debtor
will Justify her in the prosecution of universal aggression
Some Macintosh Co. may, for breach of private
tract bring down the vengeance of my Lord Palmerson
on whole people who must pay up, right or wrong, or
his ordshp will certainly put the screws on them and let
loose his valiant peace officers.
The loyal and orthodox British scribes inoessany
railing at the "grasping ambition of Russia and the n-
saate appetite of the great American yut2re Both are
held up the world g. the great almost the only dein-
quents the only powers which covet the possessions of
others And yet were we to compare the territorial nc
QUESTIONS of Russia and the United States within the last
and present centuries with those Of Great Britain
should find the latter far exceeding in wealth and value all
the two others have gained within that period Let us
1AaY enumerae the most important Gibraltar and NAL
IA the two longest fortresses in the world command
inc the entrance the o- the Interior of the Mederra
mean all the French colonies in the Ws5t Indies except
Martinique and Guadalupe and all those in the East eI
cept the island Of Maurius Nor let forget the almost
boundess region Of Canada But this is flea bite
Turning towards Asia and Africa, have the Cape Of
Good Hope one of the most important commercial posi-
In tba and a IN nteror of
Africa Next Singapore commanding Of the most fire.
quened straits leading into the Indian ocean, Aden the
key the great overland route to India and together with
the island of Kara in the Gulf Of Persia which England
has acquired by hook by crook commanding all tie
of the Arabian To pass small matters
have the great island Of Borneo twice the extent Of the
United Kingdom the golden region of Australia and,
last of ALL the empire of the Great Mogu with pop
uaton estimated at hundred and fifty Millions In
addition to these tng acquisitions Of force or usurpa-
ton she has subugated the Afghanstans become the
protector Of the redoubabe Dost Mohammed Of Cabu and
guaranteed him the possession of Hera the buwak of
the kingdom Of Persia And "what next ~ asks the oracle
Of the British Premier after having finished the Nabob
looking round for other prey to gorge his appetite
Itwould seem that government which for than
century past has scarcely been peace and whose
recent history Of succession of perpetual wars Of
aggression in the other quarter Of the globe ought
not to set itself up the of mankind or the con-
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