The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-07
Pom the Philadelphia INQUIRER,
THE BRITISH PRESS ON AMERICAN AFFAIRs-A
BETTER FEELING.


THE BRITISH PRESS ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS-A
BETTER FEELING.
There classes Of journals published Great Britain
One represents the artocray and the monsrchcs sys-
TEN the other the Of the people and liberal sent-
ments generally The former see nothing but evil and
danger in the republican doctrine and hence every oppor-
uuy is seized upon with the object Of undertaking and
decryng the institutions OF the United States while the
latter may be regarded generous fair frank and mag
unanimous Thus the London Times and the London
Morning Post constantly finding fault with the Ameri-
temper and American affairs and seeking quarrel
frivolous and preposerous grounds But not the Lon
don Athenaum and several journals and periodicals Of
like character The Athenaum, for example, which
TO hand by the last steamer contains article 1.-THE
Central American Question" in which the idea Of
with the United States is deprecated and denounced Wit
the following passage:
"The idea Of such is incredible II there be in
the catalogue OF mortal calamites than civil war
IL Is such conflict might arise between America and
England civil has generally basis In reason.
Some grand principle stake The sword is drawn in
defence Of eedomin defence Of propeyin defence of
religion As in civil war, certain degree Of ro-
NANCE OF chvary, and of intellectual activity often
springs from the conflict and aoursbes after its closetbe
blossom and fruit OF splendid and deadly contest But
against America would have single redeemng
point There is noand there ought TO beany real
ground Of quarrel with the United States The interests
Of the countries identical Their moral principles
the same They have neither Language to separate
veins Of their people They have history-a
literature tradition They possess the
Bible They read the Shakespeare and the Mil
ton Blake conquered and Cromwell ruled for both They
have equal interest in Raleigh in Vsne and in Penn
Nay, their present state is nseparable their past
They still live by the light OF the old Saxon laws
They still drink the Intellectual fountains regard
less whether the springs lie the shores
of the Atlantic. Irving Bryant Bancroft Hawthorne
Longfelow are admired with affection in Eng
land as are Thackeray, Tennyson Dickens Jerrod and
hacauiay IN America war between America and Eng
land would be Of brothers, OF friend agains,
Trend IL would be against the afintes Of
against the unity OF religion against the inerchangcs OF
trade IL would be war in favor of bsrbarsm piracy
strcton against the bounties Of Nature the enter
prses OF genius and advances Of civilization Such war
would bring sorrow In every Anglo-Saxon home In Eu-
rope and America and feeling Of shame and humation
into every ApgoSaxon heart in whatever quarter OF the
globe II beats Such would close the Gospel Tor
nearly halt the Christian world II
We cordially respond to the foregoing few articles
Ia similar spirit would be productive Of immense good
We have eontended from the first that the rsortr Of both
countries the thoughtful cearheeded and
masses utterly opposed to war; except under the
sernest necessity and after every honorable effort Of d.
plomscy had been exhausted. Such is st our opinion
and the language we have quoted from the Athen.um
may doubt be regarded expressing the sentiments Of
the great majority fhe people Of Great Britain Undersuch
circumstances the Of the two Is plain
It ia avoid all unnecessary pickering and to adopt the
best calculated settle the points at issue and
speedily possible els asks the Athenaum, amy prin-
aple involved1 Are liberties thrcstcnedf Is our
property unsafe ~
''Not says the editor In the least degree Only three