The true Democrat., 1856-06-03
Our Relations with England.

as indicative of the change of feeling in Eng land towards the United States The London Times is the leading paper in England. But a short time since its columns were filled with the most scurrilous abuse of America Find ing, however, that our government could neither be bulled nor cheated out of its rights it has modified its tone We do not imagine there will be any war between England and the United States. It will be seen from the article below that the English people have too lively sense of the calamties of such a war ever willingly to embark in it:
 From the London Times April le. EFFECT OF MR. DALLAS SPEECH AT THE LONDON
 BANQUET.
 There seems to prevail between England and the United States some great misconception of each others feelings. It cannot be doubted 1 that when America is spoken of with bitterness in England 1t is always on the ground of an al- legged animosity which its citizens display to- wards us. "See the conduct of these Amcri- . cans! "-such is the usual language" With out provocation on our part, and from mere impulse of i'll will, they are raising quarrel . with us at the moment when all our forces are supposed to be employed or other objects"
 On the other hand, if we turn to American newspapers and magazines, or the report of American speeches, we hear but one complaint i that England is ever scheming against the 1 prosperity and progress of the new world; that i in English society no man has good word for all American; that all feelings of common or- { gin, history, language are forgotten on this side ot the Atlantic, under the influence of ground ! 1,c, l,,.> lishman who did not declare with all sincerity ! that he wished for nothing more than the hap | plness and improvement of the States, while | every one of our country who crosses the ocean confesses that kindness a hearty welcome, and | full appreciation of his country's merits have met him on all sides from the people whom he l had always suspected aud who are always sus- pectlng us
 The speech of Mir. Dallas the new American Minister relterates sentiments which have been expressed by every representative which Amerlca has ot late years sent to this country. | It has often been the case that before the arri val of a new Minister from Washington we have received warnings of his temper and sen- tments. Such man is said to have always | been unfriendly to England, to have been notorious for his war speeches, to have de- nounced British policy as essentially hostile to his own country. Yet it must be confessed that the language of all, on arriving in these kingdoms, has been much the same. h words which go far beyond the usual commonplaccS of diplomacy, each successive Minister, whether Whig or democrat, has declared his conviction that peace and good will between the two na- tions are necessary to the happiness of the i world It has been stated broadly that no real 1 grounds of enmty exist, and that any politician .h.No out of so many and such close relations of race. religion, and language, is unworthy to govern or even to be tolerated by his countrymen- Mir. Dallas has come to this country at a time | when subjects of much supposed importance are debated between the two nations The | government which sends him conceives itself to have cause of complaint against our own ad- miniStrators. The honor of America is said to have been touched by military enlistment on its soil, which if not illegal, is at any rate un- courteous and unjustiable. A still greater wrong is declared to have been suffered by the States through our unjust interpretation of doubtful treaty. CarelessneSs of American good fame, plot against American development, almost an invasion of American territory are laid to our charge. Yet, no sooner is the SUD- posed representative of these opinions among us than he repudiates all angry passions, and 1 utters words which might beft the intercourse of two nations whose amity no dispute had ever rutlled. Mr. Dallas speaks of the welcome he | has received, and of the kindness with which | his own country has been always named. If any American ever lands on these shores with different anticipation, he is likely to be dis appointed, and to express, even after d weeks residence, the acknow gments uttered on Thursday at the Mansion House The Minis ter further says that he is not authorized to feel, nor does he feel, any desire than that of giving his exertons and energies unreservedly to the restoration of the most harmonious sen- timeuts and friendly relations" He congratu- lates this country on the termination of the Russian war, but declares his opinion that its energies however gallantly enlisted and direct ed, will find more fruitful employment in the cultivation of those arts of peace which have already so signaly illustrated the history of our people.
 The practcle question now remains to be an- swered. If the two countries have no just grounds fquarfel; if the prosperity of each is bound up with that of the other; if, as Mr. Dal- las says, no one in the United States wishes for war, why Is there continuance of these threats and recrimnation? It cannot seriously be supposed that England has any desire to stain continent and every ocean with blood Ill order to retain possession of protectorate over red Indian chief who rules tract of swamp and forest in pestiential climate which IS the terror of every European. Nor can any sensible man conceive that the precise point Tn the enlistment question which still re- mains unsettled is matter of interest to the people in this country, or that they even un- derstand what it is. Every one knows tha. the English people only wish to be rid honor ably of these paltry disputes. It is indeed, quite possible that even the Musquito question and the recruiting office question might breed war of which the generation which began it might not see the end; for the history of the world is full of such folies; and when there is a wish to fall out the subject matter Is rather the occasion than the cause. But every one tells us-and we doubt not with sincerity-that on neither side of the Atlantic is there any such embittered feeling. eff there be war;" says MT. Dallas, "it must be in spite of uniform, steady, persevering, frank and honorable con- ciliation" on the part of America If so, then it is clear enough there will be no war at all. These questions might be settled in few hours by two men of sense, determined to come to an amicable conclusion. We want nothing, and the Americans, If the truth be told, have need of as little. If even there were solid advan- tages in dispute, 1t Is certain that war would not obtain them for either people. Few per sons have, we think, considered what contest between the Anglo-Saxons of the old and new world would be like. Probably no war of which the memory has reached us would be so wide in its operations, so lasting in its dura- ton and SO disastrous in its results. The sails 'of the two nations whiten every sea; their tra- ders are to be found wherever there is har-
 bor or navigable river on the globe. Thu
 whole of this vast commerce would be, if not destroyed, at least imperlled, disordered and diminished. It would be essentially a war of piracy and of pillage We should probably