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| Nevertheless although We doubt their sincerity and
strongly suspect they only singing ullabies TO their
Juvenile transatlantic cousins rather pleased than
otherwise seeing the altered tone Of the Times and
other London journals exhibited by the late arrivals
and are ready 10 meet il In corresponding spirit
Whether il be owing TO sincere desire TO cultivate
friendly relations with the United States TO certain
dawnng Indications that Great Britain may ere long be
left IN Of isolation dragged into the continental
system where, instead Of leading power she will be COM
Paratively cipher will not pretend TO say. Bot
whatever may be the motive cannot but think las
have than intimately that the position Of Great
Britain is becoming somewhat critical If appears 10
be than probable there understanding between
Austria Russia Prussia and France and that the nego-
atons for peace established that basis it would
seem that Great Britain either aceede the terms
agreed upon by the four great continental powers by
refusing place herself in anagonistcal position TO them
all The AngloFrench alliance win then be necessarily
dissolved and Great Britain before ntimated, be
petey isolated except far her wealth may enable her
substitute the minor powers of Europe As one of her
old dramatstS long ago said:
She cheats the neighboring princes of their trade
And then she buys their subjects for her soldiers"
1t may possibly be owing to perception or an appre-
henson of such crisis that the altered tone of the Times
and other leading British journals is TO be ascribed But
from whatever it may arise apprehend the UNI
ted States will require something than words to
vince them of the sincerity Of these professions II is not
enough speak of questions deeply Involving the honor
interests and safety of the United States triva mat
tosthugs of too little consequence leopard the peace
of two great nations
If las these journals profess) the Mosquito pro-
tectorae the occupation of the Belize and the Island OF
Ruaan and the creeping encroachmens of Great Britain
in other parts of Central America such trivial mat
. if the possession of these usurpaons or such they
are Of little consequence to her. why does she not at
renqush them in conformity with the obvious con-
sructon of the ClaytonBulwer treaty Why does Lord
Pamerston persist in of policy not only in Cen
trail America but everywhere else hostile and injurious
to the United States if England anxious TO preserve
friendly relations with them The United States has not
been the aggressos in the misunderstanding between the
two countries They have not put construction on a
treaty which will enable them to encroach the territory
of deenceess States least retain possession of pre-
vious encroachments nor have they fatty refused
the Times has been done by the British
make the anende honorable for deliberately organized
violation of the sovereignty and laws of Great Britain,
authorized by that government and superintendent by its
i
interruption of the friendly relations between the two
tries originating in these causes If Great Britain is
powerful to be frightened coerced into PREPARATION for
wrongs, she afford to be magnanimous, and make
voluntary abandonment or II sha ia too proud to
apologize for offence she should be only the
full in avoiding it Neither apology atonement be-
meath the dignity of any nation when it has committed
wrong or inflicted an insult does a acknowL
edgment of error amount to reparation.
TIE professions of the Times and other leading British
journals which have referred will not therefore
spprehend be altogether satisfactory the people of
the United States unless followed up by substantial
demonstrations They are not to put sleep by
full ullabies they be smoothed down. when once
rued by little sroking When the conditions Of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty complied with when the pro-
ectorate of the Mosquitoes is renqushed the Island
Ruan evacuated the Belize occupied for the sole purpose
TO which 1t restricted by the treaties of 1893 and
1856 with Spain and the British minister disposed Of in
satisfactory manner when this is done, If the United
States refuse to shake hands cordially with Great Britain
the Times and its contemporaries may then and not till
then, say with some truth "the quarrel will come from
side for there nothing the people of England more
earnestly desire than preserve cordial good under
standing with the United States Let US see some proofs
Of this in the action Of their government Till then we
shall content ourselves with responding to these profess
sions with at least much sincerity h0y made.
Though the United States young nation they have
passed through series OF vicsudes that has conferred
them the ssgacy and experience OF age In this they
have the advantage Of old Contemporary nations With all
the energy aud activity Of YOUTH they have of the
characteristics of superannuated debility They not
smothered under the rubbish Of past ages they have sue
cceded the inheritance of their without any Of
lie membranes they have become the resduary egatee
Of European learning science arts and civilization with
that corresponding nertness and ermnacy which has
accompanied their iumphs and instead of prying
into the occult mysteries Of Nature occupied in ex
poring her boundIess empire subecng 1t to their sway
and rendering II tributary the greatest happiness Of the
greatest number they active, shrewd sagacous and
rejecting, and their minds active their bodies
They have uuoccuped world before them and there ia
scarcely among them who does not feel innate
consciousness that In becoming instrument Of the
panson Of his country, he Is fulfilling his destiny.
Heretofore this people have had their energies presed
NAL habit Of bowling to the supremacy Of the mother
try They grew up unconscious Of their growing vgor
and it not until the late with Great Britain that
they awoke from their dream Of European rather British
superiority 1t then they learned their capacity to
cope with that power which had hitherto been their great
bugbear, by and by land. The veil was Withdrawn
from the past and the future disclosed las the Times would