The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-07-16

FIRST dispatches, called on Lord Clarendon to disayow
and punish the recruiting agents Who in bis name were
violating our laws and whose acts If either authorized on
adopted by him, constituted outrage our national
sovereignty All this was done by the President eOur-
teousy after the recruiting business had gone on for more
than four months after 1t had been udiciay determined
in Philadelphia and New York TO have been done illegal
ly and when the domestic peace Of the country not les
than its national honor had come to demand effective
steps to put end to the grievance. To the AMIGA
bic and courteous applications for redress Lord Caren
don replied in hs dispatches of July September and
November, in terms and In spirit which have been
condemned, in language stronger than we desire now
TO employ, by two Of the most eminent experienced
and responsible statesmen in Great Britain, Earl Gre,
and the Earl OF Derby. Still the United States alb
stained from any hostile demonstrations. Nay the Presi-
dent forbearngly waited from December until May for
Lord Clarendon to afford time to Mr.. CHAMPION and his
official associates in guilt to get up budget Of adavits
and defensive declarations of their own, by oil
which to draw Lord Clarendon into another unwise attempt
to dscred the courts and urcs of the United States
During all this time not single hostile word was NJ
tered, nor the slightest military menace made by the
American government against Great Britain On the
other hand during that Time three if not four military
demonstrations have been commenced by the British COY.
eminent against the United States.
We submit therefore, to Mr. Disrae that the conduct
the President of the United States towards Great Britain
in this whole enlistment business has been direct sincere
and fautess.
Mr. Disrae refers two three times to what called the
Monroe doctrine" We might have much to say on that
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the discrimination see and the candor proclaim in Par
lament that the single and sole Of difference betwet
the two countries is the morbid jealousy which exists
England of the expansive greatness of the United States
He has struck at the very truth Whilst England has OBJ
tanned by conquest other forms of orcble possession
colonial establishments all over the world while she
is mistress, by conquest alone, of vast foreign en-
pires and of nearly hundred millions of foreign
subjects, in Asia, Africa, and America whilst in the
answering pursuit of fixed idea, she steadily
aims to gain possession of every fortabe prohonto
or island the ocean-Heigoand, Gibraltar, Malta
Corfu, in Europe; Alden, Bombay, Ceyon, Singapore
Hong Kong, in Asia; Mauritus Capetown and St He
lena in Africa; Halifax, Bermuda the Bahamas, Jamaica
and the Falkland islands, in America i'm the face of al
this Great Britain is continually unhappy at every sigr
of territorial growth the part of the United States
Accordingly she abored prevent the accession of Texas
to the United States The moment she saw that we were
be the future possessors of California and till then
she up pretensons San Juan de Nicaragua and
Bay islands She undertook four years ago. by
the famous trpartte treaty, to thrust herself betweer
Spain and in the matter of Cuba During the last
three years her foreign agents have lost opportunity
put themselves In way and to obstruct path
the ofensve-as, for instance in the affair
the B9nin islands, the Sandwich islands, AYES island Do
minca and the Galapagos 1t by such acts and by tn
yet unexplained declaration of Lord Clarendon threaten
ing with the conjont dictatorship of England anc
France that unkindness of feeling towards Great Britain
has been produced in the United States.
We honor Mr.. Disrael; we thank him. and every mar
of in England ought to thank him, for the
he has manifested in touching that spot the Eng
sh mind With discernment of the of events
be declares that the United States must and will march
in the road greatness; that have much right t
grow England and that our prosperity doesmore io
the prosperity Of England herself than nythng that sh
herself can do.
The United States have just attained regards Eng
land the greatest diplomatic triumph of modern times
Let her feel Inundated in that having erred she ha
been constrained not by military menace but by the fore
Of truth and Of reason to acknowledge the error She
great enough do this without derogaton. And If thu
result shall be- as ondy hope it WILL to produce il
England q generous and candid perception of on
true relations then the controversy will have resulted il
most incacuabe benefits Great Britain as well as tn
United States