The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-27

America and EngIand-The Change In the
Policy OF their statesmen.
1t is cheering evidence Of the triumph ovel
policies and politicians which the instincts OF the
people are Obtaining in this country and in Eag
land, that the English press, and particularly
| those papers which are the recognized exponents
| of the opinions of men of mark in London, ha;
assumed tone of Cancellation and respect TO-
wards this country seemingly far more hearty
and sincere than has ever before been witnessed
in British journalism. With the exception of the
London Times, which has always been marked fol
it's independence of men and measures, every
other leading journal in London is looked upon
as the organ of some one statesman or of some
political clique.
In its independence of everything except the
ruling popular sentiment, the Times has, from the
moment that the result of our Presidential election
became known, thrown overheard many of its old
crotchets in respect to our country and its
progress, and assumed a tone of friendli-
ness that stood in marked contrast with
that of some of its compeers. But the
politicians and their organs are rapidly follow
ing the lead of the Times, and even the Poa-the
admitted organ of Lord Palmerston, and the last
that would have been suspected of any cOquet-
ting with the cotton power in England and Ame-
rica-is beginning to see things with clearer
vision, and to give utteranve to sentiments that
for many years have been foreign to its columns.
The truth is, that the old and cherished theories
of foreign policy in England are fast giving way
to the pressure of public interests and public
opinion.
Some wiseacres who are always looking for
truth in the owl-like vacuity of "the best inform
ed Circles pretend to find reasons for this
change in change of political relations between
England and the Continent, and q provision on
the part of the former of some coming necessity
for support from the United States in possible
conflict with the despotisms OF Continental
Europe. This is all bosh for though the
English nation, like every other wise people,
desires the moral support of other enlight-
ened communities, this desire never has
been and never will be made the rule of action
with any Saxon people. The history Of that race
in Europe, America, Africa, India, and Australia,
las exhibited, and still exhibits, in its devclope-
ment, a love of the practical, and an adhesion TO
its dictates, that has overpowered all other cons
deiations. Whenever any branch of the Saxon
race has been led by o mistaken enthusiasm to
put in practice any erroneous theory, the pro-
gressive mass Of the nation has quietly turned
aside from the error in its march, and left the
theorists alone in their defeat.
1t is precisely this that is happening at the
that the progress Of the United States was inimt
cal TO the prosperity of England, and their policy
was 20 shaped as 10 meet and oppose our own in
every possible way. But the people of both
countries, with their practical instincts have gone
on developing the true theory Of International
welfare; and the great majority Of Americans and
English having come to recognise the truth that
the progress Of each is contributive to the pros
perity of the other, the politicians have given
way, and the old English school, with Lord Pal
merston at their head, are taking new position
in accordance with the spirit Of the times.
They have already come TO recognize the great
truth that what the world demands of the negro
race is the culture of cotton, which the Ameri-
can branch of the Saxon race Is practically car
rying out. They have got to recognize other
great truths in relation to this country which we
have no doubt they viii soon do The tide of
trade and travel between our Atlantic and Pac-
fc coasts h forced to seek transit across the 18TH
mus of America. There we find a degenerate
mongrel race, whose incspacity for government,
and internecine wars, render life and property n-
secure. Our people, obeying the Saxon impulse
of practical utility, must aud will carry peace
and social order to those regions; and though the
white neckcloths Of both countries may howl,
and call IL rapacity and murder the practical in
stinct must be obeyed. II has ever been found
that the Saxon, whether rallying under the stars
and stripes or the cross of St. George, has borne
for his motto, the greatest good of the greatest
number" Exeter Hall and the Tabernacle COM
bined are powerless TO resist this unitarian
spirit.
There is another truth that lies deep In the
practical impulses OF the American people. The
admission Of Cuba into the Union Is not sought
from greed, or purely from desire to extend
territorial sway. The elevation of the people of
that island to the right Of selfgovernment, and
their admission as q sovereign State into the
Union, brings no profit to king or kaiser, as an
extension Of territorial limits might do under the
systems Of Continental Europe. The
advent of Cuba to our political system is an i'm
pulse n the American heart, because it's practical
Instincts tell Il that such is necessary ss mea-
ure Of defence, that IL is purpose of practical
Utility TO both parties, and would be consonant
With the greatest good of the whole civilized
world. Every American Statesman for the past
orty years has recognized these facts and they are
ntwined In the popular heart The only resson
bat its consummston has not been long sincI ]