New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-04
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1t il perfectly clear case that, in the aggregate
the American people experience neither envy nor
jealousy in view of the vast strides that two or three
nations are making in the world toward power aud
dominion. We care not to what limit Russia may eX-
tend her eonquests in Northern Asia, or in Southern
Europe; France may. with our good wishes annex
as much territory as she pleases of the wilds and
deserts Of Africa England shall not offend us even
by continuing to push her conquests until the sun
never sets upon her dominions, We are glad to see
civilization predominant over barbarism in every
quarter Of the world and it seems very strange that
nations much older than ours supposed to be much
farther advanced in,the aesthetics Of humanity than
ours should entertain the most frivolous and neon-
sstent preiudices against u.s. simply because Of our
traditional prowess, our rapidly increasing proper
lions as power in the earth and our supposed ini
tentions upon the territories of neighboring States
Yet it is so. The leading papers Of England con-
tinually denounce us as quarrelsome and lmpfaetl-
cable people, who care little for the rights Of others
when they conflict with our own interests, and VINO
are ever ready to get up quares abroad 70 neal our
own differences at home.
The press Of France is quite as ready 70 attack us
when opportunity offers We read, day or TWO
since an editorial article in the Paris Constitutional
in which the Paraguay expedition was made basis
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for The opinion that the American Government had
entered upon grand scheme of propagandism and
flibustersm in South America, and that 1.-THE ex
pedition-was intended to bully the South American
Governments to make practical application Of the
Monroe doctrine, and to take in fact, the first step
f the annexations Of Texas and California count for
nothing) toward establishing oursway over the whole
Western Hemisphere. Motives Of policy might pre-.
vent our Government from pleading guilty to an ac-
cusation Of that sort but in whatever shape it might
come, the frank and fearless nature of our people
will lead them to prompt and unreserved confession
Of that ultimate object.
That indifference to the progress of foreign powers
which prevails among the American people, prevails
also among the great mass Of the English people in
deed, we may say that with the great mass of the
English people indifference to question that does
not directly concern them is the indifference of stod
| ignorance. But the actual difference between the
two countries in this respect is between their thinking
men-ther writers and statesmen The people Of
America care very little what Great Britain may do
or what conquests she may achieve in the Eastern
Hemisphere so long she does not send her fleets tc
| the Western. 1t is so with our thinking men, oul
statesmen But it is not so with English writers and
\ English statesmen. There is nothing Of American
character they do not affect contempt for and nothing
Of American ambition and progress they do not feal
and detest. As sample of this spirit, read the fol
lowing extract from an article in a recent number Of
the Edinburgh Review
All the world recognizes the internal uneasines'
which makes every American Cabinet and Congress;
aualresome and rude, and dependent thus on the for
bearance and good manners Of other governments. Il
is abundantly evident that the Washington Govern
ment picks quarres abroad in proportion to its stress
at home; and the stress at home is always from the
slavery question in one form or another, Again, the
pickering character Of American political intercourse
deeply implicated with consciousness OF incapaci
ty for war, for genuine sustained warfare.
The Review is certainly right in surprising that
American cabinets are apt to prefer Quarre abroad
to "internal uneasness' at home but as to "a con
seriousness of incapacity for war; there has beer
nothing in our experience with England to incucate
1 IT, On two occasions we had genuine, sustained
warfare" with that power, and both she found o1i
capacities Of warfare and endurance quite all she
could manage and much more than she had bargatnet
for Her newspaper and review writers often indulge
in remarks like those in the paragraph above and nj
doubt they in some measure represent the sentiments
of enlightened Englishmen toward US.