Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-07-17

Hated himself upoh this great superiority
|Well the old gentleman commenced = series
Of Ethiopian gymnastics, and danced a gay
pas de deux with Miss Nigritia, and found,
before he had seated his sschattering" part
'ner-that Jonathan (who scorned big fir
~Etation with that aromatic young lady J
had beat him building, lacking and sailing
ships. Poor Mr.. Bull what can he do !
Can be snub his .slowest type Of Humanity
and leave her sweltefing alone in all her
glowing beauty and odorous charms! y,
no! that would kill the Duchess Of Suther-
land, who loves wool better than she loves
the ~..ccltic lrcks''-the am brosial curls OF
her cast out peasantry. 1t might injure
MIR. Roebuck's sensibilities. who 50 naively
said, ..Sure he vas TINT the people Of Eng
land swere DESTROYS Of preserving friendly
relations with the United States, and i
sce wished to put ..down the slave trade 4
aras not ruth a uiec Of '.Anrttng anybody,
but of b~enefting mankind"
All this would sound very we'll, and we
might be gulls enough to swallow it down,
if it were not for the fact that the English
press, the English Parliament. English
Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and laymen,
from the top jewel in the crown to the low
est scavenger of the city sewers, were not
now, and had not been, for thirty years
and more, all engaged, and always engaged,
in slandering, belying and abusing the
slave States Of this Union. Spain has been
spoken Of ard treated as a dotard, France
as a frivolous mountshauk and shallow trle
fer, but the United States, and especially the
slaves States Of the Union, have been the
shining mark at which British malevo-
lence has winged it's sharpest and its most
poisoned shafts. And wherefore? The
Southern States have a race Of men sensible,
fearless and energetic. They have a mass
Of field labor, the best on earth and they
furnish the material that has built up
Northern cotton factories, and built up for
this Union a commercial marine greater
than that Of England. These States are
progressing in intelligence, in wealth, il
production, in power, and would, II the
government of the United States would cut
loose from the anti-slavery policy Of ~
land, IN q few years, spread over the trar-
ical climates Of Genital America, and Lar.
up a naval power, and industrial products
at the North, that would oyer-shadow the
world, and dwarf England far beyond Eng
lands utmost fears, and God knows they
are not small. What has all this late hub
bub been about? Has anybody stopped to
think? Why should England, alone Of all
nations, feel 50 deep an interest i'll the sssable
clattering sons Of Africa z" Why should
she run such a muck to protect the slowest
types Of humanity p IF any man would
solve the enigma, ard lay patent the secret
springs Of E~ngland's prurient benevolence,
let him read the history Of England. The
same policy that the Cecils inaugurated
against Spain las ever been the policy Of
England.-When a nation is prosperous
and her rival, she goes deliberately to work,
and if she cannot break them down by open
aggression, she sets her guileful traps in
secret. When the Cecils wrote the most
cordial letters to Spain, the same courier
carried supplies to Holland to aid in the
destruction Of the Duke Of A,a and the
Spanish armies. The same courier that
carried the frankest assurance to France
also carried letters Of encouragement to
those who had rebelled against the King Of
France.
That same tulicy is this day followed
against the United States. While a British
ministry is cajoling a cabinet at Washing
ten, a British Queen IS feasting a poor
misguided woman who is warning upon the
peace and lying against the fair fame ofthe
United States.
An Arbuthnot and Ambffster are sent
to stir up the Savage Greek Indians against
our women and children to prevent the ac-
QUESTION Of Florida by the United States
A King Of Museuito IS ssrigged ont" to
stop us in u passage to California !; and
now Cuba is patrolled, right in the path Of
our coasting trade. For what? Under the
shallow pretence of protecting the ''lowest
types Of humanity from slavery. Well, a
man that can not read English policy il
English acts is far too great a fool to be
trusted with the conduct Of public affairs.
We will never have any quiet, in this
country, from English aggression, until we
cut loose from all alliance with England,
and adopt absolutely the s'nolo me tangere''
policy toward her
We had better loose twenty-five per cent
Of all our trade by pirates, than to tolerate
in any form, or in any degree, English med
ding by visit or search with any ships that
bear the stars and stripes. We are fully
able to Increase our navy and watch over
our own flag. Where does England get
her charter as policeman of the world? It
is a bold, reckless, and unprincipled usur-
patioas. Tt grew ost Of her sel6shness and
out Of her power. She is jealous Of and
hates every nation that rivals her and threat
ems her supremacy On the sea.
Let orr Government abrogate the treaty
that stipulates for rs to play second fiddle
to Britain in guarding Africa till England
can s'grab it ard all the lowest types Of hui
manity." She nov has the Cape of Good
! Hope, and has wrestedf e7ery plaee from
Portugal and Spain, that she thought worth
having, all along the west coast Of Africa,
and serp ent-like has been shining her prey
to swallow it for fifty years and more.
We had better increase our navy, and
invite her war ships to Keep out of the Gull
Of Mexico in any great numbers, and il
they will not do it peaceably compel hel
forcibly.
The interest Of the ~slaveholding States
J reauire this policy no less than the non
slaveholding. What need has England O
a strong navy in the Gulf Of Mexico? NJ
| more need for it than we have for a strong
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