Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-18

In the English papers by the arrival of the
steamers Weser and BOruSSia, We have lengthy
report of n great speech by DIsraeli, on the
war-and especially upon the present and pros
pectivc surroundings of England. Some very
significant passages occur in it touching the
relations between England and the United
States-the two only bulworks of freedom
the worlds hope for constitutional liberty. Mr.
D'Israeli plants himself upon the common des-
tinv of "our Anglo Saxon name and fame
asserting that though the wide waste OF waters
separate us, yet are England and America, by
blood. language and institutions, essentially one.
Mr.. D'Israell calls upon his auditors to
Remember always that England, though she
is bound to Europe by tradition, by affection, by
great similarity of habits, and all those ties
which time alone can create and conseGTate' Is
not a mere P0,cer of tile Oil World. Her geo.
grnDhicaL position, her IGios, her language and
1.eZigion. connect Ter rs much Nth tile Aeo
World as NTH the Old. And although she has
occupied not only an eminent, but, | am bold TO
say, the most eminent position among European
nations for ages, still, iT erer Europe Gy HeF
shortsiqhtcdness, fails into an inferior and er-
hausted state, for EngLrnd there ,oiU remain an
iLLustrious future (Cheers) We are 60un@
to. the communities of the Neto World, anu those
Jreat States l0hich our Olon planting and colon
icing energies hare created, Gy ties ana 6y ~
terests aohich 1clL sustain orr p0ecer md enGdte
us to plan az great a part in the times get TO
come as are do on these days and as ace haze done
in the past (Chcers) And, therefore, now
that Europe is on the eve OF war, say ii is for
Europe not for England, that my heart sinks.
We said that this speech of D'Israeli seemed
to US as very significant. And so it does
There is evident in it both a suspicion and an
apprehension that the humiliation of Austria is
not the only, and scarce the primary object
which France has had in view in going into this
war. The rumor Of an alliance, of that under
standing between Russia and France, has cast
its shadow over Mr.. D'Israeli's mind, and these
words Of his, which we have quoted, are the
sounds of the sentinel on the WALL as well as
in the nature of cavcat to both France and
Russia, as to where England will look for sup
port, should her position and prestige be plotted
against by Continental Europe.
Nor do we beicye that If the worst of Mr..
DIsraeli's, as yet. distant approximations should
be realized, that the appeal Of England to the
the United States would be in vain. We do not
believe so for the reason, in part, that it should
be in vain. Surely it is with England only, of
all the governments in Europe that VIC have
any bonds of sympathy. And are not our sym
pathies with her, bonds indeed? Is she not to
US almost as our States are to one another? Is
she not a frontier break-water away in the East
against the despotsm, the absolutism of State
and Church which have barrcnizcd all the East
crn world besides? Surely she is, and just as
surely we think, may she count not only upon
the passive moral support of the United States,
should her position become critical, but if the
worst comes to the worst, upon her actiGe and
hearty cooperation against contin entail Europe.