The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-06-10
ENGLAND LOOKING 70 AMERICA.

Ar IsRArlI. the English Chancellor of the
EIchequer, in great speech recently mado to
tho electors of Buckingharnshire in speaking
OF the warlike relations Of the continental
powers thus alludes to the security which Eng.
land would derive from her relations with this
country:
Il know we'll that If there 10 70 he a war of
n.t'onal'tie: Of opinions. and Of races-a war
OF revolution and construction-we shall
Weather the storm. Cheersl 1t will not tie
England that will suffer. 1t il Europe that
will bo injured; Europe that will lie desolnted:
and the very pot entates whose pride aud am.
bition and lust of conquest are bringing about
this Perious state Of affairs will hnd them
selves at the end in an inferior position to
that which they now occupy
Gentlemen: We hear a great deal Of the
balance of power, Of the Importance of sus.
tanning certain barriers in Europe. and many
other axioms-all which to . certain degree
are true, and whchmay for certain time
prevail: but let me take this opportunity of
lmPressing upon you that the day is coming.
It has not already come, when the question
OF tho balance of power cannot he confined
10 Europe alone. Since the time when that
doctrine obtained great. communities have
risen IN another hemisphere, who will not he
limited to Europe. You have on the other
side OF the Atlantic vigorous and powerful
communities who will no longer submit to your
<'rcumscribed theory of authority. The Aus.
tralan colonies. though now in their youth.
but IN the youth Of giants. have already, as it
We're, thrown their colossal shadow over Eu-
rope; and it is for old Europe lament that
:he 10 exhausting her energies and rssouraee
In these wars. I could wish that she would
rather prepare for that awful competition
which in coming time eho must encounter
wonid rather SEQ Franco and Germany and
Nussls develope their resources, improve their
agriculture, increase their population. and cul-
uvate tie arta of life social and scientific, in.
stead of waiting their stability. and sinking,
when the era to which have referred arrives
by their own misma agement and want oi
prsscience. into m inferior and exhausted po
sition.
Remember always that England. though she
10 bound to Europe by tradition. by affection
by great similarity Of hnbits and all those tie:
which time alone crente and consecrate, il
not = mere Power Of the Old World. Hel
geographical position. her laws, her language
and religion connect her much with the
New World as with the Old: and. although
she has occupied not only an eminent. but, M
bold to say,'the most eminent position among
European nations for ages. still, if ever Europe
by her short.ightedness falls into an inferior
and exhausted state. for England there vii
remain an ilustrous future. Cheer. W.
are bound TO the communities of the New
World, and those great States, which our owl
planting Hnd colonizing energies have created
by ties and by interests which will sustain ou
power. and enable US 10 play as great part il
the times yet to cone we have done in tn
past [cheers] and. therefore, now that Eu
rope is on the eve Of war, say it is for Eu
rope, not for England that my heart sinks"