New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-22
VOLUME XII.
Ne@ Orleans @ailp Gresttnt,
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER e. 1850.
SAN JUAN ISLAND AFFAIR IN Eng
LAND.


SAN JUAN ISLAND AFFAIR IN ENG
LAND.
If the tone of the press be an indication of the
predominant popular feeling in England then the
whole country must be rampant to ayenge the in
suit to its sovereignty perpetratcd by General
Harney. In any event, however, can retort
upon our English cousins, and support with prin,n
facie evidence the accusation of Incorporate pre-
cipitation, venom and rabidity, which they are SO
fond Of laying to the charge Of the American press.
One would think, from reading the articles Of the
London Star, the London Sun and other luminarics,
that the hair of the British lion was bristng all
over, and that he already couched for a fatal
spring upon this unfortunate America, which has
had the stupidity and temerity to offend his ma
jesty, and that we are to be annihated forth
with, without opportunity to repent of our i'll
doing.
The Star says, A." 1t would seem that the cabinet
of Mr. Buchanan is ready to endorse the offensive
blister of that portion of the American press which
delights in hurting defiance to England, and to go
the whole length of sustaining the unjustiable act
of General Harncy in sezing the island by force"
This we record as being creditable to Old Buck,
and we desire to "giye the''- well, in short, to
give everybody his due; and if we cannot find any
thing complimentary to the Federal Executive in
his own country, we must cen cross the ocean for
it, The Star proceeds to :" hnrl defiance" at
Brother Jonathan, in order, we presume, to "tote
fair" and keep up the English end of the ra-or
rather, railing" ~-
The London Sun, Of the first of November, full
inmates that the seizure Of San Juan is infrac-
ton of international law. tits, beyond this, vio-
aton of the rules of honor 1t is a fragrant act OF
robbery and yiolence-an act justiable upon no
plea whatsoever. Even the more rational among
the Americans themselves are beginning to rccog-
nize the monstrous injustice and insolence of the
whole proceeding. Gen Harney's own officers are
! among the number of those who reprehend the
outrage upon the preparation of which he adven-
turcd in the name and on the behalf of the United
States Government This would seem to be sal t.
peterish enough to satisfy the most patrioticaly in
dgnant of pothouse politicians their 90 'alf and
'af,' but the ireeating Sun must go further, and
cndeavor to spur the lion to q wrathful demonstra.
ton with such fcrocious remarks these: Tho
craven federation of buccaneering crime like the
seizure of San Juan would imply before the whole
| world an abasement Of the national character. II
| would be as pernicious, almost We had said as
| fatal, to influence among the powers of the
earth as in Mr.. Burke's estimation, when the
| Royal Guards unresentng view of the insults
offered to the fair Queen, Marie Antoinette, implied
| the extinction among them Of the loftier impulses
Of chvalry." This, certainly, can only be inter
pretcd as fighting talk ! but the Sun, indignant
and refusing to be comforted, proceeds to further
stir up the lion in this exasperating strain:
Let us but yield quietly possession of San Jual
to the Americans and allow them to fortify it scen
tificaly, and we may Just well, with goot
| grace, make the United States forthwith presen
| of our grand new colony of British Columbia. /
is simply absurd to dream for an instant of any
British Ministry tolerating the perpetraton will
| impunity, of outrages SO monstrous in themselves
and so directly calculated to lower the prestige O
England and to degrade her in the estimation o
the world. Our submission to the seizure of
little island like that of San Juan, an island in re
gard to which we have so long made claims o
direct sovereignty, would be worse in one respcc
than the loss of pitched battle" etc. We con,
mend this style and tone to bloodand. thunder jour
nalists on this side of the world pattern to
by when they get on their fayorite hobby cham
pons of the American eagle, and if they can bacl
that bird as valiantly the British scribbler doe
his national beast, they are adopts in the bushes
of bombast.
We shall see if England, by the wise conservat
ism Of her policy in this matter, does not sham
these vaporing fire-eaters and blow away tn
almost imperccptible "speck of war; not as farg
as a mans hand which they are striving to swell
into storm of war.