The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-24
European Correspondence of the Mis-.
sissippian.--No. 6.
England and her Press-The Great Eastern
and The Prince Of Hales-Englistmen-
London.

e FoNrAINEBLEAU, FRANCE, Sept. 9, 1860.
e EDITOR MIssIssIPPIAN Il have just re
: turned from visit to London, and though
4 passed only three Or four days in England,
had time enough to form aeorrcct opinion o
? the character of that people who boast O
, being the cynosure Of political progress, mora
development and human greatness. | ha(
, been in England before, but it has been ;
, long while ago and l was then quite young
and formed no decided estimate of the morals
,, manners, and proclivities of its people
, Yesterday | saw them in all their varieC
: colors, and to-day have returned to France
with no sentiment Of international kindness
and respect for that government which Gov
Brown has SO properly denominated as tht
"JEoo1y old bymser.'' | do not believe that
am bitter and unrelenting in my enmities
personal or political, without just cause; ant
/ feel certain, that | am incapable Of cherish.
ing jealous emotions towards any nation or its
people. l will not attempt to conceal the
fact that the English are a mighty and power
ful nation, and as an evidence Of it, theil
commerce whitens every ocean and sea, and
their banners float upon every continent.
They are fiIibusters in the broadest acceptation
Of that term, and there is no land over which
they can extend their dominion, that lust for
power does not incite them to make the at
tempt either by lawful or unlawful means
They are more predatory and rapacious than
were the Goths and VandalS.
Strict in their construction of the Jus gen.
tium when its enforcement and execution will
prevent the extension of other governments,
they make but mock application Of it to
themselves when their own interests can be
farthered. Professed advocates of mixed
constitution and central government, which
allow a certain modicum of personal liberty to
the subject, they do not hesitate to Cypress
Ireland to an extert which almost finds a
parallel in the enormities which has caused
the overthrow of the Kingdom of Naples
Ireland to-day is only the embodiment of that
misery which she diffuses throught the world
| did her domination cover her desires and am
bilious intentions. England loves England
selfshly, and hates rival nations cordially
Yet she is one of the grand powers of Europe,
and in Importance, is second alone to France.
She has had statesmen of special abilities
and no one will fail to render homage to her
Chatams, her Peales, her Burkes and her
Sheridans. She has her mighty dead in the
line Of literature and science. Milton, Shake
speare, Newton, Hume, Byron and McCauley,
have given their names to her annals and left
behind imperishable monuments of intellectual
glory more enduring than marble or brass.
She has had warriors whose names are his
toric, and whose fame will live forever. With
these clustered glories hanging along the
corridors of her past career, England is to-day
descending in the scale of national power, and
half century will witness her reduced to a
level with such Kingdoms as Spain, Inundated
humbled, stripped of her vigorous members
the shadow Of her former SELF
Her Press is the exponent of that inflated
seliiShness which marks her every act. 1t
processes friendship for the American people
by damning our institutions with faint praise
giving one virtue and half dozen vices. The
ignorance which her writers display in rela-
ton to our politics, to use their own express
sion, is " fearful: - and no murder or fiendish
act which has been committed throughout our
vast republic but finds welcome column in
such prints as the Times and Morning Chron-
icle. To illustrate, will refer to the publi-
cation Of two homicides committed in the
county of Warren some months since, and
which weraApied UerJatim as reported by
the Vicksburg Whig and Sun, with super
abundant editorial jargon by the English
press, as reflex of social life in the South
west. The embitered exaggeration with which
our press too often speaks of our leading
statesmen-articleS purely vituperative and
malignant in tone-are those which are most
frequently reproduced in England as types of
the character Of our politicians.
Take the news column of the Times for
example, and You will find more heinous
crimes summed up in one morning than are
usually committed in any one of the United
States during a whole year. Awful murders,
heart-rending suicides and seductions, innu-
merable divorces and other offenses paraded
before the public each morning, show most
unhealthy state Of morals in Great Britain
yet, in the opinion of their philanthropsts
these are the symbols OF their increasing
social meloration; for they argue, that in
proportion as crime is seen upon the surface Of
society, it is diminished, in the same ratio in
the body polite
The English journals bcstow but little
attention upon questions purely American =
to speak truly, they treat the United States
with contemptous indifference. Occasionally
the acts of Gen. Harney upon the Pacific
coast call forth the confession that Great
Britain permits us to do that which would
cause declaration of war against any other
country. Probably it is the result Of her
past military experience which drives her to
such grateful federation of our conduct in
violating her rights Her press extracts with
much pleasure the notice taken of the Great
Eastern and the Prince of Wales by the
American journals. The former was properly
entitled to paragraph as monstrous steam
ship and something extraordinary in nauti-
cal ways; but the latter should have been
permitted to land in the United States with
H. o;,,;I;t,, 1,-b;ch X avtandad to oil othar
foreigners who come within our limits "a
peaceful sojourn and quiet departure after
he had travelled where he desired. President
Buchanan has set bad precedent-the most
censurable and doubtful act of his life think
by extending to him an invitation to visit
the Capital. lie should have remembered
that the genius and spirit of our existence as
a republic has never recognized any personal
superiority, except it has for its basis merit
and talent. Who is the Prince of Wales that
he should be received with costly oyations in
our country? Has he talents, has he fame
deservedly won in doing good to mankind,
that he should be the recipient Of such honors?
No. With mind scarcely rising to rnedi-
Gritty, he should have received no more con-
sideration at the hands Of the President, than
an ordinary cowboy in one Of our back
woods counties-who projected tour Of
observation to the city'of Washington. 1t is
to be hoped that all such toadyisn will be
rebuked by his successors, and that in the
future, our people will not render themselves
ridiculous by bending the plant hinges of the
knee to royalty; and if they do, that the
President of our Government will not again
give his Official influence to such folly.
We're | asked TO point ont the traits OF
character most conspicuous among English
men, ! would say that they possess more
mendacity, audacity and tenacity than the
rest of mankind. They are happily impu-
dent and egotistical they are unrefned and