East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-19
The English Omcers Ina the Ameri-
can Revolution.

can Revolution.
THEiR CONDUCT AS VIEWED IN ENG
LAND. = Frank Moore's ''Diary of tn,
American Revolution" is attracting con
siderable attention in England. The Sat
urday Review gives to the work an ap
preciative article which is particularly
noticeable as showing the present feeling
in England in regard to the period and
sense of the American revolution. As
the generation directly interested in tina,
contest has passed away, and there are nc
direct personal feelings involved, the true
merits OF the case are more fairly viewed
Washington is at this day nearly a.
highly reverenced in Englandas in Ameri.
ca, and there will be found very few Eng.
hshmen who condemn the course taken
by the American colonies In the arti.
Gle IN the Review the reviewer says:
"The feeling with which most English
men will rise from the perusal of this
"Diary" will be one OF sorrowful but pro-
found contempt for the government under
which their ancestors hourished in the
good old days. Nobody except perhaps
but eon actors who make thoroughly
despicable figure are the English minis
ters AMI their iavorite generals. 1t was
not that they committed here aud there
an isolated mistake-the demon of plum.
dering possessed them from the very first
measure to the very last of the twenty
years struggle. Without subscribing to
all the imputations of tyranny in which
the Americans vented the discomfort that
had been accumulating for many years,
no one doubts that the taxation of SO
powerful a colony was as mere matter
OF statecrait, mistake. If not crime,
it was certainly blunder. The military
operations, too, of the war Oh the English
side, are sufficiently infamous.
"No commander, probably. throughout
the whole course OF the warlike history
Of England has surpassed Howe and
Clinton IN ineiiiciency, with the single
exception OF General Whitelocke, whose
sinister fame is linked to the same fatal
soil. But these errors hardly equa!ed the
folly or the policy which was pursued be-
tween the first outbreak of discomfort
and the time when the armed conflict was
commenced in earnest. 1t was not the
policy of statesmen, but policy which a
spiteiu woman purSues to obtain house
hold victory. The English government
would not yield, and they either could
not or would not take the steps necessary
to conquer; and SO they adopted middle
course, which conveniently combined the
expenses of the one with the humiliation
of the other. They did nothing to en-
force obedience, but they did everything
to tease, to irridte, to exasperate. The
shutting up of the port Of Boston was not
likely to COW the resistance or allay the
resentment of high spirited people
The closing of the fisheries Of Newlound-
land to American enterprise had the eff
feet of depriving numbers of their bread,
and making it their interest to dare the
utmost for the overthrow OF the power
that was running them; but it did not de-
prive the rebels of single resource, or
win back to loyalty single wavering
heart The campaigns OF many of the
English commanders were carried on in
the same spirit. They made war on
peaceful industry, on defenseless CONNER
cial towns, on public buildings, on every
thing but armed men. They undertook
scarcely any military enterprises, and gem
orally contented themselves with sitting
down in some seaport town until they were
driven out of of it; but to make amends,
they destroyed every sort of property
they could reach without fighting bat
tie. Even before the Declaration Of In.
dependence had been made, they went
on the principle that whatever was loss
to America was gain to England; and,
consequently, they conducted war on a
system even more barbarous than is com.
monty adopted in contending with an
alien nation. Having command of the
sea, they bombarded and burnt petty sea
port towns, which could not have been
troublesome if they had wished. They
forged imitation Congress notes and cir
culated them by thousands, in order to
depreciate the American currency. And
General Gage even went SO far as to
transport to this country all the title
deeds on which the Now York proprie.
tors depended for the possession of their
estates--though, happily for our credit,
his proceedings were not supported by
the authorities at home. The tales OF
plumber, of cruelty, and Of maltreatment
oil prisoners with which the American
papers, and even the Congress reports,
are rife, it is, of course, impossible to
test. But their complaints are pitched
in tone, and repeated with persever-
ance, to which Davoust's campaigns in
Northern Germany furnish the nearest
parallel. Throughout this disgraceful
war, the maximum of mischief with the
minimum of risk appears to have been
the object of the English soldiery."
TIE NOMINATION. = And now, Mr..