Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-06
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ENGLAND UNABLE TO FOLLOW THa CHANGES OF
AMERICAN SENTIMENT.

AAEhk0AN EENIl1GNA'
The Americans accustomed to make their own inter-
ess and feelings the standard Of international law TO
whatever was inconsistent with their claims to
universal dominion In the New World to support a. one
time the claims Of authority at another the indeieaaoe
rights Of existing mfores 70 cite precedeps or dsiy
them as IL suited the cause they favored-sre now al
innocence and full belief in their own CONSISTENCY hoo
pg within six months two opposite theories Of their own
Cops u,ion and expecting Eoglishmeu TO change their
views lust as popular feeling in the States has changed
The doeirne which ne denounced Tor not instantly
and eagerly sccedng to- dates from the s.n OF APrh,
1861 On that day proclamation oil President Lincoln
VA, received at New York, calling out large lorce oil
n,;s m combat the Sccessonists who had just taken
Fort sumter The NoIthsrners, Who t then had been
perfectly apatheuc whose leasing oraIors had treated
disruption as an reyersibe event, aud whose newspa'
had courteouy advocated the seizure oil Canioa 70
make up for the loss Of the Cotton States no. una IN
the prospect of campaign sufficient reason Tor repu'
dating The constitutional theory which had hitherto pre-
vailed That theory had been fully enuncated by Mr.;
and assened TO by the leading statesmen OF
the North, and by more completely thAn py mr..
Seward Who while expressing hope that the seceders
might be coaIed back yet acknowledged that an appear
TO arms was impossible and who even after he becsme
Mr. Lincops Secretary Of State repudisted war policy
on the ground that the subgaton Of reousant force was
abhorrent to American principles and that the last ar
gument of monarches was inspphcabe TO the solution
| OF political difficulties In Republic The Revolutionary
dent of the Uuited States the authority from whom for.
eipn nations are bound take the law on constitutional
| questions relating TO the Union.
We NAV, therefore, 90 even far as to say that II
Great Britain had on the strength OF Mr. buchanan
decision the independence OF South Carolina
Immediately on her secession the act would not have
been ground OF legitimate complaint For nearly four
mon lbs this view of the prevailed, and We IN TINS
country merely followed 10 the wake OF American discus
soa when we specialized the likelihood Of the sontb-
erners coming back of the planters seeing ter foy
ia quarrelng with their customers, agents and bankers
of The attachment 10 the OF American proving too
strong fer sectional interests aud electoneerng pque
and OF the lovers quarrel proving renewal oil love- The
whole grievance OF the Nor:herners against US H. tnat
We think as they thought six weeks before Tho
electric shock which they descrbe themselves as hav-
log fel, when Sumter FELL was unfortunately as in the
case OF Inflated telegraph too weak to be propagaed
| THROUGH the mass of the Atlantic. We have not been
startled by the fate OF tho Federal troops who might
have been killed in that celebrated fortress Hence
the government aud people OF this country have retain
ed or he most part tho opinions which the Americans
themselves held and Taught US up to the lSih OF April
the day before the New York Gremen changed them
selves TO Z,uaves and the Herald forced to recon
slider s principles by the appearance OF mob before
its Office II before that date any English member OF
Psrar emit or any English newspaper had ventured to
suggest that the new President should organizes large
standing army, blockade 5000 miles OF coast and in
wade d,urishing region Al the head Of 10000 men,
what al oubirss Of indignation would have met the
Mschiayelian COUNSEL
How we should hayo been reminded that a republic
rests on the consent Of the governed not like the old
Brsh Empire on tyranny aud taXes that the Southern
States not at Hindosan, to be reconquered in
twelvemonth that the people OF New York and other
seats of commerce not likely to make themselves
catspaws to carry out EDglands Aboitionst schemes
by invading the Planting States and encouraging lazy
niggers 70 rebel against their masers In short, 1t
would have been triumphan!ly demonstrated that our
sympathy for the Federal authority was only affected
With the dooocal purpose Of embroling the two sec
tiops Of the nsrcan psope yet because from sud
den access OF patriotic feeling tie northern populations
are organ zing descent the South We are expected
TO forget all the decency and prudence OF international
intercourse and Join " bounding en- the invadersl-
That the people Of the North should be unable to con-
troll their anger finding that ind p,ndent foreign
Power does not commit itself demonstrations Of hos
tlty against ten millions Of civilized men with whom ii
has no srre and whose rights to Independence though
nov d.iisd we're ssl,,.ed ~ the North itself few
xssss sro shows to vfst pont 0, trliab,ity the
Americans had been brought BY years OF prosperity and
success. s1'i 49,
rne country has chosen its course and Is not likely
TO depart from t. That the Americans should expect us
to be swayed BY any stsoug eengs VI attachment 10
the United States Government argues an extraordinary
forgstfuness of what the conduct OF that Government
has been TO US all occasions While our behavior 70
the people Of the United States has been always copci
atofy, Il ~ no e1aggerauou W say '"a' 'ne" s"'e'u'
has been uniformly hostile and ungenerous beyond any
European precedent eIcsp. perhaps that OF the first
French Empire. In our European disputes our states
men when calIedup IS face hostile tespotsns have
always been haunted by the fear of batipg the Amer
can Government their backs il the paltry quarrel
tbey fixed on Us In the business Of the enlistment or the
tone Of Mr. sessrds spsechss likely 10 TO
ihusasm In Che cause d tie .dverpEent at Washington
Neutrali,y-strict neurility-is al that the United
stes Government claim: and as We maintained neu
tray IN tie Italian War yhen all cur sympahies we're
awakened much more shall We loa.nI.n ysn se lock
on struggle where our Judgment still waits for further
information aud where shall assuredly not rejoice 10
the military scenes OF either party