Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-24
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ward Bulwer Lytton to a portion OF the
Rri,isb public. We ask attention to it as
a snecimen of the English sentiment of
hostility to us, upon which we haye recent
" been commenting good deal. Sir Ed
ward may be taken as genuine represent
alive of the British aristocracy. He GER
tainly is one of the most distinguished OF
them. both by birth and talent, and he has
held high places of trust and POSITION
mot the least of which was his diplomatic
relation to this country. Our readers will
see what uuderlies his views of the Amer
ican question. Empire haunts him. The
magnificent and unparalleled growth of the
Union confronts him. He points it out
ns n huge and rapidly overshadowing pow
er that threatens the monarchies OF Eu-
rope. He says, that if we had gone on
united, we "would have hung over Europe
like gathering and destructive thunder
cloud" And he says further, that mo
single kingdom in Europe could have been
strong enough to maintain itself against
nation that had once consolidated the gil
gantic resources of quarter of the globe"
1t is easy to see from this what the
rising intention of Great Britain is She
intends that, so far as in her lies, she will
toment the discord in this country. Her
great desire is to see separation-to see
us reduced from our great first class posi-
ton, and made lower in the scale of ma
lions than herself. She wants to lead the
world in commerce and commercial power
in time to come, as she has done in times
past. She sees in America divided, rich
fields for her aggrandizement. She sees in
divided and hostile sections, great free
trade avenues of wealth to her. She will
make the North and the South antagonis-
tic to each other for her own purposes
She will reduce them both to agriculture,
and she will fill the market of each with
her manufactured goods. From the one
she will draw immense and cheap supplies
of provisions, as she is doing this year,
and from the other she will draw cotton.
Both sections she will have ut her mercy.
Once apart, she will keep us apart. When
it is her interest to favor the one, she will
do so, and then, in pursuance of the same
interest change over to the other. We
will be to her as China, or rs India.
This is the dreum of her aristocracy
now. Bulwer Lytton speaks for them. 1t
may not be the wish of the people-the
underlings of her society-but what mat
tiers that. The aristocracy possess the
government, and they can precipitate a
policy just as easily as did the Southern
leaders this rebellion. The resources of
the Kingdom are at their command. When
they see clearly their opportunity they
will not hesitate to use it.
But man proposes and God disposes.
The end is not come even when England
interferes. Let her, in the language of her
own poet laureate, "look to her butts and
take good aim" when she commences,
for she may count on scene never
before witnessed in this world. ThOus-
ands Of the best men in this country are
looking with Il steady, firm, courageous
eye to the denouemeut of the present Eng
| lish policy. At the first move they will
sound the alarm and utter such u war cry
as mankind never before heard. Their
countrymen throughout every loyal State
will take it up, and it will be echoed and
reverbcrated from shore to shore, until
twenty millions ofpeople are stirred to the
bittterest hatred and most determined
resolve that ever inspired q people,
Then will come to the rescue OF
American liberty the last nerve-the
last muscle, the last energy of the peo,
pie. Each man, feeling the terrible deg
relation and extinction that threatens all
his hopes-all his love of liberty, home
and country-all that he holds dear anG
Sampson, let me do that in my death which
/ could not do in my life. Courage and
self-saCrilice did not die with that heroic
Israclite: neither did desperation perish
with the followers of Leonidas: nor did
"devotion to an idea" go out with Poland
or Hungary. AS men have suffered and
endured and died for liberty, so they will
again Only let the circumstances of the
American situation become reduced enough
and desperate enough, and the world will
see such a raIlying to arms, as will
throughout all time make themes for q
hundred Iliads.
These things we think we see in the flu.
ture. The attention of the country is ar.
rested by the recent correspondence be-
tween the British Minister at Washington
and our Secretary of State. 1t seems as
if the work of quarrel had begun. Some
pretext is to be found for nm Intervention
Our people say let it come. That is the
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