Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-06-21
The Time :.
FALLS. JUNE p, 1861.
From the Boston journal
England anu France on the War.

= fHSltnu never cOnslutrs othcr iaehiiSi
except from the selfish point of view Of hor
own grandeur; that all sympathetic senti-
ment for what is not herself is more absent
in her than any nation of modern times
and that she never notices what passes
among foreguers-what they think, feel,
suffer or do--rxcept in reference TO the ad
vantage that England may draw thereirom.'
How true this is, the course of the En-
ali,h Government and press toward the
United States at this time shows in most
marked degree. The spectacle of grea,
people rising as one man 10 prevent the
extension Of negro slavery and TO maintain
their national integrity, while it rouses The
earnest sympathy of the French Emperor
aud people, has nothing to warm the heart
or enlist the favor of 4Nr. Bull.
Ii this aprising promised to be good
thing for his pockets, and to put down the
price Of cotton in increasing the supply, he
might condescend to patronize the move
ment; but since it threatens contrary eff
feet, he must lrown upon it, and affect a
holy horror at what he calls 50 wicked and
iratricidal strife"
What right, iorsooth, have those low
born Yankees to indulge in the luxury of
going TO war for sentiment, an idea, a
mere conviction OF right? What right have
they TO make such a parade of their hero
ism ana seli-abnegation, so long as it does
not contribute 10 the profit and glory of
England? What right have they 10 kill
each other when England wants them to
keep alive in order to fulfill their normal
function Of buying her goods and contrib
uting to her wealth? Let this bloody busl-
ness between the North and the South be
stopped therefore, forthwith. 1t does not
benefit England, and England will not sut-
fer it to go on.
That we have not exaggerated the selfish
and arrogant spirit of the English Govern
ment aud press, we have abundant testimo-
ny. The representatives OF the British
Cabinet in Parliament have called in ques-
ton the right of orr government TO deal
with jeff Davis's cruisers as pirates, and tc
establish a blockade of the Southern coast
| The tone of the London Times is in the
last degree contemptuous. The contest,
says that Journal, 8 is quarrel for terrific,
ry. Professed peacemakers are all in wal
paint; the Ratchet is dug up, and the talk
of Christian commonwealth is all of scalp
ing and tOmahawking." Such is the Ian
guage which the great British organ has
for this magnificent and magnanimoas up
rising Of the free States to stop the extern
sion OF slavery, and assert the great fact OF
national existence!
No English subject says the Lord
Chancellor Of England, fought 10 be re-
garded as a pirate for acting under COM
mission from State admitted (by England,
of course) to be entitled TO The exercise OF
belligerent rights, and carrying on what
might be called a jast,on betlam. Anybody
dealing with man under those crcum-
stances as pirate, and putting him TO death,
would be guilty of murder" And this Of
| fetal illumination is intended as a direct at
tack upon he authority Of the President Of
the United States, who has stigmatized as
ptraticdf all privaieering commissions is
sued by the rcbellious States, and by whose
orders all pirates acting under them, wheth-
er English subjects or American citizens,
WILL if caught, be most incontinently hung
at Tie yard-arm in spite of my Lord Chan
cellor and his brother peers, and of the
whole British Government.
The Earl OF Derby, eager TO outbid
Lord Palmerston in subseryieucy to Man
chester and the cotton interest. insoienily
declares that " the Northern States must
not be allo,ced 10 entertain the opinion that
privateering is piracy"
" The peaceful disruption of the Union
we snould welcome most hopefully, as an
almost unalloyed advantage" says the Lon
don Economist. Even the philanthropic
and satrcs,l Punch finds cotton too strong
for him, and in llis last number shows that
he cannot 80 any further with the North if
Lancashire Is to be made TO suffer for lack
of the great Southern staple.
And 50 England is now presenting to the
world the humiliating and atheisic specia-
Gle of a mighty nation giving The lie to her
past professions of sympathy with the cause
Of human freedom, and throwing the weight
of her influence into the SCALE for slavery.
oligarchic usurpation, human degradation
and sin
But there Is cloud on the horizon at
which she is beginning TO manifest whole
sJme alarm. The London Jfo,7tsg Her
aid, (Derbyi'e) learns that the Emperor
Napoleon is opposed TO disruption of the
Union. and thereupon remarks. :. We do
not beli.ve il viii conduce to The welfare of
Greet Britain for the two powers. Eng
Iand and Francel to BE at issue "a tbs
.American question:" Here is an encour-
aging symptom of returning sanity. and for