Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-17
An Enelish Journal ON the London Times
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An English Journal ON the London Times
and our American Quarrel.
The London Examiner, which has never
shared in the delusions Of other journals
commenting on the last letter of the London
Timers correspondent says
1t is utterly impossible for any right.
thinking man to look on such spectacle,
q. e. civil war; with supercilious indiffer.
ence, or speak of IL with any Kind of
satisfaction. Bad men and mad men there
are, we are sorry to say, among us, who
not merely do so in private, but who are not
ashamed even in pu5lic to give vent to
selfish and sinister glee at what they stupidity
mistake for the breakdown Of popular
government on the other side of the At.
lantic. Before a campaign is begun or
battle fought, these birds of ill-omen raise
their exultant. cry, not merely over the
hecatombs of civil war, which they antici
pate, but over the ruin of that vast home of
Republican liberty which has always been to
them cause of spite and spleen. These are
the men who clapped their hands and
shouted for Joy at the coup d'etat of the 10th
Of December, because it crushed democratic
freedom, and gave France military master.
Bat blind to the consequences of the event
they hailed with shameful exutation, they
have since learned to their cost that the
republican rule costs British tax. payers at
least fl0000,000 less per annum than the
most admirably vanished and Vtdocq-ed
phase of imperialism.
Who can tell what we and other peace
loving nations might suffer if it were possible
that a similar catastrophe should occur be-
yond the ocean, America has hitherto been
the only great country that for eighty years
has maintained her integrity and indepen-
dence without a standing army. What
curse to mankind generally, what danger
to us and to every other nation in Ohristen-
dom having tTansmsrine possessions, would
be the trsnsmutation of the uuaggressive
federalty founded by Washington into an
anti. democratic and military state. Yet this,
we suppose, is what our reactionary wise.
acres in Parliament, like Sir John Ramsden
aud a few of our Contemporaries in the press,
unpatriotically sigh for. For the sake of
being able to count one ieweled diadem the
more, and to see hereditary titles and estates
founded in America, such politicians are
ready to rejoice at the peril that threatens
the existence of polity under which a mul.
titudiDous people has dwelt in peace and
thriven greatly for period of eighty years.
But let no man say that, in such senti
ments, the English people have any sympa-
thy or share. Content with their own tra-
ditional forms of rule, they recognize in
those of America that identity of purpose in
the main in which similarity of feature and
modification of expression forcibly denote.
They can not, and do not, realize the possibil-
ity of their prosperous and powerful descend
ants wantonly tlinging away the securities
they have so long enjoyed for favorable
growth in greatness, opulence and freedom.
They do not believe that, in any event, che
majority of the States will cease to be united
in their old Federal bond, or that the main
body Of the American citizens will show
any wavering in their attachment to the
institutions whose practical worth they
have, for generations, Experimental and
proved"
Even though Planter Confederacy Of
slave owning States should succeed in estab-
fishing itself on their Southern frontier, the
States of the Union would still number
twenty millions of dutiful and devoted citi-
zens within its ample confines would still
possess the greatest commerce aud mercantile
marine (after ours) in the world; and would
still be able to boast with truth and Justice
that the foundations Of freedom laid by
Washington, adams Jefferson and franklin
had remained mistaken by the madness of
comparatively small ana specifically inferior
section OF the community. For our own
part we utterly distrust the vaunts and
vaporings of the South; and we daily look
more doubtingly upon their boasted capa-
bllity of sustaining a protracted struggle.
But in speculations as to the possible issue
of the war we are not disposed to indulge.
We are content to reiterate our uumingled
sorrow at its occurrence, and our profound
conviction that after the dark wave of ad.
yersity has swept over America her self
reliant spirit will be found uncrushed, her
love of liberty unchanged, and her fidelity
TO the flag of peaceful progress undiminished.