, 1861-12-27
ENGLAND AND THE FUTURE.

lnat 1t Is Wise lot 1an1iy, however |
rich and powerful they may be, 10 establish
friendly relations with all about them, ad-
mits Of not particle Of doubt. If bick-
erings and strife grow up between those
neighbors, it is equally wise for the leading
family to remain neutral, OF if they must
side with either party, to be sure to be
found with those who are contcnding only
for what is strictly just. The same princi-
pies apply and should control in national
intercourse. National law is founded
upon the principles Of exact justice, and
defines the mode By which that justice is
applied to questions which must constantly
arise between different nations in their
commercial and social intercourse With
each other.
As family feuds are but too apt to be
transmitted from generation 10 generation,
so hatred becomes hereditary between na-
tons and as between families, it works
only evil and perhaps ruin to those who
indulge it; 80 nations that embrace every
opportunity to make war upsn each other,
work their mutual injury, and in the end
utter ruin swallows up the weaker Of the
two. The bitterness towards Great Britain,
which followed the Revolutionary war, had
but partially subsided when the war Of 1872
revived it in al its intensity. For the last
ten, perhaps twenty, years it has been
sersib]y wearing away, till previous to the
present rebellion, a toast to Her Majesty,
the Queen Of England, was everywhere "in
the States" received with the greatest
good will and the most hearty ap-
plausc. Whatever kindly feeling had
thus grown up towards England
Las been changed into the most intense bit
terness by The sympathy she has manifested
in the Shareholders base effort to destroy
the Government beQueathed to US by ou
fathers. Her ruling classes, and, it is now
believed, majority Of her people as well
hare, in their readiness to aid and abet tht
rebellion, shown their intense hatred 0
free institutions and their readiness to d.
al1 in their power to crafty that hatred
In this regard her hypocrisy renders he
wickedness the more transparent ant
odicrs. For the last generation her prince
and her people have ridiculed America be
cause slavery was tolerated in the Southern
half Of the Republic now when that yer.
Institution which, with hypocritical phi
lanthropy, they have pretended to hate S
cordially, rebels and determines to destro
the Constitution, the English nation seek
every prete1t to bring On war with til
loyal States, that they may aid the traito,
10 effect their dendizh purpose.
What the result Of war with Englan
while we are engaged in putting down tb
xebellion would be, no one can predict L
immediate effect upon our commerce woul
Of course be, disastrous; but though at fir:
we might have the worst Of the fight, or
people would in a few months, or years
: most, become thoroughly educated wa
rlors, and though for time acting On Il
defensive, q nation Of twenty millions
heemen can raise aud sustain armies {
their own sol, invinible in numbers ar
in power, and nayies that can sweep Il
commerce Of Great Britain from the ocea
Depending upon slat commerce for b
national life, while war would prove diss
trous to us, England may well fear. if it
to be long war, for the existence Of
large class Of her commercial and man
featuring people Every sea would swa,
with Yankee pri7ateers, and while {
farmers would lack foreign market
their products, England S machinery wo
stand still, her carrying trade would be
an end, and how her manufacturing po
lation could live is problem that
statesmen might find it exceedingly diflc
to solge.
But whateVer might be the immedi
issue Of q conflict between the Uni
States and England, the course which
presssand her people have pursuedtn Civ
aid and sympathy to the rebels, will
be forgotten or forgiven in half cent
In any event, the life and the growth
this nation are secure From the ma
Of things, England cannot contain ps
lation very much larger than she now
while in half century the loyal S4au
the Union will hare very nearly, if
quite, 8 HUNDRED MILLIONS OF PEo
The legacy Of bitterness which the pc
Of England are now preparing for I
children, may within the lifetime Of t
now living, recon upon her with tzei
dous power. Herhypocriticsl position
the 1nalignity she manifests towards
are yell understood and appreci
When old age comes upon her and
and. Australia, and Canada and IRE
with her other Islands Of the ocea