Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-04
ENGLAND and Her sympathy The Gnzette


ENGLAND and Her sympathy The Gazette.
The Gqsste is Of the opinion that "the
Government party in Europe-in England
and FIsnce-sympathizes with the South,
and the masses of the people with the North"
The cause of this state of things, in the opin-
ion of the GGzette, is that the South, by its
aristocratic proclivities, has gained the at
fections of the rulers Of Europe, who are
afraid of those democratic tendencies in the
North which have been equally successful in
winning the admiration efthe ruled.
According to the theory of the Gazette,
humanity everywhere, except upon this
continent, is divided into two classes-the
dopn-treaders, aud the dowR. trodden-esch
of which has its eyes continually fixed upon
our great experiment in political freedom,
the one with feelings Of fear and hatred, the
other with sentiments of love and admira-
ton.
1t is pleasant to think, but difficult to prove
that the regards of the masses all over the
world are fixed upon our great experiment.
rejoicing in its prospects, and sympathizing
in its vicissitudes. 1t is delightful to be as
sured that America has kindled beacon
iame which has thrown its rays across the
Atlantic, and awakened a corresponding sig.
nal upon every quarter of the globe. We
love to hear even in fancy, the scourges of
tyrart5 fall, and the fetters Of the oppressed
fly il pieces whenever, even at the ends of
the earth, and in the dark regions Ofcruelty,
the name of America is spoken; and would
be quite unwilling to dispose Of our interest
in the slightly NEUROLOGICAL idea that the
crowned heads and cbete monarchies of the
old world are afraid that we shall innoculate
the rest of mankind with the principles of
human liberty, thereby blowing up their di-
lapidated establishments, and bringing the
fragments incoutinently about the ears of
their degenerate masters: but we have no
infallible assurance that the genuine facts
lean very strongly in that direction.
Ia truth, we suspect that the masses Of
Europe are much more intent upon working
out their own social and political problem
than upon watching the progress of ours;
and that the governing classes are greatly
more afraid of indigenous radicalism at
home than of imported republicanism from
this side the ocean. The masses in England
doubtless, sympathize with the North il
this: they are, in sentiment, Abolitionists
and, in so far as this contest is a war upol
slavery, they feel fsnatical interest in tn
success of the anti slavery side. To come u
to their ideas, however, the war must be
war Of emancipation; and such they nov
suppose it to be, hence their sympathy.
Ifthe Government party sympathized wit
the South, the fact might be expected t
appear in the acts of the Government itseli
in indications ofpreference or partiality; bu
such we have failed to see. In what it ha
done, the British Government has been Just
it has been truer to our Government tina
our Government has been to itself. Its mir
listers, in what they have said, have el
pressed their determination to adhere to th
principles Of international law applicable I
our case; and what more have we the rigI
TO ask2 All the instincts of a governin
class lead it TO feel an interest in the pr
servation of established order, and to oppo
all insurrectiOnary enterprises; and VIII
reason is there to suppose that it will fe
differently in our case than in another?
1t could hardly be expected that the
would be any superabundant feelings
sympathy toward us, at this time, on I
part of either the British Government or t
British people. The breaking out Of o
difficulties doubtless turned the attention
both in an unusual degree to AmericI
newspapers, both as the chronicles of Gu
rent facts, and the exponents Of prevailiI
sentiments. In those newspapers they woul
find what they would have reason to belie'
were the feelings toward them entertainC
by the people. And what would they find
what did they find in the public journals
the North, slmost without exception, b
constantly reiterated expressions of jealou
and distrustP England was assumed to
the secret enemy of the United States, a.
looking With eager eyes for its dismeI
bertaent, in order that she might work b
WIN upon both the sections.
We confess that we have not been able
perceive the wisdom of the course pursu
by the Northern press during past mont
ia is alEiGuoUs eGorts 10 cultivate AngI