East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-06-20

sirty thousand loyal men we're In arms,
which is rather more for the England OF
that day than our draft is for us.
Thus again we read passim in British
writing-the stateliest shape being the
North British Quarterly--the most scorn-
ful expressions of the alleged imbecility
of both President Buchanan and Presi-
dent Lincoln in letting Secession grow
to its head. This Review thinks the
history of the American Government
since November 9, has been one of the
most pitiabie that ever disgraced a ma
ton," and it makes out the little finger
of Mr.. Lincoln's imbecility thicker than
that of the loins of Mr.. Buchanans. 1t
seems, because secession has not been
met at once and crushed that the nation,
under President Lincoln, has "descended
to the lowest depth of national humili-
alton"
Now, scribblers living in country
that has yielded so rich crop of rebel
lions as England has, ought to do better
than this. How suddenly they some-
times arose, let 1715 and l745 attest
They were concocted in London pretty
much as our traitors plotted in Washing
ton. Take the case of'45. Along with
the items that tell of the progress of the
Pretender from Edinburgh to Derby, are
others telling of the ferretihg out of tral-
tors in London and hundred other
places, with the seizing of arms, ammu-
nition-a heavy quantity even right un-
der the nose of government, in Leaden-
hall street, London. SO by substituting
Baltimore or Fredericksburg for some
British town, we can read one feature of
our insurrsstion hundred years ago
Then there were treason to the right and
treason to the left, as to men in official
station, precisely as Presidents Buchanan
and Lincoln had to encounter in Office
The writer of the North British Review
has but to consult the pages of this 40
era to find about all the things charged
by the opposition upon the Government
Of Great Britain which he chooses to
charge upon the Government of the
United States. Here is a specimen -
"Where are we to see NOV. 9, 1745,)
for the causes, but in the unaccountable
remissness in not strangling in its nest
this viper of rebellion, which has stung
our quiet and poisoned our happiness"
There was, in this case of England's hu
initiation as our country has suffered to.
day-a young man landing in Scotland
with only forty men, early in August,
1745, "For many weeks" British
editorial, Nov. 8, 1745, reads, "the thing
was laughed at in all companies" Edin-
burgh's seems then to have played about
the role of our "Virgiuia; it presented
very dutiful address to the crown; and
when the people of England, who were
quietly pursuing their business avoca-
tlons, expected to see-in the words of
the day-its gallant volunteers cock up
the Pretender's beaver, they were startled
with the intelligence that the Pretender
had got Edinburgh. And so the young
man went on from August to November,
England suffering the Preston Pans de-
feat. Was England thereby sunk to the
depths of national humiliation The
North British sees wonderful imbecility
because Secession was first treated like a
passing frenzy; was not the rebellion of
forty.fve looked at in this light ? We
have yet had no Preston Pans defeat
since the nations heart was struck, April
II, at Fort Sumter; nor have ninety days
transpired since this stroke nor could
this British libeler. Of republicanism
know what loyal Union men would do
when he wrote; but had every loyal man
in the Union got down on his knees and
begged pardon of the Confederate States
for having had the thought of defending
Washington and preserving the national
life, the language of this contemplate
scribbling tribe could not have been more
severe.
Such utterings of the British press, as
we have commented upon, are disgrace
to its intelligence and to Journalistic
About the last country in the world is
England to deal forth such twaddlc.--
Its civil war glass-house is uncommonly
extensive. 1t has had rebelions at ev-
cry step Of its career; rebcllions in its
Colonies, as witness Canada; rebellions
III ltS ucpcuucuCiSo, az Witueoo iuuiaf iO-
bellions in Ireland. as witness Antrim,
and the defeat of the royal army; rebel.
lions in Scotland, as witness Culloden;
rebellions in the heart of the Empire, as
witness the wars of the Roses, and the
Roundheads and Cavaliers. Ifany Gov.
ernment ought to be careful in not
strengthen ing the hands of rebellion, it
is England. And it has been thus care
full What was seen in a case when the
popular feeling in England was at fever
height in favor of rebellion, as in the
case of Hungary, where would have been
grateful any sort of acknowledgement ?
Did the Government proceed, in the case
of that old nationality, to solemnly pro-
claim our exact neutrality between Hun
garians aud the Austrians? How was it
in the case Of the South American revolt?
The Government cautiously waited to
see the progress of events. But there is
nothing of this sort in the case Of the
United States. England, in hot haste,
gives rebellion the moral advantage CT a
quasi-recognition; while that sink of in
fanny, the London Times, and kindred
howling pack at its heels, are swift to
sustain the Government by tho worst
stuff that ever disgraced journalism. a
great feet too is coming over, and Canada
is advised to arm.
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