Newbern weekly progress., 1861-05-14
TIE ENGLISH PRESS On THE AAERI-
AN t-2IEIS


We have our English fies 10 the 18th ult.,
but 4, that time they had not, OF course, heard of
the evacuation Of Sumter and the call of PFesi-'
dent Lincoln for 70. 600 troops to defend the
capi;al The following extract, however, from
her editorial remarks, are interesting, as
showing the English view 'ot our national
uouhiu>:
rFron the London Times Of April 19. ] =
TIE ,rIssUprIuH OF TIE AMERICAN KEPUBLIc"---
rue 'sTILI. GREATER CALAMITT OF CIVIL WAR.
1t would lie great political error, rot TO
say crime. if the republican President should
ulopgn the New World into war in order to
snow his attachment to his party or his con-
sistencv with his former principles. When
Mr.. Buchanan published his unhappy message
"a document to which il is probably owing
that South Carolina was followed into secession
bv six other States the republican party, and
indeed opinion generally throughout the North,
was so much :nAamed against the President
that Mr. Lincoln found or fancied 1t necessary
ia rcpuGiate these sentiments. Incautousiy
giving rtterance to his own opinions wherever
be came on his journey from the West, he ar
rived at Washington pledged not only to keep
but re axe the forts belonging 10 the Union in
the seeded States, and to refuse any recognI-
ton ofSouthevn Independence. Ihe collection OF
the duties at the Southern ports was also made
a part OF the new PresiG ent's programmes
How difficult It has been found TO carry out all
taken place. Before Mr.. Buchanan lett Office
Major Anderson vas in extreme danger, no
time was TO be lost in relieving Fort PicNens,
and the Confederate States themselves were
lowering thcir tariff and letting in the pro
ductiors ot Europe st rate winch Wou!o
make every ld!er in the Border States take 10
snugeling at once. It was thought that the
flomcrt Ar Lincoln was installed q resolution
would b. taken. Bat this vas not to be. For
full month the President and his cabinet
have been debating what IS to be done, and only
on the 9TH Of Apr! is It announced that tho
policy Of coercion has triumphed.
The GcIer seems al tue more to be regretted,
| since confidence among men OF business hao
| been almost restored. There was, up to near
~ the last day Of March, d feeling that the worst
| was over, ana thai however laDentsble nl1ght
| be the disruption Of Tie republic, there would
! not be added to this misfortune the still grea-
ter calamity of aivii war. The heabsoT5ing inter-
est in military and political matters was pas
| sing away, and business Tas resuming its
usual course What viii be the result OF O.
! collision between the tT0 governments Is moro
than any cne can predict lie vision o., pr
vateers al sea and Parti2an bands along the
frontier must De so terrible to Americans that
it is possible the public feeling Of the people
| may restrain the cots of tneIr rulers. Bus
should tlis quarrel begin GGd continue until
| both the sides sre aroused into luminosity, the
war, though short, may be as savage as sny
that has been carried on eTen by thc Spanish
race Ihe Americans are IN the highest de-
gree exc.takie and v;n6clive; the ferocity
which they cary INTO their domestic contact
would be Increased largely when ore side fam
cIad Itself to be resisting tyTants and the
other Furnishing ira; ors. Bat We had Eather
not speculate o0 50 great calamity such =
war would b. W. would rather hope that
the good sense of the Americans and the pcnce-
ful counseIs of this country may bring about
| a reconciliation before the dispute has been
too far enveroraed. As long as two secFIons
of the Union refrain from hostiiities it would
be the height cf arrogance and folly to inter
fere; but When the sell and the seas of tho
New World are likely tc be stained with
blood, foreign nations may surely relnonstrat0
| in the cause of humanity.