Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-24
The Present AffiIade of England and
Erance TOx IA rd the Uni ted States.

Or ROBERT reel, quarter oil century ago,
considered that the expenditure of one hundred
millions of dollars, would be a cheap price for
sowing seeds of mischief upon the American
continent, which might ultimately undermine our
national greatness. The Father of his Country
hId, long before, warned the citizens of the
United Suites "against the ilsidious wi!es of for.
eign influence, as "the most baneiul foes of re-
publican government" respecting which "the
jealousy of free people ought TO he constantly
awake" His caution against the mischief of
foreign intrigue" has been abundantly justified
by the subsequent history of the country; for
there has been no effort of diplomacy left untried
to shake the foundations of institutions. which,
by the rapid growth of their prosperity, have ex-
cited the alarm of governments guaranteeing
less freedom TO their subjects In proportion as
our territory has extended, its population and the
number OF the States has increased; the salutary
workin. of democratic system has been envied
admired and emulated, by those who have been
seeking to throw off despotic yoke; and our
power has become formidable, the hatred of the
courts of Europe, but more particularly of Eng
land and France, has an mented, and our national
downfall has been desired. The hour of trbua-
ton has come at Last, and nothing can be more
humatng and insulting to every patriotic heart
thin the spirit in which it is contemplated abroad
Arecent article in tue London Times con
temptuOusly ailudes 20 the fact that the "Norih-
era and Southern States have entered into race
with each other Tor popularity, with the deter
minatiOn not 70 be outbid by rival ~ and it adds
as consequence over which Englishmen NAV
rejoice: America must not suppose that she
can enjoy, when divided into two hostile repub-
lies. all the great and unprecedented advantages
which she possessed, while she was content to
dwell under the banner of one" The South
and the North alternately cajoled and insulted
in one breath we are told by the press of
London and Paris. that the slaveholding States
deserve no sympathy, on account of the inius
tice of the cause, while i'm the next the North
are assured that neither England nor France will
recognize a blockade OF the Southern ports and
that the Morrill, tariff will compe them to enter
into treaties of commerce with the Montgomery
government The London Globe exutingly pro
claims, that the prospects OF the United States
are not brilliant; that the broad track, made BY
the founders of the republic, is now definitely
abandoned" America" it continues, "enters
on a new career and some among US may live to
see whether, like Europe, she will be divided into
antaconi>tic nations, with fixed politics, or
whether she will like South Amerca, be split up
among number of snarling communities. with
here and there bright spot shining brilliantly in
thesurrounding gloom"
The ministers accredited by President Lincoln
TO the different courts of Europe, will, most oi
them, soon arrive ut their posts. Messrs. VIM
L. Yancey, Dudley Mann, and Judge Rost, the
three special commissioners selected by the FED
ersl Government, at Montgomery to negotiate
recognition, by Lord Palmerston and Louis Ma
poleon, of the independence of the secedinl
States, and permanent treaties will appear in Lon
don and Paris Mt about the same time. Both Eng
land and France have, for six months, been con
templating with an anxious concern, inspired bl
selfishness, and the most sordid jealousy, the af
fairs of the United States. Whatever course thel
may resolve to pursue will be dictated by selfin
terest. and wish to perpetuate scord betweer
the North and South for their own benefit No
! ray of genuine sympathy is to be looked for
| Well did the iar-sghtei Washington declare tina
cit is an illusion experience must cure, and jus
pride ought to discard. to expect calculate upol
favors, from nation to nation" Therefore North
ern and Southern organs degrade themselyes wheI
they boast that aid and assistance have beer
promised them from abroad. Ii is to be hope,
that both the Washington and the Montgomer
Cabinet will scorns sthose "entanglng alliances
which have been ever considered as a great evil
to be carefully summed, by every sound patrio
and sttte, of the country. Rival chieftain
in Mexico and the South American States, ma
have found some temporary doubtful adyant ge
in the support of powers like England and Fran I
but neither the Gulf States nor those that reu,ai