Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-07

people of the South, who VIII of themselves
1.-THE tyranny OverthroWn) send back their
representatives TO Congress and tia Uniob
VIII be "reconstructedP without q change of
a letter In the Constitution Of The United
States. Did England ~snbiughte ireland and
Scotland2 Are the united Kingdoms lens
HOMOGENEOUS than OF old, before the wars
against rebellion9 So will the United States
rise from the smoke Of battle with renewed
stability and power. Ia turn, now let us ask
| the British public some questions.
j. Bhere should British honor place kef IN
this contestf We overthrow that political
element in America which has all through
our history been the studied d%enouncer and
real hater of the British nation, while we
have been always from The beginning the
friends of England. Because, though under
different forms Of Government we had cons
mon ~sympathies and a common cause, aud,
therefore, a common interest. England was
the conservator of liberty in B~urope-the old.
world; we in the new. If "the Confederate
States" are right then Is England wrong. II
slavery must be extended in America, then
must England restore It in the West Indies,
blot out the most glorious page of her his
tory, and call back her freed men into chains.
Let her say to the martyrs of freedom from
all the nations who have sought refuge and
amagnanimous defense on her shores Re-
turn to your scaffolds and your prison house;
England is no more England Let the Times
cease to appeal longer tosthe enlightened
opinion Of the world; nay, let the statues Of
the great dead through which l passed in
reverence yesterday to the houses of her
political intelligence be thrown from their
pedestals, when England shall forget the ut
t~erances of her Ohathams, her Wilberforces,
and her Broughams=that natural justice is
the only safe diplomacy and lasting foupda-
ton of the independents of nations.
2. What is ts interest of England nor ? If
we may descend to such inferior appeals, IL is
clearly the interest Of England to stand by
the union of the States. We are her best
consumer; no tariff will materially affect
that fact. We are the best customer of En-.
gland, not because we are cotton-growers or
cotton-spinners, agriculturists or manufac-
turers, but because we are producers and
manufacturers, and have money to spend. 1t
is not the South, as is urged, but the North
who are the best consumers of English COM
merce. The free white laborer and capt.
talist does now, and always will, consume
more than the white master and the slave.
The Union, and the expansion.o of the States
and Republican policy, make us the best
market for England and Europe. What has
the world 10 gain-England, France or any
of the powers TO gam by reducing the
United States to a Mexican civilisation2
3. Can England afford TO offend the great
nation which ,oiH stu be "Ths United States |
of America" euen should aDe lose part ofthe
SoUthS Twenty millions of people to-
day, with or without the slave States; in
twenty years we will be forty millions In
another half century we will be one hun
dred millionsl We will rest upon the P6to- |
mac, and on the west banks of the Missis-
sippi River, upon the Gulf of Mexico. Our
railroads will run four thousand miles upon
a single parallel, binding our empire, which
must master the Atlantic and the Pacific
0ceapsl Is England so secure in. the future
against home revolt or foreign ambition as
to venture, now in our need, to plant the
seeds of revenge in all our future?
If Ireland, or Scotland, or Wales shall
attempt TO secede from that beniicent Gov
erment of the United Kingdom, which now
lightens their taxation and gives them se-
curity and respect at home and abroad, shall
we enter into a ~piratical war with our race
and ally, and capture and sell in our ports
the property and endanger the lives of
peaceable citizens of the British Empire all
over the world? l enter not into the dis
cussion of details. England, then, is our
natural ally. Will she ignore our aspira- |
TOPS? If she is just, che ought not. If
she is honorable and magnanimous, she can
not. Ushe is Icise, she piH not.
Your obedient servant
c. III. CLAY, United States Minister Pleni-
potentiary, &C. to 81. Petersburg.
MoRLBY's, LONDON, May IL.