The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-12-25
WAR NEWS.


war fever is represented as undated, aud
more fixed and determined purpose to
engage in war with the United States,
seems 10 prevade the masses. The press
gives tone to public sentiment in all coum-
tries, and it will be difficult for the Eng
lsh Parliament to resist the pressure from
the educated pnblic opinion, even were it
so disposed. AS we said in our last is
sue, England has found "cause" TO make
buster to say the least. We believe
she wants to fight. Every act shows il
ordering her naval officers to their COM
mands, sending large numbers of troops
to Canada, fitting up and coaling many
Of her war steamers for the American
coast, her alliance in the expedition to
Mexico, her manifest sympathy with the
Southern Confederacy, all show that she
means something. Her neutrality is
merely name. Her hearts desire is TO
sec this government ovcrthrown-and al
SO the other monarchies of Europe-to
see this nation divided, and the expert
ment of a republican form of government
become matter of history-a positive
failure. Our destruction will extend in
definitely the lease Of an European Mon
arch. L. establishes and entails it. This
is Engands first love, her education, her
history. An educated reverence almost
divine becomes national and natural and
a forbidding dignity hedges in the king.
Hence, England is first and foremost in
preparation for immediate conflict The
American cotton worms in England
seem to have exhaled a malignant, conta-
gious war disease, and the people, par
ticularly the press, is extremely suscepti-
bic. Their Pharisaical national boast Of
pure hands from the enormous iniquity Of
slavery-so often charged upon us-does
not prove TO be an antdote to the war
disease 1t does not neutralize the nox-
ious malaria of the American cotton
worms, just at this time shaking them
selves in Southampton and London How
conl1 ~ 2 IL ma boyo loo,, . 4
thieves, respecting slavery, as they claim,
and guilty in the sight of civilized ma.
tons, is she not equally guilty by being
partaker? She has been the greatest up
holder and sustainer of slave labor of any
nation on the globe, and knowingly, thro'
consecutive years, without any effort com
paratively-until the commencement of
the rebellion-to obtain supply of cot
ton, the principal product of slave labor
IN the United States, from her own ex-
tensiye domains in India and other suit
able localities. Whatever tends TO de.
crease or lessen the value of any species
OF property, in the same degree hastens
its humiliation, and whatever increases
the value tends in the same degree TO its
protection and increase. AS slaves are
only valuable as they produce cotton, and
England being the greatest consumer Of
that article, her boast of freedom from the
guilt of slavery is vain and deceit
Yet she persists in maintaining the q in
stitution," by threatening our blockade,
and probably designs, in the language of
the London Chronicle, "to blow out of
the water their blockading squadrons, and
teach them to respect the flag of might
Ter supremacy beyond the Atlantic"
But we think she will not be gratifed.
Our latest advices from Washington in
cline us to the opinion that we shall have
no war with England at present. Mason
and Slidell do not compose the Confede-
rate States, and will have but little inhu-
ence upon our success in crushing the re-
bellion. Their dispatches have gone for
ward, which is all there was of any i'm
portance, and which gave them their char
acter We believe our government will
so construe international law that we can
surrender them without sacrificing nation
al honor, and that this will be the policy
The latest advices seem to Indicate. In
ternationOl law is an ipse DIRT, accom-
panied with power to enforce. 1t is two
lawyers arguing case without Judge OF
jury, and agreeing upon verdict. 1t is
matter of power, and the nation that
has the power can make an internation-
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