Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-06-07
Don nuRol.nAN l.ELAr1oNs.

There has boon Of late not little groundiess
anxiety felt and expressed among our people as
TO the action Of the European powers respecting
our national troubles Not that by any means
we would have prevalent a feeling of ndiffer-
enee as to what other nations may think of us,
bu, their likes and dislkes ought not to euer-
vate or destroy our self-respect. No great ma,
tion can afford to stand halting in the face Of
clear duty to itself, in asserting its own suprem-
aey, to ascertain how the discharge of such
duty will strike other nations three thousand
miles away.
Nothing was more natural than that people
having such aifinities, aud historic associations
as we have with England, should look with in.
'erest for their sympathy and approval in putting
down fendsh rebellion against the very life,
not only Of our own but of all free governments.
We had right to look for and expect such
sympathy For the English nation to refuse IL,
we knew would be to be false to its history and
principles so long and so loudly boosted. But
when the over-rated " London Times" the OBJ
sequious mOuth-piece Of English arislocrAcy,
deigns to notice US sufficiently to intimate that
the mightiest Of nations may not give us its
sanction to take care Of our own affairs in our
own chosen way, it does by no means follow
that the American people, loyal 10 liberty, to
government, and to civilization, are to 60 into
mourning, and tremble with fear from the At
lantic to the Pacific, When that conoeited Or
gan vapors, it does not follow that il thuuders /;
ane if it should thunder, it is not sure that
| ltuhfnino will folnur
it should tighten, is it at oil certain that tue
electric bolt will strike us dead 1t is true
that once, when the great Jupiter did but nod
on his lofty Olympus the world shook and
trembled; but in these times the great goi
of the press may shake bis awful locks, and yet
the world wags right on.
There has for the past two months been an
unusual amount of stately and grandiloquent
writing in the columns of this would.be dictator
of the policy of the world. And, yet, in oil
this there has been clearly apparent sublime
ignorance of the real points at issue in this
country. OF all the newspapers published in
the French capitol, not one has betrayed such
feeble grasp OF our national troubles as the Lon
dou Times. This surely must he set to the ac
count of willful blindness and Intentional per-
version Of facts. Its famous Crimedn Cores
POndeHt, sent over here to report to its readers
a truthful account Of passing events, has thu.
far been specially lucky in being just where he
ought not to be, and he really knows just about
as much Of the doings of our government and
the real nature of our present troubles, as il he
had been at the Court of the king of Dahomey
We frnat Mr. RnsaalI NAV Hna t;.,a l. 81. !.
least hurried glance at the loyal States before
lie leaves the country, and unless he should run
the blockade and sail from New Orleans or
Charleston, we presume he may write at least
one letter to illuminate his great employer.
But it is great comfort to know tina. the
sentiments of European powers do not depend
upon the fulminations of one or two journals in
the interest of cotton and nobility Neither
cotton nor nobility controls the people of Eng
land or the continent, and believing this rs we
have, we have been and still are content to bide
the time when the people shall set all matters
right No period in two centuries could have
been chosen by slaveholding, iberty-hating re-
bells, SO unfavorable for their cause, either at
home or abroad, as this very year When there
] $50 NHaNNA" the oiu "a NlueT fehCnlDR
after aud more unquenehable thirst for liberty
than ever before, it is but q thankless business
to establish nation upon the basis of human
bondage.
This is the view universally taken of the re-
belhon, by the press Of England, France and
Germany, that represent the real sentiments of
the people. In very elaborate article on the
American Secession" in the last number of
the North British Review, the writer says, "Ws
cannot see any attribute Of the righteous Ruler
OF the universe which can be exercised in favor