Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-08-31
WHY the London TImes Has Abused Us.

Why the London Times Has Abused Us.
We find in a leading article of the Times
the following candid confession of the pique
which has actuated it in making onslsughts
upon us. 1t is the fear of spread of Repub.
licarf doctrines in England:
If the Americans should conceive that we,
in forming these opinions, are attributing to
them any special faults, or any peculiar in
capacity for self government, they would be
greatly in error. We consider that the course
Of events in the Union has been perfectly
natural, and that americans haze only done
tchGt Eaghshtnen or any other people under
The same conditions a0ould have done also.
What has 80 quickened our feelings and made
our observations so acute is not so much the
policy of America in ITSELF as the prominence
Which has ldLely been given TO that policy by a
certain party IN this country. For the last
ten years we have been told, with every cir
cumstance of emphasis and adjuration, that
American institutions were the institutions
on which every friend of economy, peace and
good government should FIX his eyes. War
was distinctly represented as the work Of an
interested aristocracy, anxious only for its
own advancement.
We were assured that with an unrestricted
suffrage, and with electoral laws under which
plain working gcitizens could make their voices
beard, the old extravaganza of class govern
ment would rapidly disappear. Debts were
contracted and wars were Tough to crafty an
aristocracy subsisting on the taxation of the
people. America was the model of better
system. There the wisdom and moderation
OF citizens managing their own affairs showed
| itself in peace, thrift and contentment. Such
were the points kept obtrusively before u.s.
| If the reader will refer to any speech of any
Manchester orator he will find the govern
ment of the United States extravagantly
eulogized for the very qualities of which it
| is now proved to be utterly destitute, and
the Americans exalted beyond all other peo-
pie on account of gifts which it is plain they
| never possessed.
1t is this, if the Americans wish to know
the truth, which points the remarks OF En-.
| glishmen on their civil war and it's incidents:
| lt is not that they are any. worse or more
| foolish, or more Incorporate than was to De
expected under the trials to which they have
| been exposed, but that they hare been held up
| TO our admiration Gy a certain party among AS
as people IN aohose counseLs no intemperance
or folly 1CouLd eUeT be likely TO prevail. They
suffer from thepanegyricS Of their friends Our
extreme liberals would have shaped the
course of all British legislation exclusively
by the American pattern; and, owing, in
deed, to the position of parties they did act
ually succeed in impartiDg now and then a
transatlantic smack to the policy of the Gov
eminent. When we look, therefore, at the
operation of American institutions. we are
contemplating the results of principles which
it was sought to force upon ourselves. Such
lesson we can not afford to loose. Our crit.
cisms are suggested not by any joy over
American troubles, but by feelings of the
deepest and most immediate self interest
When we see that unlimited democracy con-
veys not the slightest security against the
worst of wars and the most reckless extraya.
gance, we may apply the moral at home,
and congratulate ourselves that the old Brit
| ish Constitution has not been precipitately
temodeled after Manchester design.