The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-26
ENGLAND versus THE UNION.


Since the commencement Of the preser
difficulties in this country, the leading po
iticians and journals Of England hav
exhibited towards the Rebels the mos
marked friendliness, and towards our owl
Government all the hostility which it va
safe for them to manifest, in view of tn
danger Of arousing the hostility Of thei
own people to their Government.
The hatred of the governing power O
England for tie people and Government o.
this Country is no new thing. 1t ha;
existed since the day of the first "Boston
Tea Party; was infamed by every battle
of the Revolution; and greatly augmented
BY each of the treaties of peace to which
our valor and physical prowess has com
PEELED her unwilling assent. tbs feeling
has been fairly crazed at the superior form
of government established by the men of
the Revolution, and so successfully sus
tanned by their descendants, and under
which she saw growing up, out of her
former Colonies, a Nation which vas rap
idly outstripping her in extent of territory,
In wealth, commerce, intelligence enter
prise, and in the perfect security and
happiness Of its people. In the outset of
our Government, it was the universal
prediction of the crowned heads of Europe
that it would prove failure. Based, as it
was, upon the acknowledgment of the
people as the rightful source Of all powers
of government, its success would brand
with falsehocd their bold pretense to rule
by "Divine right" Hence, the hope was
parent to the prediction Of its speedy
failure. No men have cherished this hope
more ardently than the aristocrats of En-.
gland, and none rejoiced more heartily
than they at the outbreak of the Southern
Rebellion. To them, it vas the fulflment
of prophecy-a demonstration to the
world that they were prophets and sons of
prophets. The "great democratic bubble
is burst" was the triumphant exclamation
of the London Times at the Intelligence of
the attack upon Fort Sumpter, to which
all John Bull aristocracy responded, Amen
And from that time forth, what they dared
do, they have done, to stimulate and
encourage the Rebels in their efforts to
destroy the Union, and overthrow the
Government set up by men who denied
the "Divinc right" of these mutton heads
to rule, to tax, and to Cypress them, at
pleasure.
Before this outbreak, the existence of
Slavery here was subject of constant
reproach against us by British statesmen;
but Rebellion which has tor its object
the indefinite extension of Slavery, and the
re-opening of the African Slave Trade, with
all its horrors, has the warmest sympathy
of English aristocrats--not. perhaps, be-
cause they take any pleasure in the iusti-
tuition or the traffic, but because the
Rebellion promises to demonstrate that
the people arc incapable of self govern
ment: that is, of designating their law
makers, Or choosing their rulers-a fact
becoming, by the success of the American
experiment, too manifest to their own
people to be satisfactory to lords and
dukes, who look upon the people as the
mere instruments to minister to the graf.
i6cation of their appetites.
Immediately on the outbreak of the
Rebellion, the London Times sent one of
its most able correspondents to this coun.
try, who has since employed his whole
abilities in lauding the Rebels, and their
efforts, and in disparaging the Government
and the means adopted for putting down
the Rebellion. Within a few weeks after
the attack on Sunpter, by proclamation of
the British Government, the Rebels were
recognized as belligerent power, and the
ports of England thrown open to their
ships and cruisers, and both public and
private assurances given, that as soon as
she could, with any kind of decency do so,
England would acknowledge the indepen-
1ence of the revolted States.
We noticed some weeks ago the taking
# couple of rebel emissaries, Mason and
Siidell, from on board British steamship, L
pound from Havana to England, by