Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-27
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The Americans, accustomed to make theiI
own interests and feelings the standard Of in
ternatioDal law; to repudiate whatever was in
consistent with their claims to universal domin
ion in the New Worldj to support at one time
the claims Of authority, at another the ipdefee'
sible rights Of existing majorities; TO :lte pre-
cedents or defy them. as II suiaed the cause they
favored ARE now, 10 all innocence and with full
belief In their. own consistency, holding within
six months two opposite theories of their own
Constitution, and expecting Englishmen to
change their views just as popular feeling In the
States has changed. .-1tt,r
The doctrine which We ara denounced for not
instantly and eagerly acceding to, dates from
the 10Th of April, 1861. On that day procla'
nation OF President Lincoln was received al
New York, calling out large force Of militia
to combat the Secessionists, who bad just taken
Fort Sumter. The Nortberners, who till then
had been perfectly apathetic, whose leading ora
tors had treated disruption as an irreversible
event, and whose newspapers had courteously
advocated the seizure of Canada to make up for
the loss of the Cotton States, now found in the
prospect Of O campaign sufficient reason Tor
repudiating the constitute nal theory which had
hitherto prevailed That theory had been fully
enunciated by Mr.. Buchanan, and assented to by
the leading Statesmen Of the North, and by none
more completely than by Mr.. Seward, who,
while expr essing hope that the eeceders might
be coaxed back, yet acknowledged that an ap-
peal TO arms was impossible; and who, even
after he became Mr. Lnooln's Secretary OF
State, repudiated war policy. on the ground
that the subjugation OF recusant force was alb
horrent to American principles, and that the
last argument of monarchies was inapplicable
to the solution of political difficulties in Re-
public. The revolutionary right 10 secede was
clearly acknowledged by the President Of the
United States, the authority from whom foreign
nations are bound to take the law on consttu-
tional questions relating to the Union We
may htrefUrS 90 even 80 far as to say that If
G eat Britain bad, .Ls strength Of Mr. b.
chanan's decision, recognized the Independence
OF South Carolina Immediately on her secession,
the act would not have been erouni Of legiti-
mate complaint. For nearly four m ,nths this
view of the case prevailed, and we in CHS coun
try merely followed in the wake OF American
discussion when we speculated on the likelihood
OF the Southerners "comlng back;" OF th, plant.
era seeing their folly in quarreliDg with their
cuetomers, agents, and bankers; OF the tttach-
ment to the name of America proving too
strong for sectional interests and electiuDeering
plque; and OF tho lovers quarrel proving re-
neslng Of love. The whole grievance oil the
| Nortberners against us is that We think as they
| thought elx weeks before. The "eleotrit
shock" which they describe themselves as hav'
| ing felt when Sum er iell, was unfortunately,
as in the case OF the Ill lated telegraph, toe
| weak to be propagated through the mass Of tb G
Atlautio We have not been startled by the
fate OF Federal troopa who might have betn
K lied in that celebrated fortress Hence the
Government aud people Of this country have
retained, or the most part, the opinions which
the Americans themselves held and taught Us
up the 18th of April, the day before the New
| York fremen changed tbemselS es TO ,uaves,
| aud the Herald was forced to reconsider ite
prinoipis by, the appearance OF q mob IN front
Of It's cf1ce. II before that date sni English
| member of Parliament, or any English newr-
| paper. had veutured to suggest that the new
President should organize a large standing
army, blockade 900 miles Of coast. sDd invade
q fUufisniug reg giou at the head OF l50 900 men,
what an outburet of Indignation would have met
the Machiaveilian counsel! How we should
have been reminded that q Republic rests on the
consent ot the governed, NOT hke the old Brit
i'h Empire, on tyranny and taxes; thas the
Southern States were not Hindostan, to be
reconquered In atwelvemonth; that the! people
of NeG, York and other seats of commerce
we're not likely to make themselves cstepewB TO
carry out Euglsno's Abolitionist schemes, by
invading the planting States and encouraging
Icy nggers 70 rebel against their mssters! la
short, It would have been tFiumphsutly demon.
s,rated that our o. mDathy tor the Federal au-
tbUrity was only. Effected With the diabocal
purpose OF embroiliug the two sections Of the
American people Yet because from sudden
access of patriotic feeling, the Northern popula.
tlons are organizing descent on the South, we
are expected 10 forget all the decency and pru'
dence Of international intercourse, and join in
bounding on the invaders! That the people of
the North should be unable to control their an
ger at finding that an independent foreign pow
er does not commit itself to demonstrations OF
hostility against ten millions OF civilized men
with whom IL has no quarrel, and whose rights
to independence, though now denied, we're ad
mltted by the North itself few weeks ago,
shows to hat apoint of iritabllity the Amerl-
cans had been brought by years of prosperity
and success. .-a't. ~.
This country has chosen Its course, and is not
likely TO depart from IL. That the Americans
should expect us TO be swayed by any strong
feelings Of attachment to the United States
Government, argues an extraordinary forget
fulness Of what the conduct of that Government
has been to US on all occasions. While our be.
havior to the people Of the United States has
been always conciliatory, il Is no exsggeration
to say that their Government has been uniform
ly hostile and ungenerous beyond any European
precedent, except perhaps that of the hrst
French Empire. In our European disputes our
Statesmen, when called upon to face hostile des-
potinms, have alwsys been haunted BY the fear
Of having the American Government on their
backs Is the psluy quarrel they fxed on US
In the business OF the enlistment, or the tone OF
Mr.. Sewsrd's speeches, likely 70 rouse us TO en-
thusiasm in the cause Of the Government at
Washington Neutrality-sttict neutrality
Ia all that the United States Government can
claim; and, as we maintained neutrality In the
Italian War, when all our sympathies we're
awakened, much more shall we maintain it
when we look on struggle where our judg-
ment still waits for further information, and
where wa shall assuredly not reioloe in the MIL