New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-24
THE NEUTRALITY OF ENGLAND.
From The Icn1os Times, June II.

From The London Time, June II.
INDIGNATION liz veAng the Americans Of The North to
an extraordinary degree. Their excitement MIN MIN
regard the SeccssiCiss ID a cool eff ryesceuee, me
one Of their own aGrated dinks, in comp@ison WIN
the boiling rath which tbrea'ens TO Overwttl1 our
own country. Happily there are paty vents 'or tits
fermentation, and we may hope tntt, DO, oniy WI
there be 10 explosion but that pal lie opinion will be
eventually cleared and purified by he procefs Ire
neutrality Of Great Biiain il resented as The grayest
sfront 10 the Government Of the Uni ed State Not
that he Northerners desire that we enouid inefierei
on the contrary Ibey denouDce M VIGOROUSLY az ever
any preeusiOr of the eli country 10 have VII of Der
ow ON their si!e Of the Atlantic. England mns not
presume TO move finger in America; but, on tie
other band, she mns not presume to say she VIII nOt.
Liberty Of acton know denied US by the hot
ter parsans Of the Monroe doctrine, but 1t NO" seems
we are not 10 hsve the liberty OF ina;iion
To give Teasons for this ouburst Of unieasODiDg
anger s somewhat dfie.lt, inssnuch as none are to
be found in any Amer Az speeches or WriIRs hat we
have met with. One dipomalIst may attribute 1t - his
eonniry men baying been compared 10 Turks; another
20 q that we have not joined M putting down
a few rebels, Who without our aid, are, II ems,
to he destroyed in lev uo.ths. But, these explain
aions uusatisfactory, and as the temper Of tue
American people eas not be nDinerestng, anc may be
important us IL is well 10 inquire into the
Of an excitement which, considering the ordinary
abis and etiquette OF tie Auerican Go, ,ernmeut Il
hs ore extraordinary iron the pretentons which II
disclu~es
Tie secret of this disappointment of The Northern
ers and Of their strange diiPhy el fmier y 10 De
found we think, in that constant dlsIee oi uief-
national courtesy Which has distinguished successive
Governments for many yeas ELted by the rapit
growth Of their wealth and population by their sue-
90 ssu attemIt t. the Territory Of their neighbors
aud by the knowledge that England depended on them
constsnty for cotton and PEN di ally for toJJ, the
American people have acquir ed habit of petuenee
and an1 A. If insoenee III their dealings with iorsign
powers, ,wtieh, now aiie,ts their judgpspt-asaally
clear and sound-in questions Of Constitutional right
IL s The old failing OF despors, whether throne
in private he, that Ihey look thess who disagree
wuu them no qussioafng their verad'y OF insulting
their charac ter. 50 With the Amei aus. II ssemsto
o. from AL tnat we tan bear and read thai tey really
and truly believe that England IL committing most
hostile by refusing to treat Southern privaeers
pirates, aud that the English press kee "a nnwJ-
rantable liberty whsTit diseuses the possibility of an
ultimate di-rup,ion, or even speaks of Mr. Davis as
President Of the Confederate states"
4, las been represented thai the violence and
tiousness of American diplomacy during tie last ~
years have been the work of Southern poliiicians;
bot whoever planted wateIed the bad seed, il has
certainly grown up 10 full luXurance In the North;
for the OPTIONS expressed on every side and reported
10 be held by the Cabinet ut Washington, are rs unus
tihable as any advanced in the palmy days oi the
Uniop The Americans, accustomed 10 make their
own interest and feelings the STANDARD Of inter aona
law 10 rpuiiae whatever wss iDeon isien with their
claims TO universal donil ion in the New World, 10
support time the claims Of authority, at another
the itieeasbe shs of existing malOiiies, ~ cite
prteedeuts 10 defy them, 1t suited the they
isvored are now, In all innocence ard witt full be-
lief in their oan Consistency, holding within Fix
months two opposite theories OF their C0nstta-
ton and expeciog EngiishmeD 10 ch snge their views
jnst az popular feeling III the Sta ca has changed.
Tie doctrine which We are denounced tor not in
stsntly and eagerly accedng TO dates from the 18th Of
April 1861. On that day proclamsIion Of President
Lincoln was received at NewYork calling ont large
force Of militia combat the Secessioust. who had
lust taken Fort Sumter. The Northerners, who TIL
then had been perfectly spstheic, whose leading
tors had treated disruption rs an rreveIssle event,
aud Whose ne wspapers had correousy advocated the
seizure of Canada to make for the los of the Cotton
States now found in the prospect OF n campaign a
suiteient for repu0iaI ng the constitutional
theory Which had hitherto prevailed. That theory hsd
been fully enuncisted by Mr. Buchanan, and assensd
10 by the leading Statesmen Of the North aud by
more completely than by Mr.. Seward, who, while eA
pressing a hope that the seceders might lie coaxed
back VT aeknowledg that appeal 10 arms
impossible; aud who even after he become Mr.. Lin
coins Secretary Of State, rePndlaed war policy on
the ground that the subugaion OF recusaut state by
force abhorrent to American principles, and that
the last argument Of nonarcies inap pli, able to
the solution Of political difficulties In n Republic.
The revolutionary right 10 seoede was clearly ac-
knowledged by the President Of the United States the
authority from whom foreign nations are bound TO
take the law Constitutional questions relating 10
the Union. We may therefore 20 50 far to say
that If Great Britain had, the strength Of Mr. Bu-
,hanans decision, recognized the indclendeuce Of
South Carolina immediately ON her secessOn, the act
n
For nearly four months hio view of the aed
and we in this country merely followed In the wse OF
American discussion when we slecuiatod on the like
bhood of the Southenes coming back of the
ylaers seeing their folly in Quarreng with their CUE
tomers, agents, and bankers; VI the attachment 10 tho
ame of American proving too strong for sectional in
taiests and eleciioneeing pquei and OF the lovers
quarrel proving renewing OF love. The whole gfiey
Of the Norherners against us Is that We thins
they thought AK weekE before The electric shock"
which they describe themselves as having felt when
Sumter fell was unfortunately, as Ia Tie of the
Inflated telegraph too weak 20 be propagaed through
the MUS OF the Atlantic.
We have not been startledby the fate of tie Federal
troops who ght have been Killed ia that celebrated
fortress. Hence the Government aud people Of this
country have retained for The most part Tie opinions
which the Americans themselves hed and taught Us
UP to the 18th of april the day before tie Now-loS
feaen changed them, elves 20 Zousves and TIE i,f-
att WIS forced 10 reconsider its priu lies by the up
pesrance Of mob in front of ia Office IT. before that
date, any English member of Parliament, or any
Euelsh spaper had venturcd To suggeet that tho
new President should organize large ding army
blockade 600 miieo Of coat, nnd invade ourishlng
region at the head Of 100 OOu men, What oubust Of
Indignation would have the Maehivelliau council!
How we shouli have been re minded that n Ropubiic
reefs on the ent Of the governed, not Ike toe old
British Empire tyranny sud taxesj hat the So1t-
Statos not Hudostau, TO he rccorquered IN
II twely, month"; that the people. Of New-fo'k apd
other seas of weie not likely TO make then-
selves cssraws 10 cliry ont Fng'ands Aboh'iohiSt
schemes by invading the Planting States aud encor'
sging lazy liggers TO rebel against their nasters
la short, il would have been trumphaItly denlon-
Federal authority