The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-24

tions of the swarming population OF her manu-
featuring towns and the vision has not been at
all pleasant one to her.
The marvellous growth of this country, in all
its industrial interests in the past thirty years,
its rapid advancement in literature, science and
art, its immense increase of population, made
up in considerable part of those abandoning
the worn out and decaying kingdoms OF the
Cd World, and seeking in the boundless tie! RI
tory on this Continent g fresh fields and pas
lures new the almost startling development Of
its hidden wealth, its vast resources, and its
unlimited capacities, have been watched by En-
gsh eyes with jealousy, if not with envy, in the
apprehension that the American representative
of the Anglo Saxon race was destined soon to
outstrip its rivals in the race of Empire, and
stand first among the nations of the earth.
These and other similar gri'fS have been con-
tinually chatting the pride, and disturbing the
equaDimity, and alarming the apprehension of
England for a generation and before them all.
have been the two sore and tender places caused
by the two wars ia which she has crossed swords
with this country and fought till she was sat
s6ed and asked for peace.
With all this history in view it is impossible
not to see that there is something behind this
Trent affair that has led to all the buster and
warlikc preparation Of England. That may
afford the pretext for the quarrel, but the arm
that will strike the blows will be nerved by an
entirely different consideration Cotton is 10 be
obtained. This Government is to be broken in
two. American Commerce is to be crippled
Slavery, which produces onIy the raw material,
is to be strengthened and established An agree
ment is to be wrenchod from the Government, if
possible that we will make no more tariffs to
shut out EnglIsh stuifs from our markets Eng
land is to be the ally of the South, and take her
part in any future quarrel with the North
These and other kindred pleasant visions are no
doubt floating through the mag ina.ion of John
Bull, which, through the agency Of his iron
clad ships, his monster Navy, his immcns. war
establishment and his new slave driving allies
he hopes to soon SEQ reduced to accomplished
facts.
We hope mos! sincerely that war with Eng
land may be avoided, for the very simple reason
that we regard war Us calamity which can but
inact present injury upon the country and cs-
peciclly now, war with any foreign power
would most senSibly cnbarrass the Government
and the people in putting down rebellion But
ii England by her arrogant nsolent and men
aclng manner Of asking redress for trivial
grie'ance shall force our people, consulting our
national honor and dignity, to accept her open
and armed hostility, then We believe we express
the opinion of every American from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, who loves his country and its in
stltutions, when We say that neither England nor
Slavery shall make anything by the alliance
but both OF them, SO far as their power on this
continent is concerned, shall be strangled with
the same rope and consigned to the same grave
ami from Hudson Bay to the Gulf Of Mexico,
The Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave