The New York herald., 1861-12-27
The American Democracy the Only Enc
mics OF England.
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Our special correspondent describes to-day with lively
irony the persistent abors Of the Americans TO make out
case They still at work. turning over the leaves
Of Wheaton and garbng the judgments Of Lord Stowe
Perhaps Mr. Everett and Mr. George Sumner will after
acquiring habit OF searching their authorities, grow to
be conscientious TO historical quotations; after
perience Of detection Twill at least grow cautious
in fasifyng facts. If to be dragged into war it
clear that il ,csH be the democracy who ciu force
into it, 10 ,ciH not be tie rich or the educated but The
ignorant and the penniiess, who will mako a war in
which they have nothing to lose, and Of the
cepton II would be vain enough to reason with such
multitude the justice Of the at ISSUE The
would be their admiration Of the dexterity which had
acquired H. and the greater their triumph over the cun
try which permitted it, Mr. Lincoln cannot hope TO show
them that II is honorable TO act justly but 1t may be
hoped that he will use argument capable OF being ap
precated by such minds il he addresses himself directly
10 their interests Even that "honest hard handed Wis
consn lumberer who sitting with his loaded rife at
full cock the stump Of tree and reading his newspa
per and smoking his tobacco in the discharge Of the high
est duties Of citizen and O. SENTINEL may be made to
understand to what unpleasant straits nsolent denial
Of redress TO this country might reduce himself Surely
any marame Power with naval forces greater than those
Of thc United States uereo hold the Chesapeake to blockade
Annaaolis, and lend some assistance to the witing
Washington ivould 90 hard Nth that Wisconsin mberer
during the Uetev. Those seventy thousand men whom
General Mcclellan reviewed. and who are most Of them
shrewdly sending home their cannot be SO ignorant
not TO appreciate the fact that is better Messs Ma
and sden should 60 to England than that all the sup
piies vi VI IotouihC tuouiu W Cut ~
be very little good to them TO know that two gentle
men whom they never are shut up in prison at
Boston but 1t must be Of the first importance 70 them to
be that while they themselves huttcd in tho
SHOWS they will have fuel and provisions TO keep up
their patriotism till next spring next autumn the
may be- II may no doubt, be very pleasant to the
members Of that expedition now in permanence at
Port Royal to read the vaporings Of Captain Wilkes
at Boston, and to learn Low atentvely he qualified him
self " by examining Kent, Wheaton and the rest )" to
the duties Of prize judge upon the high seas but
the pcrusal of this lively eoquence would be dearly
bought by their being starved into surrender by hos
tile blockading squadron.
II Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward are really inclined to do
justice and to save their country there lack facts
and arguments at hand M TO work upon the minds Of those
Of the multitude who have the naval military work
TO do And why should they care for any others Anei
public opion resides camps, and lips only BY
force Of arms There Is hdLeas corpus 10 prevent the
preston q dtsGgrteaJe opposition sentiments and moo
lnO as a6e una,med is as harmless IN Aerea as i is in
hoscoto or Wcrsdw What Mr. Lincoln has to do
is TO convince, not the citizens Of America
but the army Of the Potomac. Surely, wnh such per-
suasve facts at his hand he conrive do ths But
he should fail he cannot be much below the level of
the occasion and so unequal to the crisis he himself has
brought about not TO be content sacrifice
popularity in order TO save his country from the ruin of
foreign We cannot yet believe that the year
will bring with il a war from the West The influence
Of the highest and the lowest sentiments that
mankind must be against such evil consummation.
Honest men and honorable men will abhor in an
unjust cause avarcious men will hate which must
be runous, and timid viii dread the blow which
such war must draw down. We yet have hopes, but
those hopes disappointed the will but show
how hapess nation which, even in its relations with
foreign Powers, is governed by lis own populace.