Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-21
HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 2l, 1861
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SPIRIT OF THE FOREIGN PRESS
The Enfaugled State of Our Foreign eIations
From the New York Herald. |


The tone of injured innocence. assumed by the
London Times and other English journals, in view
of the Indignation that was excited in the United
States by the Queens proclamation, the dispatches
OF Lord Lyons and the perfidOus speeches of Lord
Palmerston and Lord John Russell, deceives no
one on this side of the Atlantic. Facts have spoken
trumpet tOngued to the world, with respect to the
hostile attitude it had been intendedto assume to-
wards the Washington government, and no amount
of grlmace can tear out the pages of history that
have been once recorded. The insulting recogni-
ton, by the Britsh Ministry, of the rights of the
South as belllgerents, was natural and fitting Sc
quence TO covert Vaccinations to undermine our
pacific interstate relations. that had been contin-
ued ever since The war of 1912. Sir Robert Peel
boasted of them; Sir Henry Bulwer based upon
them his contemplate ntrigues in the affair of Cen
tral America Sir John Champion was given his
passports for too barefaced impudence in carrying
them into execution and they have, at all times,
formed the staple of the diplomatic policy of En-
gland towards the American republic. And now,
forsonth, because the Queens government sees fit
to sntfy itself, not daring to carry into execution
its implied threats and prohibits the entry of South
ern privateers into British ports, we are required
to let bygones be bygunes, and even to ignore that
any cause of dlspeasure has existed The absurdl-
" and inconsistency of Acknowledged the ''equal
belligerent rights - of the rebel States and then
snubblTfg them, from sheer cowardice and fear of
the consequences, bestows title TO consideration,
will eisurely repentance for hastily offered in
dignites be considered the slightest atonement,
when the time shall have come To resent them.
Both England and Spain may rest assured that
Just retribution will be visited upon them, for tax
ing advantage of our domestic Disturbances to fur
ther their own selfish schemes of aggrandizement
For the outrage offered in the Queens proclama-
ton, the United States will possess itself of Cana
da, and for the invasion of ST. Domingo her Cath
olic Majesty will certainly have to pay with the
sacrifice of Cuba. We have first to put down re-
bellion at home; but every hour proves that the
war that has begun will be a short one, and that,
ere the lapse of another half year, armies VIII ex-
st on the American continent of over half million
of men, thirstlng for foreign foe upon whom to
eXpend their strength. When the Union element
at the South shall have been fairly mancipated,
and the forces of the republic shall have been unit
ed, let Great Britain and Spain beware. Our ar
mics never will consent to lay down their arms
while vestige of European domination remains in
the Western hemisphere. Causes of war we have
enough, and they will not cool for keeping
The peace which resulted in the acquisition by
the United States of California left behind it a
eaven of military ardor which could find no vent.
Hence the tlibustering forays which marked the
decade that succeeded it. The federal government,
with degree of loyalty almost unparalleled, and
at vast expenditure OF money and even OF life, sup
pressed them all. Yet there were, then, not over
from thirty to fifty thousand men, who could, by
any persuasons, be induced to engage in expedi-
tiOns which violated our peaceful relations with
foreign Powers. When tranquility shall he restor-
ed between the North and South, it will be far diff
fercnt. An army equal in number to that of France,
and as well disciplined, will burn to resent the
wrongs that have been offered TO the country III
its day of affection, and they will rejoice at being
able to display abroad the valor for which there
will no longer be field at home.
The government of Louis Napoleon has conduct
ed itself with discretion, forbearance and even with
generosity. 1t has taken none of the indecent ad-
vantages, that have characterized the Pamerston
Ministry and the Spanish Court. Moreover the
interests of France and of the United States are
Identical and 1t is safe to predict that with the
closing of the civil war in which now in
volved, a conflict abroad will be inaugurated, of
which the result cannot be doubtful. The old
grudge of the empire, and series of insults against
this free republic, which have never discontinued
since the Revolution of 1776, will be avenged at
the same time. o