The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-19


Wales, to the closeness Of the tic which bound
them to the country from which so large por-
ton Of them derived their origin. Less than
three months after the departure of the heir
apparent to the British throne, and close on the
expressions of thankful delight which, from the
Queen down to the humblest of English news
papers, were re-echoed through England, at the
courtesy and unbounden cordially with which
the young Prince had been greeted, the Ma
chiavelian perfdy Of the Court Of st. James
began. Jealousy and hatred of democratic in
situations, effaced every better and warmer feel
ing just so soon as an opportunity appeared of
gratifying the hereditary venom Of q hostile
aristocracy; and, from that hour to this, there
is no imaginable indignity excepting war itself
to which we have not been subjected The re-
cognition of the insurectionary States as bel
ligerents; the insulting speeches of Lord Pal
merston and Lord John Russell; the collision of
government with Southern agents in despatch
ing vessels from English ports with arms and
military stores; the fragrant and impudent aid
and comfort offered to the rebel cause by Lord
Lyons; the attempt on the part of the Queens
Ministers to dictate an arbitrary Interpretation
Of our own constitution; the projected inter-
yention on the internal affairs of Mexico,
In opposition to the traditional exclusion
by the United States, of active interference, by
foreign nations, in the regulation of the Ameri-
can continent; and the pomp and circumstance
with which the British Consul at Havana, assum-
ed the charge Of presenting, with every honor,
the two notorious traitors themselves, who have
gust been captured, to the Captain General of
the island Of Cuba, have been but few of the
external manifestations of mean and contempti-
BILE rejoicing over the caamities that have
threatened our nationality, which have aroused
/ the deepest and post uncomfortable indignation,
from one end Of this country to the other.
Hence it.a$sthat the masses of the people are
/ Mbilant 5YerSfs arrest, on board Of British
vessel o. Messrs. Slidell and Mason. Hence,
also, it is that the idea of war with Great
Britain alarms no one, but is rather spoken Of
with complacency than otherwise.
1t is the duty of our government to make
preparations for any emergency. There is little
probability that England will care to risk hos
tilities with us. It has too little to gain, and
too much to lose, by fighting with the United
States. But we ought, none the less, to be fully
provided against any contingency that may arise.
Congress is on the eve Of reassembling, and the
President, in his message should call, at once,
for fue hundred thousand more men, and appro-
priations to build as rapidly as possible, several
hundred uessels-ofaoar. The circular Of Secre-
tary Of State Seward to the Governors of States,
recommending adequate provisions for the de-
fence of the sea coast, should be acted on. inst
as though we were on the eve of strug-
gle with powerful maritime nation.
Sixty thousand New England mariners, in
Guiding the six thousand unemployed fisher
men, who are ready and full of warlike zeal
should be enrolled, and offered proper induce
ments, to enlist themselves under the flag of the
Union, if it should, unfortunately, become ne
cessary to fight for its honor, and vindicate it
against enemies who are endeavoring to under
mine our nationality, and destroy the freedom
which was bequeathed to us by our forefathers
We do not anticipate any thing more than much
hustle and ostentatious parade of wrath, on the
part Of the government and press of Grea.
Britain; but the surest method of restraining
our old adversaries within the bounds oe
reason, is to make it dangerous for them to
overstep them.
Great Financial Success OF the Fedora,
Government.
After eight months of most costly prepare
tions for war on the part of the federal
government, with an immense army and navy
to be created, and with all the necessary ma
terial for active warfare to be accumulated and
paid for, the federal government and the people
of the loyal States find themselves to-day in q
stronger position financially than tley were in
at the commencement Of the year. Here is
curious problem for political economists, and
particularly for those self-conceited clustering
and olundering politicians at the South who
dcinded themselves. and almost deluded the
country AT large. into the idea that the stoppage
al cotton expectations would precipitate the
Norh into bankruptcy and sbatter the entire
commercial and financial structure "from turret
to foundation stone" Let rs see how we stand
and whether any Of the terrible results that were
predicted as sure to follow from the stoppage
of Southern trade have been realized
In the first place, we find this very remarka-