East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-06-20
The British Press On the United
STATES.


"No news from England" wrote James
Warren, the President of the Massachu.
sets Provincial Congress, to Samuel
Adams who was in the Continental Con
gress, in August, 1775; when the ruins
of Charlestown were smoking; when Bos-
ton severely scratched, was under the
British Lions claw; and when young
America--so Warren also wrote--had
twenty thousand men in arms to pay and
not dollar to pay them with F" No
news from England; what the Old Squaw
is about we can't conjecture and don't
much care"
From England we have, as to news,
an embarrassment Of riches; but what
the Old Squaw is about we can't conjec-
ture much better than the men of Seventy
Five. All we can see, at present, is this;
that save the London News and Leeds
Mercury and few more common sense
prints and here and there an exponent
man of the people, the whole John Bull
oligarchy, Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart,
little dog barking, great dog growing,
are like pack of trained hounds on the
full chase after the model Republic just
as their old employees, the Hessians,
dogged Washington through the Jerseys.
What mess of bile John is casting from
his capacious stomach as he runs And
to make diagnosis use Of it, as physicians
test disease, its show indicates that John
is getting on worse every day. Only
look at the wish-wash of the daily and
weekly press; then see it in larger lots in
the Monthlies; and then sec it rolling on
in the swelling volume of the Quarterlies.
The North British Review says the
United States have beaten all other
nations in national humiliation; the
National Review says our country is rot
ten before it is ripe; and the Edinburg
Review buries the American Union and
performs over it a funeral dirge. This
is a sorry exhibition. 1t is quite unlock
ed for. And it is so funny, too, to be
sequel to such world of profession of
love, respect and admiration and every
thing that's good from our trans-A tlantic
cousins. What does it mean? Now we
won't say with the old patriot we don't
much care about all this. England has
her failings, huge national grasp fail
ing-but for all that she has attained to
quite position among the nations-and
it is a most sorrowful spectacle to see her
rolling in the mud in the way she is do
ing; and Just the case Of the hearer who
thought he was hearing Whitfield preach,
when he was not hearing him, and SO do
ing religion for nothing. But the puz-
zle, we repeat, is as great now as it was
in 1775; What the Old Squaw is about
we can't conjecture.
She is SHINING, however, against light;
the light of her own experience. Among
the batch Of unfriendly editorials, one
says, Union that calls for levy of a
hundred thousand men is past praying
for or fighting for. England knows all
about rebelions, however they may turn
up; whether like Keitt's rebellion they
were for the clear right, or like some of
the White and Red Rose civil wars, they
were mere succession affairs Now, we
don't know how much draft of men was
called for, when the Pretender, with his
Highlandors, came down about as near
London as Jefferson Davis is near Wash
ington-not the 1715 rebellion, but the
lS45 rebelion-of the year when our
transatlantic cousins began to sing
earnestly their grand "God Save the
King" anthem, and made it national. 1t
had serious times, and as described had
our case PRECISELY Before us is British
1745 newspaper file; and under the date
Of October IL, we rcad--"The dispute
now is not, who shall set the sail or han
die the rudder, but whether ruddsr, sails,
ships and all shall sink or swim--it is
not about the modes of Government, but
about the existence of our Constitution.
This was said when Charles Edward,
with his army, resolved "npOn marching
direct upon London"--and was at Der
by-not so far off from the Capital as
Washington is from Richmond. Did
any friend Of the British Constitution
think of saying then that O Government