Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-12-04
War Threatened with England.

From a circular issued at Washington
by "A Friend of the Union" in which the
writer quotes at large from Lord Lyons
letter of Oct l4th, to the Secretary of the
q. S., and comments upon it, and also
quotes from the English Press, we extract
the following:
would also divest myself of all appre-
tensions of a premeditated design, could l
do SO in the face of the clearest evidence,
that the British Ministry has practically
lent itself to the destructive purposes of
the rebellion, by folding its arms in dig
ni6ed disclaimer of the wonted interventi u
of friendly foreign powers on occasions
of national troubles Such evidence
Isl afforded by that prominent jour-
nal. the London Herald, in 'confessing to
feeling of envy" on the part of the Min
istry, towards the rising greatness of this
country, when commenting on the friendly
letter IF the Emperor Of Russia to the Pres
ident of The United States; and also in the
declaration, IN late speech of Sir Bulwer
- Lytton, given by the London Spectator. as
embodying "the views OF the English Gov
erning Glass is, the present Minis
try which felt itself bound to give Lord
Lyons the odiOus instructions SO insulting
to the United States.
l ssall quote few passages frOm each
of these journals The former, the Lon
don Herald, alleged to represent the views
of Lord Derby and his adherents, takes oc-
casiOn, in remarking upon the friendly let
ter addressed by the Gar of Russia to the
President of the United States, to expose
the dereiiction of duty. by the present Min
istry, chiefly as follows, viz:
mo one can fail to perceive considerable
astuteness in the suggestions of the En
peror of Russia. They can give no offence.
The South is not in position to take any
And the North will certainly not take his
advice about stopping the fighting amiss,
10 its delight at his moral support of the
Union. Between St Petersbursh aud
Washington, there has always been aspeak-
ing kindness. Extremes meet: and we
can conceive plenty of reasons, why the
Gear should prefer the Union intact to TWO
equal Confederacies. But re confess TO a
feeling Of e1agy. Why has it been left to the
Gar to be the only European Sovereign to
make known his feeling for the Ameri ans?
What is he to the President or the Presi-
dent to him? The United States are not
his rivals Their commerce and their ship
ping may sweep the worlds ports, and nev-
er interfere with him. They may expand
northward and southwark, eastward and
westward. and it must be years before they
can raise boundary question. As to the
commercial ties between those two powers,
there are positively none. Bombard New
York tomorrow, or burn all the cotton de-
pots in the Confederate States, and St.
Pctersburgh win not feel the RUIN. Free
the slaves, and destroy the cotton plant,
and Russia may still say: Let the CALLED
Jade vince, my withers are unwrung."
"The case is very different with US
We feel erery beat of tie American pulse.
The ruin of the trade of the States paral-
Yves our manufacturing industry, puts our
mills on half time, and depresses every
commercial interest In the United King
dem Let the South capture Washington,
and the mobs of the great cities OF thel
North gain the upper hand over their af-
frishted authorities, there will be poverty
and distress in thousands of English homes
Let the great Northern armaments sweep
down the Mississippi, everywhere proclaim
ing freedom to the slaves, and destroying
the cotton csOp, and WE should have to meet
a famine ten times more terrible than that
which swept of from the Irish soil l5O,-