Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-07
From the New York Evening Post, June 9TH.
ENGLAND'S POLICY.

1t seems a pity to revive the old grudge
against England which was for so many years
almost part of our national faith Twenty
years ago "Britisher" was term Of contempt
with which school boys insuted each other,
and which il fireman resented as quickly as
''liar." The wisest Americans rejOlced when
time buried also this grudge, when We as n
nation, were glad to acknowledge our friend
ship for England, and when our people reJoced
at the prosperity OF what once more we began
TO call "the mother country"
1t is a pity to revive this old grudge-but
England seems bent on doing it
The late NJ. DE TocquevIle was writer
who cannot be accused OF prejudices against
England, and whose pre-eminent quality was
a judicial fairness of mind. Ellis admiration
OF England was earnest and sincere" says a
late British reviewer. In one of his letters to
Mr. Senior, tins eminent writer remarks on the
little sympathy and liking for England to be
found among other nations Part of this
sentiment, he says, is attributable "to Il con.
viction felt by ali people in the world that
England never considers others except from
the selfish point OF view OF her own grandeur,
that all sympathetic sentiment for eohat is not
herself is more absent in her than in any ma
ton OF modern times that she knever notices
what passes among foreigners, what they think
vantage that England may draw tIlerefrom--
occupied i'll realty only with herself, even
when she seems most occupied with them.
There is certainly some eXaggeration in this
notion" adds M. De VoQueyllle, "6ut | cannot
sag there is not much truth in ii.
Her conduct towards the people and govern
mcnt of the United States, at present, is an
other evidence of the business OF De TOcque
vie's judgment. Whatever the English PEG
pie may eel or desire the aristocracy which
governs Great Britain, it is plain, hopes TO
gain Il selfish advantage from om rebellion.
British rulers see i'll the destruction OF our
Union only the creation OF a more favorable
market iGr themselves. They favor Davis,
because if he succeeds, they think to lin
opened to them vast region whose people are
devoted entirely TO agricultural pursuits, aud
with whom British manufacturers will have a
market greater than ever, as they think, be-
cause southern enmity against the north would
lead the'Davis COniederacy 10 favor British
trade against ours. They see in the dim iu-
ture an opportunity to establish on our SOUTH
ern border British prOtVctorate They think
OF The day when the mouths OF the Mississippi
even may be neld jointly by Britain and The
successful but helpless contederates. They
are glad to humble the pride OF nation whose
merchants have driven their own from many
OF their tavorte MAJ kets. Manchester does
not easily forget that in the Indian ports Am
elican calicoeS have tor some years taken the
place OF English; that on the African coast it
is only American calicors that are sold that
in the East Indian islands, in China, on the
South American coast-wherever Anne rican
enterprise has had iair play, our goods and
our manufactures are driving out the British.
II DAVIS succeeds, these men think, all this
will be changed. But if Davis does not sue
coed Z? England is a great nation but she
has too many enemies safely 10 lose the only
powerful friend that remained to her Six
months ago, Engand's danger would have raj
he'd 10 her support our best men and our best
wishes. France and Russia were then her
great enemies. BY her conduct to day, she is
fast adding the United States 10 the list. Ii is
blunder which Is more disastrous TO her than
all the crimes she has committed.
II Davis could succeed, Great Britain would
perhaps advantage herself greatly. But with
The Union preserved and stronger than ever
In the hearts OF the people; with those stars
and stripes which England looks on 50 Jealous
ly, victorious over rebels at nome and haunt-
ing more saucily than ever in the faces OF Sc
cret enemies abroad with this nation more
hrlniy KNIT together than at any period OF our
history, and tile only cause OF quarrel for ever
destroyed-wh will England be then
HE London Times lately wished us for
elgn policy We can tell the leading journal
that we shall come out OF this struggle with a
foreign policy which will be much better man
aged than England's just now and whose
"atchwOrd will be remember who, in 1861.
were our friends, and who were our enemies"