New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-24
BRITISH DISCUSSIONS OF AuRRI-
CAN TROUBLES.

and Great Britain That our rebels should
ardently desire its existence, and that their
dastardly organ The Herald, should accordingly
seek to produce it, are very natural: bat why
should they be allowed to dispel the cordially
that ought to exist between two great, free,
kindred nations The leading British journals
perceive and have admitted that The Herald is
manifestly conducted in the interest Of JEFF.
Davis, and yet they habitually quote its ridicu-
lous and vilainOus Nominations as the voice of
the American Press and People Thus The
Saturday Rerie,o of the 9Th inst. opens bitter
leader on "Our Sympathies with America as
follows:
Among the many weaknesses which the Americans have
shown in their troubles there at least which Ia English
eyes ought be amabletheh craving for English sympathy
Ii that this craving has displayed self in rather 'n
rulsr way and calculated 10 cell forth very ardent
response II has taken the form Of clustering abuse and rho
donontsdDg defiance Almost before any English statesman
that we WE'RE going to Do sFerhas that was hostile and
resoherous All sorts Of threats were hurled at Us In return
for imaginary offences France was TO be called In agAn.
and the srIpangcd banners once 10 be
beside the eagles with all the other terrible phantssmssca Of
Gallo intervention which displayed by every peeysh
fool in the world who hes received what he magne to be an
injury afront When It was found that we were not
going to do anything at ALL we were bsekguhded Tor that
Then attempted to Swsken interest the American
by the promise Of psca expedition against Canada
to be undertaken the moment the interesting cause was vicso
rious," &c, &c.
Is not this radically dishonest The Rericp
is one of the very journals hat have confessed
the evident completely of The Herald with the
Secessionists, yet it uses its utterances as We
see above taking care never to quote one line
from any American journal that speaks appre.
ciatively of Great Britain, her Government or
: people, though so to speak is the general rule,
while the bullying blackguardism of Tie Herald
is the rare exception. And the reason is pat
ent: The RerieU seeks, in the interest Of Dis
union, to increase the alienation which it al.
fleets to regret.
Turn now to the second speech Of Mr.. Lind
say, VI. P.,-that whereof we gave q synopsis
in cur last-rnnde in reply to Mr. Forster's
lecture. We pass over his immaterisl mis-
takes-srch as bis assertion that There
a. was no such thing as an American-bOrn child
(" above ten years of age who could not read aud
write" Unfortunately, there are about One
Million "American.born" children who not
only can neither read nor write, but whom
every one is forbidden by law under heavy
penalties, to teach to read or write. Then
there are as many more children in the Slave
States who are not indeed precluded by law
from learning, but for whose education no pro-
vision is made-they being "Poor Whites,
" mud. sills," whose education is not consid-
cred desirable by the oligarchy. 1t is only in
the Free States that any effective legal pro-
vision for Popular Education is made, and Mr.
Lindsay's speeches tend to render this limit
alton eternal.
He proceeds to assert that the Southern People
meaning the Southern Whites-are unanimously
and intensely Secessionists; wherefrom he argues
that the Union cannot be reGstabshed. Here he
ignores the notorious, open, jealous Unionism Of
Western Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and other
large sections of the country which Secession
commands us TO surrender, TO say nothing Of the
entire States Of Maryland Kentucky and Mis-
souri, not one Of which has voted to secedc though
every art was exhausted in efforts to induce them
10 do So Each of these States il now formidably
invaded or mcnaced by the "COnfederate armies,
with intent TO subdue and annex them to JEFF.
Dayis's dOminiOns; leading Secessonist oracle
prOciaims, in exact accordance with the acts of
the Dayis's Government, that THE South wants
" MI her territory, and lrH hare n'-that is, will
force the three States just named out of the Union
and into tue COnfcderacy in spite Of their utmost
resistance Yet Mr. Lindsay, without one word
of rcmonstrarce to the traitors, who are invading
us along line of over thousand miles, warns us
not TO invade the South, or " there viii be the
"most terrible blood-shed the word ever saw
Look now at Mr.. Lindsay's assertion that
he had reason to believe" that the rebels
buried more than 5000 Of our soldiers on
the field of Manassas Our General months
since, published full and candid account OF
that battle, based on minute reports from every
brigade and regiment of our troops that went
into that battle, and making our total OF Killed,
wounded and missing 2,Jl9, and many OF the
missing afterward rejoned their regiments, as
large portion of the wounded have also done.
Now suppose we had actually lost 5000 killed
on that field instead Of the 500 reported by
Gen. Mcdowell, the enemy had the means of
correcting the falsebOod completely in their
hands, and they had every inducement TO do
it. Why have they not published an official
statement Of the number Of our killed and Of
their own respectively Why have we not
been able, in the course Of three months, to
gOad or shame them into Publishing their own
official bulletin Of that battle' r. was com
pleted and deposited at Richmond moro than
six weeks sgo. yet II is vigorously kept from