Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-06-11

ment in America which has all through our his
tory been the studied denouncer aud rral hnirr
of the British nation while we have been niwnyo
| from the beginning ihn friends oi England.
Because, though uudpr different forms al govern
meht we had common sympathies and common
interest. England WAS the cOnserVator 0i liberty
in Europe-the oil world We in the new. II
"tho Confederate States" are right, then is Eng
land wrong. If slavery must be extended in
AnerieA then must England restore il in the
West Indies, blot out the most glorious page oil
her history, anl coll back her freed mru intu
chains Let her say TO the martyrs Of freedom
from all tue nations who have sought refuge and
magnanimous defence OH her shores return to
your.scatf0lds and your prison houses England
is no more England Let the Times cease tu
appeal longer to the enlightened opinion OF the
world nay, let the statues ot the great dead
through which passed in reverence yesterday
to the Houses of her political inie eligehce he
thrown from their pedestals when England shail
forget the utterances of her ChathAms, her Viii
heriorces, aud her Broughams, that natural jus
tice is the only safe diplomacy and lasting foun
dation of the independence Of nations.
2 What is the interest Of England now Ii
we may descend to such inferior APPEALS, it is
clearly the interest of England to stand by the
Union of the States We are her best consumer;
no ttr Il will materially affect that fact. We are
the best customer Of England. not because We are
cotton growers or cotton spinners, ogrioulluriss
OF manufacturers. but because We are producers
ami manufacturers, and have money to spend
1t is not the south, us is urged, hut the north
who are the hest consumers of English commerce.
The free white aborer and capitalist does now,
and always will, consume more than the white
master and the slave The Union and the ex-
pansion of tho States and republican policy,
make us the best market fer England and Europe
What b the world to gain, England, France or
any Of the Powers to gain, by reducing the United
States 20 o Mexican civilzationg
3. Can England afford to offend the great ma
lion witch will still be the United States Of
America, even should we lose part Of the south
Twenty millions of people to-day, with or with
out the slave States, III twenty years will he forty
millions In another half century we will be
one hundred millions We will rest upon the
Potomac and on the west bank of the Mississippi
river upon the Gulf Of Mexico. Our railroads
will run 1000 miles upon simple parallel bind
ing our empire, which must master the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans Is England so secure in the
future against home revolt or foreign ambition
as to venture, now in our need, to plant the seeds
of revenge in all our future
II Ireland, or Scotland, or Wales shall attempt
10 secede from that beneficent government Of the
United Kingdom which now lightens their taxa
tion and gives them security and respect ut home
and abroad, shall we enter into piratieal war
with our race and ally, and capture and sell in
our ports the property, and endapger the lives Of
peaceable citizens of the British empire all over
the world | enter not into the discussion Of
details. England, then, is our natural diy.-
Will she ignore our aspirations! If she is just
she ought not. If she is honorable and magnani-
NOUS she cannot. If she is rise, she icM aoL
Your obedieDt servant, C. NJ. CLAY,
United Statss Minister Plenipotentiary, &c,
to ST petershnrph