Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-21
wORCEsT TER
SATURDAY., DECEMErR al, 1891.

reason. that many people in England, incIud-
ing very prominent persons, some oi li'eih
members of the cabinet, seriously believe our
government is anxious TO have war win
that country A member OF the Pameraton
administration is reported as making declar-
alton TO this effect, and evidently with entire
conviction of its truth 1t surprises one to
hear such statements; and so it surprises us
to hear English newspapers and gentlemen
speak of Pennsylvania as The capital OF Bos.
ton. or Florida as county in Michigan But
few Enslishmen take pains to be wei INFORM
ed in regard 10 this country and It's ahaIrS' OF
its people, and their mistakes and mlSappre
tensions are sometimes very ludicrous'
Our reason Tor desiring such war, accord
ing to these enlightened Englislimen, Is that
it will afford US good opportunity 10 back
down in the conflict with southern treason
and accept the disruption OF the Union ana
the southern contederacy as facts accom-
nlisbed. Ii is probable that they believe this
when they utter it; and that they are capable
of believing 1t shows how extensively ana
successfully the secessiohists have operated IN
England to produce impressions IN their iavor
and make il seem impossible for our govern
mont to subdue tile rebellion. 1t is true that
these emissaries of treason have been aided in
that country by longing of the dominant
class, the aristocracy, to see our govern
ment overthrown. This portion OF the
British people have never been friendly
TO u.s. Our institutions are 2ntagohlstlc 10
their ideas and their power, and they would
gladly see them dest.oyed. OF course they
believe easily and encourage Others 10 oel'eVe
that "the great republic is no more thal
it has sunk in RUNS and can never De re-
stored Such result of our experiment " l'h
free institutions would be served up 10 Inc
English liberals in every possible lolm, and
trumpeted throughout Europe to show how sac
riligious it is TO questson 10 divine rght oi lhe
old dynasties English toryism, greedily be-
leyinr what it desires to have true may have
been led to believe that We despair o. puttlas
down treason, and therefore would be glad to
reach an end of the struggle by means OF hos
tilities with Great Britain.
We can not afford to fight Great Britain
now, but the day will come when she will le
made to feel the consequences OF her unfriend-
ly and domineeripg behaviour towards US IN
our great trouble. She makes it impossible
for us 10 be friendly to her hereAt lie. We
shall be civil to her, observe treaty obligations
with fidelity, and trade with her people. But
Great Britain can never have the friendship
of these United States and WHEN, IN the
course of political progress, the day OF doom
shall arrive for her arrogant and oyefbearing
aristocracy, nowhere Oh the face OF the earth |
will the jubilee be so joyful as here England
has not the cordial good will Of any other
nation She is always successful in winning |
dislike and hatred France at the present !
time is her "ally," but what delight it would
give the French army TO sack London and
overturn the British government
We did not need the Trent affair 10 test the
disposition of that country toward the United
States. We already knew what it was. The |
haste of the British government 10 recognize
the JEFF Davis concern as a "belligerent |
power" and all that has followed that act,
down TO the affair OF the Nashville, have made
it SO manifest that The blindest can see and the |
dullest comprehend. With what sympathy
and anxiety we followed England in her strug-
gle with that terrible Sepoy rebellion in India
How we mourned at her disasters and rejoiced
at her successes In this country, the SYM
pathy was spontaneous and earnest. Great
Britain, stultitied and misled by the po
litical influence OF her aristocracy, shows
herself incapable of either initiating or
remembering such friendiness. She is
now teaching us lessons that can never
be forgotten. We can afford to wait for salts
faction, for she will surely reap the harvest
which her conduct is now preparing. Give
her, now, every letter OF international law ap.
plicable to the Trent affair. Let her have the
form of correct observance OF the rules, even
though there be no substance in it. And
hereafter let her have no aid in any extremity
SO long as the detestiby mean and selfish aris'
tocracy of the Kingdom controlis government