Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-06

neen the studied denouncer and real hater OF
tne brush nation, while we have been always
from the beginning the friends of England.
because, though under different forms ofqov
o"ment, we had common sympathies, and a
common cause, and therefore a common IN.
terest England was the conservator of liber.
ty IN Europe-the old world we in TIL new
II "ihe Confederate states" are rinht then 10
England wrong. ltslavery must be extended
III America, then must England reslaSe il in
the West Indies, blot out the most gorious
page OF her history, and call back her freed
men into chains Let her say to the martyrs
of freedom from all The nations who have
sought refuge and magnanmous defence on
her shores, Return to your scatfoids and your
prison-house England is no more England
l4St the Times cease 10 appeal longer to the
enlightened opinion of the world nay, let
the statues OF the great dead through which l
passed IN reverence yesterday to the Houses
OF her political intelligence be thrown from
their pedestals, when England shall forget the
utterances OF her Galatians, her Wilberiorces.
and her Brous llams,-lhat natural justice is
the only safe diplomacy and lasting tounda-
ton of the independence OF nations.
2 What is The interest of England noto? If
we may descend 10 such inferior appeals, it is
CLEARLY the interest of England to stand by the
Union OF the States. We are her best con-
sumner; no tariff will materially affect that
TACT. We are the best customer of England
not because we are c0tinn-growers or cotton
spiuners, agriculturists or manufacturers, but
because we are producers and manufacturers, aud
have money to spend 1t is not the south, us is
urged but the north, who are the best cons UNI
ers of English commerce. The flee white la
borer aud capitalist does now, and always will
consume more than the white master and
slave. The Union and the expansion OF the
states and republican policy make us the best
market for England and Europe. What has
the world to gain England, France, or any
OF the Powers to gain by reducing the United
States to a Mexican civilization
8. Can England afford to oftnd the oreat na-
ton tohich wW still be The United States of
America" even should we lose part of the south
Twenty millions OF people today, with or with
out the slave states, in twenty years we will
be forty millions In another half century
we will be one hundred millions! We will rest
upon the Potomac, and on the west banks of
the Mississippi river, upon the Gulf of Mexl-
co. Our railroads will run 1000 miles upon
single parallel, binding our empire, which
must master the Atlantic and tile 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?
If Ireland, or Scotland, or Wales, shall at
tempt to serede from that benefcent govern.
ment of the United Kingdom, which now
lightens their taxation and gives them security
and respect at home and abroad, shall we en-.
ter into piratical war with our race and aly.
and capture and sell in our ports the properly
and endanger the lives of peaceable citizens of
the British empire all over the world? Ienter
not INTO discussion OF details. England, then,
is our natural ally. Will she ignore our aspi-
rations Ii she is just, she ought not. Ii She
is honorable and maguauimous, she cannot.
II she is ,0iSe, she ocW not
Your obedient servant,
c. M. CLAY, United States Minister
PleMpotenIiary, &C, to ST. Petersburgh.
1fOriey's, London, Nay II.