The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-06

,,nas and houses. and commerce, and children
and counting not our lives dear unto US, ~
tina. we may have government does IL w
come Great Britain 10 countsnance ou' 0"I =,
mics and BE sudden and quick in quaffel
with US? Is this worthy Of the land OF Mill
ton and Hampton, of Cromwell and Sydney
Of C!arkson and Wilberforce, of Brougnam,
and Russell ? Is it thus that a mother should
treat her child, tutor his pupil? 1t might
be pardonable in game cock to stick his spur
into the eye of the young onc,while his broth
er held him by the gill, lest he should some
day rule the barn-yard; but it i'll becomes
great, brave and magnanlmous Christian ma
ton, which claims to teach liberty, literature
and religion in every flap Of its flag. 1t can
not be that tho heart of Britain has spoken
its Norman and mongrcl extremlties only
We must except few such men as Bright
and such men as the London Star. we
honor the promptituIe with which Brit
ain defends her decks, and the generosity with
which she affords an asylum beneath her flag.
1t is lesson which cur government shoul!
never forget; nor can VIC complain that she
insists on maritime law, but We do object to
the manner and the menace in which apology
and PREPARATION are s'ught at an hour when
consideration and Kindness should character
ize her intercourse with US She is under
treaty obligations Of friendship we are strug-
g'ins for human progress against an unnatural
rebellion. Our relations, our enemy, AMI our
eluse alike bind her to construc our acts win
favor. We may be told Britain would speak
aid if We would speak emancipation A wave
of sympathy would flow over the nation that
no ministry could resist True, but Britain
must not forget that she required time to
emancipate; that the curse she entaiIed upon
US has struck its roots deep; thai Mr. Lincoln
is trammeel by pledges prejudiccs, parties,
and Constitutional restrictions, and that tho
Prince of British aboIi,ionists, on occasion Of
the Harpers Ferry raid, in defiance Of his
principles, asserted that laws which recognize
property in man should be respected.
Again we predict there will be no war. If
the Christianity Of Great Britain does not
prevent it it, solf.interest will. They have
tota. o: Glib war vessels, of which Isl are
steamships, fifty being in reserve; but how
can they coal them when here They have
an army of 225,000, but will it not cost
something to transport them And will they
not meet foe? Our army already is over
half a million, and cur navy 246 v ar vezScs,
which could easily tie Increased. True, We
have not shown very much activity in cur
civil war, but We should fight with different
spirit againt foreign enemy. The British
might sweep our commerce from the seas, and
destroy our seaboard cities, and in doing sc,
destroy not little British capital. Mean
while the Americans could prey upon tue
commerce Of Great Britain in every sea- ard
pierce her colonies for willie she is prohb.
tied by treaty obligations from commissioning
priTatecrs, we could set afoat feet of thou
sands IN six months. The strength of the
British Empire in pcace-commcrce and co..
onies-woull be her weakness in war. The
wants Of Great Britain are cora and a sale
for manufactures. War would shut no =.
once her chief grauary and chief marlet.-
The great strength ct the United States is
within her own Boundaries and war would
force their development. 1t would convert
Pennsylvania into great forge TO supply us
with iron and cutlery, and California into a
great mint and would fill the West with
manufactures to supply its clothing aud con.
sumo its surplus corn, while its southern por-
lions would become white with cotton, and its
interior green with sorghum, and when the
war Terminated, a protective tariff would
forever shut Great Britain out from CONNIE.
ttion with its fires and looms.
As to the Termination Of such conflict It
may be that the Union would be divided and
1t may be- too that the British Empire would
be ruined. 1t is more probable that Con.J,
would be o1rs than that the South would be
theirs. On the one side bath the French and
American population would sylnpah;ze with
US while on the other the slave population
could be freed and armed for us. Sbould tho
South anticipate US, We have free negroes
enough to turn their arms in our favor.
But this is not all. While Britain v..
engaged with us in front she would be li.hIe
to attack on both TANKS. Ireland, which m, y
"oe tracked through English statute books as
a wounded man through the crowd-bv her
blood, might practically illustrate the bean.
Ties OF secession; while France, on the other
s,de' would avengc Waterloo, In 1888 a
british noble said 10 us, 1--WE are at tho
mercy OF Napoleon. He could steam over IN
a lew hours with force enough to land ; if he
could land he could control the arsenals ;f