The Shasta courier., 1862-10-25
England and the United states.


customs, that intimacy and consequent friend.
ship growing up naturally from II close and
extensive commerce, and joint feeling of
pride over the glories of common ancestry
had with other numerous causes, established
a unity of interest and sentiment such as is
but rarely witnessed among nations. That
people saw, or pretended to see, errers and
imperfections in our system. of government,
but they were agreed ia. the belief, as far as
we were permitted to judge their assertions,
that. of course next to their own, ours was
the best and happiest government and peo
pie in the world. On our part, we had a
great feeling of admiration for the British
nation, which something more than recipro-
Gated the sentiment which they pretended to
entertain, for u.s. 1t is an old saying that in
prosperity you can make many friends. 1t
Is in. the alembic of adversely that they are
alone to he tried Time and events give it
the proof, and make it as applicable to ma
tions as to individuals.
Such of our citizens as bresaw tie troubles
of today peering ominously through the
events of the political campaign in go, at the
beginning of which great party was dis
rupted and broken down for the purpose of
electing President offensive to disafect-
ed section, remember that, at that time,
proofs that England desired dissolution of
this Union was abundant. She has shown,
for the last thirty years, that when the hour
arrived her sympathy for secession, if not
something more, would not be withheld. The
action of the Democratic party, too, for tLat
time, has been such as to foster this feeling
in Great Britain. AT all times, and under
its various Administrations, it continually
sent as ministers to that country the truck
ling tools of the secessionists. Sometimes it
was in the person of such wretches as the
corrupt Buchanan, at others in the person of
ingram traitors like Mason, all to prepare the
minds of the British for the day and hour
that has now come upon us. These men and
their satellites drew brave pictures of the
benefits that were to ceme to the English by
a close union with the cotton States. They
made them understand that while the South
was merely producing country, and pro
duced, too, the very staples which Englan
most wanted, it was also the best of markets
for the manufactures of England. The North
ern States, on the contrary, were manufac-
turing people, and 10 that extent, at least,
had interests antagonistic to those of Eng.
land However ID came to pass, the fact re-
mains that what Britain saw in this country
to admire, she saw only in the Southern
States.
1t is but just to allow that this idea, in
culcated and upheld by the appliances above
partly indicated, that the people thereof
could have scarcely had any other conclusion.
This much by way of excuse for them
But how are we to speak of this bigoted
nation, which oil the time entertaining these
views, has sedulou ly suppressed them in its
intercourse with us, and lyingly said that she
was sincere in her professions of friendship?
When the war broke out she Immediately
pioSi"iihSu ioSAi IA push oA VI otiiSb ucu-
trality, and then set about arming the reb-
els. She said her ports should be closed to
Beth parties, thus insulting and outraging this
nation by recognizing the infamous rebels as
being on the same footing with ourselves,
and then permitted her dock yards to be used
for the purpose of constructing rebel steam
ers, while she will not permit an ounce of
coal t, be sold to Federal steamer, nor per-
nit it to lay beyond three days in one of her
harbors. And all this time this infamous
nation has been in close and earnest cores
p,ndenee with Our domestic traitors, and
has pledged herself to recognize their inde
pendence so soon she can do SO and preserve
the forms of decency.
1t is evident that the salutary effect of the
couple of drubbings we have had occasion
heretofore to give this old humbug is rapidly
dying out and the necessity will therefore be
thrown upon us of reviving it at no remote
a period