The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-08-30
England Rebuked by EnGi!shmen.

calm and lucid exposition Of Amescan
principles assears in the London Re,ie,c
That journal, which has lately stemmed
the current of English prejudice, chides
its contemporaries who have argued that
our practice does not accord with our
ayowed principles. and shows that secess-
ion is rightly regarded by our Government
"a rebellion. The Rsviev put the case to
Englishmin thus:
"Shou,d we be inconsistent if we forcibiy
prevented the Irish from setting up from
setting up for themselves however much
they wisbed it? According to these wri.
tiers, it would be necessary for US in such
case TO defend ourselves by the wretched
quibble that We never passed an at of
Par!iment to assert principles which We
all believe. and should act upon ourselves
without hisiiation. and that as our techni-
cal legal language was framed before those
principles prevailed. We have q perfect
right to disregard in practice what We all
accept in theory, and SO to neglect our
ency. No position can be more undignifi-
ed than playing fast and loose in this
manner, protesting liberal opin ions on all
occasions in which our own interests arc
not Immediately concerned, and throwing
phraseolosy when they are. 1t is utterly
impossible to distinguish the case OF Ireland
from the case of the Southern States by
anv argument which stops short of the
principle that can justify armed resistance
10 an established government. Whoever,
therefore. charges the United States with
inconsistency ought either to maintain
that We should be bound to allow the Irish
to proclaim their independence Of u, as
soon as they please, or to maintain that no
amount OF misgoyernment and oppression
on our part would Justify them in doing
so. No one would accept either branch of
this cilemma,; ,;yet it is altogether inevitable
If the Americans are charged with incon-
sistency. - ao.sEe $50 4lt o1a
The London Spectator of august 2, in an
article entitled the TEST Hour OF America.
says n good word for the North, and adds;
I'VE have not les: hope yet II is al
most blas2hemy to suppose that an Uni,
loss and wos, this expenditure OF lie ana
energy. this terrible break in the march
of generation can end simply IN notnine:
in q separation that will leave me nationa'
crime more rampant IMAM or'ofe. ne
op;n;on Of the silent millions has still to
ba sought and it may astonish the pro.
-, ."a,n as it did after Sumter fell
Tbe Quiet yoemanry who, in great crises,
.iv.ys govern this States. are not Represent
ed by The "wirepuiiers," or by the press
they control, or by the city population Of
New York. They may be maturing their
minds for last and grander effort, pre-
pairing slowly. as is their wont, for the
revolution which shall reinvigorate the
national life. At the very last moment
they may step forward follow some chosen
leader. declare the war par of primo pies
and yrecipitatc the flower Of twenty mil
lions OF men once more upon the South
Even then they may not win, for the South
majaened BY certain defeat. and dreading
the lpss nj property lrss than spbiugation.
may rise to the level Of their situation.
make the offer which the negroes in York
town say they expect. and promise their
slaves complete and immediate freedom.
But choft or that esolve, there would. in
the &sent Of q new rising Of the pAoplf. Be
still no chance- for the south, and the
rising is no more impossible than Ameri'