Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-02-13

| uauneT LOT buPPois. We hSut ioI hiiiioho
of Europeans who await peace before emil
grating. We fight for honor education, and
religion-home, wife, and fatherland and,
as an American, you must pardon me if l
smile at the summary way the last speaker
proposed blotting us off the worlds map by
sending five thousand troops to Canada.
am not one of those who believe that the
Western people and the Western empire can
be wiped out Of the Western horizon in three
weeks time, only to leave a grease spot on
the Western ocean. An illustration will
show its absurdi!y. How brave England
will laugh to scorn the man who feared the
destruction Of these islands at the landing of
five thousand Frenchmen at Dover! Or,
better still, what could be more ridiculous
than England to have attempted the con-
quest Of Russia by sending only five thou
sand Englishmen to the Crmea My duty
compels me to tell you in confidence that
the Americans are not Chinese.
| We have got through with the Fugitive
Slave Law Envoys-you will soon have with
YOU the author of the Negro Catcher act,
and the son of the New York Tallow Chan
| dler, and wish it were possible for them to
bring their negroes with them just to show
Exeter Hall how well such men can manage
such labor! We shall have no more of
Mason and Dixon's lire. 1t will now be
Mason and Slidell's capture: Everything is
on the change. The Pope turns brigahd-
Kings die suddenly-Vesuvius beches forth
molten iron-and slaves no longer run away
from their masters, but masters run away
from their slaves. The gentleman is mis-
taken about the strength of our cabinet and
our unity. Omitting the two hundred trail
tors iE Forts Warren and Lafayette aud
Fernando Wood, the North is unit, ac-
knowledgins one chief who combines the
virtue Of Washington with the will of Jack
son. Lincoln is every inch a President
Never before has the American Cabinet pos
Christian patriotism, and so many cubic
inches Of solid brain No cleverer man than
Chase ever handled the country's finances.
No ADLER man than Cameron ever filed the
= War Office, and you must permit me en-
phatically to deny that the oft-repeated SLAM
der that Seward is hostile to England.
In recent speeches have alluded to this
+ industriously circulated slander. Seward is
, not man of war. His temperament is
peace. Clever as a lawyer-clever as a
speaker clever as a writer-clevcr as n
statesman, he is, without exception, the Gle
veres0Secretary of State that America has
ever possessed. have read his speeches
since | was child-clear, forcibIe, and full
Of life. He can talk diplomacy with Lyons,
war with Palmerston, Latin with Russell,
Greek with Gladstone, or Hebrew with
Rothschid. His dispatches are specimens
Of patriotism and eloquence. He never re-
peats all bis dispatches to European powers
are unlike in composition, but the same in
sentiment, and challenge the speaker who
alluded SO severely to our Premier to point
/ me out one word of hostility to England.
For many years | have been proud OF his
|
while ago, after some twenty-five years alb
sence, talked with him much about Eng
land. met him in London, and presented
him to Lanartine in Paris, and was much
instructed by the conversation Of the two
Republican chiefs. .. -..i
Any one acquainted with the Secretary
can understand the good-natnred joke about
! Canada, to the Duke of Newcastle. That
dinner-table badinage and clause in his
Astor-bouse speech in 1860. has furnished
the text for all the ibels on his character
Let Carolina, let Alabama, let Louisiana,
let any State go out, and you Will find
Canada and the Mexican States rushing in
to fill up the vacancy" That is the extent
of bis ofending-so far from being hostile to
England. he has always been just the reverse,
and believe that Mr.. Adams has already
received despatch in advance of England's
demands, highly conciliatory, which has been
! held back by the Foreign Office from the
people
Yes, Mr.. Chairman, it is all up with the
South. The last mean thing done by Davis
was to eat himself out OF Virginia into Ten !
nessee. have often read descriptions Of the
wholesome game hunting Of some lands
the sportsman surrounds tho woodland for
miles and beats steadily up to the centre,
where the rattle of rifles deals death and
destruction on every side. Such is now tho
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