The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-01-16
EnrlinIl POLICY.


of our Transatlantic friends consider our Re-
public ~ being in the last throes OF its dis
solution; and, by late advices from Europe,
we learn their readiness 20 aid ia uccom-
piishi,g rhaf Mcir hopes aud fears desire.
The mode Of reasoning by which they reach
Choir conclusions, and the motive which in.
duccs them to aid in it's accom- shment, are
alike inconsistent with our friendly relations,
and their vaunted position as the uphcldeIs
Of liberal and free government.
The adage which saith, "a friend in need
is u friend indeed" applies as fully to tho
relationship of nations, ~ to those Of per
sons; il is, therefore, with much regret We
notice the equivocal acts Of England io.
wards us, in this time Of our necessity and
tribulation. War is at all tines great "a.
lamity, hut more especially is il so when
levied by domestic traitors, for the purpose
of destroying an impartial and legally con-
stituted government; because il is deemed
inimical to an extension of tho slave power
and the traffic in humanity. Such, however,
is admitted to be the cause Of the war nov
raging within our bordefE
Without needing or desiring ,hc aid Of
England in suppreasiug this rebellion, We
did certainly hope, and expect, the knowl-
edge she had of past trouble with her colo.
MES, would teach her the rrorriety Of dis
countenanciug those in rebellion against us;
instead of which, with an alacrity, that docs
violence to national courtesy, she acknowl-
edges them as bcliigercnts; has covertly
supplied them with warlke munitions, and
encouraged them TO prosecute tho war u.
gainst US, with the hope, thereby, to destroy
our unity and impair our strength, If such
acts aa theso are fair samples of national
friendship, and impartial neutrality, then WE
say "from all euoh friends and ncutrals, good
Lord deliver us." Had wc in the time of
her trouble in India, recognized as bclliScr-
ents the king OF Delhi, Tantia Topee and
Nena Sahib, and supplied them with means
to increase misery, and destroy life, thon
would our conduct have been analogous
with that Of England in our case.
II the record Of British Nominations in
India be, as it is 40 eloquently stated BY
Burke, land no one has yet reflted it) then
our policy in aiding the revolters, (had we
done SOY would have been less questionn-
bic than that adopted by England towards
Ns. As nation, We have much cause FOR
thankfuness to that kind Providence, who
has lavished blessings on us in the past,
and, by his influence, has saved US from acts
of natural per6dy. Without scll-Sratua.
ton, or empty boasting. We say our most
pleasing "reminiscences Of Great Britain are
those in which the heart of our nation has
tarobbed with benevolencc in the time Of
her Irish famine; with sympathy when the
assasins Of India were shedding the life
blood of her sons and daughters, and with
unstinted hospitality. when as a guest, the
heir apparent to the British Crown, visited
us. John Bull will pardon us, if we look
on this picture, then on that. Neither can
England extenuste her unfricndliness by
charging us with completely in Slavery
As a matter Of common justice, she ought
fret to have ascertained tho true sentiments
of the free mon of the North respecting it;
then could she with propricty sit in Judge
ment on our political principles. The
statesmen Of England should consider the
almost insupreable difficulties surrounding
the question of Slavery, its magnitude and
social influence. Having NO done, they may
proceed step further and show us how we
may dispose Of, and eradicate the evil. II
by moral suasion, then II is question OF
time, and of unity in public sentiment; if by
force. the motive power is now furnished
by the slaveocracy themselves, and il is our
hope that it may eiicctually expursete our
Republic from this fruitful source of disscns-
sion, of crime and of bloodshcd. Instead of
making our quicsencc the pretence for her
sympathy with the South, she should re-
member the tardy process by which abuses
have been removed in her own dominion
and, in SO doing, give us credit for desiring
the well-being and happiness of all within
our borders. 1.-TWO wrongs do not make
one right" If the citizens of the free States
have erred, because Of their cautious policy
towards the slave system that error arises
more from the momentuous issues it in.
wolves, than from any desire to uphold it.
England has no excuse for the sympathy
and aid which she has rendered the slave
power, and the embarrassments she has
placed in the way of successful termination
of this war, by the Administration of Mr..
Lincoln, evinces on her part an absence of
candor and honesty.
The question Of difference between tho
United States and Great Britain does moi
turn on the pivot of Slavery; that is an ev-
cresenco of our body polite. The question
is at the very base of our liberties. 1t is:
Shall the governed determine who arc to
administer the government? on shall The
governing power be determined, according
to feudal usage. by laws of entail and heredi
tary tenureH Shall Republican institutions
prevailY or shall the monarchcal and aris
tocratic form triumph?
a Republican form Of government is cvci
standing reproaoh to the mouarchical, in
as-much AZ il shows the folly Of class leyis
lation, and invests the masses of its peopl,
with attributes of sovereignty. Hence Tia,
policy of the English aristocracy, who wiol,
the political power of that nation, has eve
been oppoaed IN a Rcnuhiic wha,, ,bo;