New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-19

servant JEFF. Davis by fOmenting ill-will between
this country and Great Britain but this Is Il
VIGOROUSLY done in the interest OF the slave
holders Rebellion that intelligent British jour
nalists have perceived and repeatedly proclaimed
the fact. Yet the leading British journals, thus
warned and enlightened persist in treating Tie
ridiculous rodomOntade of that characterless ano
trescberous sheet as though it were the voice
of the whole American Press.
That our recent experiences have wrought
sone Alienation of feeling toward Greal
Britain among our Northern people, is an
undoubted fact We do hold that her Minis
try. her arstocracy, and her leading Journals,
have treated us unkindly and upjuStly through
out the past year. We hold that the hastily
issued ROYAL Proclamation of neutrality, placing
the Rebels on an equal footing viii the
Nation. was an unfriendly and ungenerou' act.
Had our Government issued such proclama'
ton of neutrality between Great Britain and
her insurgent Sepoys in India, two or three
years ago, we suspect Great Britain would not
have reshed the performance. We feel that
the ostcnsibe interdict in that Proclamation, OF
all transportation of officers, dispatches,
&C., under penalty of abandonment to the
fate thus courted, was shown to be
a sham by the action Of the British Govern
ment in regard to Mason and Sdell. We feel
that Great Britain, after having taken by force
ILL
merchant vessels, through long series OF
wears, on the assumption that she has clear
right 10 take them wherever on the high seas
she may find them, having proclaimed that
great public right which she could never con
sent to abandon, and refused repeatedly
and recently to surrender it, dealt harshly
aud unjusty with MS in turning upon us IN our
extremity and menaciDg us with war IN
ease we did not at once surrender
the very first Americans We ever took from
one of her merchant vessels. We hold that II
was most unfair and unfriendly for the British
Minister of Foreign Affairs to characterize our
struggle for National integrity az war Tor
power. aud predict its failure. la short We
consider the boasted neutrality OF Great Britain
in our contest as most one sided and unlrendly
and that il has been dictated by an ardent and
ill-concealed desire on the part of her ruling
classes that our Union should not be restored.
If we needed proof of this desire, we need not
looh for 1t beyond the columns OF The Sa'"rd0y
Rori0c.
We do not mean to be invoked in war
with Great Britain nor with any other coun-
try. When We shall have concluded the affair
we have already on hand, we 'hall have haa
fighting enough for at least halt century. II
!. quito possible that we may be forced into
another contest, but it will not be- with Great
Britain for Canada nor with France for Mex
leo either of which will be far moro likely u
grayitate to us through the silent, reslsiless IN
auences OF Peace than through the nolsy con
yrlsions Of War. Ii is quite probable That
after We shall have settled our home
differences We shall be at once inclined
and obliged to live more within ourselves than
We formerly did: but we do not intend tt
quarrel nor be quarrelcd with on that account
In short. We shall live down the bad charac
ter imposed upon us by one deprayed Jourua
issued among us and number which, we'll know
ing better, delight in quoting aud emphasizing
ts swa.hy utterances and saying TO Europe
" There see To what two generations OF re-
pubcanism has brought America Would yo'
wish your country to be like this ~ This II
our present condition, is hard to boar; but W
shall nntllyr II.