Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-02-13
The Diplomacy Of Great Britain
Bv MRS. ANNA n. n. STORM, OF 1nE SEIusHLASps

blood RI ID. Wetsters speech IN CSngvess, Aoeo.
"What madness in tho South to look for greater |
safety in disunion. II would be worse than Jump
ing into the fire for fear Of the frying pan. The
danger from the alarms IL, that the pride and re-
sentiment exertei by them may be an overmatch !
Tor the dictates Of prudence, and favor the project
of a Southern convention, insdiously revived, as
promising, by its councils, the best securities
against grievances Of every sort from the North"
i Mad,sons letter to II. Clay in June, 1888.
"The superior power may offer peace with honor
and safety. such IN offer from such . power will
De attributed to magnanimity."-lE Burke's speech
on Cancellation eiA America IN l775.
There are in diplomacy, as we'll as in
social life, unguarded moments, when the
soul emits uuconsciously the poisonous
venom that is ranking within it, and re-
veals lurking thoughts which were eau
tiously hidden, when under its full con-
troll. There are delirluns in which pa
tents astound the world by striking re-
velations and glimpses Of true character,
that might otherwise have passed tor
ever unknown and undisputed, A kind
Of such raging deliIium had just passed
in Great Britain, where the so called
friends OF American AbolitionisD, in an
excited and unguarded moment, have
gwen the most evident proofs of the
leep-rooted hatred they bear towards
the reemen and free institutions Of this
Republic, where hitherto all had given
them credit for friendship and sympathy.
For about thirty years, British wealth,
literature and diplomatic influence, have
contributed in every form to foster, mis-
represent and exaggerate i'll feeling be-
tween the Northern and Southern
States, in order to excite bitterness and
vlgor among American extremists and
those who arc only acquainted with
Southern men and Southern institutions
by partial political press, the intcrma
ton gathered from political preachers,
speeches, lectures and amplitied stories,
while there were very few among them
who had ever seen a slave or visited a
Southern plantation.
The same aristocratic halls which had
been opened, and the same influential
press which had been engaged in feting
and eulogizIng in England the Beechers,
Cheevers, Stoves, Grecleys, Summers,
Stewards, ETC., of the American anti
slavery movement, so long and SO ener-
gctically intamed by Great Britain's d.
plomacy, receives now with greater cor
diality the Yanceys, Masons and Sill
dclls, while they are at present far bet
ter tools to crafty her interest. 1t it
so; it was but yesterday that the present
Secretary of State of the North Ameri
can Union was smothered with honors
as the representative IN the last Prcsi
dental campaign of Northern opposition
to Southern institutions-lhat England
delighted in his applaudcd quotations Of
"the irrepressible conflict" while she
knew that party tactics are a lasting
fountain Of corruption, injustice and SO
cial disease, and that the slavery agitq
ton was and must remain the natura
mother of discord and civil war. But
now, when, alas, that "irrepressible con
tllct has arrived in reality-now THU
distracted country is dealing with fact
instead OF theolies-now the former as
pirant OF the Presidency, in his not les
responsible capacity Of Minister Of State
is laboring to re-establish the forme
Union, broken by political demagogue
at one side and anti-slavery fanatics a
the other, he is denounced from Gland
End TO John O'Groat's House, as a,
enemy Of tie porld'S peace," and as g,
reckless adventurer." Now America
premier socits from British and French
diplomacy what al patriotic, conserva
tive men have always asked in behalf O
the Southern Slave States; not to inter
tere with other mems affairs, and t
profit rather of Franklin's wise advice
in performing one Of his first inscription
on the American coin-"Ntnd your o,c,
business "-now he speaks Of the neces
sity to take "great cautions and 'grea
consideration, to avoid all that might
seven in the most indirect way" do i'm
mense harm to conquer the Southern
rebellion, and tend to ultimate sepera
ton in America" Lord John Russell
answers him coolly-'that lie does no
see the action that had been thus ia
taken, at all in the light in which L
(the American Minister Plenipotentiary
Mr.. Adams, in London,) saw it," S,
it was also with Mr.. Seward, when tn
''irrepressiole conflict" and the miitar,
show Of the "wide.awakes," poured OF
in the then already burning flames O
the terrible conhagration of the presen
day.
"Where are now," thus writes the Re
publican New York World, "those unc
tuous clergy and those self-denying lord
and ladies who were wont to entertain
escaped slaves, and groan over tn,
wickedness of the fugitive slave law
Where are those religious bodies VIII
sent their annual quota OF cant, rant AM
fustian, insisting that they were charge,
with special revelation from HEAVIER
requiring Congress, by an immediat
act, to set at naught our Constitution b
abolishing slavery in the States? Alas
, How has Englaud's philanthropic gol
become dim! How are the denizens g
Exeter Hall fallen from Abolition grace
Now, when the first blows are fallin
upon slavery as political, social. AM
, financial system, where do we find Emo
land? Ready to precipitate upon o u
shores the enormous fleets and armie
which the chronic fear Of Napoleon II
has led her to prepare, that she ma
rend assunder the only free nation on thi
, continent, and erect its Southern seq
ment into an empire whose very Iii
shall depend on the coinage of African
blood, and march into cotton for tn
looms of Manchester"
When this Union, with her Souther