Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-01-22
The Right Sort of Talk.

The following extracts from an article
in the New York journal of Commerce.
contain the right sort of talk for the times.
After stating the facts in the Mason and
Slldell case, 1t says:
We now appeal to Englishmen in Amer
lea to write the fact to their acquaintances
in England. We call on Englishmcn at
home, to notice that the American people
have exhibited in this whole matter calm
ness which should put to shame the blus-
ter and bragGadocia, the scorn and insolence
which have characterized the English press.
We further direct their attention to the
tact that, while the American press and
the nation have unanimously approved Of
The capture of Mason and Slidell, and JUS
tlhed the Government in holding them.
the nation acqulesceS calmly and cheer
fully in the surrender of these men; and
the Administration IS to day uninfuenced
by any popular clamor, or by the we'll
known voice of public opinion.
If England be told, and believes, that
the American people have desire for war,
but on the contrary, that we most earnest
ly wish for peace, it may be the present
cloud will blow over, and we shall see no
collision of arms But this cores espondence,
and the giving up Of Mason and Sldell to
the demand of the British Government
does not end the matter If England is
not led to revise and amend her course to-
ward us, We shall inevitably DRIFT into war
within six months, unless the tone of feel
ing be materially changed. Let US work
to avoid this. Let England be informed,
by private letters, if she cannot be inform
ed by her press and their correspondents,
that the American people are united in one
grand work that to accomplish this work
they have already submitted quietly to the
loss of immunities under their own Con.
stitution, which, in ordinary times, would
have reyolutionized England or this coun-
try that there was never since we were a
nation, a period when the people were SO
united in the support of their Government,
even to the extent of permitting it TO en-
croachon their own private rights as never be-
fore; that if, instead of giving up Mason and
Slidell, the Government had told us to
prepare for war, we would have prepared
for it with aacrity and with resources
which would have APPALLED, England, and
with results that would have left the nine
teeuth century the bloodiest in the roll of
ages.
This neutrality, which the Government
OF England has assumed to occupy, must
he rigidiy observed. We have never ask
ed for anything but strict observance of
it. How FAR our Government will see fit
to demand explanations of the Trent case
we are not informed. But the English
people must be prepared to obey the neu-
traiity laws to which they have appealed,
and their press must suddenly and abso-
lutely forget their sympathy for the South,
which, in the late embroglio, they have
foolishly unveiled to our gaze, or, so surely
as the Spring approaches, we will be grasp
irg each others throats. If that gr.sp
once becomes fixed, we DO not need the
gift of foresight to prophecy that it will
not be loosed by either party till England
is no longer a Monarchy, or America no
longer a Republic.