The weekly Butte record., 1862-01-11
ENGLAND Unmasks.

designing Ministers to delude a nation with
whom Britain pretended to be friendly, while,
at the same time she vas covertly lending aid
and comfort 10 rebellion against that Gov
ernment. Treachery, like murder, will sooner
or later manifest itself.
Twenty FIVE years ago, the seeds of the pre-
sent concerted rebellion were scattered through
out the Southern slave States by Professor
fuckers political noyel-the " Partisan Lead
er." About The same time, and during the
days of Calhoun his friends presented a plan
for the dissolution of the Union and the fouDda-
ton of great slaveholding power to Lord
Aberdeen, who appeared, from bis expressions
at the time, to favor such movement; and,
in later days-not more than ten years back
the same plan became fully kGown to the pres
ent Prime Minister of England, Lord Palmer
ston, who disclosed the fact to our Minister at
the British Court at the time, Abbott Law
renee. And later still, in 1857, when the
Southern politicians had every reason to be-
lieve, from the manner and action OF the British
Ministry, that all they had to do, in their pre-
concerted plan of Secession, was to inaugurate
de fdeto Government of some kind and that
England would Immediately recognize it or
else, why was it that at that time, when the
late rebel prisoner, Mason, announced, on the
floor OF the United States Senate, that the
British Government had changed its opinion
on the slavery question \ doubt this de-
claration was only prematurely made by the
the then Senator, and took the Southern ally
a little by surprise, ard, in order to gain time
and further preconcert and arrange matters,
with the bantlng she was to help on the roost,
instructed the Duke of Argyle to contradict
Masons premature truthful declaration. Sub
sequent events show conclusively, to the candid
reader and thinker, that England not only
knew of the plan Of disorganizing this Govern
ment, but had hand in it from the first and
co-operated with the rebels, to do which, only
required the exercise of two of her prominent
ritueS towards the United States. namely =
her duplcity and treachery. She has played
her hand well, but not boldly She has kept
the mask on, until it no longer served to con-
ceal her true character. But England has not
pursued this course of policy without motive
higher than satisfying an old grudge in loosing
her Colonies and getting worsted in her war
of 1872. She has viewed with alarm, for the
last twenty years, the gigantic strides to power
made by our country, under the progressive in
fluence Of our republican institutions, until, at
last she beholds the great balance of national
power in the world, has been transferred from
the continent of Europe to that of America
To try to regain it she lends herself to wick
ed and rebellious cause, and assists in a fratri-
cdal war. But the hand writing is already
upon the WALL She will fail = yes, signaly
fail. She cannot embrol all Europe in war
against US. The release of Mason and Slidell
settles question of international law against
her, which she has endeavored TO maintain both
in peace and in war for nearly half century !;
this having been done BY the leading powers
of Europe, and acquesced in by our Govern
ment, removes the preteXt upon which she cal
culated to call in the aid of France and other
powers, and leaves her alone, 10 find some
other pretext TO destroy the balance of power
resting at present in this Government, and in
that endeavor, if she makes it, she will find a
different people and soldiery to deal with, than
any she has encountered in her wars of con-
quest in the Eastern world, and, from the pres
ent news from SeceSsia, she cannot safely count
upon very great host of assistance from that
source, upon which she has predicated so much
and to which she has been lending her smiles
and substance so long, in hopes of eventually
reaping rich reward. To this end she has
been cajoled and pampered by the South until
Russell goes among the people of Cottondom
and proclaims, sem>oflicially, that there is but
one voice among those people, which cannot
be misunderstood, aud that voice says. :. If we
could only get one of the royal race of England
to rule over us, we should be conteut" Such
indications only confirm the belief that Eng.
land and the Southern Confederacy have gone
hand in hand in the rebellion from its ineipien-
cy, years ago. The open declaration of Rhett,
keitt, Ingals and Parsons, that the present
Southern movement was not that of a moment.
but of the concerted plans of the Southern
leaders for more than twenty years, and that
foreign aid was sure TO come to them so soon
as they organized Government of their own,
only go to show what is now so glaringly an.
parent,-that England was their secret CO.
operator, and that the inducements held out to
her greedy cupidiiy, by the ambitious politi-
cal aristocrats of the South, who proclaim
to the world that wealth is greater than labor
and should control it, were all sufficient to JUS
tify her in her own conceit, in entering into
the foul conspiracy, and thereby possibly ena-
BILE her to gain foothoid on our Southern
border, stronger than the tenure she claims on
our Northern confines Now the vail is re-
moved and her hidious features are exhibited