Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-02-14
The Diplomacy Of Great Britain

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The Diplomacy Of Great Britain
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Continual.
Although it j. given out by the Gov
erument IN at there is no danger OF a war
with England, yet it Is well known that
this is done in order to quiet apprehen-
sious, and that really We are upon the
very brink OF war with both England
and France. Thus wrote few days
ago, the Washington correspondent OF
the Chicago Times, who suggests, when
that awful event takes place, an ain
ancc betx the United States and
Russia. At the time Of the insurrtc-
ton in Belgium, Hollands royal crowh
nrince was married with the sister OF
the reigning Car Of lsussia-was the
ncaceful possession OF Belgium guarah-
iced TO the Netherlands by Russia:-
was there no trouble with the seiis H.
that colos, al Empire land, notwilh-
standing all this, the Russian Gar re-
,usod TO assist his brother in-law, or TO
do i,s,ice TO his treaty. lie since re
ceiycd, at SebastopoI, severe lesson Ct
tho formidable strength of an English
and French alliance and skill, We sup
nose. to take care to loose no more ID a
renewed warfare with the two strongest
nations Of Europe.
II appears that as early as April last,
within two weeks after the fall Of Fort
Sumter. the British Government adop-
ted its unfriendly and cold policy to-
wards this Republic. 1t caused the
Secretary OF State, MIR. Seward, to Ell
,ertain well founded fears, that Great
Bri,aiu's policy dictated her to interfere
in favor of the Southern Confederacy.
This fear and suspicion runs through all
of his letters to Mr.. Adams, and is Justl.
fed by the reports Of tic latter, OF his
conversation with the British Secretary
for Foreign Affairs; while, all that has
happened since last June, is not cacn-
lated to allay these apprehenslons, bu'
! greatly to Increase them. And now.
with the pros cct OF terrible war with
| England and France, at no distant date,
with a bankrupt treasury, amidst most
awful darkness Of apprcheLslons and
uncertainties, it is proposed that the
operations OF the internal war must No
| LONGER be direct subsidiary to lestor-
alton 81 the Union, indication Of tie
| Constitution and the enforcement Of tie
laws of the country, but rather to Dc
used TO the viudic,lye destruction Of s
domestic institution created by, or al
least existing under, the peculiar sane
ton of State law.
Slavery agitation mast now try to
prescribe to both Executive and leglsla-
| i've branches Dan enormous breach oi
public taith,' to make VOID the dcclara-
ton OF the President, not to interfere
with the established institutions OF any
State, when tummoning the AID 81 tht
militia, and the emphatic assertion, re-
ltcrated unanimously last year by Con
gress, under the most solemn circum
stances. But slavery agitation is blind
ii cannot see this, nor The violence that
would be done to the terms OF the Con.
stltuti5n--in obedience TO Which the
policy original y proclaimed was, after
due dellberaton, announced and adop'
Ted ~ the nation. "lLcy who,' thys
sa the conservative National Mtelh
geacer, SIN their hatred OF slavery
would extnguish it in sea OF blood, b,
arming the slave against the master, OF
who would bury it under the ruins Of tn,
Constitution ly waging against it the war
which can be consttutonalIy waged only
against the armed scditioD, know not
what spirit they are OF, if humanity TO
the sl.ve and not hatred to the slave.
| holder be their constralniug motive.
| However ardent may be the phllanthro-
plst's aspiration for universal emanclpa.
ton, he who has learned his philosophy
Of human progress in the school of his.
tory, is well advised thai all great social
changes in the elevation Of race mus,
be gradual, if they are to be beneficial
and permanent" "An act" thus spoke
the late Republican Governor of Ohio,
MIR. Dennison, "of immediate general
emancipation, throwing four millions oil
the colored class loose on society, North
and South, would leave them more en-
shaved than they are now. Without
the intelligence, power and means of a
master of the superior race, to support
them in the competition with that race
in the business Of life, they would per
ish. The North rejecting them, as it has
done in many of the States, and might
do in the others ; the four millions lei
loose in the South, would encounter 2
war Of castes-a war of determination y
at is shocking to hear men," thus cx
claimed recently the patriot Steele, O
New York, in Congress, "deliberatel,
| argue that certain measures are uncon
stitutional, and in the next breath, urge
their adoption, and counsel the overrid
ing of all constitutions and laws, for the
purpose OF advancing a favorite theory
1t We are to disregard the Constitution
and trample upon the rights guarantee,
by it to States or individuals, what bet
ter are we than the rebels We contend
against? 1t is not true that slavery i
an outlaw in this Government it i
guaranteed by the Constitution. A,
effort to overthrow it, cannot fail t,
divide and distract the country, whe,
harmony and concert of action are in
dispensablc to its salvation. The Con
st'tution was sufficient for our father.
has been for us, and, unless we woul
invite anarchy and confusion, accompa