The national Republican., 1862-01-08
WHAT WOULD HAVE MADE ENGLAND OUR
FRIEND.

We have constantly maintained. rs our read.
ers know. that we had nothing to expect from
English politicians aud the English Govern.
ment, but ill-wll and ill offices, unless we neu.
tralized the natural English jealousy of our
rising power,b by such a course Of policy as would
have attracted to the national side In our civil
war, the deep seated and unconquerable repug
nance Of the English nation to the system Of
negro slavery.
We propose o.day, to produce two witnesses,
both Of the highest authority. to the extent and
avaitab. .lity of this national sentiment of the
Eoglish people.
The first is Thomas g. Grattan, late Bitish
Consul at Boston, who has just published q
pamphlet 10 favor Of the Southern Confederacy
The point which he chiefly labors is, that the
war which III" United States are waging il not
q war against slavery but Is avowedly SO man.
aged as 10 preserve that institution intact. He
carefully quotes the resolution Of Mr.. Critten-
den, adopted by the House at the extra session
and exhibits land often perverts) every act
and expression Of the National Executive sus.
ceptibie of the same construction. His con
clusion is, that all the North ever proposed or
uow designs. is to prevent the extension o.
slavery. and this merely to gain political pow.
er By gaining additional members OF Congress
g. By meaus Of these" he says they hoped to
put down Free Trade and the principles OF
commercial liberty, intlict on the South a sys-
TEN of tyraunicai taxation, establish tariffs and
li,,, tb.,; IN, Of
industry, and tester their own manufactures on
spurious AID nearly exploded schemes of polit-
ical economy His great purpose througho
is to prove that the contest In this country is
not one involving any moral principle, but il
simply. what Lord John Russell said it was o
war Tor independence on the part of the South
and for powr on the part Of the North"
Why Mr.. Gra.tan so labors this point, ia
explained in the following extract from his
pamphlet:
Terrible as would be the results OF a SER
vile war. there is great likelihood that the
inconSderate shout for immediate abolition
would riag iu the ears OF all England like an
alarm bell, and stir the depths of popular feel.
ing with the fervor Of the Reformation, or the
iaDatic'sm Of the Crusades'
The English politicians know very well, that
If the Union cause was 20 presented as to
appeal to the anti,slavery feeling Of their peo.
pie, it would break out with the fervor oi
the Reformation, or The ianaticism of the Cru.
sades" And fearing that, they have omitted
no opportunity to display the proofs (unhap.
PLY too numerous), that the war is not waged
by the North in way, or for ultimate objects
which can or saould attract the aid OF the
anti-slavery sentiment in Eug'and and Europe.
Our next witness, is our Minister (Mr.
Adams to the Court OF ST. James, who thus
wrote to Mr.. Seward on the 2lst of last July:
Neither party here would be 30 bold as to
declare its sympRthy with cause based upon
the extension Of slavery, for that would at
once draw upou itself the indignation Of The
great body Of The people,
How it is that the South has escaped this
indignGtioU," while the North has failed to
attract sympathy in England, i, patent to all
men not judcially blinded.
The North has been made to appear abroad
to be as thoroughly pro-slavery as the South
and has thus made itself even more offensive
10 the auti-slavery feeling Of Europe, because
tue South has hu dred excuses for defendin
slavery. where the North has one.