The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-03
The Attitude Of England.

4 our last adi'ices from England the press
that Island was getting excited over the Messag,
of President Lincoln and giving it various in
terpre'atlons, cgitclsng its style, temper and
method OF argument, disparasng i. by com
parson with JEFF. Davis direct and defiant ad
dress to his Rebel Congress, and generally abus
Ing the President, Cabinet, Congress and insti
tntions Of TIL. country, SO far as they were
Northern in sentiment and theory and practice,
and Iauding and magn(ying the Kingdom of
Cotton and all things pertaining thsreunto -
War was still REGARDED as imminent, and the
PAYERS that have been most dilisent in inhamng
the public mind upon the Trent affair, were fast
getting ready 10 open up in full cry agalns. the
lnehclency of the blockade, as soon as the slave
drivers, Mason and Slidell, should have been re-
turned to tho lovingly embracing arms of anti
slavery John Bull. The war fever was running
high, and nothing seemed loo good to be said of
the A'ngdom Ct Slavery. ard nothing too bad of
the Republic Of Freedom. In one paragraph the
government was denounced for having sur
passed the absolute dcspotism of Vienna or St.
Petersburgh, in lis censorship CT the press, in
IT'S suspension Of the writ Of hoJeas corpus, and
IN It's tyranncal imprisonment OF men and wo-
men Tor uttcring hostile opinions, and in the |
next, ~ transition SO wcnd, rfu as to be al
most mark OF genius, the Government was
declared to he so completely at the mercy of the
mob,-by which the English papers mean the
people OF the United ntases,--as to be entirely
unable to Go justice to England in the Trent
affair.
All this Ignorance Of the character OF our in.
situations and people, all this clamor against tho
North tor Its attempt to maintain the Govern.
ment against traitors, all this praise Of the
beauties OF secession, and admiration of tho
slave Government of jeff DAVIS. might be ve,v
easily got along with in silence, and overlooked
as rardonable in nation that never can see any
good In anything not English, or that does not
IN some way contribute to the greatness Of Eng
land were it not for the apparent animus of all
Ihese dlatribes against Us. 1t is every day be. /
coming moro evident that England means very =
soon to PIT an end to this war S:.y mems +, q
have some Southern ports oYen lto;, which 20
get cotton, and to which she nay carry ber t
Manufactures. This i, the seclc. Of her anoa,. t
'ntlJ indignant protect against the stone block. y
'de and the threat of her bel,gcrn. pres, that v
European nations will not quietly suffer such an
cs Of ~af upon the commerce Of the world r. Il
ne can get cotton and market peaccahlv sbo r
night possibly DO content, though we think she .
re'efs 10 Eight, ard thus weaken and cr;,,,,o |.
no North En.lanJ is in earnest, and her sal,
on and greedy, and jealous, and cnviou, na. tt
IONS are thoroughly aroused and i. is exro,nslv II
0uD'iul II this nation can much longer avoid 81
collision with her except On the most huu;)- BE-
ting terms If we cannot in the next tbre. ht
0n'n''-or even six wcoks--put the South |.
,mplc''y at our mercy England vii. give rs u,
M more work to do. There is need of os..r, a.
''ion' Why must our armies still waltz 81