Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-01-08
BY SAMUEL J. ROW .
OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.

OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.
This week We publish on our outside the
correspondence between the British Ministers
and Secretary Seward, In relation to the
Trent affair. In reference to the correspon-
dence, the Chester delaware county, Rspub
iican Says ssThe surrender Of these arch trail
tors is one of those mastery strokes of states
manship which the American people are so
quick to comprehend and appreciate. On the
arrest Of these infamous men, there was one
heartfelt expression of satisfaction, perhaps,
of exultation, throughout the loyal States.
Not cheek blanched, not heart throbbed
with fear of English resentment. While we
believed that the law and the right were on
our side, we sustained the brave action of
Commander Wilkes, and were ready to take
another war on our shoulders, if national honor
required it but when it was shown in the
very able letter of Secretary Seward that in
yielding to the demands of England, we were
settling long mooted question of interna-
tional law in accordance with our own doc
trines, and thus achieving by craftsmanship
triumph that We did not obtain in the war of
1924, the public feeling yielded OF ence to
the judgment, and every loyal American ac-
quiesced in the decision of our Government
cheerfully, and with renewed confidence in
our country's ability to cope with European
Powers in diplomacy as successful as we have
done in war. That question being settled, we
now know, better than ever before, that Eng
lands friendship for us is based on her own
selfshness. Of this we do not complain, but
it will teach us to legisate for our own inter-
ests hereafter, without regard to the wishes of
British manufacturers and those of the middle
tunes by carrying from England the cotton,
woolen and iron goods that we ought. to man
ufacture at home. 1t is clear that England
desires the division of this country. She
would like to have the South for market,
and she would like to see our Government a
failure. A division of the United States would
be virtual acquisition by England of the
whole South-an immense cotton plantation,
well tenanted and stocked. Itwoud be worth
more to her than Canada and Australia to-
gether. 1t would make her immensely our
superior as national power on the earth, and
would be crushing blow to the cause of free
government. We have spent great deal of
money in the South in the last fifty years, in
tho purchase of Louisiana and Florida, and
the acquisition of Texas, in removing Indians,
in building forts and custom houses, in i'm
proving rivers and harbors, in carrying the
mails, in helping hold her slaves, in protect
ing her frontier, in paying the officers of the
Government, nearly all of whom have been
from the south, and now in f1ogging her into
decent obedience to the laws which she DISC
beys, because she has been spoiled by too
much petting. England cannot have the South
just yet. We intend to hold on to our just
claim while, and use the South for our own
purposes. We will probably put an export
duty on all cotton going ont, and will certain
ly put an import duty on all British manufac-
lures coming into the South. The people of
the South must live poor while, and do more
work they must repay us for all We have
expended on her, she should requite us by
paying our rival If England intends to take
advantage of our situation to pick quarrel,
We will keep the South at bay j if necessary,
while we fog England, and then we will fog
the South. But we hope there will be no ne
cessity for this alternative. The South will
be brought back to duty, and a wiser legisla-
tion than has marked our history within the
last twelve years, will restore our country to
such condition of prosperity as the world
never witnessed before"