New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-06
HRlTIsH BAD TEMPER.

vanity, and q boastfulness incompatible with
dignity or morality. In most cases. the 6rg"-
m,ntum ad hominem is justly considered as the
cheap resource of casuist ut his WITS end; but
II seem, 10 us that when tie wolf Will persist
in his accusation of rolling the stream against
the lamb. there can be no harm in exposing biz
exsencies ard his selfish petulance. Engand
NAV want cotton sadly; but she wants still
more the grace philo,oPhicsly TO encounter IN
conyeniepces which are inevitable. We must
confess that il seems to US indicative OF q
di.oustinrly course Lature-thls hot haste
with which England has rushed 70 her
conclusions against the Federal Government
Il is very little TO say that she is not dong as
she would be done by. 1t is more 20 the pur-
pose 10 say that now, ss ever before, she j.
at the mercy Of Der material interests; ana
that wien these ore invoked, 1t u never mel
habit to rise TO any lofticr Considerations
This we can understand; but We Ind IL more
difficult TO comprehend the spectacle OF ma
ton. uuouestioDaby accomplished end more
than usually valiant, suffering itself to be be-
trayed into vixeni,h yulgarity aud the h!Sien-
cal and aciGllous deliveries If a common tcod.
Ciyiity costs little; and English ciyility t.
America. ia this hour Of mortal grapPle with
parsicidsl provinces, would have been simply
tbe repayment of a delicate debt long ago con.
trac,ed, but too essentially debt of honor to
be enforced By ordinary methods. And yet
in the right as We unquestionably are, we have
been. from the beginning If our intestine troubles.
subjected by English speakers aud English news
papers 10 d.crelitable imputatOns and to q
studied differentiation of our military abiltj
AID of our financial resources. OF this dart
gard of national comfy We have tight to
COMPLAIN. 1t is tangible and 1t is unProsoAed
injury, offensive in ITSELF aud made more So
BIS its undeIbrel manner Of exhibition. IN the
providence Of God, we may cease TO exist az
national power; but while we remain, though
enyironed BY difficulties, stiil honestly aud 10
the beat Of our wisdom opposing resolute
front 10 our misfortules, it Is unworthy Of a
Great People, by gratuitous provocaton, u
add. if not to our perIs, at least TO our nnx-
ietiess.
That bad Newspaper, The London lines,
specifically charges us with
/. "A blind aud irrational arrogance of
temper"
.. IAN Impotence Of government aud coz.
troll"
With such proyocatOn, We think It would
be more than mortal to refruia from recnmi
nation. We have surrendered 10 tbe \ IDLY
whose enlargement she has been 20 strenuous
Has tbs act of the President, delayed by no
long drawn diplouiaiio formaliie., though BIT
tcrly uBpnatable to our pride, been followed
by any popular display OF "a blind and IT.
" rational arrogance Of temper ," They said
in England that this surrender Of sidell and
Mason would be followed in New-lork and
other Northern cities by mObs and other dem.
onstrotions of violent character agaiust the
Government Has the event justified The
good-nGiured prediction Now there Is nothing
left for The London Times TO soy but tbs:
that We are weak, spirltless, co"ardly
people. OF course, that is what wl be said.
But what then becomes Of TIE Tmsss
"of government and control 2" II certainly
seems a little hard that a people which is max
/ ing such unprecedented sacrifices Of life, com.
/ fort, and treasure for the sake Of Government
and which is cheoriully submitting itsef to
unusual military control, should, in the very
moment OF its submission, be charged with
turbulence and ana chlcal propensities. But
| there is no truth in the charge. Throughout
the loyal States society is as orderly ind the
public temper is to-day as equable as in any
country town in England; aud far more 80 than
| il ever is in Ireland or IN the manufacturing
cities Of the United Kingdom We say that
English hl,tOry is full. of MODS, who nave de-
posed kings, burnt cities, rescued conycis from
the gallows, destroyed Newgate in London aud
/ the Tolbooth in ElinbOrO', aud have more than
once marched with hoarse threats aud fierce
outcres or blood to the very door of the House
/ of Commons. We have no such m0bs in America
now, and we have never had them. Even 10
this great City Of New-YOrk, with miscella-
neOus population gathered from the four quar-
ters of the globe, there has never been mob
which a company of infantry aud n couple Of
guns were not quite sufficient instantly to sup
press. We have never seen mob, given up az
We have been 10 the dlabOsm Of Democracy,
which approached in iierceness, cruelty, aud force
10 the mobs of Ediuboro, Of Bristol, of Man
chester, and Of London, and even now in this