Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-10
uOsTTLTTY or ENGLAND TO THE
UNITED STATES.

The extracts from late British journals which
we find copied in northern papers, show a deep
seated and active hostility toward the United
States, engendered in consequence of the Trent
affair. They seem to be fond of disparaging
Yankee valor, diseTediting Yankee institutions
and ridiculing Yankee resources. The latest
number of the London Times has a severe re-
view Of LNCoLE's message, from which we
take the following extract:
The South, not content with questioning the
right of the North to govern them, they have
even gone to the extent Of questioning the wis
dow of certain northern institutions. Thus per
sons are actually found to wish for a restriction
of the suffrage; to contend, in spite of the evil
dence afforded by the North Of the purity of
e'ection. and the high moral and int lectual
qualities secured by such a process, that it is
better election should be confined to Legislators,
and not extended to magistrates and some have
even been heard 70 pronounce the horrible name
of 81 monarchy" No wonder that Mr.. Lincoln,
Illuminating in the paradise to which the viii of
an unbridled democracy has introduced him,
and looking forward to a desperate struggle with
England, brought about apparently by the same
cause, should feel a pioUs horror Of those who
venture to think such experience not conclusive,
and the existing Constitution of the United
States as little short Of perfection We have
nothing 10 say for slavery, but If Mr.. bineoln's
description Of the South is indeed true-if she is
fighting to emancipate herself from the blind
tyranny of q degraded mob, from elective Judges
and elective governoTs-he has given his antag-
Onists a better title to Ear0pean sympathy than
they have hitherto possessed, and thrown upon
his government the stigma Of institutions which
have already brought It TO the verge Of ruin.
Several-of the London journals, on the con
t-aIy, are enthusiastic in their praise of Pfesident
Davis message. The London Herald, as an
example, says:
No wider contrast can be conceived than that
which marks the rival messages Of the northern
and southern Presidents. The contrast, too, is
lust the opposite Of what might have been ex-
pected between the old and the new empire.
The southern message is calm and confident, full
Of a spirit OF Independence and a conviction OF
victory. The northern message Is frettul and
angry, and wells its apprehension and chagrin
under the most transparent disguise. ION can
EardIu blieUe bat that President Darts IS the head
IF the old, assured, fraditi0RaTy empire, and that
President Lincoln Is Ge JOTt0Tn. defeated, dLS-
Isqrfeaad political adUeatHTeT. :
Ha point Of style, Of S~tateSmaatike Uieics, and Of
ne general agcrcu Of the floO CONGREGATIONS, The
message of Presldent DaoiS is get more dtstin-
grfsAsd from Us riUGL. You might expect 10
lind in the chief Of tie old government better
Taste, the greater refinement Of feeling, the more
polished dctiou, and general evidence Of a high
or education Here you are even more mistaken
than YOU were before. The message of President
T5Dc6in. If Il were TO be taken for a moment as
an instance of the education Of the United States
World imply that the whole nation onght to 60
10 school again.
TIE London TINES, referring to the history OF
&c fast war. and the renown won by the Amen-
ca navy in that war, says that renown " rests
al most entirely upon the capture Of three or four