, 1863-05-04
T1IE POLISH REVOLUTION.

The manner in which the United States.
since the breaking ont of the rebellion,
have been treated by the British end Con
tinental journals, makes US distrustfu1 Of
The accuracy Of these organs Of fact and
opinion, in whatever concerns other nations
and events, about which we are not SO well
Informed. We sec now plainly enough,
that England is what Napoleon said she
vas, nation Of shop-keepers; and that
tie national morality, where it touches
other governments, is invariably measured
by the yard-stick or weighed by the pound;
and that commercial or class interests, not
the principles which mike men honest aud
trustworthy in private life, and compel na-
lions to be just, are those which give Gu
phasis to tho speeches Of her statesmen and
dictate the dispatches Of her diplomatists.
In word, she is as mcrccnary as larlot,
and as faithless as IN Indian; and her
Press, her Parliament, her Church, ler
Aristocracy, and her Crown, are, when
they give any sound, only speaking
t1umpets through which the shop-kecpcr's
prejudice, ignorance, cupidity, malignity
and morality make themselves heard By
mankind. Her Press especially Is de-
bauched. Devoted 10, and wholly dependent
upon the favor Of, the classes who indifIer-
emily make idols for ido1aters, or muskets
for our rebels, who would finish up wheels
for Juggernaut with the alacrity that they
mount artillery for the Conedcrates, and
who send out ships with missionaries and
bibles in the cabin, rum and gunpowdcr in
the hold, aud the deadly Tcnereal scourgc
between-decks, to convert, conquer and
curse whatever people English pllilanthro-
~ has doomed-this Press never fails to
invoke the gods Of vengeance when, in the
Interests Of mankind, port where English
ships have been accustomed to 60, is OBJ
structed; or when, for the liberation of
four millions Of human chattels, the supply
Of raw cotton, over which her Operatives"
Etarse and her nabobs grow rich, is cut
short by the necessities Of war. Such ius-
tlflcations rs itcoyets it invcnts; such facts
as are necessary, it manufactures with the
facility that Birmingham turns out buttons,
or staf1ordshire pottery argument it needs
none; Illustrations from the lies that it has
told through centuries, are never wanting:
and thus, dealing with other nations. It
gets on. Shameless Mr.. Laird. who boasts
in his place in Parliament, checred on 1y
The applause Of the majority, that he does
not hesitate to defy the law Of
Inc realm, and atet piracy upon
The commerce Of great people
With whom England is at peace, when it
Will pay; and who justifes tile enorn1ity
oi hls crime by the thicf7s plea, that others
had done wrong as well as he-Mr. Laird
should be one Of the editors, as he perhaps
Is one Of the propricto1s Of the London
Iimca!
10 press so conducted and so con
1rolled by influences that we have pointed
out, arc we Of this country mainly indebted
for what nc know Of the cause, purposes
and prospects Of the Polish Revolution
Who. with the remembrance in his mind
Of what has been, and with q knowledge
Of what is yet, said Of the American Re.
bcllion, by the English Journals, will dare
believe, not that the editorial accounts
opinions, comments and judgments, and
The columns Of correspondence by mai
and by telegraph in these Journals, art
wholly or mainly false, but that the pre-
tended official documents, declaring tht
objects or success Of the combatants an
not downright forgeries? Who, reading
in the shcet that contains astounding evi
dences Of the editorial ignorance or infamy
thereof, that misreprcscnts and maligns the
North md its cause, for the interests d
American Slavery and for the satisfaction
o. Enghsh greed, will dare believe what i:
asserted Of the cnormities of Russian rule
in Poland, or Of the patriotism and heroism
Of the rebellious people. Who, KNOWING
the mcanness and jealousy that have made
England first distrust and then h,+a a..
progress toward constitutional freedom II.
the Emperor of Russia has promoted and
is now directing, will accept as true th,
ISLANDERS Of that enlightened p1incce Ha,
not Mr. Lincoln, than whom God neyc
made kindlier or juster man, also bee1
through that mill? Should VIC not rca'
what these journals hint rs news, as we d
1he announcements Of slop-shop "sellini
OIL very lowf'' Should not their comment
on current affairs relating to that outbreak
pass as the words Of shopman recon
mendlng his wares, or be accepted with th
doubts that always keep pace with Law
yer's speechf
We do not say what the Polish revol,
lion Is. Contiding in English authorit,
we- could roundly assert that it ia :
great, necessary and humane moycmen,
Eut does not the same authority prove tbs
1Ae maal-sellcrs' and womcn-wMppers' II