The New York herald., 1863-08-19
The News from Europe.


- The News from Earope.
Among the intelligence brought froV
Europe by the Asia, which we publish
this morning, will be found an editorial
article from the London Globe, the organ
Of Lord Palmerston, chief Of the British
Ministry That journal takes occasion to say
that the draft of three hundred thousand men
called for by the President of the United States
is not menace to England. This may be true
or it may not But the question arises, why
does the Globe take pains to make the asser-
tion? The only answer is the old proverb that
"a guilty conscience is its own accuser;" or, as
Shakspere has it, conscience does make cow
ards of US ALL"
For the last thirty years the statesmen of
Great Britain and her abolition propagandists
have been working heaven and earth to break
up the American republic, which they envied,
hated and feared. And since the war began,
under professions of strict neutrality, they
have favored in every way the insurgent States
Of the South-arst acknowledging them as belli
gerents, and then permitting even vessels-of-
war to be built for the confederacy in the prin-
cipal shipyards Of England and Scotland.
While they expressed their horror Of negro
slavery, they patted on the back that Sec
ton Of the republic which holds slaves. Their
policy has been crooked, tortuous and dis
honest in the extreme. The hostile spirit
shown to this government in the British Par
lament and in the British press, with few
exceptions, Is 80 manifest that it speaks for
itself, and cannot be explained away by any
diplomatic blarney. The Globe, therefore, con-
scious of what Great Britain deserves at our
hands, has gloomy forebodings of the destina-
ton of the three hundred thousand men now
being raised under the Conscription act. Like
Macbeth, it sees dagger in the dir and a
flaming sword suspended over the head of
Britannia, but puts on the semblance of
courage, and assures its readers that there
is ne ground for fear.
If it only knew the stuff of which the
new levy will be composed it would
have an additional reason for disquietude.
Two-thirds of the conscripts will consist
of the nine months and two years veterans,
who have seen so many bloody fields They
are re enlisting for bounties, or as substitutes
for drafted men who pay the three hundred
dollars exemption money; and when the last
army of the rebels is crushed, as it probably
wilt be before the close of the present year,
these men will be disengaged, together with all
the other veteran troops in the field, whether
Northern or Southern, and they will be free to
do battle on another theatre of war. Can any
thing be more natural than that these armies
should demand to be led to take vengeance on
"Perfdious Albion which has so contributed
to the origination of our civil war and to its
prolongation, with Wow to the permanent dis
integration of the republic? And can anything
be more likely than that even the most shall
low statesmen who may be at the head of our
affairs will yield to the demand and seize so
tempting an opportunity Of making themselves
popular, and at the same time uniting the coun-
try upon a question on which no dissentient
voice would be heard?
1t is no wonder, therefore, that the Globe
should see in this draft the doom of the
British oligarchy, and that Lord Palmers-
con should feel his knees totter under him,
like Beshazzar when he saw the mysterious
handwriting on the wall which foretold the
end Of his dynasty and the breaking up of his
empire. There is a long account and heavy
reckoning to be settled with England the mo-
ment we have disposed of our domestic troubles,
and before che has done with us she will be
effectually taught one bitter lesson she has
been ever slow to learn, and that is, that
"honesty is the best policy