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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER z, 1868.
WHAT IL TO nE EXPECTED FROM
ENGLAND.

The neutrality Of England is all moon
shine, It never existed with respect to
this country, from the commencement Of
the rebellion down to this present hour.
The direct acts Of the Government, the
sneers Of the House Of Commons, the yul-
gar taunts Of the aristocracy, the hatred
and malice Of the London Times, and its
American correspondents, all prove beyond
question, that so far as she can be such,
Tithout an actual declaration Of war, she
: is a belligerent, and not neutral
There is no reason to believe, therefore,
that the action which she has taken in
respect to the Rams, go clearly proved to
be intended for the rebels, has been insti-
gated by any friendly feeling towards
u.s. or by any newborn sentiment Of inter-
national generosity or justice. She has
been driven to this course by the rage Of
the people, and the stern demands and
menaces Of the middle classes, who are
not willing to be tamely dragged into q
war with the United States to crafty the
malice Of their aristocratic rulers. For
malice it is, and that Of the meanest and
deadliest kind, which animates the feel
ings and the conduct Of the British Coy
eminent against the institutions and the
people Of this country. They have never
forgotten, nor will they eyer forgive the.
dfsasterous battles, BY sea and land, which
eliminated in the Independence Of these
States, and the. establishment Of a
Republic whose politics they abhor, whose
power and influence they dread, and
whose prosperity they envy, and would
fain destroy. g.. 49,:
It is impossible that between us and
England's ruling classes there can ever be
anything else but animosity. Our free in
stitutions are a perpetual reproach to the
despotism, more or less absolute always,
and every where, OF a1istocracy and mon
archy. We were the pioneers Of popular
liberty, and equality, and we are now the
successful asse1ters, defenders, and en-
bodiment Of these great principles This
is the secret Of all European hatred Of Us,
America means to them revolution, and
breaches thatidea, not by words or yio-
lence, but with tremendous eloquence
in silence, more terrible than thunder,
wherever her history is known, or her bun
ners wave.
Despots, therefore, do not, and cannot
like America. Her name is too significant
to the peoples whom they enslave, and
whose bondage is the only security Of their
thrones. They may profess friendship
for us, make treaties with us, and bind
themselves to us BIZ the reciprocities Of
commerce, and the immuniies of civi1iza-
tion, but at bottom they are our natural
and sworn enemies, whose interest it is
50 far as their own selfish position is CON
cerned, to humiliate our pride Of liberty,
and destroy our respect and authority
amongst the nations.
This is their policy, and this also is their
action whenever the occasion offers, and
the game can: be safely played. It is pre-
cisely the attitude which England assumes
towards us at the present time, which she
always will assume, and which nothing
but the humiliation Of her aristocracy, as
. the ruling power Of the country, and the
universal enfranchisement Of her people,
can, at any future time, prevent. She is
not changed whit. She Is the same ha-
ter Of usto-day, that she was when We were
rendering almost divine honors to the
Chief Prince Of the House Of her Sover-
eigna The same, an6 no more; only then
her hatred Was asleep, not active and viru-
lent as it now is. She bided her time,
which was our time Of t1ibulation and sor-
TOW. She then showed Us the kind, and
the measure, Of the love which she had for
us; the value which she put upon our al
lance; the estimation in which she held
treaty rights, and international friendship
with q government based upon equality
and freedom. Whilst We were threatened
with destruction at home, she aided our
enemies abroad In defiance Of her own
municipal laws, as well as those Of ia.
tions, to augment the mischief and the
misery which they had already perpetra~
ted in their attempts to ruin the Re-
public. ~
History is tull Of the perjuries and
treache1ies Of one nation against another,
but in all her annals she can show nothing
like the baseness Of England in her con-
duct to America during this war; and the
national moral Of this article-nevcr to be
lost sight Of tor a moment by our people