The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-09-25
OUR FOREfGN RELATIONS.


To the most-casual observer of passing
events, our relations with the Govern
ments Of England and France, cannot fail
to have awakened attention to the philan-
thropbist and the Christian, they are the
occasion Of most anxious .solicitude. The
proper, the natural condition of the United
States is that of peace. The true-thc
lasting interests of our people is that of
peace, And yet, it is apparent that we
are fast drifting into j war with both
England and France. 1t would seem that,
unless by interposition Of Divine Provi-
dence, this calamity is sure and soon to
befall eus. Yet, to brave and generous
people, there are evils Of greater magni-
tude than that. of war Insults, unpro-
voked-injuries unmerited, may often be
submitted to as thedictate of sound policy.
But these, added to gross and wanton at
tacks upon our national honor-serious
efforts, by g affording aid and comfort" to
our enemies to disihtegrate the Union-to
break down our Gephblic, and blot out
our national exsslence--are offences Of
the gravest character, and to which the
Government of the United States cannot
submit.
i The wars in which we have been here
tofore engaged-if we except that with
Mexico-have beeA wars based upon great
principles of liberty and national indepen-
dence. And the dreadful civil war in
which we are nov engaged with the
slave oligarchs" pf the South, is wal
brought upon us BY wicked, unprincipled
demagogues. 1t i war in which the
national life is imperilled. 1t is wal
, which it is essentially necessary for the
Federal Governmel It to wage and maintain
for the purpose of luppressing monstroui
rebellion-of greater magnitude and crimi
nality than the world has ever witnessed
. Gin order to ensure domestic tranquilit,
4 and secure the blessings of liberty t.
ourselves and our posterity." 1t is wa
: forced upon the Federal Government
a upon the peaceful loyal people of tn
Union-by the slFe breeders-the slave
r dealers and the sl}veocrats of the South
! who began this atiocious civil war for tn
+? purpose of splitting this Union in twain
$ and of establishing the Confederate State
) of America--the cornerstone of who's
h Government is that of human bondage
e These Southern slaye States never ha,
e any just cause of quarrel against the Gov
q eminent Of the urited States. This fac
S, was plainly state distinctly proved, b
v Alexander atev5sss, himself. now Vic
a. President Of the S. A., in his celebrate
Of speecn hi -tne e. s0Jslseassos $500.
re England and france well know all thi
in They well know that our g cause is just,
of that we, the loyal people of the Unioi
e. are struggling for human liberty, and ft
ly our national life. Yet, with these fac
nd before them, and well understood by ther
We these two most enlightened" and " mo
no Christian people,, have been long, e
ell gagged, and are now engaged in giving mo
IT. efficient aid to the "rebel slave holders
ks The Governments of England and Franc
nd in the face of the most solemn treati
ne with our Govern ment-in defiance of Il
i'll plainest principles Of humanity-in viol
if ton of the most sacred principle of Il
KS Christian religion, are really engaged in
to common cause with the Southern sla
IN Confederacy, to establish their indepe
wn dence. Those Governments are thus
les work for a purpose. What, pray, is ii
Is purpose 1t is in word, nothing !,
.ov than the utter destruction of our gloric
ri. Union.
tlv We had intended to take more extt
IAN ded Wow of the subject of our foreign
.re lations, in this humber of the Union,
on. want of time compels us to postpone it
mo- our next numbd. In the mean time,
ne, PRESENT our re4ders with the follow
0,o ox, Fact on the subject, from the Philat
fiji. phia Inquirer:
INT e" A Few PdINTs FROM OUR FRIE
' ABnoAD.-The rebel rams in course of {
III struction near Liverpool are creating quit
rect much uneasiness ON that side of the WI
ain as they are on this. Nearly every primo
-, metropolitan is engaged in the discussion,
silly the columns of che Times seem to fur
use the favorite arena for the debaters. Som
ars the sympat zers" are busy in the wor
si'' destroying isolated passages from the dict
hey American jnrists, to prove that war ships
AGE embraced in tho same category with a
and supplies, while others, no less frieI
weo to the Rebels, but rather more apprehen
en- of the dangerous effect Of the new doctr
I'LL to British commerce, are endeavoring to s
'i'" that the true ground for England to tax
mo that assumed the United States when
Government dismissed Mr.. CHAMPION.
80 was that such proceedings are a riolatiol
iA.e the sovereignty cfthe nation in Which Mey
ould carried on.
We We have no doubt that the foregoing
SUBJ furnish the sword with which the Palmer
III Government will cut the Gordian knot of
iaiiy tolls they have been so blindly weaving a