The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-16
SATURDAY, JULY l6, 1864.
ENGLAND AND THE DANO.GERMAN
WAR.

IL our people ever felt any apprehension that
England would openly and directly interfere
in aid of the South in its rebellion against our
national Government, they may now well dis
miss any such fears from their minds. The
action of the British ministry in reference TO
Denmark, proves most conclusvely that they
are afraid to go TO war for any cause even the
honor Of the Kingdom, and that no considera-
tlon Of duty merely is strong enough to prevail
against that pacific policy to which the British
public and the British politicians are now quite
unanimously and determinedly devoted We
learn by the last news from Europe not only
that Lord PALMERsToN, and Earl RUSSELL
mean, very decidedly, to leave the Danes to
their fate-to fight out their quarrel with the
Germans without England's assistaDce-but
that the opposition in Parliament, led by
DERBY and DIsBAELI, have concurred In the
resolution.
This Is certainly most discreditable to our
English cousins, and we feel inclined to blush
for so evident decay of that bold and valor-
oEs spirit which anciently distinguished them.
If ever one nation was bound to help another
in difficulty, England is soemnly engaged
the verdict of the civilized world, and no spe-
cial pleading will enable the British Govern
ment TO get away from it. Even the Germans
now taunt Englishmen travelling ntheir coun-
try with the cowardly course which their
statesmen have pursued towards the Danes,
while those into whose teeth such stingiEg
charges are cast, can neither deny nor resent
them. A Mr.. HERBERT, one Of VICTORIA's
subjects, and who has iIst published book of
recent travels On the continent, gives the fol-
lowing as the substance of conversations he
mad held with various German friends of his
during his journey. 1t will serve to show the
contempt with which the German mind re-
CARDS the treacherous and pusillanimous part
which Great Britain has played in the DanO-
German controversy. Mr.. HERBEBr thus
reports what was said to him by Germans in
Germany
" You in England have taken up neighbor's
qUarrel-yOu have taken the cards out Of his
' hands and played them for him-yOu have
played the M for him in such a way as 70 give
90 all that his antagonist asked-yOu have made
him separately aud severally concede every
"point demanded-nowhere and at no moment
has he refused to follow the course on which
you have insisted, or turned aside from the
81 sacrifices which you have dictated; nor has he
/" taken his cards back into his own hands until
I" the last moment, when you yourselves have
thrown them up and have left him alone and
friendless 10 play the remnant of this miserable
game out for himself. Is not this literally
what you have done l do not want TO judge
your conduct by what men think Of it in Dem
mark-I am willing that il should stand on its
" trial in any court country which you choose
TO name IN Europe; but If, at Vienna at Ber-
lin, at Paris, at Turin, or anywhere else out or
England you choose, you find bat one opinion
mud hQl al Rb a ng
hear IL, disturb even your seltesteem.
This is just statement Of the case, and in
view of it, we may well inquire why the
British Government, and the British people Of
all political parties, have behaved in a manner
so faithless to Denmark and so dishonorable to
themselves. The reason is quite obvious.
England has, by her dishonest course towards
this country, richly earned the ill-wil Of our
people, and she is afraid that the time may
speedily come when we will properly resent
the aid that she has really, though covertly,
given to the Southern Rebels in their efforts
to destroy the unity of this nation.
Conscience" says "Hamlet," "doth make
ccwards of us all" and England
is at this moment striking Illus
tration of the truth of the remark. Her
ministry are conscious Of the ample proyoca-
tions they have given US TO seize the first
plausible occasion to punish their criminal
completely with the Rebellion, and it is that
sense of guilt and dread of retaliation which
makes them afraid to put themselves or their
country in any situation that might expose
them TO be attacked from this quarter or at
all crippled in their power to resist that
assault il made. Moreover, John Bull" has
been taught TO fear us more than ever by the
marvellous display Of military strength which
this civil war has given US the opportunity TO
make, and he is disposed to exercise very
wise caution in keeping himself pre-
pared to meet a conflict with the
United States whenever it may occur. Eng
gland is especially vulnerable on the ocean
Her commerce is the chief source of her
wealth and greatness, and she is therefore
most concerned to preserve it against any
serious molestation. Our navy, within the
last three years, has grown from the feeble
ness Of peace establishment to magnitude
and power that is well fitted TO inspire with a
wholesome fear that empire which has always
boosted that she is " Mistress OF the Seas
For these, and other like reasons, the states
men who rule the councils Of Great Britain
are fast losing their belligerent propensities
and becoming more circumspect in those
matters which promise to complicate them il
the political differences which bring tn,
States of the Continent into collision. AnC
thus it is that the United State
are exerting a decided influence il
European politics, by restraining the actioi
of the principal powers in that hemisphere
Our traditional policy has heretofore beel
averse TO entangling allionces with ioreigl
nations, and TO any intervention in the dis
putes which concern them. But recent event
have greatly modified our relations in thi
respect, as well as our power and interests
and it Is not improbable that hencelorth thi.
Government win be specially regarded as q
chief element In the controversies hereafter te
arise between the Governments of Europe
and that we shall, eventually, become con
trolling weight in tkAt scale which is know
and denominated on the other side of th
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