Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-04-16
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
Iron the Mobile Regi,ter)

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
From the Mobile Rsgissr)
OF all the strange things which this war has devel-
oped one Of the stapgess Is that enemies should
expect sympathy and support from England in the hor-
rble which they arc making upoa u. We cay
they had right 10 expect such sympathy, for the
policy of the old Uaion, ard especially Of the
Northern portion of has been, since the revolu
ton Of s directly sdvsise to the policy and interests
This country engaged England in a war-whs. is
call I'D she last AT time when il well know
the latter lower had her hands foil elsewhere. We do
not say it WAS wrong; we merely mention it as his
torca fact and We know that complaints OF IL as bong
uugenerous have been made By modern British his
torans and ,ysts It is curious fact too that the
Treaty of Peace in 1914 did not dec de the point ia
issue. Then, again, in the settlement of the Maine
boundary line the United States claimed, and England
at last granted boundary which, while II gave US
large piece of barren and unnhabited territory almost
entirely separa ed the two British provinces Of New
Brunswick and Cauajs and compelled England to ask Of
the State of Maine the right of way for railroad hrou
her 10 ritory-and the line was estsblished, too
in the face Of the boundary married Mr. Jsfersons
map and Dr. Franklias map Wsdo notsay that this
wrong either We may have been justly entitled to the
boundary which was established. We only menti N it
TO show that igAnd had 10 reason to be satisfied
she was not, with the adjustment aud reason to
Oh IRISH particularly sentimen towards the Amer-
can Union on account Of it. Then again, In the Ore
pon question We were no doubt rght-bnt England had
TO break ND all her settlements the Columbia river
a, a sequence TO the arrangement which was made and
retire her people further north 10 the Clayton Bdwer
treaty il thought the United States had got tie
bettr of gland again. Certainly the intention mat
have been to DO so-for when 1t was found out that
CLAYTON had been outwted-or rather had not secured
the advantages which it at first supposed be had
such storm was raised about his ears as did not sub
side to his dying day. Later still, what the British
sidered an outrage and infringe upon their ter
oral lights committed at San Juan Island the
Pacific coast which was somehow or other patched up
afterwards by Gen. S,ott.
Il thus appears that Epgland had no reason to be
particularly friendly to the old Unon in the matter Of
adjusting questions of Dip Ited territory. We leave
out of view atog tbs threats which thu North has
been making for the last thirty years. to wFest Canada
from her grasp and plant the gridron fig upon the
heights Of Montreal and Quebec. n
Ia other respects we do no what claims Yankess
have upon Engands forbeaanca or sympathy. They
have been trying to cheat the British out Of their North
eastern fisheries all tie time. The navigation laws Of
the old Uuion, and of the present Yankee nation,
clude British ships al ogethsr fom the coastiDg trade.
No foreign bot ON allowed to carry cargo from
one port Of tie old Union to anoiher-not even from
Boston to San Francisco distance ofscveral thousand
miles Toe Yankees monopolixed the coasting trade,
Just as they try to monopolzs everything tie. No
chant of Mobile could send his cotton from here to New
0rk except IN ankee snip, tnouBn bnn3u snip
had offered to take il for halt the money
But the most grievous wrong of all 10 England was
the en- ormous duties levied upon British inusc.ures
burdens made 80 heavy under the Morrill, Tariff
which was passed soon after Lincoln assembled the
throne that many Eaglish manufactures are now ex
cluded altogether from consumption England ciamors
for Free Trade but 90 Trade the Yankees will
Of They are Tor Free everything ee but not for Free
Trade rot even in recprocation OF the legislation Of
Engand which scare, taxes anything Ia the way OF
Imports except tobacco. And as tobacco s produced
by the South alone, the Yankees not part1 ular
about that. II England had said Free negroes, Free
farms, Free Love, Fee nails or Free stealing they
would have met with cordial response. But, Free
Trad! ,Iamaisi CeU
Aud thus, encouraged by the meckness OF their
Ira Atlantic cousins, the North takes every advan-
tige Of England; and II the latter isionaly raises
howl, threat OF wrestling" canada from her (wrest
is always the word they use,) quickly brings her ST.
lence But wrestling Canada Is not all oil the anti
English ammunition which the Yankees have in their
magazine. There is the five or six hundred millions
dus England by the North, which they threaten will
never bs paid IL tue Latter cuts up any Shines And
then there are myriads of Yankee privsteers to be
turned loose upon Brit sh commerce If England does
not behave herself the Yankees expecting in case OF
war with England, to exclam with the corsair:
Far as the breeze can bear, the. pillows foam, =
Survey our empire and behold our home"
Earl Russell is it any wonder that he should become,
like dr. Vufa's giant, "shaky in the legs" whenever
the name OF Y,ikee mentioned? No, it Ia not
iing that old Russell should be scarce but how it Is
aud why it il that the descendants Of the Birons OF
King Johns time SHOULD thus blsey and servilely
truckle 10 Yankee nsolerce, does indeed, paas our
Mr. Seward and M Russell ought to be
yoked together as the most precious pair OF diplomats
that ever took the occasion renew &C. The former
bully coward and sneak; the latter crouching ct
feet like dog fearing uplifted Lash. We say
nothing against Eogard herse for we are certain that
Foreign Secretary does not represent the sentiments
Of her educated people. We only wonder that he's
cont nued in office where his policy towards not YAM
kess alone but the nations OF the European Continent
seem TO be as. destroying the proud position whic his
couay has for centuries held among the great powers
of the world.
Il M, be said however, that we oil the Confederate
States have no right to complains that wha ever pol cy
gland being an independent nation, chooses to pur-
u is none of our business; that, II the chooses 10
ubmt to Yankee insoence it is her own look out, and
lot ours and that finally we have no right &, lecture
saglend on the course she ia pursuiug This won be
III we'll enough if We were not sufsricg from H. Bu'
ell ion being the first law Of nature, We have
right 10 expect justice at her hands, and
hat Justice wa do not think We Lave had In The hrst
ace she has no. been neuua because she has recog.
zed one of the parties to war, ard has not recog-
oise vita bsr nsghbor, France In sep which would
ays end this var lo ago. 10 the third place, che
IA, pc mted re tuits to forward to the army o.
u enemy, knowing the Wills that We we're fighting
nder terrible Disadvantage as the odds were at The
egnnng In the place. che has Furnished our en-