New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-29
Times goes quite too far whcnr in criticising
recent speech of Mr.. Disraeli in the British

House of Commons, 1t says: 81 t-...-.
"The American farmers are conservative and
peaceful class More than this, they form community
whose conduct and opinions are, We venture to say az
zion and morality as any other in the world. Trey
love peace and they hate war; Europe mas only 10 Ic'
them alone 10 be sure of having nothing to fear from
their hostility But they are men ana nave the ieei
Of men and IL foreign countries do desire 10 main
tain relations Of peace and amty with them, foreign
Journalists and statesmen must not only refrain Io
meddnr with them Or their aiiers, but must Observe
In their comments on them, that decency and pro
priety which they mako it point TO display IN
their language toward other countries IN the world
Everybody knows perfectly well that the Engh press
were TO unite in nssang French men, manners ipsti!u
tions policy and even women, with the insoiehce.
ribsdry and scorn which has been poured WIlnou.
ceasine on those of the United States during the last
four years. the preservation OF peace wod be ipos.,
bic The same Thing may be said Of any other European
country with strength enough to manifest honest re-
sentmcnt in acts The American people are even more
| amenabe TO the influence Of fair words than most
others but they also more easily aroused BY piacA
guard abuse; and if the leaders OF opinion IN Enganu
and else cannot change their manner VI crtcishg
them and their doings-we do not ask them TO chahgc
their Opinons-they will assuredIy hnd sooner OF a,er
that territorial democracy, is a, SENSITIVE ana e ep
gerous animal as TERRITORIAL arlstocfaeJ c'oi
amused itself in stirring up"
Now it is quito possible, though we hope
not probable, that we may at some time be in
volved in another war with Great Britain; but
we protest against the implication that we can
ever be goaded into hostilities by mere words,
however scurrilous and abusive. When We see
swift corsair after corsair built, equipped, armed
and manned in British ports to cruise against
our exposed commerce, and when we ma tpcse
proclaimed outlaws who owe their existence 10
the most fragrant violations of plain and peremp-
tory British statutes, received with enthusiasm
in one British port after another, never proceeded
against for tho notorious iniractlons OF law a.
well as comfy to which they owe their exist
ence, but zealously reftted and provided with
everything necessary to the career Of dcyasta-
ton and rapine for which they were designed,
we cannot help warning the British people that
this is not honest neutrality-not the treatment
whereto we are fairly entitled by our behavior
during the Crimean War-and that there u
danger that it may lead 20 complications and
retaliations that we are earnestly striving to
avoid. But, if we are ever hereafter constrained
to make war on Great Britain, It's Indictment
will be found in deeds, not words. II Is some
what trying to the temper to have the Foreign
Secretary of q professedly friendly Government
asser, that we are fighting for empire and even
for subugation. In struggle whereto we were
so wantonly challenged to do battle for our
National existence; and when the Premier OF
Queen Victoria, in the fourth year OF our con-
test, reiteratcs the groundless and irritating
charge that we have insisted that Great Britain
should aid us in this struggle, aud are
offended because she does not, We have
no more patience than We need; but we find
the persistent railing of Biaek,ooods Msgos'"s,
The Standard, and other oracles Of ToryisIp,
rather entertaining than otherwise, while even
The Times London) inctes regret that decided
ability should be so sadly misused rather than
wrath at the misapprehensons whereof IT seems
not more the author than the victim. We
may repol with spirit some OF the more fragrant
misrepresentation to which we are subjected.
but we shall not go 10 war for any or all of
them. Let the Mother Country" keep her
broomstick and poker in their proper resting
places and we shall continue TO contemplate
the exhibitions necessarily afforded Of her
shrewish volubilty with philosophy which is
not indifference. but which obstinotely refuses
to be chafcd into unseemly rage or still more
deplorablc breaches Of the peace.