Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-29
OUR rRANs-ArIANrIo COUSINS.

A national family solicitude leads Us to
wonder how our dear " Transatlantic
Cousins" feel about this time. We have
not troubled ourselves much about their
likes and dislikes for few years past,
having had q little domestic trouble on
this side of the pond, which has prevented
the possibility Of our paying as close an
attention to the family on the other side
as our close relationship merited. We
have only had occasion to glance at the
European papers occasionally, to notice
their tone of comment on our affairs. We
have, in few instances, besn compelled
to demonstrate slightly at little matters
which appeared to US rather unfriendly,
and have, on the other hand, been called
upon to rectify little misadyentures of our
own. Our international correspondence
has ever been Of the high-toned, Ore
newed assurance of distinguished con-
sideration character, and there is moth
ing on record to prove that for the past
four years the United States and Great
Britain have hated each other as the devil
hates holy water. That such has been
the state of feeling which has in reality
existed, is one of those stubborn facts of
which evidence would be superhaous.
The hatred of the United States toward
Great Britain is universal. It extends
from the National Capital to the hut Of
the back-woodsman; it is felt alike by the
statesman, the soldier, and the peaceful
citizen. It is not a mere abstract senti-
ment; it thrills the blood of old men and
maidens, young men and children; it
burns like fever, and 1t pants for retri-
button of a sneaking, cowardly and per-
sistent wrong. 1t is all very fine and very
laudable in Mr.. Goodwin Smith "a very
worthy, honorable and enlightened Eng
lish gentleman, and friend Of the United
States, withal,) to deliver US calm and
christian-ike lecture upon the subject of
brotherly love, ties of blood, common an
cestry, common language, and all that
sort of thing. The theory is good. But
it happens that Mr.. Goodwin Smith is not
of that class that rules and governs Great
Britain. He is Liberal" democrat"
and he Is about as influential parsonage
in England as would be an Abolition
preacher in Richmond, or cat in hell
without claws. Air. Goodwin Smith, ard
people of his way of thinking, are of no
account in Great Britain, and Americans
neither hold them responsible for the
wrongs of their nation, nor place any ex-
allied value upon their advice. Mr.. Gold
win Smith spent some six months in
studying America and American politics,
and what he has written and will write,
would fill a respectable sized volume.
What he didn't learn. doesn't know, and
never will know about this country, would
fill large library. The people of the
United States are not as smart as Mr..
Smith, naturally, but they have had ad-
vantages Of experience which have been
denied that excellent Englishman. We
will leave Mr.. Snah, and returnSto our
mutton. We were speaking Of the ami
mostly of the American people towards
the British Government-not toward the
British people. for the people of Great
Britain cut but small figure in the Gov
eminent. This hatred has been thinly,
but smoothly masked by the cautious di-
plomacy of the Amencan Administration,
and no furious outbreak Of indignation
has been suffered to interrupt or retard the
progress of the work Immediately requir-
ing the full energy and resources of the
nation. The FIRE has been carefully
smothered; but it has burned only with
the 6ercer intensity below the surface.
The cowardly nation, once typiEed by the
rampant Hon." and once the pro-
claimed mistress Of the seas" has been
restrained by wholesome fear of the giant
power developed by this war, has not
dared to strike an open blow in favor of
the cause which she has. covertly sustain
ed. Her stabs have been inflicted from
behind the treacherous mantle of "neu-
traEty," until she has made the word
by-word and a jest. Under the cloak Of
that false profession, her dock-yards have
sent forth pirates to desolate our COM
merce; her arsenals have armed and her
factories have clothed the armed foes of
the United States, and the contraband
trade has swelled the Golfers of her mer-
chants. The press in the interest of the
British government have persistently lied
to the British people and the people Of all
Europe; leading the masses to sympathize
with the rebels and to hope for the des-
truction Of the American public. The
morning fog may obscure the sun, but his
MONDAY glare dissipates the mist. The
event has proven the fallacy OF that oellet
and the falsity of those hopes and the
power of the nations arm is indicating
itself, and the downfall of the rebellion is
fixed and glaring fact. undeniable and
undisguisable. The strength, the wealth
and the prosperity Of the American Union
is demonstrated to the eyes of the people
of Europe, and in the money-marts, the
great pulse of Europe. this national might
is making itself felt and plainly apparent.
The restored and redoubled confidence of
the European Money Kings is exhibiting
itself in a demand for American securi-
ties, that has caused a backward fow Of
the tide of gold which for four wears has