The Portland daily press., 1865-06-30
Advice to Adniaars.

The flood OF advice which is just now pour
ed upon us from over the water Is something
overwhelming. Eaglsnd, especially, seems to be
the most lavish, andthemingled pathos and ba-
thos with which she constantly admonishns us
ofwhatws ought to dowith the states which we
have restored by the power Ct cur arms, and
with the wretches whose only claim to COM
passion is that they have been unsuccessful
In their attempt to fasten slavery upon whole
unwilling continent, is something truly edify-
ing. The New York Eceming Post has got
outof patience with this kind Of nonsense, and
thus speaks its mind.
Need we remind England that whatever
she once possessed in the way of respectful
consideration on our part, has been very much
weakened by the utter failure Of her prophe-
cies regarding us and the shameless faulty Of
her advice? How can. we suppose her honest,
sincere or wise now in proifering to us her
sympathies, or 10 appealing to our sense Of
justice in asking Tor these captive traitors
mercy at our hands England has shown
conclusively that she does not understand the
principles of republicanism, and is lamentablY
deficient i'll that knowledge which, alone can
endow her with the ability 70 judge and the
right to advise.
Dy uktuluf aCtC3 VIC 10 HOt vi COURSE
mean those noble aud generous men who rep
resent the better spirit Of England, her love
of Justice, freedom, progress and the rights Of
man, such men as the late Mr.. Golden, John
Bright, John Stuart Mill, Goodwin Smith,
Forester, and ten thousand others, whose pol
itics proceed not from selfish interests or class
urejudces, but from sincere love of humanity (;
Jutwe mean the privileged or ruling classes,
and that large tail of snobs by which they are
,1od No. To- fr.ef
insoent meddlers as the Earl of Derby, who
has passed the last four years OF his life In
wishing the downfall OF the republic, but who
now comes forward with bland Pecksniffian
smile and self-complacent hypocrisy, to tell us
how we ought to manage our affairs. We re
fer to such unprincipled renegades as Lord
Brougham, who, at the Social Science Con-
gress, held at New York in 1854, denounced
us with vigor and bitterness OF vituperation
that surpasses even his own former powers of
malignant abuse, but who at a late dinner to
the Prince Of Wales had the effrontery to use
these words: "a
'If my voice could reach across the Allan
tic it would tell our kinsmen, that their best
friends, those who have been their advocates
through good report and through bad report,
now pray and beseech them to use the victo-
ry which, by great courage, great perseverance,
and no little military skill, they have gained,
( & As If this Brougham had not been one Of
the most Incorporate and fonl-mouthed OF
our maligners, or as If that great nation, the
American people, could do public act not
sanctioned by the dictates of both mercy and
justicel The author of "The Bachelor of the
Albany" describes Broughman Yas a man OF
the most brilliant incapacity, of vast and va
ried transformation, and the most enormous
moral requirements" and the description
Uould seem fn hp aa pranhfc now as Ii avar
was.
This signal want,of humility which we and
in these representative men might be ascribed
without injustice to the nation. If they pos
sessed the virtue, they would learn that those
men only have right to dictate and advise
who have proved by successful experiment
that they are in a position to Judge better than
those whom they would control by such judg-
ment According to this common rule of life,
it is this country and not that, which SHOULD,
If either should, lay down the law TO the other.
We have not only adopted principles suited to
our condition, but we have. established them
beyond disputation in the results we now lay
before the world. We repeat, then. the con-
viction, that until further and succeeding re-
ats prove the United States wrong and Great
Britain right-the former, and not the later
has the floor. Therefore to the journalists oil
England, so bent upon advising us how to
manage our political affairs and how to treat
our criminal prisoners who are awaiting the
test of civil tribunal, we beg respectfully to
say that we consider them and not ourselves
the proper subjects for advive. You have
been weighed in the balance by your own
standard and you have been found wanting
Henceforth let the tone be changed; let as
advise and you shalliisten. We have had too
much of your talk already, and it Is profted
nothing to the cause of freedom. Be good
enough to sit down there in your seats in the
public forum and listen awhile to the opinions
of those who certainly have shown themselves
capable Of giving an opinion. Are you seated,
gentlemen, journalists, orators and statesmen,
ready for our first words of council? If so,
they shall be brief, pertinent aud as follows -
Please TO mind your own business.