The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-27

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The changes In other articles were unmportant
England and Rrance-yTheir Relations
80 With tho United states. -~Gt..
Several documents of diplomatic character
have lately been published that indicate the
position and feeling of the governments Of
France and England toward the United States.
The most significant Of these are the late letters
of Earl Russell to the British Minister here,
showing the existence of Franco-English
league against us. These indicate that the po-
sition of those governments toward Us now is
just what 1t has been throughout the war; and
that while they pretend to be friendly and
make Q specious show Of good feeling and
amity they are in fact animated by spirit of
hostility that is all the more bitter because it is
| necessary to conceal it.
This spirit originated in the natural antago-
nism between systems of government SO diamet-
really opposed 70 each other, but it is now
intensified by the disappointment that our sue
cess in putting down the rebellion has caused
in both France and England. For thirty years
England especially fomented the trouble inher-
ent i'm our system owing to the existence of
slavery. Finally all those exertions lighted up
grand war, and 1t was confidently and hope
fully expected in both England and France
that that war would finish the "grand expert
ment THAT it would break down the great
republic, tear every State from the others, and
leave us In the lamentable condition of South
America. They expected to point triumphantly
to the record Of these events, and to use it as
an argument against revolution in their own
dominions, and to point out that all progress
and all amelioration of the condition of the
| people must lead to this. But now that this
terrible war has not torn us to pieces-that we
have come out of 1t with grand success-the
immense influence of the example is all the
other way and hence the fear, the hatred, the
disappointment and the bitterness of the Powers
that expected to use our failure as q proverb.
Already this example shakes every foundation
stone in the European system, and the more the
governments see of It's influence with the people
the fercer is the resentment that they feel
toward us. The manifestations of that resent
ment must be met in o proper way by our gov
eminent, and we must never give to 1t icti-
tious strength by even seeming to yield to 1t
single inch. We must meet it face to face on
every point, boldly, openly, firmly; and so show
how little real power there L. in It
These European Powers fancy that they see
Just now their advantage In the reduction Of
that thai as ;ssy Ss7s Ssss L III Is osSsf Solas
in our history in this great struggle. The fact
that we now, almost before the echoes Of the
war have died away, can reduce our army
from q force Of nearly million to hundred
or even fifty thousand men is not weakpsss
in our position, nor in any way an argument
on their side Of the question. 1t is, on the con-
trary, the browning glory of our republican
system, and the best Of all arguments against
the system under which Europe is governed.
European governments keep up their armies
of four or five hundred thousand men, and
burden the people with the immense taxation
necessary to pay the expenses and thus the
energies of the people are sapped and their
very lives ground out to maintain armies
whose principal use Is to keep the people
down. But here, where there is no necessary
antagonism between the government and the
people, we no sooner get through a great
war-the result of political ambition-than we
disband our armies, tightening the burdens
of the people; and we will go on In the
same direction, putting away the load
of taxes one by one till we have even dis
charged the great debt run up so rapidly.
Then once more the position of the people
here will be az It was before the war began.
This example, also, must have its inevitable
effect in Europe.
The less the European governments do to
make their people acquainted with American
affairs the better It will be for their stability.
The less they famillarize the European mind
with our history, the less they agitate Ameri-
can questions, the longer they will stand. They
rush to their doom In this spirit of bitterness
against as. Their true policy, the only
policy that has any safety In it, Is to keep
away from us; to keep at as great distance
as modern civilization will permit, and, above
all, to avoid the entanglements of political
questions on this continent And the first step
to be taken in this policy is for England to get
out of Canada and France out Of Mexico
without further delay. Let them 90 at once
give up precipitately oil claims and run as If
for their lives II is their only wise plan. BY
pursuing It they may keep up their systems in
Europe, perhaps, hundred years longer; but
they have no time TO lose.
A CHALLENGE TO THE NAVY DEPARTMENT
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