The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-04-27
Volume l2-Number 90
W hat Night Have Been.

The London Saturday Review is
not at all pleased with the present
attitude OF Americans toward Eng.
lishmcn. We are, IL thinks, decidedly
too belligerent and willing to fight
them, forgetful of their "magnani
nifty in forbcaring to take part
which, IL taken, mrst have produced
most important effect on the war"
persistence in our present course
as regards the fisheries and the Fe.
mans may yet "provolte" John Bull
to conflict Nothing would so ir.
ritate the thoughtful and intelligent
classes Of Englshmen as the reflec
tion that a magnanhnity and endur
ance almost without precedent had
inspired neither good will nor respect
in the minds of those whose country
and institutions they had helped to
Iprescrye."
'fht5 ~ n ttvvtdcdty rtvh aecfuru.
tion TO emanate from the Review. =
One would think that this yirtuous
journal had not labored ardently all
through the war for the South, while
its proprietor, Bcresford Hope, con.
tributed freely from his plethoric ex.
chequer to the insurgents. 1t for.
gets all this, however, and now di.
latcs at length upon "what might
have hcen," had it not been for this
display of wonderful 'magnanimity
and endurance" We quote:
"At this moment England would
possess diplomatic representative
OF the Southern Confederacy. We
do not maintain, neither do we be-
lieve, that this would have been all
unmixed advantage to us. There is
at any rate one point on which we
should, in all probability, have been
soon precipitated into collision with
the new born republic. 1t is difficult
to suppose that, with tue known prin
ciples of some of the Southern lead
ers, and the scarcely less known pre-
objections of others, we 81 ould not
have found ourselves sooner or later
involved ia quarrel with them on
the subject of the slave trade. Cuba
and Florida would have played into
one anothers hands for the prosecu
ton of the traffic in the Gulf of Mex
leo, which we have taxed ourselves
to suppress. On the other hand, il
is just as difficult not TO recognize the
essentially new position which mus,
have risen from the co.existence ol
two neighboring and rival States, II
place of one homogeneous republic
Whatever cause Of difference W,
might lave had with either of them
we could scarcely have had the same
with both of them. II we had quar-.
relied with the Southern Confederation
about the slave trade we should have
had sympathy and co operation iron
its Northern rival. If we had quar-
relied with the North about tariffs
the necessities of the South would
have supplied ample proselytes to ouf
free trade doctrine; and the proven.
! bal anlmosiLics OF near relations
would have prccluded any scLeme OF
"a joint attack upon ourselves. An
other advantage of no incons iderablc
moment would have been the effectual
muzzle that Southern independence
would have put upon erratlc Irish.
men. Those eHterprising adventur
ers who have returned to their own
country with the laudable Object Of
sowing the seeds of civil war, would
have found sufficient pay and excite.
ment in watching and schcming
against one another They belonged
inditfercntly to both camps in Amer
lea, and probably had as much genu-
inc sympathy with one rs with the
other. In the event of two independ
ents being recognized, each would
have found itself compelled to lleel
a standing army. But, with actual
war at an end, the tastes and habits
Of American citizens would have re
volted against the empty parade of q
non combatant force, and the armies
of both nations would have thus been
reduced to their Irish elements. -
Whether this would or would not
have embOldened them il a doubtful,
and now an unimportant question -
IL is sufficient to observe that whilt
they were watching one another they
could not have been annoying us
and the heroic project of redistribu
ting all landed property in IRELAND
would have been postponed to a peri
cd indefinitely remote. We shoult
not OF heard of visits paid TO tho
President OF the United States By
patriotic excahmen, glowing witt
new theories OF international law -
Nor would the abrogation of tho
commercial treaty between Canadf
and the States have excited the ap
prehensions which are now felt il
certain quarters. At any rate, the
situation would have been one o!
. such painful interest and solicitudC
TO all American politicians that Il
wonld have closed the Temple o
Bunkum for long time to come
This Of itself would have been q caus,
OF great thankfulness TO all tn
, world"
A lady riding in one Of the sub
urban stages the other day politely