The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-06-29
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England Advocating Everywhere.

assenblages, is pre-, AIRED and willing to
take beck seat. The position which
Great Britain once occupied AS the gen
eral manager Of European affairs is now
have concluded to apply themselves to
making money. 1t would be question
Of some interes. 10 know how much of
this willingness to subside is owing to the
Crimea. |. is just barely possible that
events there justify EngIshmen in con-
Guiding that money making. and not
making war, is the proper role Of the
Bri,on.
The resignation BY Great Britain Of
everything save an advisory position in the
disposition of continental affairs is rather
stunning; bu! 1t is scarcely less SO than a
similar atdication by the same power
with reference to matters on the American
continent. He sui Join Al extract from
the Saturday ReU,eu, which may be re-
garded as regular article OF agreement
10y which England consgns her North
American provinces 10 themselves or who
ever may choose to care for them The
Article is speaking Of probable Fenian
invasion O. Canada, and adds:
1t is possible tina; the great armies which
the federal government could command mi ght
oycrrun the British provinces but Americans,
though they steadily abstain from profting by
the history of the old world, ought already to
have learned from their own experience that Il
conquered dependency is troublesome ap-
pendage to democratic republic. The Cana
dians. il they are destined to submit t the
invader, will be long in forgying an unpro-
Noked attack and prohigate conquest. One
Poland in the north ard another in the south
would embarrass the admirin2 rival Of Russia
The separation Of Canada from the British en-
pire would in the natural order of events, not
improbabIy be attended by circumstances Of
Irritation but the memory Of a violent sever
ance. effected by alien force. would perpctu-
ate the feeling Of attachment to the mother
country and Of dislike to the usurpcr."
THIS means that il this country invades
the Canadas, it will be met not by the
vengeance of Great Britain, but by feel.
lngs Of irritation Oh the part Of the con-
quered Canadians. We are threatened,
not with the wrath Of the mother coun-
try, but with an unforgiving temper on the
part OF the sutjugated Anglo-B ritons
The penalty of conquering Canada would
be, not the resentment of Great Britain,
bu. We would find ourselves with 20,
land at the north aud the south.
We submit that this means that, If this
country wishes Canada, 1t can take it sub
ject only TO such penalties as will grow
from our own lacerated consciences and
the terribly nnforgiying frame of mind in
which Invasion would leave the high -spir-
tied Canadians. The Saturday Rerie,o is
the organ of tie aristocratic classes: and
IN Great Britain, the arstocra:ic classes
are the representative, the governing
classes. Therefore its assertions with ref
erence to England's policy in continental
Europe and in British North America
must be accepted as er cathedra.
France has supplanted Great Britain
in the control Of Europe The United
States has effected the same thing with
reference TO the same country on the wes-
tern continent. There only remains to
Great Britain its immense East Indian DOS
sessions; and it is here, according to the
SATURDAY Reuiew, that Englishmen vii
concentrate their efforts and retain tia,
supremacy which they yield so gracefully
because obliged ton every other
quarter Of the globe.
Alas for this dream Of Indian suprema-
cy! Slowly but irresistibIy the Russian
is moving across Asia. His standards,
firmly planted, already wave within sight
of these British East Indian possessions
The time is not remote when Russia will
De to England in Hindostan what France is
to England in Europe and The United
States to England in the western hemis.
phere.
The time is not distan, when some Sat
urday Review will assure the Russian car
that conquest of the Indies will bring
upon him the sulky resentment Of Sepoy
and Brahmin, and place upon bis eastern
a Poland like that now on his western
border