Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-23
From the Boston Journal.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

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and the United States. 1t says it is a
long time since the British Foreign Office
has had less cause of anxiety about
European affairs, and that the only nation
which is known to harbor any grudge
against England is the one which is known
to harbor any grudgo against England is
the one which, of all others and for every
reason, the English people would least
desire to have for an enemy. The Times
thus speaks of the occasion of the grudge
which the United States bears toward
England, and of the policy of England's
using the presentation of the Alabama
claims by our government as pretext
for war: ,...
"a hostile rupture between Great Brit
tain and the United states would be more
gratuitous, more ruinous to commerce,
more repugnant to private feelings and in.
terests, and far more disgraceful to civil.
cation, than any quarrel which we could
be engaged in. There may be circum-
cumstahces under which it would be inev-
liable, there may be sacrifices too great
for us to make in order to avoid it, but
there is certainly no war against which
the reason and conscience of the public
are 50 decisively. enlisted. 1t might be
forced upon us, for there is degree of in
justice to which no community can sub
nit; but unless forced upon US by high
sense of patriotic duty it would be too
unpopular to be undertaken by the strong
est government. Perhaps American pol
icians have sometimes presumed too fare
upon this sincerely pacific disposition,
but at the present time we haye no such
complaint to make. Whatever bitterness
of telling still prevails in the United
States towards this country was not TO-
mented, at least in the first instance, by
interested agitators; it sprang from
real though possibly erroneous belief that
we had inflicted wrong upon them. The
suspicious circumstances ate ding the
equipment of the Alabama were interpre-
ted by the light of contemporary speeches
expressing sympathy with the South, and
the completely Of our government with
that INSCRIPTIONS transaction was not SO
much inferred from their actual conduct
as assumed to be self.evident. No En-
glishman can for moment admit this
of the facts, but no one capa-
BILE of Distinguishing between legal right
and moral claim will be disposed to de-
ny that fair case was made out for ar
bitration Lord Russell's unqualified re-
lection of that proposal was partly jasti-
fed by the form in which Mr.. Adams
demands were presented, but it also be-
trayed a somewhat narrow and one sided
view of the question at issue. 1t was, in
short, false step, however defensible on
grounds oflaw or precedent, and the soou-
er false steps are retraced the, better"
The Times follows up its confession
that Earl Russell did foolish thing in
uuqualifedly rejecting our proposals for
arbitration with urging upon the British
Government the favorableness of the pres
ent time for voluntary overtures for ar.
bitration. The Times is considerably
mistaken in supposing that the domestic
embarrassment" Of the United States are
so serious as to cripple her strength at all.
but it hits upon the true statement of tie
case, and the real reason why it expresses
so much anxiety about the settlement of
the matter, when it says that the Ameri-
can people have not forgot the Alabama
claims, and will not submit them until
they have been submitted to some impair
tial adjudication. The United States can
better afford to day to demand justice in
the Alabama matter than England can
afford to delay to voluntarily offer it, and
we are glad to see the question discussed
so calmly by one of leading English jour
nails. The conclusion Of the Times arti-
Gle is as follows:
1--WE have yet to learn what may have
passed between Lord Stanley and Mr..
Seward on this delicate subject, which is
one that is surely capable of a prompt set
Element honorable to both parties There
are thase who imagine that, having been
adjourned so often, it can be adjourned
indefinitely, and that it will be all the ea-
sier to dealt with at last We can not but
express most earnestly our dissent from
this opinion. and our conviction that a
more favorable opening for an arrange
ment is now presented than is ever likely
to be presented again. We have pointed
out on former occasion the obvious ad-
vantage which new government and
new Foreign Secretary possesses in re-
tricving diplomatic mistake of their pre-
decessors; but there is still more i'm
portant aspect of the matter tina, remains