The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-31
England.

sympathies bat material aid to the Con1ed-
crate States, as they would have done had
they been influenced by far-seeing states-
manship, kept our commissioners in the
background, and, whilst no doubt ardently
desiring our success, let 81 would" wait
upon "I dare not" Mr.. RoEBUcK was
then. as now, bold and outspoken in his
utterances. But scarcely another promi-
nent man in England appears to have the
courage to tell his people the truth as TO
what would have been the true policy OF
bis Government at that crisis. JOHN BRIGHT
SCENE to us t. be little better than traitor to
his own country. Mr.. GLADSTONE has high
character personally, and is certainly among
the most distinguished of British states
men: yet even he has thought it not unbe-
coming in him to 90 down on his knees ana
crave the pardon of Uncle Sam. He has
subjected himself to the scorn of the world
by writing letter to G. EDWARDS LESTER OF
New York, of date August 1858, and just
now given to the world, in which he says
uWtth respect to the opinion l publicly eN-
pressed at period during the war, LII :rie
South had virtually succeeded III hcn'e, iIs
tic indenendnuce I could not he surpr'Sto Oh
offended If tharexnression of such an opln.o,u
at smell time had been treated IN YorL |ot IN
much less kindly than the notices lno ~
pages 500 533 must confess that iGt'S U 1n
that I took too much rnon myself IN eA!oiess
;np such an opinon Yet the motive was hoI
had NV Hsympathies" were then where
they had long before baen-where they are
now-with the ,choLe American people
az. probably like many Europeans. did nor
understand the nature and WORKING OF me
American Union. l had lmnioeo; cons..e .,
tiouslv If enormously. an opinion that twenty
or twenty four millions of the North Woulu
he happier and would be stronger (ot course,
assuming that they would hold togetnel,!
without. the South than with 1t, and also tntt
the negroes would he much nearer TO emancl-
nation under n southern government than un-
der the old system of the Union, which hao
not at that date august, 1922 been anAnnon-
ed and which ALWAYS appeared TO me 10 pace
the whole po,cer Of the North Mt the conllha"o
of the sIaveholding interest of the Soutn.
"As far rs regards the special or snnarale
interest of England in the matter, l, n'IIerin':
from many others. had always contended tnat
ii was hest for oar interest that the Union
should be kept entire"
This confession ought to satisfy even
-...a..,r., .-..--.-.- .-.I:L-
BILE to the distinguished gentleman who
wrote it. He seems to have made up his
opinions by the rule of contraries. He
thought that the North would be stronger
without the South, and therefore wished
the South to become independent! He
thought the negroes would sooner be eman-
cipated in confederacy each of whose
States recognized the institution OF slavery
than in a union two-thirds free and one
third slayeholding He thought it would
be best for England that this country
should remain united, and therefore he de-
sired TO see it dismembered Was there ever
a more unreasonable set of propositions
stated by so celebrated man? But whilst
thus evowing what his opinions were du-
ring the war, and giving his reasons for en-
tertaining them, he lumbly confesses that
he was wrong, yet protests that his "sym-
" pathies were then where they had long be-
" fore been-where they are now-with the
"whole american people" And this man is
now Prime Minister of England-this man
who declares that whilst he believed it
would be best for mis- own country that the
United States should not be divided, never
theless favored that division because he
thought it would be best for that country
which will one day drag down his own into
o still deeper depth of humiliation than it is
now in! We congratulate our cousins
across the water upon the choice they have
made in this new " American Premier.
How it tickles our national vanity to read
that Mr.. RoEBUCk could not even be elected
to the House of Commons, whilst Mr..
GLADSTONE has been made the foremost
man in Christendom.
The London Times" the thunderer'-
the leading journal of the worlds as
much afraid of this glorious country of
ours-this Island of the free and this home
Of the brave "-as Mr.. GLADSTONE. 1t
even SO degrades it's columns as to prosti-
tute them to denunciations of President
JOHNSON patterned after those which daily
disgrace the leading journals of the Radi-
cal party in this country. 1t finds in his
last annual message the same proposition
to repudiate the national debt which those
journals go quickly discovered, but which
Mr.. JOHNSON himself declares was not there,
nor intended to be there. In fact, the lead
els of the people of England, whether
writer's or speakers, would seem to live in
mortal fear of the United States, and to be
so terror-stricken that they imagine there
is no party in this country worthy of the
name except the Radical party. When
nation has reached this stage of feebleness
it can no longer command the respect of
the world. II England bumbles herself
thus to the United States she will soon find
that, like the sick hon in the fable, she will
be fouted by every Government in Chris
tendem, and kicked at by the most eowardly
and longest-esred ass amongst them.
Its net necessary to add that the Ala
bama claims will be paid by Mr. GLAD
STONE, and the United States be simplored
to pardon his erring Government for having
so'long and SO unjustly withheld moneys so
clearly due to the best government the
world ever saw! SEE
Senator MORTON is out in the Washington
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