The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-12
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ELKTON, JUNE IL, 1869.
The Alabama Question.

After storming themselves out Of BREATH
the leading English journals are, to use a
homely phrase, hauling in their horns.-
The United States did not quake with fear
and turning humble suppliants, entreat
John Bull to spare them in his wrath. The
Democracy, however, with bated breath,
told the people what dangerous fellow
John was, while their knees smotc with
terror at the prospect of "war with Eng
landr' which they discerned in the not far
distant future Charles Summers arraign-
ment of the British Government for its bad
faith toward the United States, in fitting
out piratical vessels to burn and destroy,
upon the ocean, American merchant ships,
was pronounced all wrong by the Copper
head press, which declared that England
had committed no wrong nor violated the
neutrality she protested; in fact, her con-
duct was pronounced meritorious, by these
degenerate organs of the Democracy. In
the palmy days of that party, when it was
the s'Jackson party" one of its cardinal
virtues was its hostility to England under
every pretense and on all occasions, but so
corrupt and unpatriotic has it become by
the demoralizing and enervating influence
of slavery, that its cowariice and hostility
to its own nation are ready to manifest them
selves on the slightest occasion, by taking
sides with its ancient. and what it formerly
considered its natural, foe.
But the old enemy came to the assistance
of slavery against freedom, equipped pirat-
ical ships and sent them on their robber er-
rands to destroy the commerce of the
United States, and thus completely wiped
out the old score which the Democratic
party had against her, and converted that
party into firm friend and iustifier of the
English Aristocracy. Lord Clarendon,
however, with more sense than the London
Times, and other leading newspapers of
Great Britain, or their Copperhead allies
on this side of the water, has recently re-
viewed the Alabama correspondence in the
House of Lords and his review amounts
to a justification Of the view taken of the
late treaty by the Republicans which that
prince of Maryland Diplomats, Reverdy
johnson, made such flourish over, and
consumed so much wine and English beef
in manipulating. A few weeks ago the
Copperhead Democracy was shaking in its
shoes, while the British Lion roared through
the English newspapers at the United States.
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and reiterated that England had offered
more than she ever would yield again; that
her ultimatum had been reached, and John
was rather angry with his magnanimity in
condescending to yield so much to the
American Government. But the case rs
viewed by the United States was stated
clearly and dispassionately in the Senate,
by Summer, and the American people
Copperhead demagogues excepted-main-
tanned a dignified composure, while John
Bull ragged and clustered, well knowing he
would have to adopt more reasonable corln-
sells, as we could afford to wait till time and
opportunity would conspire to compel the
British nation to atone to the uttermost for
her crimes against this nation i'll its dead
lest struggle. Despite their newspapers,
the governing class of England has consid-
cred the Republican view of the question,
and is about to again take up the case and
judge it from a new stand point. This lit
tie furry of the British newspapers has
served again to point out the Republican
party as the true national party of the
country; while it has as distinctly shown
the Copperhead party as ready to desert
the flag and bow with mouths in the dust
before England as it was to become the
apologist, alley and tool of the slave party
of the rebellion