The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-21
ENGLAMDA AND THE UNITED STATES.
Tao Present Feeling I'm Engla md Am u o.
gar" TO tho Alabama Clalms-John
BULBS Rack Jap at Last.

Haru to tho Alabama Llalnas-.JOhu
BULBS Rack zap at Last.
The London correspondent of the New Yor}
Tribune writes under date Of the 9Th inst.
The irritation caused by Mr.. Summers speech
goes on increasing instead Of diminishing, af
l hoped 1T might after O ttl reflection.
have already des ,rlbed 1t as extending through
oil classes, turning old friendship into ,ll-wiH
and uniting those who we're for us and those
who were aS::nst Us III ono common purpose
OF resistance to the demands supposed to be
m'de by Mr.. sumner. With good deal of re-
we had few friends left, il approval even j.
eratlon OF Mr.. Summers speech Was to be the
condition OF friendship. With o good deal,more
reluctance, but without any gu ,lification I say
to-day that so far as [ know We have not in that
sense a single friend in England. OF couI sc
40 not mean that mon long Conspicuous for
their sympathy viii us have on q sudden be-
come enemies, or that they recant anything
they ever said on our side. But they d,sse.it
wholly from MIR. Summers statoment OF the
fse american a,, CLAIMS eh aud grievances They find
tent OF his demands. In more than one par
| ticular they are m,sled. or some OF them are
pers. all Of whioh make MIR. Sumner say some
things which he clearly Goes not say. O1n-
ment on tho, speech continues daily. in
thera the press and everywhere Hse aud vile
sentiment expressed in different quar-
ters: the agreement Of oplnion is plac-
Scaly unaliln 'ns. iSngla will Rght
Gated IN this speech. She will f,ht rather
than even negotiate on any such basis. Ir
nr. Mtt'ey's instructions cover anything like
the ground taken by Al. Sumner. he will be
met by point blank refusal 10 consider hls
proposals. At thus mooaent, doubt whether
any proposals Whatever would be listened TO.
L popular feeling counts for anything IN tho
Foreign Ofhoe. they woull be SIMPLY secuted
Otcourse, don't mean that MIR. Motley is
| likely to be received with lpcivlty. The most
fnrloHs would greet 'tim with poll eness
enough, but all parties will resist with eoual,
resolution an attempt to enter upon any ne.yn-
tiatlon willoh does not disavow. IN fact if not
in terms. Mr. summers authority to speak for
| the american Govefnment.
| do n ,t care to follow the london papers
| any FUR her IN their attacks on MIR Sumner.
| That would only be 10 rewnte nv last letter.
LANGUAGE intemperate enough at first has
| grown daily more vic ent Mr.. Sumner is
bracketed with Mr.. Chand or, and the two are
held up tog ther to pubic hate as men who
have a.. gone mad in Their aversion to e gland
The Tribune comes In for it's share OF yitupera-
taon, spite OF it's uignified protest against Mr..
chandler's exec sses. Its real oftsnce ~ IN be-
Ing the leading hadcL journal IN America;
hadlca,lsm being III e igian1 the chief Of the |
seRen deadly sins, OF which new .catalouge |
needs be proInnlga ed by ecclesiastical authori-
t.. The talk about Canada ;UA ,Ip % the |
popular fury. and 1t does so noswithstand- |
lug the known opinion OF leadug e Elgi,sb-
men that Canada ought to go, and some day
must go, and when she goes must be absorbed
,nto the republic. Tie most thoughtful ana mg
English statesmen would r.io;ce to be rid |
OF a costly dependency whic.. keeps thcm in |
perpetual fear lest it shou d be lost di-graoe-
fully in the first war that NAV break out, But
.hey never VIII lei It 90 under menace, r while
ita cessl0n might exDoss England TO the sus-
plclon OF surrsndelng 1t from fear. He, CO
even the suUgastion or the Tribune thai eng
land might offr 1T to America wi the cou-
wrath; The Daily Naws. mised suppose bv
the spectator. denounced 1T as .scandclous"
proposal, that L e land should be required O
naId asa% % over her ner proy'nce as pe"aty for her
It's mistake, aud to-day 1t G 'pies enough Of
your article on MIR. Chandler to show it's real
drift But even the News is swept ava y bV tAe
irresistible current OF popular opinlol against
Mr.. Gunner AID Tie speech. and every Ameri-
caZ view on the Alabama question.
do not, however, thlUk the war party is q
Between dissenting from Mr.. Sum ,er's speeon
and declarlog war the interval is q long one.
Some of the men who are most vehement
against the speech are most emphatic in pro-
they would fight rather than negotiate on
Sumner's basis do not all desire hostiitles.
Thew persist IN believing that Mr.. Sumner has
bill made ont Tor some Fur or five hundred
millions sterling, but they are far from bellev-
ing that Mr.. Motley is going to present it for
payment. Most people with whom talk
and during the past week have seen not
few men whose opinions have great we'ght-
on condition that the American Government
shall refrain from such insult as they dis
cover in r. Summers speech. But con-
fess have met nobody who seems willing any
longer to go 80 far as GOOD many men we're |
ready to 90 last year. Over and over again |
have put the questions: would you advocate
Mil o Ma1oD spS
Of Eng and for damages by the Az abama should
be admitted, leaving commission to adjudt- |
cate upon caips and determine the amount Z"
to MS say shas suca an aams
sion, whether OF. not they individually might
be willing to make IL, has become impossible. |
English opinion has settled down on the re,
je,ted treaty the limit OF concessionj hey ond
this they will not go. The party th,t was
ready to refer 10 arbitration the question OF the
peared. Indeed. nobody thinks it p.sslbie at
this moment to doanythlng. The irritation is
too general. the evaporation too great to
permit even dlsoasslon. No doubt, this
fever will subslde. but 1t mustrun its course,
andit will dO;no harm to reoOllect that when
Mr.. Albums first presented the American cl ,im
| for damages on account OF the Alabama
with his modest request for arbitration. claim
| scarcely less indignation than RACES now. It
was less general. but not less intense. Mr..
Vernon Harcourt. hiding h.s bushes behind
10 the name Of law and reason and o los OF
other thin9s that no such claim should ever be
considered. Yet 1t has been. I don't mean to
argue tnbt England Will SOME ObV 10 IodOv W
pay haif the cost of our war, for I don't UNDER
stand Mr.. Sumner nor any body else IL AnoEioa
to demand that. though the English papers
will have IL that that is our ultimatum. But
| the whole historv OF this controversy shows
thSt very loud E1glish No Is capable Of sott-
enlng IN . whispered Yes. / have no sort OF
doubt that when 1t suits our government to re.
sumo negotiations, they will get OWL answer,
though they NAV not get an inamediate assent
| to their proposals. MeanwhtlS, there is notn-
ing to do but wait. S&
The scheme for sending special envoy to
! Washington, which was to have been brought
forward, IS necessarily postponed. promised
to rewrite for you my lo-t accounts Of that
plan, bnt it is ns ,less to go into il now. Sir
Henry E;slwer's motion WIS set down, as 1 un-