The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-15

IR 1868.
THE THREATENED FOREIGN WAR
| LATEbT PHASE OF ENGLISH PUBLIC sENTI
MENT ON THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
THE LONDON PRESS WAKES UP At LAST
Highly Interesting Analysis OF the Pres.
! emit state OF British Party Feeling.
| The important cable telegram to the New
York Tribune foreshadowing triple alliance
Of England, France and Spain, against the
United States, seems to be rather lightly treat
ed by the Northern press. The Tribune,
itself, alluding to it edltorialy, says: ''The
report looks 80 much like the rumor likely to
be bred even in official circles, by the passion
| ate anger of which the beginnings are so
graphically traced in the letter from our Lon
| don correspondent, that there may be some
reason for delaying full belief in it," The
Tribune correspondent, it must be remem :
bered, is no mere sentimental scribbler, but q
! cool, sagacious and experienced observer Of
ion; and the letter above referred to throws
much light upon the recent change OF feeling
in England towards the United States, which
probably led the way to tie triple alliance ne
gotiation, If such indeed has taken place. We
reproduce the more interesting portions of the
letter in question.
An Explosion OF Anger.
Correspondence Of the Nex York rribune.1
ArrY1
Summers speech, delayed fUr three DAYS has
come at last with such an explo ,lon of anger
as has not been heard for m my d month. II
mas stlrred that kind OF rage which rises in
the breast OF a man who finds himself sudden
~ summoned to make q complete reparation
for acts of the guilt Of which he Is conscious.
but The consequences OF which he had hoped
to escaDe., In private, there is no limit to the
gross eplthets bestowed on MIR. Sumner. Tn
public he is the object of q Wind ctlve denuncia-
tion almost without limits. shall not think
1t worth while to pay much attention to the
attacks OF journals which we have long known
as enemies. Indeed, they are comparatively
moderate. The most vehement abuse comes
now from some Of our old friends. But they.
too. must wait till have given an account Of
demonstration from another quarter.
Among all the replies ehcited by Mr. Sum.
ner's speech, that Of the Pail Mali Gazatte ia
by Tar the most remarkable and most import
ant. 1t is, indeed: one of the most remarka-
BILE articles over printed in any newspaper. 7
nave said I'M former letter that there are
three daily journals in London SO Conspicuous
To- Tor ability as to to form cass by. themselves
they are the Times, the Daily News and the
Pail Mall Gazette. 1t happens also that each
o. the three represents distinct class. The
Times speaking for that great section which
possesses acquired wealth-the P utocracy, as
News representing modern Liberalism, and the
Pail Neil Gazette being distinctly the organ Of
the English Oigarchy, by which mean the
ruling class. composed mainly Of what is call
ffGA q nv,I f<r& 81 ~
sessing property in land. 1t is the class
which is predominant IN socie Y as we'll as in
politics. which gives the tone to the cubs. and
from whlch officers OF the army and the avy
are mostly recruited. Poltlc lily, and for con-
venleuce sake, it divides itself into Liberal and
Conservative. like that well-known New Eng
land family which invested, as Theodore Par
ker said: ono son In each political party. Spite
9raH is gt p fig ieq qandsd arsfocracy oi Great
tain which rules Great Britain, and it is this
great power Of which the Pail Mall GaZette,
more than any other one journal, ia the repre-
sentative. explain this at eome length be-
cause want to impress upon American zaaii-
ers the importance OF the declaration whish 1t
has made on the Alabama question.
What is this declarationY In the first place
the Fall Mall Gazette says, frankly, 1t is glad
the sp eech has been made. and for two reasons
because, hrst. 1t will bring home to Engl,sh-
men what the American demand really amounts
to-and this demand is estimated at $500 OOO, 900
in money; which seems to be the only Englsh
way OF estimating anything. It welcomes the
speech, secondly, because it will strengthen
the hands OF the government in declining to
negotiate any further. It has held all along
that Lord Stanley and Lord Clarendon ought
to have made it clear to Mr.. Reverdy John
nltion he was simply. wasting his BREATH"
Mr. sumner has now shown what will be the
consequences Of dscnssing the question
Of negotiation-a bill for five hundred mil
kI,on no
zet.e, "either we must acknowledge that the
civil war was as much our work as the South's
and meekly Accept ths consequences. or we
must abandon the hope of bringing the Ameri-
can people into q more friendly attitude toward
this country. AS even the EXTREMIST Northern
sympathizer will hardly go the lengths de-
manded by Mr. Sumner, We may hope that the
unanimous Ia favor Of the latter COURSE" That
ie. in SO many words. the Gazette hopes all
Englishmen viii! agree to abandon the hope of
being friends with America. K
The can be but one logical como SION to
such Q premise, and tine Pail Mall Gazette does
not shrink from drawing it,. The pith and
purpose Of it's whole arlcle, and OF what is to
be henceforth It's policy, are condensed into
one c0gent statement:
THE paramount considerations which should
govern the present policy Of this country to-
ward the Uuited States. are the fruitlessness
OF further negotiations, and the necessity Of
beng prepared ter war;"
Il would be total mistake to suppose that
this is said hastily, or is the effect Of irritation
on reading Mr.. Sumner's speech.
think it beyond doubt that the very able
and remarkably sagaclous conductors Of this
journal long since resolved on this policy, and
have waited only Tor a suitable occasion to de-
clare 1T. Mr.. Summers speech furnishes the
occasion. BY this declaration the PAU Man
Gazette has put itself at the head Of q move-
ment destined, believe, to go far and do
much before it's end is reached. This Is, IN
fact, the revival OF that old party which don9ed
for the destruction Of the Republic by the re-
belliOn. Had the Pail Mall Gazette been in
existence at that time, 1t would have been the
party. Now, by single article, 1t has achieved
the distinction winch then IT, might have
struggled for IN vain. It takes the lead or the
strong, resolute and clear-sighted party which
wants war with America.
The reasons why such party shouid exist
are numerous, and, TO an English mind, of
great weight. Commerce aud letters have, In
these days 80 turned the minds OF men away
from atrife. that tho majority of this aa Of