The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-21
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

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| ENGLlND AND THE UNITED STATES
The Present Feeling In england In Re
gard TO the Alabama LtaIms-John n
Bulls Back up at Laai.
The Lendon correspondent Of the New Yorh
Tribune writes under date Of the 9th inst:
The irritation caused by Mr.. Summers speech
goes on increasing instead Of diminishing, as
I hoped it might after q litti reflection. ]
| have already des ,rlbed 1t as extending through
all classes, turning old friendship into lll-wlll,
and uniting those who we're for Us and those
| who we're against Is IN ono common purpose
OF resistance to the demands supposed 10 be
made by Mr.. sumner. With good deal OF re-
luotance, and with SONS Qualifications. l said
we had few friends left, il approval OF even u
| Grafton OF Mr.. Summers speech was to be the
condition Of friendship With good deal more
reluctance. but without any gu LITIGATION. say
to-day that so far as know We have not. In that
sense slpgle trend i'm England. OF course
| I do not mean that men long conspicuous for
their sympathy with us have on sudden be-
| come enemies, or that they recant anything
| they ever said on our side. But they dlsssdt
wholly from Mr.. Summers statement OF the
American CLAIMS and grievances. They hnd
fault with the tone OF the speech. and the ex-
tent OF his demands. In more than Que par
ticular they are misled. or some OF chem .re.
| by the misrepresentations OF the Lo don pa
| pers all OF which mako MI. Sumner say some
things which he clearly Goes not say. CJm-
ment on the speech continues duly. IN
the press and everywhere else. and While
there 10 q difference IN the degree OF re-
seE,meut expressed in different quar-
ters. the agreement OF opinion is prac-
tically unanimous. Engla will fight
rail than yield to tho claims made or inli.
Gated in this speech. She will fight rather
than even negotiate on any such 6asls. IL
Mr.. MCtley's instructions cover anything like
the ground taken BY Me-. Sumner. he will be
met by point blank refusal 10 consider his
oropo sails. at this moment, doubt whether
any proposals whatever would be listened 10.
1t popular feeling counts for anything In the
Foreign Office. they would be SIMPLY secuted
or course, 1 don'r mean that MIR. Motley Is
likely to be received with lnovlity. Inc most
furloHs would greet lin With poll. eness
enough, but all parties Will resist witn equal
resolution an attempt to enter upon anv pego-
tiat1on winch does not disavow, IN fact if not
in terms. MIR. Summers authority TO speak for
the american Government.
lido ,t care to follow the London papers
any further in their attacks on Mr Sumner.
That would only be to rewne nv last letter.
Language Incorporate enough at first has
grown Iaily more vic ent. Mr. Srmper is
bracketed with Mr.. Chandler, and the two are
held up together to pubic hate as men who
have gone mad in Their aversion to gland.
The Tr,Sune comes IN for it's share OF vltupera-
ton, splts Of its dignified protest against Mr..
Chandler's exec sses. Its real offence IL Ia be-
ing the leading Radical journal IN America;
Radicallsm being IN England the chief Of the
seven deadly sins, OF which new catalouge
needs be promulgated by ecclesiastical authors
ty. The talk about Canada inf I'M ID the
popular fury, and 1t does 80 noiwlthstand-
ing the known opinion OF leadDg E iglish-
men that Canada ought to go, aud some day
must CO. and when she goes must be absorbed
iuto the republic. The most thoughtful am 'ilS
english statesmen would rcjoce to he rid
of costly dependency whic., keeps them in
perpetual fear lest it shou ID be lost disgrace
iully in the first war that NAV breai out. But
they never will lei It 90 under menace, r while
it's cesslon might expos. England 10 the sns-
pclou of surrenderpg it from fear. Ho' CO
even the suera astion OF the Tribune thIL Eng
land might off r 1t to America wi tho COIL
sent OF tho coloniI's themselves. provokes
wrath. The Daily N,ws miSle1 suppose, bv
the spectator. denounced 1t as ''scdndalous'
propo,al, that z aiand should be required 10
huud over her province ae penalty for hor
Alabsma wrongs Next day tho News, which
certainly dots not meal to be Unfair, corrected
,ts na.st.<o. aud to-day u v'pfes onouSu VI
your article on Mr. Chandler to shcw its real
drift. But even the News is swept away bVtle
irresistible current OF popular opinlol against
Mr. Sumner aud his speech and every Amerl-
can view on the Alabama question.
do not, however, tlnuk the war party is
majority here, any more thau 1t is IN America.
Between dissenting from Mr. Sum lers speech
and declarlog war the interval is long one.
Some of che men who are most vehement
against the speech ar most smphatlc In pro-
testing against var, and even those who sav
u IL fhon
Summers basis. do not all desire hostilitles.
They persist IN believing that Mr.. Sumner has
q bill made out Ior some FOUR or five bundred
millions sterling, but they are far from belev-
ing that MIR. Motley is gong to present II tor
payment. Most people with whom talk
and during the past week have seen not
few men whose opinions have great weight
declare for peace in the abstract. but peace
on condition that the American Government
shall refrain from such insult as they DIS
cover in r. Summers speech. But 1 con-
fess l have met nobody who seems wiling any
longer to go 30 Tar as a GOOD many men we're
ready to 20 tst year. Over and over again
have put the question: 'Woud you advocate
a convention IN which, as Lord Stanlev and
MIR. Mill proposed iu March, 1868. The liability
of Eng and for damages bv the Az bama should
be admitted, leaving COMMISSION to ad]udl.
cate upon claims aud determine the amount Z"
and the answer is invariably mo-" The men
most friendly to us say that euch an admls
sion, whether or not thew individually might
be willing to make il, has become impossible.
English opinion has settled down on the re-
je.ted treaty as the limit of concession; be. ond
this they will not 90. The party th't was
ready to refer 10 arbitration the question OF the
recognition OF rebel beligerency has disap-
cared. Indeed nobody thinks it p ,sslble at
this moment to dosn thing. The irritation is
too general. the evaporation too great TO
permit even discussion. No doubt. this
fever will subslde. but 1t must run its course.
and 1t will do no harm to recollect that when
Mr.. Adams first presented the American cl Inn
for damages on account OF the Alabama
with his modest request for arbitration claim
and arb tration together were resented with
scarcely less indignation than RACES now. 1t
was less general. but not less intense. MIR.
Vernon Harcourt, hiding his bushes behind
newspaper screen as "Historcus," protested
IN the name Of law and reason and let OF
other things that NO such claim should ever be
considered. Yet 1t has been. ! don't mean 10
argue that England will some dav be read to
pay ha the cost of our war, for 1 don't UNDER
stand Mr. Sumner nor any body else IN America
to demand that, though the English papers
will have it that that is our ultimatum. But
the ~hole historv OF th1s controversy shows
that a very loud English No ID capable OF soft
enlug IN a whispered Yes. have no sort OF
doubt that when il suits our government to re-
sumo negotiations, they will get a civil answer.
th ugh they NAV not get an immediate assent
to their proposals. MeInwnila, there Is noth-
ing to do but wait.