The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-04


ministers can do nothing, and it is the feel
ing that tle sympathies and impulses OF
the people are with them which has made
both the Cabinet and the public press speak
SO plainly upon the subject of the Sumner
manifesto. Mr.. Bright has always been
tbe friend Of the United States. But he is
an Euglishman, and "cannot entertain the
"terms of settlement foreshadowed by Sum-
"ner." The Morning Star supported the
North through thick and thin during the
Confederate war; but it says that Summers
demands are "new, startling and intolera-
"ble." People, press and Parliament stand
together, and it is distinctly ssid, not only
that no humiliation shall be endured by
England, but that Mr.. Motley would not be
received if his instructions were framed in
accordance with the platform Of the Amer
loan Radicals. What England means can.
not be doubted, and the announcement that
Mr.. Motley will go to the Court of st. James
without present instructions, is an indios-
tion that the Federal Cabinet recognize
that they have gone far enough.
As the Alabama question now stands, the
United States, unless willing to waive for
the present all her claims, must either 60
to war or open negotiations upon The basis
Of the very Johnson n-Stanley treaty which
the Senate 30 oontemptuously rejected.
More than was included in that treaty Eng
land will not give. That treaty was, from
the first, bitterly denounced on the other
side Of the Atlantic. It was said that Eng
land had been made by it to truckle to the
United States, in manner not only derog-
atory but imprudent. Even the Spectator,
which has earned signal discredit with
many Of its countrymen for its strong Amer
icanism, said Of Mr.. Johnson: she was
"most .desirous to gain ell he could for
"the government he served. \ II
y He put forward enormous de-
"mands, but professed enormous friend
s'ship. Never was such love as he expressed
"for all mankind, and especially English
''msnkind, and never were such proofs of
ssthst love asked from those he loved SO
."fondly. We were the greatest, the nOblest,
"the bravest race under the sun; his own
.'cousins; people Of whom he was proud; a
Grace whose literature was the common
''heritage Of two worlds; men without COM
spare save in America. and Of necessity
sand nature Americas eternal and most
-"sure allies. Being all that, ~hat more nat.
i'ural than that tOs should proue W all By &C
!."knowledymg that we wsre alsoays in the
"wrong, BY eoncsding eusry dsm1nd, by cfr-
ting ang amount Of dollars, by signing any sort
"of agreement made to seem fair by the intro
.duction of The phrase international arbitra.
e" stion.,". e
The treaty, in the opinion Of the British
people, gave up all that their national honor
would allow, and now tha. it has been re-
J5utc1 tIsyr WITH f-.-----s.---.-..~-~-- while
they will require that in the fu' ure the ini-
tiative shall be taken by the United States.
The Radicals will not consent to do this,
and they are not ready for war. Buster
and big words have failed Of their effect, 80
that the men who control the government
have NO choice but to retain the Alabama
grievance, which may be made useful when
ever more chances Of mcney-making and
more popular votes are required. For US,
peace is absolutely necessary. A foreign
war would be ruinoua to the South, what
ever It's effect in making profta BILE the
mills and factories Of England. The South
requires rest and repose,. and if the ten
Southern States could be heard in Congress
by the mouths Of their own people, there
would be an end to this bullying and hec-
toring, which may, when least expected
by the masses of the people, plunge the
country into war which would cripple
our resources, destroy our commerce, and
return the Southern States to that oondi-
tion Of poverty and want from which they
10 now emerging.
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