The New York herald., 1869-06-05
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| J. F. Joy, OF Detroit; Henry K. Seden OF Roches
ter, and James Campbell, ex-Postmaster General are
| at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
| The Alabama Claims-Peace the Policy OF
General Grunt, but What of Congress
| We have the news from England that the
war panic created on that side of the water by
| Senator Summers trenchant American speech
| on the Alabama claims has subsded, and
| that Mr.. Motley's pacific assurances at Liver
| pool have been followed by great reaction.
| He was expected as the messenger of war ;
| he is recognized as the herald of peace The
| transition, like that from night to morning
| under the Equator, has been so sudden and so
| complete that the oracles of the British press
| can hardly realize the change but they are
| still constrained to confess it. We presume
that the last lingering doubt among them will
be removed with the positive assurance that
peace is the policy of General Grant on the
question at issue, and that in its settlement he
has no intention or apprehension Of the tre-
| mendous alternative ofwar.
We can say that our Washington despatch of
yesterday on this subject is from good au-
thority-that General Grant has no
idea of making Mr.. Summers estimated
damages the elements of his ultima
tum. On the contrary, General Grant,
it appears, concurs in the universal
| English opinion that Mr.. Summers speech
| logically means only war that it is good
rhetoric, but bad logic; that if we declare
we do not wish to appeal to the last resort of
kings we must adopt diplomacy, and that in
| adopting diplomacy we must conduct it with
| dignity and decorum, and not with threats and
clustering. 1t further appears that General
Grant is of the opinion that Mr.. Sumner does
not believe in his own plan for the settlement
Of this Alabama difficulty; but that, being OPP
posed to any further territorial expansions,
the object OF his speech was to create check
in England against the movement on this
side looking to the annexation of the New
| Dominion; and that it is feared by the admin
istration that the proposed negotiations to this
end have been nipped in the bud by this flank
movement of the Senator from Massachusetts.
| Such, however, being the position of General
| Grant upon this delicate and difficult question
| of the Alabama claims, we think the promise
may be safely volunteered to the British
government that our policy will be pacific
and conciliatory, at least until the rcassembling
of Congress in December next. What may
then come to pass time and the drift of events
can only determine. That there are powerful
popular elements in this country who believe
that war with England would be the best
thing that could happen for the United States
is true. Wherefore Because II is believed
that such war would give us the river and
the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a free outlet for
our Western agricultural products, and all
British North America for new field Of enter
prise, and would give moreover, such an inn
pulse to American manufactures as to make
this country wholly independent Of English
goods and able to outsell her in other markets.
There are, also, many men of this warlike
school who believe that it is now with the
United States and England as il was with Rome
and Carthage, and that this new conflict for the
supremacy must some day come to the same
conclusion as the old one.
All these elements of hostility to England
|
bodied Irish born and warlike American
citizens, are for pushing the ultimatun
suggested but not proposed by Senator
Sumner. But on the other hand, through
all the ramfcations of American society
there are the holders Of the government bonds
and bondhoders and banks and merchant
and shippers and property holders generally
have paramount interest in the preservation
|, Of peace with England. They generally be
lieve that a war with the United States woul,
n eventually be the destruction of the Brtisl
c empire, beginning with revolution Il
: Ireland but they also believe that sue
war meantime would involve thi
country in reputation and financial an
l. political chaos. This peace party contends
u likewise, that while peace with England Ia In
dispensable to the payment of our nations
. debt, financial order and the development Q
g our vast internal resources and our rapid
z expanding foreign trade, it will also best serv
our manifest destiny" ideas of the progressiy
r. annexation of neighboring territories, Mort
IN as we'll as South
a. The administration of General Grant Is wi
s. t1is peace party, and hence we may con-
." IDENTIFY repeat IL that at least till the reassen
at bling of Congress peace, and the fairest pro