The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-07
Engiand-At Home ana Abroad.

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pleasant at this time. No other country
stands in the same relation to ours. Not
only do we speak one language, and 10th
are held to be the great Protestant States of
the world, but former political relations also
help to create Il peculiar attitude in which
we stand to our parent State. 1t is but too
apparent that the years that have driven
their floods over us have not effaced some
bitter recollections growing out of the separ-
tlon.' Since then large part of the popula-
ton that has come to US by immigration has
brought with it no pleasant feeling for Eng
land, and the disaffcctinn has never been
allowed to fade away from mems mind.
England, with an old maidish sensitiveness,
has made our fresh and growing county
see that she considers her rival, and really
hates her for the favor and glory her short
career has won for her from the nations of
the earth. Under this condition of things
it is no wonder that Americans should watch
carefully al. the movements of that great and
selfish nation. The cable having almost an
initiated distance and displaced the ocean,
we now stand at the very threshold of the
sea girt Britain and canvass all her actions.
Perhaps this interest il not the most friend
ly, for both sections of our country do not
recall the years of our trial and sorrow with
any feeling of complacency toward gov
eminent that dealt falsely with ALL ia;
Recently, and even to the present, England
has had at home matter of gravest concern
to engage the attention of her most astute
statesmen. For years the existence of the
hierarchy and the aristocracy in that country
has been cause of grave discomfort with
the people. The demands of the masses
prompted by Democratic ideas have been
pressing harder upon them two forms of
wrong. Enlarged rights have been demand
ed in such way Us to insure the grant, and
their rights have found an expression every
time at the ballot box that only made the
existence of til sc chronic sores in the body
polite more uncomfortable A strong stride
in the direction of freedom has been taken
by the peoples ministry in the bill to DIS
establish the Irish Church. A bill, if enacted
t.. a law that will deliver the Irish people
from an established Church, and from great
burdens, and SO involved has become this
matter that there is possibility that it will
not only lead to the "dis establishment OF
the Irish Church, but also that of England,
and carry with it the House of Lords. The
aristocraey have come to the rescue of the
established Church, and threaten to thwart
the peoples wish, and it has reused an in
,lignant feeling toward all hereditary rank
that needs but little to insure the common
overthrow OF the established Church and the
brood of aristocrats that are bent on resist
ing the tendency of the nation toward Re-
publican liberty and self government. The
feeling is intense all over England, and has
not been so violent since 1881 aud '32, when
the great reform bill was before parliament
1t requires great circumspection to guide
| ously change the face of affairs at home for
, England. .asa a.t la aaa
As is usual with England she is not con-
tent ito mind her own business" but must
have. a finger in the affairs of all other ma
tons, and we hear of "tripartite treaties I"
and plots and counterplots very often.
Just now there is on the part of some of our
leading religious journals serious apprehen-
sions of collision between England and
the United States growing out of the rejec-
ton by our Senate of" the Alabama treaty"
The apprehensions of the religious press on
both sides of the Atlantic is that politicians
in both countries are bent on getting up a
war on this Alabama matter in order to
crafty personal revenge and desire for
plumber that state of war alone can fully
satisfy. We do not disguise the fact that
very grave questions are involved in tins
Alabama AFFAIR and in the hands of injudi-
cious or bad men might lead to bloodshed.
But we cannot but believe that the fighting
men, both North and South, have had
enough of that form of recreation, and that
all that now Is threatening comes from the
talking men. We see no valuable ends to
be gained by either nation in a war at this
time, and do not understand how the ma
tional honor could be cleared of reproacll
by it. Doubtless thousands Of precious
| lives would be lost-widows and orphans
cover the land-our national debt would be
| piled up to vaster height-more taxes or
reputation would follow-England would
bid adieu to Canada and her American pro.
vinces. Ireland would not only disestabllsh
her church but her States also. Even India
might entice the Gar of Russia in that di-
rection. Her debt would not be diminished
over her paupers. Are not England and
America under bonds to keep the peace2 II.
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