The Portland daily press., 1870-11-24

md give assurance that no cause of serious
Inference between us and England can arise
n the future. Such an adjustment will COM
mend the administration OF Gen. Grant, with
force, to the people, and win him
new laurels in peace, to entwine in the chaplet
with those won ia the war.
A PEREMPTORY DEMAND OF OUR RIGHTS, FOL-
LOWED BY ACTION, NO CAUSE OF WAR.
1t is said by certain timid anglophobists that
a peremptory demand upon England to do
what we believe of right ought to be done, to
he followed, if refused, by declaration Of non.
intercourse on our part, will bring on war by
England in preference to an honorable adjust
ment. As the action l have proposed to be
taken is fully within every rule of information
al law, such result not to follow, and cannot
follow, unless England chooses to add violence
to her hostility and injustice towards us. Much
more stern measures than l have suggested
have been taken by nations in pursuit of their
inst rights and not BEEN held to be causes of
war.
ENGLAND SHOULD HERSELF MAKE OFFERS OF
CONCESSION AND APOLOGY.
Mere money. without other PREPARATION, will
never satisfy the wounded honor of this country.
We must have for our satisfaction something
more than concession and apology; and it is
for Great Britain to say in what form that will
be easiest to herself. l can have no doubt but
that her withdrawal from the continent will
satisfy our people, although it is only the an
ticipaton of an event which must happen in a
few. very few, years, but an hour of a nations
life. If England refuses this, let her say what
PREPARATION she will offer to us, the injured
party. If nothing, then let all intercourse be-
tween the two countries cease.
OUR ALTERNATIVE NO JUST CAUSE OF WAR.
This, our alternative, -non-intercourse-I do
not conceal, either from myself or from you,
although not justfiable cause of war, would,
unless it led to a settlement of the difficulty.
probably result in declaration of war by
Great Britain. If SO, be it so. And in that
case again l would say, in the language of
jackson TO France:
eff Great Britain makes that occasion for
hostilities against the United States she but
adds violence to injustice, and could not fail to
expose herself to the just censure of civilized
nations and the retributive judgments of
heaven
THAT MAY HAPPEN TO NATION WHICH Is
MORE TROUBLESOME THAN WAR.
have said, and repeat again and again,
would not declare war; it is the last and worst
remedy for grievances; but yet there are other
alternatives more terrible to nationsthan war
loss of honor, loss of rights, loss of self-re-
spect. I would do everything, yield every
thing, accept anything, consistent with patriot
ism, Justice and the dignity of the nation, to
adjust peaceably and forever these momentous
questions, claims and assertions of interna-
tional rights between this country and Eng
land. But more We cannot yield or accept,
and if the dead alternative is forced upon us Of
an appeal to arms because of unrequtted in
dignities, injuries and wrongs, as Republic
can, then, as an American, l cannot fail to OBJ
serve the great temptation that this nation has
for war with Great Britain.
THE GREAT PRovOCATIoNs TO WAR WITH
ENGLAND.
Let me say nothing now of the keen sense oil
wrcng and injury inflicted. Let me say moth
ing OF the rising gorge at the thought that
II ov,l faoJy a1xyov of loI
diton to do those things to our hurt which she
would not have dared otherwise to do. Let
me say nothing now of the fact that what she
did was done to crush hated commercial
rival. Let me say nothing of the fact that she
hoped by her course to demonstrate to man
kind that the great experiment of freedom to
all, now being wrought out by this American
government, was failure, and thus in the in
terest of despOtism to crush out all hope of
republican liberty throughout the world. Lei
me say nothing of the fact that her hostile acts
were done in the interest of Copfederacy
whose cornerstone was slavery, and whose OBJ
ject was to perpetuate that slave power which
the greed of British merchants and slave
traders had fastened on our country in its in.
fancy.
THE GREAT TEMPTATIONS TO MAKE wAE
WITH ENGLAND.
But do remember and cannot forget thai
we have sixteen hundred thousand naturalizei
avenge the wrongs done his mother-land, the
Green Isle of the ocean, by British tyranny
which drove him from her soil. l cannot but
remember that they require no urging to joi1
our armies in war with their oppressors but
are prevented by the repreSsve band of on
government, in the interest OF peace and il
sacred regard for our treaties of amity, from
making war on their own account, and if we
did not hinder them they would take Canad;
by contract in sixty days.
1T WOULD UNITE THE WHOLE COUNTRY AM
BRING THE SOUTH UNDER OUR FLAG
Icannot but recall the truth that our South
era brethren, many of the best and bravest O
them, who fought against the government
with vain attempt to rid themselves of the
glorious memory Of its history, are mpatiently
longing to fight once more under the starry
folds of the old flag. Give the privilege to the
brave sons of the South to defend their country
again IN q foreign war, and specially one will
Great Britain-Dot loved by them any more
than by us-and it would bring us all together
again, uniting ms with one flag, our country
and one destiny. In so much is this reunion
the hope Of the patriot, that one feels almost
worth all the loss of blood aud treasure in sucf
a war
IT WOULD BE WAR UPON THE OCEAN ONLY
NOT A COSTLY ONE.
Again, let me not forget that it would be q
war upon the ocean-never an expensive oae-
and where the most brilliant laurels of Ameri-
can arms have been won, And / cannot fai
to perceive that the saving of money by the
non-importation of British goods, and the
stimulouS given to American production
would quite equal all the expenditures of the
war. l can never forget that in such a war we
have no commerce to lose. Quite all our ships
are gone already because of the warlke acts Of
England's cruisers, which we have SO long sui
fered in insulted silence. although we know
that we can sweep the sails of her commerce
from the ocean.
SUCH WAR WOULD BE SUSTAINED BY A MA.
JoRITY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
AS Republican and partisan cannot but
remember that whenever a country is engaged
in foreign war, the administration of the
government is always sustained by the patriot
ism of the people. Never would that be sc
signally demonstrated as in a defensive war
with England, brought on by the Republican
administration, in firm, manly and strenuous
endeavor to enforce the rights of our Injured
and despoiled citizens, to avepge our insuIted
honor, and to maintain our fishermen in those
rights now taken from them by England $
wrongs, which their fathers won for England
and themselves with their own right arms
AS party man l do not fail to RENE mber that
of the twenty odd hundred thousand votes of
the Democratic party now in opposition
twelve hundred thousand at least are natural
lied Irshmen who would stand side by side
with Republican administration in a war
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thousand years, and would vote as they fought
IT WOULD SUSTAIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
IN POWER.
AS politician have an incentive to such
a war, as its result would be the perpetuatiop
OF the Republican party in power for more
than generation.
LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
II, therefore, when we ask for our Just rights
and decentralization for our losses through hel
acts, England should incline to offer u.s. instead
thereof such a war as l have sketched, with
such causes, with such hopes with such results
and such memories. ought not every patriotic
American to address to Her Majesty's Govern.
ment portion of the prayer which we wer
taught in childhood every day to say to Que
Maker-so much more beautiful and appropri
ate In the original than as translated by Engi
lish bishops-"Suffe1 US not to fall into tempfa
tiOn?'
The DESIRE OF THE GERMAN ARMY FOE
PEAcE.-It is difficult to separate truth and
falsehood from the mass of conflicting testi.
mony received regarding the morale of the
confronting armies in France; but the state
ment that the Prussian army desires speedy
peace has an appearance of probability that
must cause it to be accepted. Notwithstand-
ing the Prussians, in comparison with their
enemy, have made the study of war special
study, and the details for offence and defence
have been brought by them to a greater degree
of perfection than by any ether European ma
ton, the sanitary condition of an army has
been much neglected. The hardships of an
invading army, unmitigated by sanitary
measures which previous experience and an
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