The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-03
Cur Relations with En- gland.

At this time, there are peculiar reasons
why America and Eaglan1 should not
| quarrel. They stand in the van of mod
ern progress. In America the great OBJ
stacle and reproach to freedom is remov-
| ed, after fierce struggle. and the nation
Is once more looked to as the daystar by
| all IN foreign lands who are interested in
| liberty or the advancement of human
| rights. In England the ceaseless but
| silent revolution still proceeds which has
made her all she is. Every day the
poor are elevated, their condition ameli-
| GRATED, their privileges extended; the
| distinctions of class are less apparent !;
the nation becomes more really democrat
| C. The governing classes, even those
| cilnging most tenaciously tp. institutions
Of the past, have yet the wiSd Ill to know
| when to be no longer conservative. The
political events Of the last year ar fill
| of significance. The franchise ha1 just
been extended !; workingman now sits
n the House of Commons the connec-
tion between Church and State has been
dissolved in one important portion of the
empire; the abolition Of pIi nogeniture
was proposed at the last session of Parli-
must soon be thrown open for discus
sion Changes may not be rapid. but
reforms are not slow. The Liberal party
Is In power: the very men who were
our friends control the government In
the present Cabinet the Duke of Argyll,
Earl Granville, Earl Kimberly, John
Bright. William f. Foster were stanch
advocates of the Union during the war
ii rIra,. hn f,n
government were equally earnest and
outspoken in our behalf; while those
who opposed us have admitted their
powerful man in England for at least a
quarter of century, has been proud
enough and great enough to acknowledge
his error
1t is then positive duty for US to up
hold the hands of those who are strug-
Cling for reform in England. One who
knows writes that, be-; des the Irish land
bill, there will be brought forward at the
next session of Parliament "a general
education bill, great measures Of law re-
form and Of army reform, trades-union
bill, and an abolition of tests bill, backed
by the whole power of the government. '
Whether he approves it or not, every
sensible Englshmen can see the lIreslSta-
BILE current that sweeps away every OBJ
S'acle there. What fearful respon>i
bility t. interrupt this onward move
ment of Il Latlon by such an event as a
war between England and America
No. This is not the time to select for
serious difficulties between US. With
two liberal parties in power, with every
prospect of the continuance of each,
with the people in one country becom-
ing mere prosperous, and in the other
more powerful, every day-the friends Of
the whole race, IN eitEaI- ian0, should do
all in their power to foster the most
friendly : ~frclings. The two nations
shonld strike hands. and with their lih
eral i,leas their advancing Christianity,
their Increasing education, their mater
ihl wealth. they can not only present
front that no physical power will attack.
but which 10 great moral evil that they
may wish 10 remove can long withstand.
They need only to look each other
steadily in the face, and learn how much
good feeling each cherishes for the other.
Neither government can possibly have,a
desire to quarrel. Each will gladly fol
low the current Of popular feeling if this
sets toward snch reraration as ENGLAND
can honora6lv offer AMI America honnra
hly accept When once this difficulty
that now separates them shall be re:nov-
ell the nations that speak the English
tongue 'Jill constitute an empire. divided
by seas and sepa ate in institutions, in
deed. hut as powerful and vastly more
beneficial 20 the world. than that of
Rome. Their unity in laws. language
literature, and religion will be paraleled
by their harmony in feeling, their accord
in progress, their generous rivalry in
liberty, and il all the works that bring
reace on earth and good will to mem
Col. ADAM BADEAU, in H0per' Maga-
zine for Mnrch