The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-05-25

proposition froa ibe Washington CaliWt
mast uf necessity ite irtHjiy aHd
peaceful Il does HaI seem o bp .ullltt
auty remembered IH EuamHd IlEt
America has d few active Bud influential
pnhiig men who hold tiat au open issue
with your Government a ntgf arF c,e-
mui I've American politics
This being iho driil oimauy aeijyemmds
Boo America, the poIIcvui President Grant
in thr matter of HE Joint High Comui-
i0u, Is honest Ar seeing Bpl courageous
aud speaks ihr raim mul wise sense oftbc
American people. am uHx-
ious knowing this, that England sb3uM
do Justice Go the President oi tbc United
States. ll, administration means peace
Nhy should America be- looked
upon by - many 81 your iluHa uud
state men a. p trucu'cut, whimsical and
uncertain power, whose very cXi,taHcc Is
an Hoiuoiy and almost scandal, and
whose men ia authority have 30 sincere
political emotion bul hatred OF Enehndf
This highly charged paragraph The
Times commented Upon o. follows
ave shall try to treat the question
n" raises with tic utmost simplicity
and p,uiuness OF speech Il may hap
perhaps it must happen a cousc-
auence that weslall say some thing which
will not at FIRST he agreeable 10 Our Ger
respondent aud his couutBmen, but we
hope they will believe that we shall say
nothing far the purpose of giving of
fence. We must ask them to resist amy
passing temptation 60 anger, to think
over our words. aud try what degree ul
truth there may be In them We must
hegn by taking exception 10 some OF
RS expressions. When be asks why his
country is looked upon rs a Wcr''whosc
very cxistauCc is an anomaly and almost
scandal we do mol quite understand
what be means. We do not know that
any one looks ou the cXistlnee of tho
United States rs an ~ omaIy. stiIl less as
a scandal We mas say for ourselves that
we no more regard the Federation Of tbo
Commonweallhs Of North America ns an
om0,ouS than we do the Federation of
the SwissCautons. We must also demur 10
the statement that the States ale looked
upon as a ''truculent' Power. The word
"truculcnC' implies real tcrocity, which
we certainly do not attribntl 10 tbp
Union. II our correspondent would al-
low rs to sub tituc The word "bIuslering"
for the one he uses, il will perhaps ex
press his meaning as well; aud his qucs.
ton would then run, "Whv shonld
America be looked upon by so many of
Your journals and statesmen a. a blustcr.
ing, whimsical uncertain Power, whose
men in authority have no sincere political
emotion but hatred of Enghndw To the
question thus modified we have no obiec.
ton as a substantially accurate descrip-
ton Of popular English view Of Tie
Union, and we are prepared to meet n.
70 be frank, the gist Of our reply 10 the
inquiry why the States are thus regarded
must be that ii is because this is the mask
the Union puts on in its foreign relations.
Let it be remembered that to foreigners a
nation is represented by its Press and its
politicians. If the press Of a country is
given 70 blnster, il its politicians nrq
whimsical and uncertain IN the course of
their policy, if prominent men are seen
through circumstances constantly vary.
ing, to rely on the animosity Of a larae
section of the people towards another M.
ton as means of obtaining political
power, 1t cannot be surprising that "so
many foreign journals and statesmen
should deem the Power bnstcrino
whimsical, and uncertain and should
jump to the conclusion that hatred of the
foreigner is the single political emotion
Of its men in authority. The Judgment
might be, and in the case before us is,
hasty and erroneous, but the fault muyt
not be wholly cast on those who have
been led TO form it. Let us look at the
matter little more IN detail. We have
suggested the word "blustcring," and we
fear il may not at first be well re.
cciyed, but after all what Is the difference
between bluster and "sproad-cagIcsm q
aud do not the invention and currency OF
this latter phrase prove that American.
themselves are quite conscious of the
characteristic which strikes foreigners so
lorciblyE
Further on the Times writer says;
"At this distance we only hear the
echoes of the "actiye and influential men
la the Union, aud when we find them
hobltnaIly playing on the passions Of the
Irish constituencies whom they lead tf
the poll, we are apt 10 think they mean
what they say, aud that the sentiments
they express are widely, II not uniycl.
sally, held. Lctus be specific. We shall
not contouHd the American nation viii
General Butler when he calls for q run.
turc with England as q means Of reyiyi
fying the Republican party: but we ash
"R,,' and those who feel with him. Il
consider what Eugli.lmcn naturally
thought when they heard that the lioust
Of Representatives had passed resDln
ion welcoming O'Donoyau Ho-sa aud m.
associates TO the shores Of the States. The
same cxiles were subsequently, received
at the White House. Anybody it will bt
answered can be received at the Wht
House; it is only necessary 10 attend a
certain hours and walk in: but cvci
those Eaglishmcu who know the Repub
/ lican simplicity of the Presidents Recep
+ tiOus may be pardoucd If they though
, that tie Chief Magistrate Of great na
I ton would have refused tlc privilege O
an interview TO convicted rebels agains
/ friendly Governments Why have W.
been thus ffanks The answer IS plain
. II we are, a. we sincerely hope. 10 bt
true and cordial friends, we must dt
something more ihau pay periodical com
pllincHi~.
The article, which thiuk you viii ALLOW
IL Of an exceptionally plain spoken char
actcr and ia fact makes some good point
from the English view, closes with thi
remark:
"fhe Union will not appear before tht
world in its true character until the pa
cic aud industrious masses VI its popu
laton emancipate themselves from sub
lection 10 party lcaders, aid by maxim.
their influence directly lclt, POT aa cul
10 those ccccnlriciiies Of policy Nhiel
nislead foreign observers.
+ Those OF your readers who ma.
be curious to see themselves fiu thel
political character us Amcricau.) Il
-others zee them, viii hHd tbs quota
ti0ns / have made, though s0meBha
lengthy, ~ special interest al tm
moment Tie Times article glvesin u
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