The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-07
JOHN BULLS'S DEFENCE.
The Prospective Annexation t@ OF I'm
gland to Germany-rheL London Times
on nTrutz-Baumvso1l's Letter.

The Prospective Annexation tD Of En-
gland to Germany-The London Times
ON n.Trutz-Baumvvoll's Letter.
The London Times comments as follows on
the letter to the Allgene;ne zeitung which
we have already laid before our readers:
The cleyerness of the satire is that it is a
cento Of fragmentary facts; nevertheless, so
| pieced together as not to betray their patch
work character. As such, 1t will amuse the
| most ardent English lover and admirer OF this
country quite as much as it can the German
outsider, incapable of discerning how far 1t Is
! true, how far It Is false. But the German ar
| tist, though he can take US as we sit or as we
stand, does not seem able to take US as we
| move and as we change. That Is the very
thing he wishes to do, and cannot We are
sinrllarly mixed In our composition and our
tendencies; and admit of being described as
the very opposite of what the German makes
us. There is a great deal of instructive
| LOYALTY here 20 sovereign VINO 10
/ nine out of ten must be a mere
| name, and to institutions that press heavily on
whole classes. The mass, certainly the most
laborious and industrious part OF them, snow
little jealousy or envy of rank and power.
They are proud to have duke, marquis, an
| earl, or baronet for their master, their land
lord, or the proprietor of the mine, the collie.
| nv or the docks. Upon the whole, the great
fault of the English people IS tnas tne! are nos w
| sufficiently desirous to better themselves, TO
save money and to rise in the world. They
tho do make money show generally too little
| mower of spending it, even 10 comfortable
manner, while for luxury we must certainly 60
| across the channel. AS to the degradation ana
debasement of the working classes, which tne
German lays at the door of our political men,
he admits The antiquity of the crime; but, he it
new or old, we must bear In mind that all ma
tions have their Saturnalia, some OF religious,
some purely social, ours Of political charac-
| ter. But If there be truth In wine, there may
also be in beer; and our elections are not SO ire
quent as to have much share III FORMING Tue
constituency, base as 1t Is, with sufficient In
dependence and power to have not only much
positiye voice in the. choice Of legislators and
| the making Of laws, but an almost unlmiteo
negative voice. insomuch that nothing can De
done which it has once pronounced against.
| AS for the men it sends to Parliament, We are
told they are upstarts, men OF money, lew
| there is no country in the world where the
said upstairs have sacrificed 80 much money,
| time and interest for the good of the people
generally or those belonging to them. Pnt-
| lanthropy may almost be called the perVa-
ding foible of the British people. Our sstirl-
cal friend notices our numerous rehglous oe-
yelopments shared alike.by Independent mem
| bers of Parliament, statesmen and working
classes, In order to sneer at them; but his tes-
| timony remains to the facts, and they may
not be the impostures and hypocrisles ne
| imagiues. In Parliament, the student OF
| British history may miss the lntrepldl-
| ty of Pitt, the pride and scorn OF Cas-
tlereagh, and the irony OF Canning, oue ~ Is
some compensation for their absence that
really there is no occasion for them, and they
would be misplaced. We are not at war with
| all Europe; we have not before us lne work
| that Castlerea gh did or attempted; and Can
ning's irony was double.edged weapon not
| to be handled on all occasions: 1t Is true tnat
we have made great changes lately; ana IN
period of change proposals have been made,
abandoned, replaced by other proposals; and,
as it has Invariably turned out, the successful
plan has been that most in the interest," OF the
many, be they artisans or peasants. But tnls
| is the way in which we effect our revolutions,
and il will certainly compare with the events
which bear that terrible name IN other coun-
tries. Power is passing gradually and easily
| TO q wider basis, and thus far that basis has
not disappointed expectations by subs!ding
| under the new burdens. Two reform acts
have lefty the conntry very much what It
| was. But all these changes bring us 70 tne
last and most critical questioning patrlousm
of the people. The German writer cannot
nation can show, or ever did show-more tnan
half million volunteers under various de.
scrlptions of land and sea forces; for every
British soldier or sailor Is volunteer. Tne
| line, he thinks, In an emergency will be III
commanded and mismaneged, the mh'tla
thrown away, and the volunteers found ,.ith.
out training or discipline, and incapable OF
control; while the ships will only sail about,
run one another down, and mislead the army.
How 1t may fare at headquarters we will not
now venture to predict. SO for. however as
| the soldier is concerned, If our German critic
can say nothing against him except that cot
ton.spinners are apt to be spoilt tor lighting,
counters have to learn military duties, we
! need not take his censures too much to heart.
About our agricultural recruits he says moth
ing at all.
England lets people do what they please.
They ask and have, if not at once, yet by and
by. We let our colonies hang to us as loose
as they like, ready to. drop of indeed. we
surrender our streets to PROFESSIONS; ana ut. our
parks to mobs. There is no where the strong
will, the rod of Iron necessary to Empires
Germany may smile at the silken threads with
which we hold fifty colonies and dependencies
spread round the solid globe; but Germany,
| with no colony at all, would gladly accept the
taunt with the same occasion tor IT, AS we
ore the only nation which has colonies on any
/ ~
fairly urged that we understand our business
better than those who have not. The proof
of our colonial Empire is that 1t exists, and
shows no Immediate signs of dissolution.
We did once try the German recipe, and 1t
failed. Then for our population, whatever
London may be-, it presents sufficient at
traction to have become the home OF some
forty thousand Germans Of all classes, who
have not lost their native patriotism even
while they still appreciate their adopted coun.
| try. Our social organization has the merit OF
receiving into itself many foreign elements,
and If the result Is not an empire In either the
French or }erman sense, we presume 1t Is not
the less acceptable to many thousands OF vol.
untary visitors and refugees, all OF them, it
must be supposed, most impartial judges.
Ours is confessedly loose formation. 1t has
been 80 for we know not how many centuries,
| and it is for the qualities which spring from
| this very source that 1t has been an object Of
envy and imitation to every nation of Europe
| In turn, not excluding Germany. It cannot
| be altered In day. Il does undergo Ger
| tain fermentation and development, we readl-
| ly grant; but 1t shows no signs OF that utter
corruption which, according to this writer, is
to qualify 1t for admission to German unity.
NEWS FROM NEW TORK.