, 1873-04-06

Gospel which is to win the nations back to the
ancient and noble ways is heard in the land, it
ia fair to expect that it will not find her ears
wholly closed aud that when tie altar Of duty
is again set up by her employers she will lay on
it attractive beefsteaks, potatoes done to turn,
make libations Of delicious soup, display re-
markablo fertility in, .aNeets, al extreme fond
ness for washing, and learn to grow old in one
family"
FRAZER's.
The author Of Premier and President takes
up in Frazer's, the canses Of the
FRICTION BETWEE3 TIE UNITED s74TEs AND
ENGLAND.
He says:
No other two nations spend SO much time In
Affirming their friendship, and no other two na-
tions find it so difficult to live on friendly terms
In fact We are the only two nations that ever say
anything about their friendship, and the only
two that have any difficulty in maintaining amic-
able intercourse. True, other nations fight, hut
they donot, ,chronically speaking, quarrel They arc
resent the imputation Of being habitnally any
thing but friends. They are occasionally at
war, but it ia never a war Of words. They
sheathe their swords and shake hands, smooth
their wrinkled fronts, and smile each upon tho
others patriotism and prowess. Our Two
nations are never so much at daggers' points as
when they aro airing and repairing their pacific
relations. We are alternately gushing and
naggling, nay. We gush and nag simultaneously.
Our friondliness for other countries, like civiIty
in private life, is taken quite as q matter OF
course, and nothing, therefore, is said about it
the friendship Of our two countries for one
another is the victim Of incessant protestation.
One fruitful cause Of the friction between our
two countries is the Ignorance Of the English
'"with regard to what was once our colony, but
ia now the United 6rateB."
The confusion TINT prevails in England on this
subject OF the English in Anorica, is nowhere
worso confounded than in English books on this
subject. Open almost any book on the United
States written by an Englishman and you shall
see either Pickwickian surprise over tho fact
that ?" the Americans are SO like ourselves" or
series Of cracking epigrams over the absence in
America of everything "English," and the pres
ence therefore Of everything ominous.
We Americans are, as nation, the victim Of
ono OF our own habits Of MISREPRESENTATION
Asno country in the world presents so inviting
field for the exercise Of this thoroughly Eng
disappearing propensity as ''New America" :" SO
no other il 30 remorseloss1y subjected to it. As
we are the last people in the world to be taken
at one sitting, SO we arc the most distorted
looking nation in tile world when struck from
the negative Of an itiuerant and t. ',nstantan-
upon us, pulls out his watch, uncovers
the lense, clasps On the cover again. and
there we are-the entire 39,0o0,000 OF us
under "the magnetic influence" of 5000
DlhkeTbs Auu uuutE LQ6 EOuLEQl OF LQ0 1T160,
who hare Abandoned political affairs because
they cannot control them; absorbing and get
ting absorbed by tho Ce1ts; carrying aloft the
banner OF the ine1tingnishable Anglo-Sa1on,
while nothing but the foseiliferons remains Of
that extinct species. Or, it may be indulged
in change OF metaphors, tie popular English
books on tho United States are kaleidoscopes, in
which, as we turn over the leaves, We see Shakers
tumbling into the arms Of Free-Lovers, Nor
mons cracking heads with " Second Coming
II al
Of the Chinese.
He thinks it is extremely doubtful whether sec
ing country is any advantage to the person who
wiahes to writo about it. II it is true that his
torians in order to be trustworthy must have
no part or lot in the events which they narrate,
it may be maintained with no less plausibility
that there is only one person worse qualified
for writing about country than the person
who knows nothing about it, and that is the
person who knows little about it.
Keith johnson, the eminent geographer, when
asked him why he who had made 80 many
maps Of America had not visited it. Ho said
he never had any difficulty in making maps OF
a country until he travelled in 1t. Before ho
went East be made maps Of it with ease; since
bis return he had not made ono to suit him. It
was so with America; if he should see the coun-
try he would never be satisfied with his maps
Of it."
So it is with writer's on America the less they !
SEQ Of the country the more intelligently they !
can speak Of it. The most accurate book nboyt |
the United States ever read was written by a !
gentleman who never aaw our shores, and he was
3 Frenchman at that However, whether the |
writer speaks from eyesight or insight let him |
load and crack away if ho would contribute to
TIE binding mass Of pyrotechnical generaliz-
ntions which make up our knowledge Of the hu..
man m family. And the more craeklo, sparkle, and !
snap there is ehout his performance the moro !
readers he will ha7o and the more confusion he
will make.
Our common language, so far from being, as
claimed, q ''bond OF union F." between the tvo |
countries, acts as both cause and an effect Of |
their friction:
+ "blood and iron" cemented the German I
speaking States, the English-speaking nations |
are estranged BY b,le and ink. The common |
language not only concea1s thought, but reveals |
choier. The San Juan boundary difficulty could |
not hare survived all but two OF three of the |
statesmen Of both countries, who fret under !
10 use their common language in settling it. Il |
The Washington Treaty had been composed IN