New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-17
Tho stonewail Statue British BlrnAer.

ID. 3. w. the well known London cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, writes
as follows to that paper under date Of Octo-
Der 30:
A brief cable dispatch to the Times of
Thursday announced the unvailiug of the
St0newall jackson statue at Richmond.
The ceremonies are described as imposing,
the demonstration the greatest ever seen
there, the city decorated, ''the British colofs
being prominent" The announcement has
caused certain sensation; not altogether
of an agreeable kind. People doubt
whether-whatever the South may dO-the
whole country will welcome gift from
England in honor of man whose sole
titles to fame spring from his efforts to
destroy his country. They do not-I ar.
speaking of the great majority of sensible
Englishmen, and of their opinions as they
have found expression in various ways
during the last ten years-they do not wish
to revive on your side the memories of
hostile acts which were done on this side
during the rebellion, or of the hostile senti-
ments which were 30 often declared.
There Is, so far as one who lives here can
Judge, q sincere desire to be on good terms
| with the United States. There are how
ever, good many old Anglo-rebels whose
sympathies with the lost cause are still
| keen. They hate the North as they did
circumstances will now permit. 1t is from
them, presume, that the Stonewall Jack.
| son statue comes. They write the articles on
American subjects in the Standard-ar ticles
which mere ignorance will not account for,
articles marked by curious ingenuity in
| mlsrepresenting facts that eau hardly be
the offspring of anything but malice. They
| give the tone to certain we'll known circles
| in London. They would, l fear, rejoice
over the outbreak of another conflict be.
tween ths North and the South. They are,
| perhaps, one in q thousand, but they make
a noise and disturbance out of all proper
tion to their numbers.
The Times thinks the matter of conse
quencs enough to be the subject of its lead
ing article on the day following its tele
gram. 1t warns these people that they
have been guilty of an ''extreme indiscre
| ton" in sending statue to man "abso
| lutely unknown until he took up armf
against the American Union, aud all whose
triumphs were won in war against his
own cOuntrymen." Doing full justice tc
the personal qualities of jackson, it points
out that the scene in Richmond was none
the less political display; that it is cal
eulsted to perpetuate enmites which the
North with rare magnanimity has done iti
best to bury; and'that it may once more
stir up rancOr between England and Amer
lea. With all that believe the immense
majority OF Englishmen agree heartily
Whether, in fact. this untimely gift hal
awakened slumbering animosities in the
North against this country there are as yet
no means of knowing here. We have car
ried forgiveness to the South and the Cop
| perheads SO lar that it may well include hel
allies in Europe also.
This morning, as might have been ex
pected, Mr.. Beresford Hope comes forward
as spokesman for the Jackson statue clique
Mr. Hone, to do him Justice, is in NOR,
| apologetic mood than is his wont. He ex
plains that the money for the statue was
collected and the commission given to thu
late Mr.. Foley within q few weeks after tn,
news of Jackson's death had reached Eng
land. The delay in completing and sending
| the statue has been due, he declares, "to tn,
| ill health and lately the death of Mr.. Foley
the competition of his many ther en-
gagements, and his anxiety to per
| feet the likeness" Rumor has givel
other and more curious reasons bu
no matter. The statue. when done, wa
offered to the Governor OF Virginia.
it's subsequent history you know. Mr.
Hope argues that all responsibility belong
to the Governor and Legislature of Wiz
| ginia, and, with that confusion of though
| which marks men of his kind, rejoces il
| this spontaneous expression of brotherl,
love between England and Virginia as
mark of international amity." So it woul,
| have been had Mr. Hope had his way. A
present it serves to perpetuate the fact tina
admiration tried hard enough.