New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-16
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

ANGLO-AMERIC AN-PERSONAL
(FRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUSE.l
LONDON, Nov. 2S.
Lord ROssmOre has been suspended from his COM
mission as justice of the peace for the county of
Monaghan. l am disposed TO agree with n COnser-
vative writer who says plumply that if civil war
did not break ont in Ulster on the occasion Of the
Nationalist meeting at Rosslea last month it was
due to the resolute action Of Lord Rossmorc, tho
only man who had influence enough with the
fiery of the Orangemen to keep them from resisting
by force the invasion of Ulster Lord R0ssmOres
letter is published this mornings a letter written
before his suspension. He cites, | must say, with
great aptness, Mr. GladstOnes complaint of the
cowardce of such landlords, and Of the 'tradi-
tional sucgishness aud incapabity of the Weather
classes of society to do anything for themselves"
The Orange landlord who stemmed the tide of Par
nellite invasion thinks he was responding in
practical manner to Mr.. GladstOnes appeal. So do
|. And may 90 further than he does. have
hearty admiration for Mr.. Gladstone and hearty
sympathy with the cause of Liberalism i'll Great
Britain. But have never been able to understand
why Liberalism in England should have any SYM
pathy WITH or any liberation for, Rebellion in
Ireland
If Lord Rossmore is in fGult IL is the fault of too
much zeal Talleyrand thought too much zeal n
mistake in diplomacy, and perhaps it is. But his
pithy caution, which meant for diplomacy
only has been quoted and applied in season and
out of season, to every other form Of political
activity, and has probably done for that
reason as much harm as good. II is doing
harm now. 1t is applied to a state of
things to which il is not applicable. 1t might as
well have been appealed to in America 10 suppress
Lincoln's illegal for illegal it was, in technical
q fOr- tron IN aff
the Rebellion 1t would have pre- ened the Orange
men in New-York from putting down the draft
riots. 1t would have let the Parnetes they went
in those DAYS by the name COpperheadl hold as
MANY sedtion meetings "a they pleased 1t would
have stOpped enlistments Ii would have given
free course to the Rebel propaganda throughout the
North which is what the Gladstone government
at this moment is perousy near doing in Ulster.
Altogether the ROssmprc incident is not good omen
to those who believe that in Ireland disoyalty and
not LOYALTY, ought to be discouraged, and loyalty.
not dislOyalty encouraged.
The plain TRUTHS, -fourtis of Ireland srebc'-
lions in spirit The other fourth, Ulster, is loyal
Mr. GIadstone's 90 yernmert is able to make up its
mind TO deal sternly with the loyal minority. When
the Rebels invade the territory where loyalty and
not disloyalty is upuermost it sets stigma on the
oyalist leader who reSsts the inroad of Rebellion
l. that good way TO encourage loyalty
eft is pleasant" says a Radical paper "to note
tbe tone of the speeches delivered at the banquet
given in New York, yesterday, to celebrate Eyacu-
alton Day. One and all breathed feelings of the
,yaru,est friendship for England" TO lie, also, it
seemed pleasant but am curious to know who
MIR. Joseph II. COote sic) is, who said that
the British only went away one century 10 return
victorious the next the victors of this century be-
ing Lord Coleridgc, Mr.. Irving and Mr.. Arnold.
Can II he our friend Mr. Joseph p Choate aud if it
hn will he subscribe the sentiment that fame con-
s;sts i'm having your name misspelled in the news
pGpersI
But our Radical oracle goes on, after the manner
Of his kind, to draw n moral and an inference
neither of them quite defensihle. Let remember"
he saws. THAT the feeling of American friendship
TO England Of recent growth" 1t is, should say
On the contrary, of very ancient growth. i" Had
the Tory party" he continues, had their way,
the feeling of animosity toward England would
have been az intense to-day az formerly And he
rites the Geneva award, and applauds the courage
of Mr. Glodstone's first administration in agreeing
70 II. Which prompts one to ask, what had Mr..
Gladstone's first or second administration 10 do
with agreeing disagreeing to the Geneva award
And as for the Tories, who more than MIR. Disrael
disoonraoed the proposal of Napoleon III for
;o;nt recognition of the COnfederacy? sympa-
thze in 4 general way with English LIBERALISM ana
not with English conservatism, but / do not
believe i'll classifying history to the profit OF either
And should like to quote albeit from COnserva-
tive source sentence or two which seems to me
both friendly to America and saving error, preg-
nant with good sense alike from all American and
an English point of view. says this writer:
The kindly references at the New York banquet
IN Euglana the Queen, and her subjects generally,
showed one thing clearly enOughthat the America
which thinks, and writes and speaks is loyal and
tre friend to the mother country. But there ~ an
other America underneath, the America no is not
ImericaI which inhabits the slums and the Irish
1narters of her great cities which is anything but
friendly TO England, and this alas! Is the America
which votes and acts. As far as uOrds 90 ice are
Tiends: bat dynamite speaks louder than uords
These italicized words the italics are mine) l
should ike TO commend to the most earnest and l
will not say prayeIful but practical consideration
of Americans who really value English friendship
and who are not ready to sacrifice either that or their
own lfrespect or the national dignity TO the lrlsh
vote. II is, of course, an error TO say that the
America which inhabits the slums and lrsh quar-
ters of the cities is the America which votes and
acts But it is an error which unhappily America
toerates and IN which her federation gives only TOO