The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-01-19
FROM ENGLAND.
THE BRITISH VIEW OF AMERI-
CAN POLITICS.
SDea, II Carlisle,s Election.-The Early
.outhe,n Ministers--Minis Jane S
Russell Lowell.

Russell IIONcI.
specia1 CT responGsnce cf the Chronicle.
LoNDoN, Jan 3.--All over England, as the
dcspatches to your metropolitan newspapers
have long ago Informed you, as we'll as
your British, exchanges, there was rtioic
ING at the election Of your speaker, MIR.
Carlisle, because the election At least so 1t
j. taken here, lends us new hope of frc.
trade at an earlier Gay than otherwise IL
the country which iii all ways but in com
n cree is the freest Of the nations. Mr. Jno
Bright, you will recall, publicly expressed
the hope last year that this years election
in the United States of the President
would be the turning-polnt towards
owing oH your traldom of a shacklcd
and IN p,t-sighted commerce
Yet it is a mistake t. take for Granted (as
your pro tariff dOctrinAr take for granted)
that all England wishes the United S ates
to become a iree-tradc-country 1t is not
so A very large and influential part Of
our manufacturing communities wish your
tariff to remain high even prOhibitOry, for
ever. Some of them, Of course, would be
dire city benefited by its reduction or re-
moval, FOR they would then have the mar
Rcts of The United States open to them;
but there are many more who see in the
inauguration Of ilee trade in the United
States fatal blow to their greatness. II
you remove your tariff you will very soon
thereafter command the markets of South
America and can make encrOachments on
some European and Asiatic markets, all
which are now dover for John Ball, the
manufacturer.
But the question. being one of statesman
ship, OF your progress, must run over ali
mere selfish considerations of interested
persons and classes. England's first great
step towards Democracy was the step from
protection to f zee trade, and all Democratic
England, that is these DAYS to say. all ed
ucated England. looks with confidence tC
America to take stand in this matter de
cidedly in favor of freedom.
English readers are looking forward with
some curiosity to read what Mr.. Matthew
Arnold may say about the republic and its
people He is no less plain spoken than
Mr.. Edward Freeman, the historian, anC
is a man of much keener insight. On the
other had it has been frequently talked of
here in literary circles that your accom-
plished minister Mr.. James Russell Lowell
may write whenever by political changes
or other reasons he goes home again, some
of the most interesting essays on English
life and thought ever written by a brother
across the sea.
In the early days Of the Republic it was
| believe, the boast of your Southern
States that they sent to foreign courts tht
fittest representatives Of the new nation
The fame of the early Southern ministers
to England is not yet dead. But th'
United States never sent here IN 9th
cia' capacity or otherwise so erudite
scholar, such man of the world and 81
apt a writer ard speaker (to say nothing
81 his poetic gifts) as Mr. Lowell Eng
lish scholarship has held American schol
arship IN much higher regard than ever be
fore. since he made himself so honorabl,
al home in Britain. IL.