America and England.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 34, 8 July 1885, Page 4

America and England.

The following article, which wrb published m the Aryonaul, one of the leading American newspapers, will be read with, interest at the present time : — Whatever concerns England, .concerns America, and wherever nnu whenever the Engljsh are engaged m war the Americans cannot stand l.y and hiok on with indifference. We do not mean to assert that our .sympathies are invari"ably;;withfE»gl«i.nd,ufor this would -hot be true, wekupw that England possess-} 68 all the important qualities that attend pride, and that iuvariaMy .accompany the enjoyment of great power ; we -ttifo'w&that aa a Government England is. .exact and' aggressive, caring hut little if m her ambitious career of Empire she treads upon ; and crushes' out the feebler, powers that may stand m her way. This has been illustrated > m, the wars of EngMsffnMi^U-Qyeivthe, world ; their; sn,!end,id achievements m, Asia, . whiohj Buabic's > T^jjg!.ai^r.8 .•..Queen to ; bear .the ' proud'Vitfn of Empress of . jiujia ; theirj acquisitions m... Sojutjv Africa ; their war m Abyssinia ; thair ready use of, open.-; jmouthed can^oti from their pinnjprese.nt. navy, yVb/ch is :fo.und in<every. sea and' every "harbour i bf / -ever.y ; se i a J: where Eug-: fish' trade is tbbe protectedand .English supremacy .maintained. ' X^e, . know.the. "English"' are mercenary, , grasping, and. unßcrupulpus ;they. push.theircominerxjei to the remotest bounds 6$ the earth j andin eiifoioinK.t]»eir trade regard, neither! * conscience, honour, nor; huinanUyv The opium^war iv China illustrates our mean- j Tog:'" England is the pawnshop, ;pf the j world, aih| fiirthe (interest ..of -its' uncles! oT^liombard -"street, it sends its artnieH „ahrpad,|tp^athe.r.its coupons, in the most distant Fandsi.(..E!or,/|tin> nurp.o'so the flower and cliivalr,y pf r England are m the death-grapple' wftli 'the Arab m the upper vailejteAfjilfche 1 5 Nile. <We 'know that England is Tiy,pbci'iticaL7and. insihcere ; for lpngryenrs the garget at which she preached. and' ( prayed, admonisl^d and pfende.ri j was' Aniericah slavery. Her own emancipation of negroes^™ Jamaica -and; *-eißi4ri)u f re- ''was' ;< ' constantly '.'and offensively paraded as. evidence* of the sii^efior 1 '- 'vi rtiie 1 'jpf 7 Eiigli'shmen '■ ovSr their degenerate 'a^rid demoralised ' sons and daughters m Airrerica : and yet, with the.KlttJniatiiv:^ of'five'rniiliofis'iof^iiiinan beings m continuing-bandage under the laßh,pf theninaster, ; 6r freetrade^with <-'k fragment; uof. .the.itAmewcan' IRejiublic, England did notrhesitate, ;tof prefer »the • destr&c^om^ydifeaeinbefineS rSf the i- American Union-arid the pe'irpetuation of I American }i , m: ;order. ;. i,th.atL tho ; m ajiiufacturers;, . merchants,,! and ,money- | loners miglit.conjtinue; to,, enrich- tfienl£ setve^ §;om jthe '^yfeat of ,niiliionß'ia .unpaid toil. We tnow^ jhafc Bnglandj/with aU her bluster, ,is prudent,, , and ] rhket ous far^piis ' ; duelUst, . jt)plpflej" : | ; ,Mc.Clung, •' knows^9,^6, f ape to .slaip*'' .. She clears her deck for action, and burns; the -grass cottage of Juan with; ; the display of a'marvellous ' courage ; she sends; her marines to the inleU_of South Africa, I and hex ; armies to ■. ZxUuland, wi^h.ithe feariessiiess' of' ,inyihcible,j p!^ripg ; /she challepges^TheocTore of jAb'jssl^ia^p the j co'Miit' of ariiis"witK"all the confldence i tHatKrupp guns and Spencer rifles gain { ov& flmt^Mce^s'^d^no'tt'ed warV^lubs, initHe-"harids>(>f/feeble' ssiyageß, < antl calls that sa ; warj ! and' ; knight's 5 "-its- ■ leatJeHn whicht np^nglish soldier was hit with? a jbu^e,t or. ,, bruised, wi^h. •■&- club ; ! and ye% jshe ls-noi too prpud, to. apologise m dip'lotfie ,' powerfulampng |nattipns,*"4r- to; pa^y. nineteen^ mi'ltionspf 1 pounds' sterling to' America ''for "th'e'mis:takej)f her prophecy m reference to the destruction of bur nationality. We love to rememberthose thioga, and to call them up m review^herieye v t^the display of her insolence pijoifjoTies we reminiscence. We think when*sh%is to •embvoilpherselt m •hvar with som*e,Vtfong 'a'rid ''equal power •that our sympathy is- with the enemy of England ; but, whenever the death v str,ugjgle comes, we ! find ourselves', m spite of teverthing, siding withf.bu'f mother -land ; jwe forge^ thp.^c^arly , mornings ; , she;>gave uSj'^^Ke forge'tithat 1 we ran: away<from. npme, 1 tussle, to.' d.rag back! We thrashed the venerable old ladyiand pore her cap-strings jrwd'-forget : heffinVaßion.ofiiJur • soil ; and 'the' burning "■ pur capital ; forget 'het insolen'ceV'Hyp6t<risy, and^ttie? ihjtfstice other attitude aurin'g^dur 'civil war, and remember, , ; all, that England is the mpthef-land-, I and'whenever she embroils with a strong ' antagonist our sympathies go out to her 1 Realise that the ties bind us are the ties; of, hlp;od.> ,; Ost>w#,s ( &ii fhfe Jßussujtri m A T»ope ? of Enorhsh r yictOry. f . . W[6 waited „it «il|n'6e, ; 'm/s'Kecl 1^ witb^anxiety, 1 for iiie' Mibi -ttie^Ahik^^ari^reidi^d^^fle^ f S ebasto.p6W.fell, tiiunde^- the ! 'a'ssauit of»I Inglish, B^eh.ch, ia/ndi'tTJurlnsb. ia'rmies'» qur t ojyi. sieges Q^Yickrfwirg^hpr-iiyest; /ment of Kichmond scarce gave us a deeper anxiety, or when they surrenfdered^ greater cause for exultation. JjL is; so now, and so it will be if England snail find that the Egyptian embroglio Ldfyelops into aj fojipti. c£|3as,trfr»uß, and Bloody war. We may criticise England's presence iri that distantTahd, w,e may.de-, 'iT^andlof iber 'causei'of? her" 'presence' inf tWose. e^B 1 WBi^^JßrtsL en.2jagedii.Sht the . atjten^p^jjo.^rivei ,the imtanß,eji{hirbana:ni • f T^iV^'iJft* I !^'^^^ Wei t^r}ow,i %i;( ■ fierce courage, tlieiruutan^^fanactipip^, " Wje knbw^hai qyer Khedive of Egypt hat? hem 1 but a Questionable , suzer-'aifity.'-'X^ei.) lcnd#' ? KbSv 1 ' 'the English t^x ' th| toiling fellah of (th&'Nile Valley, and make him sweat great drops of blood to pay unjust tax exacted for the . English bond-holder. We wish the British army were out of Egypt, that Gladstone were Mill of his political complications. We *thi lk it 'wouldff serve- tlTe Bptid-holder right to lose hißC|>ri^cipal, and\interest. Bu:, all the /BJ^eFth^jEngiish-l: army, under thell^djirship of Isngli%^en*temei is MiEg^^i with the hai|liVp"f 'the /un< ivilise^ ; Aj|arV^t : uits tHroat ? &ajidi our syr lpatliy ■fs^itW^ England— a 1 that will stte'ngtheriJatiH- deepen r as" the 'cirde of fire^glows closer^arbund this de-,« vofed^atndiA ISf>jGrl|dstone'B 'Ministry hasj bluhdered, we Vare hot ; if Wolseley is : but- a carpet knight, we care not. The L-iiibleau which presents itself to our imagination, and ,demands pur, sympathy, is the '{gallant Coldnel 'Biirnaby With m's 1 iron srrasp upon the dead Arab's throat, and 'tWArab spear piercing the breast of the murdered Englffih< gentleman. Geritlenjen .sympattfise 'with' gentlemen, civilisation with civilisation. .It is only barbarians who ;cfm^findj a place, in their hearts for thejwil^iand merciless Bedouin of the Arabiaij deßertr,againßt the men of our owrirace,' own language, and own civilisati|n.y|The sympathy of America' is with struggle ; and if it shall by rebellion m Tndiaj and'ariva«bn; from .Russia',, and assaßSJnation|aii3 v inc6Hdian'sih frbrii Ireland, that . sjTn'pathy; wil|'grpw stronger and deeper' , as ttye' struggle, advances,:. . /, ..' ' ;