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DEFEAT OF GOVERNMENT ON THE AMERICAN POLICY . Tv our readers bear in mind what we have Said on the subject of America , they will understand , how we have arrived at the present situation , and they will perceive that the apparent closing of the most dangerous complications , instead of allaying public vigilance , should arouse new suspicions , and ought , if possible , to induce a more concentrated action on the part of the public . "We have stated that the condition of our affairs in America
was veiled by systematic misrepresentations ; we have told our readers that it was impossible for Mr . Gillmptoi * to reinain after he nad placed'himself in so false a position ; we have warned them that our Government was not prepared to meet the necessities of the case , and that it would treat the American Government as an enemy which might be outwitted or put down in open contest ; and that through this misconceived policy of our
high officials , who look down upon the middledass statesmen of America ^ we were in danger of seeing the intercourse between the two countries disturbed by war . We now point for corroboration to tne oifffcial papers from America , and to the proceedings in Parliament . The affidavits , the transactions at the Consulates in New York , Philadelphia , and Cincinnati , the direct evidence of eminent Americans who are above suspicion ^ prove that Mr . Cbampxon was in constant
communication with the Consuls , the subordinate agents , and the officers of the Xiegion who were collecting recruits for the IJegion , both before and * after the first explanations of our Government . We said that in all probability SibobeIi wa » a spy in the Russian service , who had entered into the service of the energetic but indiscreet Joseph : . Howe , for the express purpose of extorting ., money and getting the British into difficulties . We find thia distinctly made out in the ( American official papers . Wei said > that under these
circumstances tlie American Government oould not retract ,, and could not permit Mr . iGbamptojt to remain ; . that the explanations 4 xQm St . James's did not touch : the question itffthig snera . personal . conduct - At the , end of AwrtaWtfek , i » t was , thought i Ministers , , would iTOtaKftta . J ^ di & missittg Mr . / I ^ AJULAS , the last iB & ap x fegjtjpre a-ifcotal iijiterriAptLoja of , friendly jrolations ,- « n 4 . ^ h < p vcpmmenc £ menit of hostile b >^ t i «^ 9 »; r ?^^ ftoiot . tprtlje inspired columns Wjpfljhe ,. , % k ' me # iw $ Jfapninffi , && $ for avjdence / tnw . dqwn fo . O' . vwyrlato tywr of laab week > pftH # < % Aiide * was , fcbajj . & r . iJCJA * JW , s ahptjld at ]* RffiprtTWfie ^ TrrrtJhot /^ fefl ^ Hy ir <}] uti < xn 8 wijbh ) f 4 « H ^ W » # femaftfl , ibe ^ top kenvrofl ; oiWq-i-WV ©
* ^ then , even at that moment , on the verge of a much more serious situation . What prevented bur Ministers from proceeding in that rash and destructive course ? The utmost exertions had been used through the journals of the largest circulation to spread a one-sided account of the American proceedings , so aa to represent Mr . Cbampton as faultless , Mr . Pieboe as swayed entirely by base motives , and our Government as bound to stand firm in defence of the
national honour . The means for diffusing more correct information were indeed few . We well know what exertions were thrown upon individuals , in order to make men really anxious for the honour and welfare of this , country cognizant of the true state of the case . Weak as these means were , the truth prevailed with the genuine people . As soon as the real state of the risk was understood , — as soon as it appeared to be the fact that our
communication with America might be cut short by an official war , —that the duties which we have to perform in Europe , — that the payment of a debt to Sardinia , and the resistance against Austrian aggression as well as Russian might be interrupted by thia wanton quarrel between England and America , —the true representatives of the people , in city and county , began to move . Men who have at heart the
maintenance of something like truth in Parliament began to make inquiries . The Whig leader , who is untrammelled by office , took up the post of public spokesman for the occasion . But what made Lord John Kttssell take that post on Triday night , and again on Monday ? It was the knowledge that in standing up against a wanton war with America , a wicked violation of brotherhood , a reckless- destruction of British , as well as American commerce , and an abandonment of our duties on t he continent of Europe , he
was giving voice to the sentiments of the great public of this country . What is more , his doing so constituted a great fact in evidence that such was the public feeling . Ministers were no longer able to stand against the weight of that evidence . A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday . On Monday they announced that Mr . Dallas would not be dismissed , that friendly communications would not be broken off ; and they added , on being pressed , that the instructions to our naval force in Central America are not such as would lead to immediate hostilities .
But , we say , it is no time for the public to lay aside its vigilance or its action . The naval instructions , said Ijord Palmerston , relate to the protection of British interests ^ of British subjects , and of British property ; and there is nothing in those instructions which would tend to a collision between the British and American forces . But it would not be difficult for some audacious naval commander to find opportunities of firing off powder and shot in the " protection of British interests . " Ministers must be made to feel that they will be responsible for every act of those armed sailors whom they have sent into that hazardous quarter .
Besides , in this now course Ministers are reluctant ; they havo been forced into it ; they will depart from it as soon as they can ; they will frustrate it as much aa they con ; they will obey reason in this question : of America only so far as they are compelled by the public , from day to day , from act to act . Instead , therefore , of laying aside vigilance aud action , < tho public , rather encouraged than lulled by the success of the intervention thu » far , ; should get itself some better instruments for giving ! its action' a Adore concentrated ;< effect , and I for posting sentinels to watohn bvejs the ett < iiriy iou Dovyn- , jiPgNjtr . 6 Ot .- i u ' . r . »< ' ' I | " I t-- . » M ) , ! JI ( i-ri .. 'j i \ ¦ ¦ ¦) , ) . ' . I
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THE WARNING PROM KARS . " Wob toHfe & e nation that forgets the military art ! "Woe to that nation who heaps up riches , but who does not take the precaution to defend them IV These are the words which General Williams , returning from his chivalrous imprisonment , utters to the country that welcomes him home . Few men have so recently tested the bitterness of war , few men have witnessed its real working so clearly , few men have had such strong occasion to know the force of the words which they were uttering .
We hear peace hailed on all sides—not because it is the re-establishment of justice , and the settled order in which unruly spirits have been compelled to move , but because there is to be an absolute cessation of arms . We are to leave the activities of the field for perfect repose , and we are to trust—Heaven knows how— -to some arts of civilization . " Woe to the nation that heaps up riches , and neglects the means to defend them , " says Sir W ^ liiam ; and he saw with his own eyes what is the state of that country which possesses wealth , but not the means of
self-defence . In no part of the world would that state of things be more visible than in Turkey , where the Pachas collect masses of wealth , but where the miserable inhabitants were exposed to the inroads of the enemy . Nay , worse : from a neglect of their military organization and guidance , the Turks had actually been exposed to the presumption that their courage was entirely corrupted away , and that they had become a nation of cowards . Sir William rallied them to the combat , and they proved able to withstand one of the most powerful nations in the world .
We are told that war entails the calamities of death , and deprives families of their best spirits . Sir William uttered the words we have quoted in direct reference to a loss of this kind . Amongst the men come home from Kars , was Captain Henry Thompson , who arrived only in time to receive the welcome homage of his countrymen , and then to die in the arms of his mother . No
bereavement could be more complete than such a loss ; and yet Sir William is no doubt right in declaring that if the country required it , many mothers would repeat the gift which poor Mrs . Thompson has made to her country , and give up the sons upon whom all their hopes in this world depend . And woe to the country indeed if its matrons were content to tie the young manhood of England to the apron-string of its womanhood . How much would the power of life , the enjoyment of life , the real amount of life , decline within the land !
War , we are told , is a scourge to the country ; but the true scourge of every country consists in those vices and corruptions which creep in during periods of ropose and prosperity . Might not a William Palmes , have been saved—inight not his victims , and those more miserable creatures his accomplices , havo been saved—if he had been called to a manlier fiold than that of pottering over pretended studies in a dissipated city , or dabbling in so-called manly sports . in not less dissipated provincial towns ? Look at our law courts— -look afc the disclosures ot our merchants—to toll us the state of socioty
and of commerce . If there is a feeling ot some generous sympathy displayed by a community , it is brought out by the sense ot alliance on the field of battlo . Witnesa tl » o contribution made by London City to our allies the Fronoh in thein adversity . Not long since two men were seen walking together in Berlin—they wore Will * aJ 8 « ud ManJf A . VJBINV « fcho , , two who for monfciia hadrbfeea engaged in a manly Contest to von-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 21, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21061856/page/12/
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