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A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW.
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A Political And Literary Review.
A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
•'The One Idea Which History Exhibits As...
•' The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noMe endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the ^ tystmctioiis of Religion , ' Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as oue brotherhood , having one great object —the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humloldt ' s Cosmos . *
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Newd of the Wcell- page . 2 S ~ av . il and Mi ; itarv News 1051 How to Make Broad Cheap lor ,. - , fJivnt-Sieves of History 1063 Continental Notes 10 . » l Simpson at Home 1 O 5 < 5 Ernest J ,, n . * ...-. 1003 The War 1022 Miscellaneous 1051 Louis Napoleon 10-57 The Arts — Our QuarrelwithJthe U . iited States 1048 PubUC Affairs- Literature- Trade Barbarism in Ait 10 C 4 Mr F O Ward and tSS ^ Drainaffe "The Consequences of War with Life of Gortho 1 'WS Tho Iloymarket Melodrama 1065 Question 1049 America 1053 Herodotus 1 " » 9 _ , rZZ ~ T Tvto Letters ' itom " Ma " zzini 1049 The Uefn ? oes 10 VJ Lectures if . Laiics 1 " 3 J ) Commercial Affairs-The Gale HH 9 Schemes in Italy lOot Postediluviun History 1 " <> ' City Intvlli-ence , Mmkcls , Adver- 1005 Our Civilization 1019 The Basis ol" an Aimy 1053 Life and Mind . lt > 5 l tisements , « tc 1065
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O N the whole , there is a slightly improved tone touching the . dispute with America . It is indeed to be regretted , that some writing which has been published tMs week , and some , perhaps , which has not been published , should not have gone out by the boat on Saturday last ; for it might have tended to soften the feeling of indignation which will be aroused by the intelligence that the mail actually did carry forth . There
appears to be some difficulty for the public to understand why the simple statement that the fleet had been strengthened , and that privateers and buccaneers would be controlled , should offend the American Government and nation , since they eannot have any desire to encourage buccaneering and privateering . The reason why offence iti cjlculated to be given by all the demonstrations that have been made , is to be found in the whole of the public facts taken acumulatively . In the
first place , the British fleet on the West Indian and North American station bus been strengthened very much—iu itself a proceeding which naturally suggests the necessity for some explanation calculated to soothe the jealousy of any state contiguous to the strengthened staiion . In the second place , there is the intimation that force mny be employed against American citizens . In the third place , the announcement is ofenhive . became the American Government lias
restrained buccaneering ex | . editions down to the very last which attempted to set out for Nicaragua ; and the announcement , therefore , implies that the Americans do noi do i heir duty in the very thing for accomplishing which they claim no small credit . In the fourth place , a charge of privateering is implied , when there is no evidence to establish the charge . Every vessel that is building , or getting ready for .- > eu in the port of
T \ ow York , is known ; and tho whole number could be accounted for , their ownership , nnd their "destination . If , indued , Russian docti-Mieiitg have been seized , proving that ships preparing ostensibly for some voyage which needs strength of crew and fighting powur , say China , or the Indian Archipelago , arc in fact destined ultimately for I llussian , service , information of thut fact , and copies of the documents must , of
course , have been furnished to tlie American Government ; but there is no statement that any such evidence has been advanced . The charge , therefore , looks like a wanton imputation . In the fifth place , if the force cannot be used against buccaneers or privateers that do not exist , there is a shrewd suspicion , difficult to combat , that it is intended for use rgainst some other persons ;
and who are they ? In -the sixth place , the manner in which the proceedings against the infrin"ers of the American Foreign Enlistment Act have been received in this country , implies a partial condemnation of proceedings that have been perfectly regular , and a defence of English public oflicers whose proceedings have been the very reverse of regular . In the seventli place , this resort to a curious accumulati > n of force
for sonie unknown purpose ; and these baseless insinuations , made at a time when very dilHcult ques'ions between the two countries have been subjected to anxious negocialion without ivsu't , ; dl look very like the arrogant resort of a party th . it know ? itself to be in the wrong . And in the eighth place , the Americans naturally feel that the whole bearing towards them , the h . 'ir . Hh construction of their motives , the very liitlu attention paid to any of their repre , si'ntatiu's who may casually visit this country
imply unfriendliness ; and they arc certainly calculated to exanpei ate tin ; irritation produced by the other cause . i . 1 hu attentions paid to Mr . i \ Iii . r . AUi > Fim . mork , when hu came over to thin country , v % civ received by the Americans as evidence of an improved fe ling ; but the very contrary demeanour , nt present , will do away with the good effect . Yet we may observe , an j > at > tMnt , thai the very fai . t of a good influence bi ; iu ;{ created iu America , by the uncostly means of showing a courteous and friendly bearing towiriM . s ilio
American cit . iy . ens , is evidence how easily the Hritiwli Go \ erinm-iit iniyht work its way to an amicable sett omcitt , iiiHtcid of risking tin ; hideous anil costly ptiih of warfare . TJie . se are tlio reasons why wuajiprohend an indignant burnt 1 . 1 ml may lead to i' ri ^ 'il .-s in kind . Jioth couuirics would then be committed to a competition in nuiinosit'es of manner , that , it might bu didicult or impossible to s op , mi" i thai mi ^ ht end in calamities too hideous t > unlicip . ue , without pain and dLsgus ' . AVu have said the tone of tlie language iw inproved . Tho Tiincx , which made tho
declaration of war last week , speaks in greater moderation this week . The Globe asks for the real views of the American public ; it snys , " no menace to ' the United States' is intended , and no ' fear' could well be expected to ba excited in the people of those States , by any such increase as it has been thought prudent to make in our usual naval force in American waters . " The same Ministerial writer quotes a paragraph from a letter by the citizen of the United States , picturing the absurd character of a fratricidal war , in which English and Americans should be showing their gallantry against each other , while neither , of course , could yield to the threats on the other side . " Great Britain , lam sure , would not yield its convictions to any threat ; and the United States , I am equally sure , will regard with indignation , rather than fear , the menace in its seas of : i hostile fleet . " In this portion of the letter , says tho Globe , " may express our unqualified and entire concurrence ; " and the Times performed a public service iu publishing the letti-r , which is in itself an explanation calculated to enlighten the British public . The war in the East scarcely gelfl on so promisingly as the war in the West . We have no movements to record , except iu retreat rather than otherwise ; at all events tho ullies appear to hes si itionary . The Czah , indeed , in u .-ing great exertions—visiting the soldiers , displaying his sympathies in the hospitals ; fraying a good word for the law levies that arc mingled with the army in the East , and bespeaking the forbearance of older soldiers who might otherwi-e turn them into ridicule ; and promising , through his Minister of the . Interior , confirmed privileges of tho nobles . ( Jortsehakoff shows no signs of advancing ; neither do the Allies . The period in fact has arrived fur carrying on the . war in another quarter , ami attempts are made to renew negoeiationa ; at leant Hiich i . s the report . The Constituliontwl refer * to a stran ^ o meeting at Berlin , at which Austria i » « " /*/ t <> hlivo a .- ; . si « ted , for getting up some new intervention-A Kiirisian oilicor has come ho Tar Houthwards n * lithium ; the Teacc Tarty in Jiiw-iiu U sniVl to h ; tve become predominant ; and Louh Nai-oi . isow h accused of showing new aifiiia ol |> lmncj :. jjmdcr Austrian i mportunities It in l ^ v ^ VtU vcr * auasui iuv report * - The ari .. io * He « Mari ! y coasu £ « ... i , _ " wj I ' ¦ ' > . - - . ,. ' \ . ^ £ ;• .. •¦ ' ., «*
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111855/page/1/
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