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    W DEFEAT OF GOVERNMENT ON THE AMERICAN POLICY . If out 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 p ossible , to induce a more concentrated action , on the part of the public . ¥ e have stated tnat the condition of our affairs in America was veiled by systematic misrepresentations ; we have told bur readers that it was impossible for Mr . Cba . mptoit to remain after he

    had 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 Gd ^ erninent 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' trpon . the middleclass statesmen of America , we were in danger of Seeing the intercourse between the two countries disturbed by war . "We now point

    for cdrrobbration to the official 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 . Obamptoit was in constant commiiriicktion with the Consuls , the subordinate agents , and'the officers of the Legion who were collecting recruits for theXiegion ; both before and after ' the fir ^ C explanations of our Governihbnt ' . ' ' W ; 6 ' said that in all probability

    S * BdBEii was a sipyih the Russian service , who' had entered intb the seryitte of the energetic but indiscreet Joseph Itowe for the eqfatireds purpose of' extorting money and gpCfting the . British ititb difficulties . We mid ^ liia distinctly ' made 6 iit in the American dSXfi&p ^ etifc - , We- < iaid that under , tbefse circumstances the l ^ mencan Government could not retract , ' and could not Jpermit Mr . ObAmpton to retnafttlthatr the explanations # 6 m St . James e s did hot' toiich ; the o ^ ue ^ tiott d |^ J | Mi' mere personal cbhdu ' cti At the end . of ImftjftiekIt ° 'W thought Ministers would r&t&ttrtttshiftAi * nii » fiitu * MrUAiliASthe last

    . , Bt ^ bOTJtfttf ^ W'tdtalhtterruptflbn of friendly reWtlb « a ;' iind the' CQnimencQment of frostiXo relations . ' ^^ Vointto ihe inspired qoiuninf-f oft the T £ irtey * m& Mdtrtiitti JPoai for Evidence tllip <* bwtt toWieimm % t } itt > J 6 f l 3 ast " vtr'eeK thV ' bfficiftl * HeaWtoTSHty tert < $ i * VJLWIftould ; m ^ M ^ yiti ^^ tmii 'mmaf > eiaiibnW ; witv A * fericA' Should b& brbkeri' off . ''' ' ¥ < s' ' werfc

    thenVeyen . a , * tha * 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 as 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 o ± 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 i t appeared to be the fact that our communicat ion 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 this 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 . take

    But what made Iiord Joeut Btjsseioj that post on Friday 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 the 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 watt held on Saturday , On Monday they announced that Mr . Dai-i » a . s 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 nayal instructions , said , Lord Palmerston , rer late to the protection of British ^ interests , of British subjects , and of British property ; and there is nothing i , n 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 Britisji 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 have been forced into it ; they will depart from it as soon as they

    can y they , wilj frustrate it as much as they can ; they will , pbey . reason in this ques-. tion of America only so far as they are compelled by the public , from day to . day , from ict t p act . Instead , therefore , of laying aside vigilancej and action , the pubh ' c , rather en-, cou ] raged . th ' aia MJed , by . ^ W . aucqpss of the , nteryenjbion thue ^ | ar , sl } ou } a get itself some , j better . ^ mstr ^' rne ^ action , * " $ !? ' ^ ? ¥ ^^™ ' M ^¦ ' ; , «« # ? ' , % Poking i jentinels ; to watch ^ y . er tjje , en ,

    THE "WARNING FROM KARS . " Woe to the nation that forgets the military art ! Woe to that nation who heaps up riches , but who does not take the precaution to defend them ! " These are the words which General Williams , returning from his chivalrous imprisonment , utters to the country that welcomes him home . 3 Tew 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 wh ich 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 WiiiLiAM ; 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 Btate 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 Wixiiam 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 Henbt 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 WitLiAM 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 enjoymont 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 repoae and prosperity . Might not a William PAiiMJKB . have been saved—might not bin victims , and those more miserable creatures his accomplices , have been saved—if ho had bccu called , to a manlier Jiol < l 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 oi

    at our law courts—look at the disclosures our merchants—to toll us the utato of society and of commerce . If there is a feeling ot some generous sympathy displayod by a community , it is brought out by the seiiBO oi alliance on the field pf battle . Witness the cpntribution made by ^ ondon City to our allies the French . in ijlioir adversity . 3 STot Jong since two men wero seen walking : together in , ^ orjin—they wove Vm- " ^ and SqffBiflfiflfor , tjbe two who for mo « M « - had been engaged in , a manly oontost to vun-

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    SATTJBPAY , JTJNE 21 , 1856 .

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    1 TKere i 3 nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keei £ things nxed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Abnoio ) .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 21, 1856, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2146/page/12/