Author : D. W. Holly
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780428896256
Excerpt from The United States Review, 1855, Vol. 4: Democracy This degrading subserviency of so lar a portion of the Whig press to British dictation, and this fileterious influence over the opinions of so many of those who have so powerful an agency in 'ving a direction to the public sentxment in communities w ere they reside, constitute one of the great obstacles to a good understanding between the Us ited States and Great Britain. The latter invariabl mistakes the festations of this anglo-american ress or the prevailing sen timent of the people of the Uni States, and is thus encour aged to pursue a hostile course of olicy, which ultimately ends in a serious misunderstanding, not in actual war. The ministers of England seem not yet to have discovered that these straws do not even show which way the wind blows, and that such weather-cocks are only unerring guides in pointin g out its exactly opposite direction. It was well known at the time, that the British ambassador, incited by the lan age of the Federal newspapers and the dreams of t e Federa leaders at Washington, actually wrote home to his government, the very day before the adoption of the declaration of war by the Senate of the United States, the positive assurance that th ere was not the slightest danger that such a preposition would be sanctioned by that bod In this way the British ministry are uniformly deceived. T ey mistake the clamors of a minority for the voice of a majority of the e0ple of the United States, and under the influence of this de usion believe they may not only safely persevere in any course of policy injurious to their interests or their honor, but offer new aggravations with per feet impunity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.