The Yazoo Democrat

England and the United States.

"We confess that our feelings revolt at the idea of forming, under any pretence, an offensive or defensive alliance between the United States and Great Britain. Such a combination would be as unnatural as it would be disgusting and hateful to all who loved more than the name of liberty. The English government never has been, and so long as it is controlled by it's aristocracy, never can be other than a remorseless and despicable despotism: its alliance with freedom would be its betrayal; for English history is but a recital of baseness in act and hypocrisy in diplomacy.

"From the day when William of Normandy won the battle of Hastings, to the present moment, England has been at once the treacherous friend and the unsparing foe of human freedom. Ostentatiously boasting of her magnanimity; what has been her steady course?

"Wallace fought bravely for the freedom of Scotland. English gold bribed an infamous wretch to betray him, and magnanimous England tortured the hero and patriot to death: rending even his inanimate frame to gratify her hatred.

"Joan of Arc, a fair, brave maiden. forgot her sex in her love for native land; rushed to the front of battle; drove before her ferocious hordes of England, and freed her own bright France from the invaders. Treachery once more was the weapon of England; and the Maid of Orleans, a prisoner of war, perished by slow fire at the stake. one more example of British magnanimity?

"Their whole nation knelt and cringed before Cromwell, licked the boots of their conqueror, and when he was dead tore his corpse from the grave and compensated for their own craven sycophancy, by insulting the cold ashes of him whom they feared as much as they hated.

"Washington. had he fallen into their power would have been hanged as a traitor. As he was successful they affect to venerate his name.

"Emmett, engaged in as holy a cause, was over powered and strangled to death

"Napoleon was received as a friend, an exile and condemned to fret his proud heart until it broke against his prison bars.

"Mitchell, O'Brien Meagher, are still more recent examples of magnanimity of this detestable power. God forbid that the stars and stripes should ever float in companionship with the blood red cross of St. George! Cruel, selfish, treacherous, and mean, from the first dawn of her career, England has been the foe of freedom; the pliant ally of despotism. Affecting friendship to free institutions, she has been the right arm of tyranny; and when French liberty proclaimed itself, "England was the power which aided Absolutism to crush the infant Hercules of freedom in its cradle.

"Surely no people ever deserved the character of magnanimity less than the English. Avaricious spiteful. cruel, treacherous and hypocritical, the history of England is that of murder, rapine, and robbery and bad faith. She has deluged the East Indies in innocent blood; she has made Ireland a waste; she would have made America a desert; she crushed independence and human liberty in Europe; and never, never, may we see the ensigns of American nationality ranged side by side with that hateful symbol of English power!

"England cannot be trusted, Her whole history is that of perfidy and a settled system of plunder. From the murder of Wallace to the banishment of Mitchel; from the Norman invasion to the carnage of Scinde, England has been the greatest robber in the world, the fiercest scourge to mankind.

"The reformation of her religion was brought about by the beastly lust of a monarch and the avarice of nobles, who longed to prey upon the wealth of her monasteries and her convents, Her principal reformer, Cranmer, was the tool of a despot, a narrow souled tyrant, and coward-an unwilling martyr, after having been a ruthless persecutor.

"When she has professed liberal principles it has been for the purpose of advancing her interests-where she has warred against freedom she has obeyed her instincts.

"The blood of Wallace, the desecration of the glorious corpse of Cromwell, the life of Napoleon tortured out of him by petty tyranny, the noble. lofty heart of Emmett. call to heaven for vengeance upon her, with the oppressed Irish, and the agonized millions of Asia. But for the successful heroism of America, the illustrious head of Washington, the venerable life of Franklin, precious blood of Jefferson, Hancock, and Adams would have stained a British scaffold.

"And shall this great and noble republic become the ally of this sanguinary and merciless power? When our brave legions shall rush forward in the cause of freedom, be that cause their own? Let not the proud ensign of liberty be dishonored by a companionship with the detested standard of a mercenary despotism, which for a profit of ten per cent, on her manufactures, or a new market for the produce of her brutalized population would sacrifice the dignity of manhood, the faith she has pledged to Heaven, the honor she has vouchsafed to man.-Memphis Appeal,