Yankeedom on John Bull.
The true feeling and inclination of the Yankees in reference to England may be gathered from their journals. This is bitter and hostile in the extreme. The Federal Government, however, will take care to avoid an open rupture with Great Britain; for that they dread at this time almost as much as the British Cabinet itself does! The Yankees, however, continue to assail the English through their journals. They reproach them for selfishness, craftiness, and treachery — vices which they desire that none but themselves shall employ with success. They charge them with manœnvring all the time for their own aggrandizement and the widening of their influence over the policy and commerce of the nations. They charge them especially with favoring the rebellion and fitting out piratical ships for the Confederates, to enable them to destroy the Yankee commerce. They award no credit whatever to the British Government for its policy of neutrality between the great belligerents in the American war, but at tribute it entirely to interested motives — mainly to the fear of losing their Canadian possessions and the probable destruction, in case of war, of British commerce by Federal privateers. In this last we think the Yankees tell the truth.We have before us the Baltimore American of the 8th, in which there is a tremendous broadside against John Bull. It charges him with all manner of crimes, and reviewing his policy relative to Turkey, suggests that there is yet under cover of his professions of neutrality some dreadful designs against the United States. It fears that England, carrying out its policy in reference to Turkey, may come on the American shore to take care of the effects of another "sick man." It thus concludes its terrible attack:
"Let us on this side of the Atlantic take warning by present British 'audacity' in regard to the sick man;" let us take care that they do not find in us another 'sick man' to administer upon quire as tempting to their wholesale cupidity as that they are gloating over at present in the case of the Ottoman Empire. The entering wedge has already been tried in the case of our neighbor — Mexico. Let us watch events, lost the crowned robbers of the Old World attempt seriously to compromise our own national integrity, and this on the ever-recurring plea of 'State necessity.' "
But, however the Yankee journals may rant and swear, Lincoln will not quarrel with the Lion now. He will apologize and back out as often as necessary to avoid a rupture.--He will leave to the papers and the speakers the task of nursing the Yankee wrath until a good opportunity offers.
