Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1869 — War with England. [ARTICLE]

War with England.

J.ttwhul th. insurnttiof of Miblster Morutr. hi roloUo. Co our trouble. with Groat Briuin arc is not known, bat that Kngland did M gram wrong daring th. late robellioffi in permitting her aubjecu to bslld, fttrniab, arm and man •hip. for the purpose «f preying <—w-wr guir wHanmal awa^wxlaautimarn 1* W|Pw*tl V*l *■■•■ lUI <* a«*W7«v>ana *ay admitted by all acquainted with the law. of n&tisuu that she r» guilty of every unfriendly act .he could dcviae without engaging in vpen warfare is known to the most easua! observer, that she should Ik held to a strict accountability for her perfidy and be compelled to pay for every dollar’s worth of property destroyed by her pirate is the feeling of every true-hearted American. We do not know that the people of the United Ssates want a war with England for war*» sake, but If a war should come it would . not injure as near so badly a. did htfr unfriendly action toward, us daring our late war, when under the guise of friendship and pretence of neutrality, she permitted the Alabama to be built and sent forth from the Liverpool docks upon her minion of piracy against every unarmed vessel carrying the Stars and Stripes.

English papers talk of the rejection by the United States Senate of the lUvxkdt Johmbox-Stamlbt settlement as though the English nation had been greatly wronged, that the English people were sorely humiliated, and that now they should wait. We hope they will wait Our tonntry will be benefitted by delay. But we will not have to wait long before we can pay England ic Ker own coin. In the not far distant future English commerce may be subject to raids of ether Alabama.,-—Alabama, which can be sent into every sea, and which will reap rich harvests.— Great Britain has sown the wind, •he scattered her seed In fruitful son, .he may »e*p a hurricane.— Certainly if England can wait we can afford to wait. But if Mr. Monrr’e instructions m such that wo will bo hastened into a war with England, we can settle the “Alabama Claims” in short order. Our writ of attachment could be made out and placed iu the hands of General Shwbmsx who would havono difficulty in finding property upon which to levy, just “over the border,” and a hundred Alabamae could at once be launched that would make sad havoc with British commerce. However wo hope we shall not be forced into a war with England. If the precedent established by her be a good one let it stand. In the end we will be benefitted by it, and we need be in no hurry to have a settlement with her.