t us, on our side, entreat the English press to give this
announcement every publicity. Let us do everything in our power to make
this "call upon the Americans" well known in England. I hope English
newspaper editors will print it, and print it again and again. It is not
we who say this of American citizens, but American citizens who say
this of themselves. "Bull is odious. We can't bear Bull. He is haughty,
arrogant, a braggart, and a blusterer; and we can't bear brag and
bluster in our modest and decorous country. We hate Bull, and if he
quarrels with us on a point in which we are in the wrong, we have goods
of his in our custody, and we will rob him!" Suppose your London banker
saying to you, "Sir, I have always thought your manners disgusting, and
your arrogance insupportable. You dare to complain of my conduct
because I have wrongfully imprisoned Jones. My answer to your vulgar
interference is, that I confiscate your balance!"

What would be an English merchant's character after a few such
transactions? It is not improbable that the moralists of the Herald
would call him a rascal. Why have the United States been paying seven,
eight, ten per cent for money for years past, when the same commodity
can be got elsewhere at half that rate of interest? Why, because though
among the richest proprietors in the world, creditors were not sure of
them. So the States have had to pay eighty millions yearly for the use
of money which would cost other borrowers but thirty. Add up this item
of extra interest alone for a dozen years, and see what a prodigious
penalty the States have been paying for repudiation here and there, for
sharp practice, for doubtful credit. Suppose the peace is kept between
us, the remembrance of this last threat alone will cost the States
millions and millions more. If they must have money, we must have
a greater interest to insure our jeopardized capital. Do American
Companies want to borrow money--as want to borrow they will? Mr. Brown,
show the gentleman that extract from the New York Herald which declares
that the United States will confiscate private property in the event of
a war. As the country newspapers say, "Please, country papers, copy this
paragraph." And, gentlemen in America, when the honor of YOUR nation
is called in question, please to remember that it is the American press
which glories in announcing that you are prepared to be rogues.

And when this war has drained uncounted hundreds of m