AND THE ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE, IN THEIR RELATIONS TO THE UNITED STATES & RUSSIA, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LEADING POLICY OF FRANCE AND OF ENGLAND FOR THE LAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS THE ORIGIN AND AIMS OF THE ALLIANCE THE MEANING OF THE CRIMEAN WAR-AND THE REASON OF THE HOSTILE ATTITUDE OF THESE TWO POWERS TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE MOVEMENT ON MEXICO, WITH A STATEMENT OF THE GENERAL RESOURCES THE ARMY AND NAVY OF ENGLAND AND FRANCERUSSIA AND AMERICA-SHOWING THE PRESENT STRENGTH AND PROBABLE FUTURE OF THESE FOUR POWERS. BY REV. C. B. BOYNTON, D. D. CINCINNATI: C. F. VENT & CO., 38 WEST FOURTH STREET. 1×64. Fr 1660.17.6 1-77376-75 1874, $pril 25. ($7.64.1530) Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by C. B. BOYNTON. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of Ohio. PREFACE. "You have not come to the bottom of the conduct of "Great Britain, until you have touched that delicate and "real foundation cause, we are too large and strong a "nation. "This is in my judgment the right of the whole matter. "A distinguished clergymen of London, personally kind, "and friendly to me, said to me in these very words, Mr. "Beecher, you may just as well have it said to you, you "have been growing so strong that we had got to take you "down, and we were very glad when the job was taken out "of our hands by your own people.' When Mr. Roebuck "declared the same fact in Parliament, it was cheered "immensely."-Mr. Beecher's Speech in Brooklyn. In the same speech, Mr. Beecher analyses English society, and states what he believes to be the spirit of the different classes in regard to this country. His conclusions, in substance, are as follows: "The great commercial class is against us. The influen"tial clergymen and laymen of both the Established Church "and the Dissenters are, as a body, against us. The nobility, 64 as a class, are against us. "Parliament, in sympathy and wishes, is five to one “against us. "The conservative intelligence of Great Britain is "against us, and all there is on the surface of society repre liette in power, its intelligence, is anti ents, as fully sustaining the tone A will be felt, when we consider e, who, more than any other of anxious to place England in the before his countrymen, and would lead the future, Great Britain may become cers do, upon the assumed fact, that the ... in a sense, uninfluential laboring classes of the North. That a majority of them are may be admitted, but few probably are ready that in spite of all the great forces arrayed these nonvoting laborers of England have power her policy. is no such enthusiastic love of America or 1 ericans even among the people of England, as would led them to band themselves together as our champions, agnst the Government and the Church, the army and navy, the nobility, the literary power, and the commercial interests of the kingdom. The people have, it is hoped, exerted some influence in the change which has been lately wrought in British policy, but the main causes are to be sought in the sudden exhibition which we have made of military power, in the strength of our army, the formidable character of our navy, the superiority of our new cannon, and the waning of the power of the rebellion. The central purpose in the American policy of France is declared by the Emperor himself to be, to restore the ascendancy of the Latin race in the New World, and this cessarily involves the supremacy of the Papal power, and |