The southern press., 1852-01-14

of Hungary, or that she will pay no attention
to it whatever, and continue her interference
In the former case the United States will have
achieved great victory in behulf of universal
philanthropy: in the latter, what will they do!
Will they content themselves with having
tapped their wings and crowed most Justify; CT
will they maintain the position they have thus
assumed, and take the usual mode of enforcing
nations to listen to reason. Let us see how
they are to 60 about it.
FIVE resort to commercial restrictions, the com.
merce of Russia is an interest entirely subordi-
nate in the regulation Of her general policy, and
it is not to be presumed she can be coerced in that
way, into the abandonment Of an important part
of her system Will the United State. attempt
to blockade the Russian ports, on the Baltic, the
Black sea, the White sea, and in fact almost from
This would be rather a difficult matter--except
on paper. These falling there remains but one
other alternative The United States must
either advance or retire. They must fight or
run away. They must send those same four
millions of stalwart youngsters, who Mr..
Walker in his English speech affirms stand ready
to rush to the aid of England whenever she is
in danger, or contend themselves, as usual, with
giving the Gear good sound scolding, and
telling him he is no better than he should be.
The subject in this point of view is too absurd
to be treated seriously. The United States and
Russia, though both giants, have not arms long
enough to reach each other.
All that will result from declaration against
Intervention by the United States and England
in conjunction, or separately, will be this: We
shall make an enemy Of an old friend, and
natural ally, and at the same time become the
cats-paw of England in her European and Ash
attic policy. The position of England, as great
commercial power, connects her interests with
every portion of the globe, for, as previously
observed, commerce makes neighbors of all ma
tons. With the milestone of a debt of five
thousand million of dollars about her neck, and
system of taxation which robs the PEOPLE OF
half the fruits of their labors and crushes them
to the earth, her revenue, even in the most pros
porous times, is barely adequate to support her
peace establishment, if such term may be APP
piled to nation always at war somewhere or
other, in one at least Of the four quarters of the
world. Her necessities absolutely impose on
her thedoblgation of pushing her commerce
everywhere, and of taking advantages of the
weakness of nations, to extract from them tri.
butte under the disguise ofcommercial treaties
extorted by threats or force* Wherever ter
ritory or position is necessary to the extension
of her commerce, she takes possession OF il
without ceremony, as in the late case of the Is
land of Bornea, Tgre Island, Greytown, and eve.
rywhere else, where the parties arestoo weak
for resistance. ByIpursuing this system, she has
not only involved hersefin succession of wars
in all parts of the world but forfeited the good
will of contemporary nations, until she now
stands without an ally or friend, with the excep.
ton Of the puissant King of the Mosquitoes,
and the President of the French republic.
In this condition, England is attempting to
identify herself with the struggles of freedom,
and to appear before the world as the champion
of the rights of the people; and in this charac
ter she makes overtures through the Hungarian
exile for the cooperation of the United States.
The present state of Europe distinctly indicates
that she will soon, either from choice or neces
sity, be involved in contest with Russia, the
result of which may probably decide which
shall preponderate, both in Europe and Asia
She is also, while wooing the United States
to cooperation with her in Europe, pursuing a
course of policy in America which, if am not
greatly mistaken, will at no distant period bring
her into direct collision with the United States );
for it is not probable that they will long remain
under the present passive administration. Now,
if it should chance to happen, as it came once
very near happening,t that the Russian Eagle
and the "great American Vulture" should both
peck at the British Lion at once, would he not
be in danger Of losing his eyes? With the
United States in the West, and Russia in the
East, that proud island, on whose territories
like those of Spain in the days of her past glo-
ries, the sun never sets, would be shaken to its
centre, and forever deprived of the prerogative
of domineering over the world.
1t is evident therefore, that it would be
master stroke of policy on the part of Lord
PALMERsroN, to embroil the United States with
Russia and that such would be the consequence
of cooperating with England in the contem-
plated declaration against intervention, cannot
for moment be doubted If it did not bring
them into direct collision, it would ALLEVIATE them
forever. 1t would as inevitably throw the
United States into the arms of England, a ieal-
GUS rival, who, while tickling us with one hard
is boxing our ears with the other. 1t would
make them parties in all her schemes of Euro
pean policy; for it would go hard if such an
adept in diplomacy as his lordship, could not
stretch this doctrine Of non-intervention so as
to comprehend them all We should thus, in all
probability, be engaged in perpetual succession
of wars, in which we have no interest whatever
and share the fate of the Dwarf, who got all the