Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-31


State Ssnate Marshall, Wing, CAS- Eastman Democ tat
| 7ss House Of Delegates: Carter Wing, ole; Shumate
Wing, 800, Hunton, Democrat s55; Gordon Democrat,
| s24.
| LEWIS COUNTY.
BALTIMORE May 80
Lewis county, Va givea Lewis, independent Demo-,
cratic candidate for Congress- nine majority over ster~
rett Wing Brannan. Democrat, elected to the House
Russia and the "Vashington Union"
Mr.. Pryor, one of the Associate Editors of the
Washington Union. avows the authorship of the
article on "Russia," which rec emily appeared ia
the editorial columns Of that paper, and states
that he alone is responsible for what the afore-
said Article contains, and that whatever cepsure
attach to it should fall upon him. Mr.. PRYOR
makes this statement through the columns of
the National intelligencer, and accompanies it
with lengthy defence of the positions assumed
in his Russian editorial. From the fact that the
writer has sought hearing through the columns
of the lnteigencer, we presume that those of the
| Union were closed against him, and that the
administration refuses to endorse his sentiments.
| Having made some comments on Mr.. Pryor's
article ourselves, we deem it no more than an net
of justice to publish or two extracts from his
card in the lntelligsncer explanatory of the mo-
tives which prompted him to wlite the article in
question:
A book, in my judgment very wild aud silly
book, has been written and published with the
ayowed object OF placing this country and the
Russian Empire IN warlike antagonism
Now, as editor of n journal which is generally
thought to be in some sort the organ of the Ad-
ninistraton, considered it my duty to counteract
| as far as possible, the mischevous tendency of
| the will theories OF this book. With that de-
sign wrote the leader in the Union of the 10Th
| May. was anxious to soothe any irritation and
to remove any unjust preudces against Russia
which the book might possibly engender 10 this
country, 1t was my wish to Indicate that the
views of the Government were pacific. and to
express such sentiments as, being perfectly just
would contribute to perpetuate the relations Of
friendship which have ever subsisted between
the United States and the Russian Empire 1t
was essential to this purpose that l should dis
| credit the statements and expose the fallacy of
| the arguments of the book before mo- This
undertook to acconlp lish by showing, first, that
| the Russian Government is not the monster of
| iniquity, the incarnation of evil, which it was
represented to be; and, secondly that the United
States aud Russia, so far from being opposed to
one another by inevitable antngonsnl, have
ever been bound together by the close ties o.
friendship and reel ~ ocal esteem. You will per-
c0lV6 tnaC IL ulQ mol Ihll WlLnln the scope OF
design to narrate in detail the history of the
Russian Empire, and to enumerate aud balance
| the merits and defects of the Russian Govern
| mont. This was irrevelaat to my argument. If
] had undertaken such asssk, would unquestona-
| bly, have denounced the instances of Tyranny and
oppression of which the Russian Government.
| like every other Government 10 Europe, has
frequently been guilty l would, with especial
| emphasis, have denounced Russian Intervention
| in tha of R1t
object being to combat the positions and conclu-
sion, of the book under review. l did not wander
beyond the road before me into an irrevelant dis
play of historical learning and phanthropic in.
dignation.
After quoting from the messages Of Jefferson,
Madison, &C., Mr.. Pryor goes on to administer
rasping to .'Young America
Such were the sentiments and the policy of
the great statesmen of this country in respect to
the Russian empire. These are the stars by
| whose light was misled, i'll am to be thought
to have wandered from the correct path. If,
! BY recognising the true condition OF the Russian
empire, and by suggesting the policy of cement
| ing our amicabe relations with it, betray the
cause of republicanism, have whatever conssla-
ton may be derived from the association and
sanction Of the best and wisest men, whose
names are known in American history. What
care for the yelping of ''Young American for
the reproaches, the ridiculous defamation, and
the clumsy vituperaton of that little of pc.
| litica adventures who embarked their fortunes
| in the Democratic RevieW, and who, since the
wreck of that piratical barque, have sought so
pertinaciousy and by such Ingenious aitifces,
to get their fingers in the public purse-I ask,
why should l regard the Insignificant and in-
| consequential clamors of such as they, when |
| feel myself sustained and approved by the wis
dom of Jefferson, Madison Monroe, Adams and
Jackson! am aware that, by invoking the-au-
thorty of these illustrious men, incur the
hazard OF sheer from ''Young American but
| do not believe that the senseess reproach of
foeyism has altogether discredited the fathers of
the republic in the esteem OF the American
people. The author of the Declaration of Inde
peudence and the hero of New Orleans, albeit
they eulogzed the Russian Empire and the
Russian Emperor, will still be thought good
enough patriots and friends of freedom by the
great mass of thinking men.
1t is manifest that the original article in the
| Union newspaper was not written without con-
sderation and without purpose. That purpose
have already indicated. Before Inc lay book in
which the dangerous and insane doctrine ofinter-
vention in European affairs wasadvocated in all its
folly. thought it my duty to protest against this
doctrine. In the conduct OF the Washington Union,
so far as its conduct has devolved upon me, have
done my best TO repress that adventurous flbus.
ter feeling whose excuses all sensible men dread
by combating the wild theories OF interventionists
and by advocating aud commenting cautious,
just, moderate, and conservative tone in the for
eigu policy of this Government. 10 this spiri t.
and with this view. the article upon Russia was
conceived and written
The Pckens Republican thus facetiousy re-
fers to the sequel oian ''affair of honor" that
to have off in that vicinity few days since: