New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-03
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JUNE D. loo''

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perseverance, backed BY large forces aud pres se anu
taking advantage Of every circumstance ana ProH'"s
even by the failure Of Others, will certainly
commerce and that commerce according to her usa"
sv.tsu Russia ill seek to make exclusively hef W.
Just AZ At Trebzonde and on the Caspian Sea, Rus
Al. d.es her utmost TO exclude English traihc' sue
will snare no effort to shut American composition ous
NJ Jspsn. In the former marts she eompetes w'sh
pnol.pd in the common kinds Of cotton and manafac-
,nrsd onods and in japan Russian aud American man
u.cture. will eventually contend for superiority she
,lr,ad, has large trade with China in woolens and
urs for which she takes tea in return and her pro-
duet. will hereafter be brought down the river Amour
10 the very doors Of the Japanese while she Sl do the
MIN, st TO block up every channel for the trsc OF ali
other nations.
But. leaving this eventual and apparently someEhst
remote conflict out of view, Russia and the United
States are already competitors in the great general
market of the world. Both produce aud export raw
materials of nearly the same nature. Russian bread
sma, crowd on, those of our farmers. In her trans
Caucasian provinces she is beginning to raise cotton
with view to prosecuting its culture on large scale
With the grssping spirit of the Russian Government
this is not exactly the basis for eternal friendship aud
harmonious corporation OF course the active antag-
opism between the countries, which We anticipate
AZ one day 10 break out will not proceed from CONNER
eal considerations so much as from hostility of prn
ciples and IDEAS and from political necessities what
we desire 10 show in respect is that their
interests are not the same
But we are told that Russia enjoys psterna govern
ment perfectly adapted to her condition, which evokes
progress and civilization and is the only system dt for
her people AL this is the reverse Of the truth and the
various statistical and other statements by which t is
supported are either utterly false or else mixture 10
which whatever of truth there may be is so overad by
fsebood as to become false itself One of the authori
ties attey much cited in proof of the benecent char
acter Of the Emperor and Of his Government is Edward
JermaDn, an actor Of ST. Petersburgh, whose aim n
writing is VIGOROUSLY to Dgrs.iate himself with that
sovereign and with bis police The statements of this
writer are totally unworthy of trust. For instance he
mentions a conversation between the Emperor and
Count Razumofski, concerning the emancipation Of the
peasants Nov, there is such Count, either in the
Council OF the Empire at the Court, or in all Russia
The famil, of Razumoffss is extioet. hr. Jermann,
and Mr. Pryor after him says the Car true faith
er Of his country" If so, why those swarms OF
spies constantly watching his devoted children Why
the frequent explosions from Petersburgh and Moscow,
and the almost equally frequent banishments TO Sibe-
ma Why the partial reyots constantly breaking out
in various parts Of the Empire
There is popular fallscy which, without going the
laudatory length of Mr. Pryor takes pleasure in com
pairing the United States aud Russia though in any
sense they could be put the level We protest
against this insult country and to democracy
There is no parallel between the onward march Of this
repubc and that of Russia under her present Govern
ment American progress is novelty in hstory,-ma-
teral and moral emancipation going hand in hand Here
civilization advances every path, and human welfare
mounts like the sunrise. But in Russia find ukases,
and of recent dae-forbidding the children of the
class of burghers and of the free peasants from recey
ING ANYTHING more than the education and shut
ting against them the doors of colleges and universities
striking illustration of patenal Government and pro-
eressive civilization
Let the admirers Of Russia and of despotism pause
and study her system with the warnings of history
in mind Let them learn that the accidental good ac-
conplished there mostly results from the inward intel
lectual force of the people breaking through the
impedments thrown in the way of its Development and
Swinging up in spite of countless social governmental
and administrative hndrances and expressions. The
Russian nation is capable Of wonders and is endowed
With an Unborn, unquenchable vitality. Its mighty
unknown, aud nisudged pc, pie enyeOped in gnor-
snce and bound with letters So it cannot remain for
ever Ere long, possibly within the present century it
must become socially and intellectually emsncipatcd
Then bot not till then its real character and destiny
will appear and then will deserve tobe put the
level with self governed America