The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-05-26
THE RUSSIAN GRIND.

The question, Have VIC an organ among
n.ru bids fair TO become much vexed and ex-
coedingIy pertinacious Difficult Of considera-
ton. it is almost impossible to settle. A study
Of the music amounts to nothing, and leads to
no conclusion. Your organ, well endorsed-it
isno organ otherwise-may grind out whatever
IL constitutional disability creates, and be last
or slow. as the arm of the administrative trou-
hsdour is strong or weak At one moment 1t
nav waken MS with the merry strains OF
manifest Destiny" quickstep, or lull us with
,be solemn breathings Of "Auld Lang Syne"
conservatism, or mix both, by way of variation,
% chow an execution exceedingly difficult, and
r,orrnod over for not being impossible. The
,oturc of the music concludes nothing.
Is Il endorsed? All there's the rub; for
.h;s President Pierce is queer man. He may
grease the organ or he may smash 1t ; but IN
tbe meanwhile, with talent at silence-stub-
horn as Louis Napoleon and deep as Taliey-
rand-hc tells US good deal of nothing Some
insist that the President has his doubts on this
subiect of a court journal. That such con-
corn ia necessary to some other Governments,
none may question. The English are interest
ed in the increase of the royal family While
the French are excitable upon the matter OF a
boil in the small of Louis Napolcon's back, and,
Of course, n turnkey Journal must be sustained
I, keep them advised But as the children of
our queens God bless them y speak for them
selves. and as all our Louis Napoleons arc in
the penitentiary, a snob gazette would be
bore for we are not violently concerned upon
the subject of either boils or babies. Are these
vour sentiments, President Pierce?
President Pierce makes no answer; and back
we 90 to the study of the music. What pes
tifsrous rogue set this question ahoat! Had it
not been preached, we might have marched on
in quiet, we'll pleased and even victorious. But
the subject is started, and, like popular error,
cant be killed, and won't die We listen in.
tenty, and 10 ! such quilt-work Of discordant
things come forth, that We are almost driven
to the sad conclusion that the minstrel is but
patched fool Qook yon) and his instrument a
crazy humbug.
Nothing, since the days Of Uncle Biglow's
hen, ever produced such startling variety as
our organ. The specimen of barn-yard fowl
alluded to, remarkable for her domestic quail
ties (she was contented with her sphere was
kept for Matching and the ownors were not al
ways careful as to the quality of bird the old
lady was called on to nurse into existence. If
the owners were careless the venerable hep
was credulous and fond Did brood Of quails
run away with shells on their backs, (your true
pJogreSNues) the old lady clucked her admira-
ton at their precocious activity. Did flock
of ducks take to the water (annerationisfs) she
struttcd admiringly upon the bank, and seemed
to say, Sweet chicks, don't they swim? ;" Or
when her Matched goose Conservative limited
its exercise to standing solemnly on one leg in
q mud-puddle, she pronounced it, with an ad
mrable cackle "masterly inactivity" Only
once was the feathered dame startled into won
der, and that happened when a miscellaneous
urchin put under her an egg that, Matched out,
grew into q. buzzard. To carry out the COM
parson: our neigbbor on last Thursday, pro-
duccd something very like buzzard.
Testing aside the leader of last Thursdays
Union inlay 10, 1859 is the most remarkable,
startling production we have yet met with in
the PAPER; and that is saying much. An
American Journal nay, now the so-called
organ of the Democratic AdministratiOn-de-
votes nearly column to an eulogy upon the
Russian Government A citizen of the United
States, an editor with malice aforethOught,
gives to the world leaden column of praise of
the purost, unmixcd, dreary tyranny on the
face OF the earth--a Government if such We
may term it, that has founded its civilization
on the graves Of murdered thousands, watered
its s0-called religion with the blood of mar
tyrs-whose every battle has been against hui
man rights, and every victory the death-rattle
OF lreedom-a despotism whose greatest tri-
umphs are found in crushed Poland and Hun
gary, and whose most distinguished institution
awhile slavery chained to the very SOIL and
yet is praised by the I" Democratic Union"
Has the organ, weary of grinding out feeble
music for thankless factions, sold itself to the
only Government that dare not have free
paper at homol Have we Russian organ
among u.s.
That oor readers may not begin to doubt
wellestabliahed character for yeracity, we copy
The article entire Could tho Russian Minister
haze done the work better, or ask for more!
Further comment is unnecessary. The touch
at italics is our own.
RUSSIA.
Mr. u Winter Davis, conspicuous orator
IN The late Scott campaign has published
DOCK with the fantastic title of "The War of
ofmuzd and Ahriman," in which he affects to
regard the United States and Russia as the
respective champions of the principle of liberty
aud the principle of dcspotism, and TO foresee,
IN The distant future, q mighty and decisive
conflict between these pussant combatants, in
.he great drama of human history. The fun
uamental idea Of this book is 80 absurd ic.
u'n, that no effort Of ingenuity or power Of
T'"4nence could clothe it in n plausible garb.
~, Is perfectly safe, therefore, to assume that IL
WIN not make much impression upon the coun-
,Fy when developed in the extravaganza specu-
auon and hyperbolic rhetoric of the puerile
production Of Mr.. Davis.
Inc idea of an inevitable antagonism and
p'''maso conflict between the United States and
nGssia rs so silly, that we can only express sur
'ISe That any sensible man could entertain it
VT moment II was the dream Of the Persian
0yrnol9sy that the spirits of good and evil
strna,.. ana Ahriman-waged a perpetual
ays;S9 60 lor the asccndency over man; but to
"a Jo. ""y such Qnixotic mission to nations, il
To a..n sad want of phiosophic reflection
m ;aa'.. nri is the basis Of grave disquisition
o.. ~ '.taole and mortal anita gonism between