Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-08-03
European Affairs.
COrrssPoadsnes Of the n. Y. courisr aud Enquirer.
THE sYNPAruIEs.


cOrrssPOadsnes Of the n. Y. cOurer aud Enquirer.
ruE srNrAruIES
i DuBuS. July IS.
II the Press be taken a. a fair exponent ~ofpublic opin-
ION, the sympathies are divided. One class would have
the Turks-who hold their rich domains ia Europe aud
Asia by couquest-swept away, even as they swept away
the feeble ~despohsm Of the Eastern Empire; and Chris
tianity, dominant in the scene OF its earliest triumphS-
Christian Powers, England aud France that were once
$50 gloriously united" in the crusades for rescuing the
land, hallowed by the footsteps Of the Redeemer, from
being troddcn dowu,-and his followers trampled on and
insulted,-by the bitterest enemies OF his cross,-should
now be united in supporting the power and maintaining
the integrity Of the Ottoman Empire. Another class see
in the war nothing but the ambition of the Gar to add
the Turkish, to his already overgrowu empirc,-that he
may the more easily extinguish freedom at the Caucasus,
-subjugate Persia,-becone master OF India; and ma
king ConsiAninople his Capitol, realize the vision Of
Alexander lord of a great empire, master oil the
world.
The truth is, however, the great body Of tho public
sympathise with neither. And for the best OF reasons
There is nothing In either to sympathise about. IL there
be war-followed by ACKNOWLEDGMENT, IL will only add to
the existing ~despotism. IL the integrity OF the Turk
ish Empire be maintained, il will continue the existing
despotisms. Aud, as for Christian liberation, or freedom
OF thought, expression and action, there is "pretty much
of a muchncss" under the Russian Eagle and the Otto.
man Crescent However, the prevalent feeling Is infavor
OF supporting Turkey, not for any love Of the Mussulman,
but because there Is hope OF a change sooner in favor of
civil liberty and christian freedom it being deemed not
unlikely that the twelve millions of Greek christians, who
are 10 uiuCn enaulOtcu Win n prospect Oh oclnS aus
ferred from one despot to another, may one Of these days
Gberate themselves.
Speculation, however, will soon be at an end-perhaps,
before | seal this letter. Ii does not look like a war, in
which England would oppose Russia, that the Emperors
favorite daughter, and a long train other companions have
fixed on the Isle Of Wight a. a summer residence. But
At there should be war, and Austria Join Russia, which
hatred Of the Sultan for the Kossuth affair, aud the chance
Ofmaking Turkey another Poland, in the partition " of
which she would largely share, render probable it would,
France and England with Turkey, against these two mighty
Nua D., nn, nf a. go tha ,~nrll 80 a~,r
witnessed.
for Clare, Kerro, and Sligo are over. They were Irish
general elections on a miniature scale. Ia Kerry, OCon.
nelIs youngest son, Young Dan, had a walk over, though
Dennis Shine Lalor, a man of Independent fortune and a
Young lrelander, was his opponent a man who would
have had the same overwhelming interest in opposition to
any other candidate. But 70 Is hardly wonderful, that in
OConrelrs native place; with the Roman Catholic Bishop
and clergy, the old friends OF the Libentor. the virtual re.
turners,-the SON and namesake of the Great Irishman,
without a single other Recommendation, should have been
returned.
In Clare, it was the contest at the General Election re-
newed. The some candidates; no others were in the field.
Both parties-thc Orange and Liherals-detc mined to try
their strength; only as the Liberals were unseated on the
ground OF "intimidation;" and the SiX-mie- Bridge slaugh.
ter was II warning; the priests did all quietly in the Chap
els. There was no riot Indeed, the wonder " ould have
been, from the state Of public feeling, had any Roman
Catholic voted for "Vandeleur and Protestant Ascendsn.
cy." So Ora geism vas beaten all to nothing-though
Lady Grace Nandeeur, with the chivalry of the election
ANAANAA " 0A ANANI NAANa -AA ANl t. "a NAENN0IE
and OBrieu and Fitzgerald are returned.
In Sligo, both the candidates we're Roman Catholics,
and of the same poitics-neither being Of the Brigade
Party. But Sldler was obnoxious To the clergy aud hity
Of that party-as the man who broke it M, whereby from
being formidable and powerful, nearly sixty, il Is small and
impotent not counting a dozen. They, therefore, went
for SOmers, though not of the Brigade remnant; but Sad.
Ter had the mighty interest of Townley, the former mem
Der, unseated for bribery. Though the candidates ON both
sides were Roman Catholics. and their supporters, headed
by Priests, were all nearly Roman Catholics, the hostility,
bitter language, retorted insults, and mob violence, sur
passed anything heretofore in the contest of Orange aud
Green.
Young ireland repudiates them all; and perhaps the re.
cords of newspaper acerbity could hardly match the an-
guage of the Freeman, Nation and Tablet in regard to the
electors aud the chosen. a few more scenes of the kind
will make Us all cry ont for Lord Shanesbury's Bill,
whereby votes are TO be given in writing the electors
not to appear at the hastings at all.
HOW SLIGO WAS WON.
The papers contain a formal set OF resolutions, passed
At 4 meeting Of the Catholic clergy of Sligo on the sth
July, 1888. They are ifnot curious, acknowledgement
Their reverences resolved -
" That having Witnessed during the progress OF the
late election for the borough of Sligo, the foul and corrupt
manner in which the return 10y a few votes, of the apos.
tate and political renegade, SIdlier, was effected, we here
oy enter our indignant and solemn protest against that re-.
turn, not alone ON account of the political treachery Of
the man, but because that return was obtained by the
most hhgrant and outrageous intimidation, by gross bride
", as incontestbly proved in open court, and by the adj
mission OF illegal and the unfair rejection of legal votes.
"That having heard of the determination to petition
against the return, We hereby, as friends to freedom of
election, pledge ourselves to give that petition our best
support.