The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-24

To he Editor AZ tAs Republic.

To he Editor a tAs Republic. ~
Sin: ] ask = place in your columns to motto,
very repreb1hsbe article, which first saw tn,
light in the Union Of last Thursday. Alter whit
ing several days for its retraction, feel it du
ty to animadvert severely on that I'M American
eology of Russia and its despotic system ant
master. The article has reused general indip
nation here, irrespective Of party; but will b
republished by the despots of Europe, and de-
serves special decoration from the Empero,
Nicholas. The Union perseveres in its opi
MONS in spite of Wing and Democratic pro
tests; the article is therefore its deliberate. So
Der, second thought.
One would have supposed that no American
could be inOcuated with such detestable senti
ments even by the fostering hand of that cor.
ruption which overspreads the world At St.
PetersburGh, in the pay of the Emperor, we
hear that there is bureau ''for the regulation
Of public opinion in England, France, and the
United States," with unlimited sums of secret
service money and hordes of agents at it's com
mand. was skeptical of its action with any
party in this country, for thought that even
stupidity dare not be 80 dumb, and deaf. and
blind, as to make covertly such abominable at
tacks upon every liberal principle. In England
| or in France it would be impossible for such
an article to see the light, and if Austria and
Prussia were not Russia it could not appear even
| on the eastern bank of the Rhine. There is no
party, nor sect in politics. nor religion outside of
Russia Prosituted as to have uttered this praise
| Of the greatest and most undisguised enemy Of
mankind. The most extreme conservatives of the
Wing party of the United States have shuddered
at the approach Of the Emperor Nicholas ever
since he marched the PROSTATE bodies of Poles
and Hungarians, to the universal degradation by
force and fraud. by carnage and by Siberian ban
ishment of neighboring nations. No sane man
can be found amongst statesmen calling them
| selves Americans, who has not ever since 1886,
when the Republic of Cracow and the vestiges of
Polish liberty were extinguished by FIRE and sword,
and more especially since ls4S, when liberty was
crushed by the hoof Of the Cossack all over Eu-
rope, execrated the conduct of the brutal ty.
rant Of st. Petersburgh. He has slain in battle;
be has cut off by cruelty; he has driven into the
horrors Of Arctic exile, amongst eternal SHOWS,
and even down into the frozen bowels of the earth,
whole hecatombs Of men infinitely better than
himself, who were struggling to emulate the ex.
ample of Washington. He has volunteered to
carry on the bloody quarrel of authority against
Liberty for other despots. He has opened his cot.
fers and sharpened his bayonets for the destruction
of patriots who were to him both aliens and stran-
gers-the inhabitants of other and distant king.
doms whom oppression had roused to follow the
lead Of our revolution and our consequent happi-
meas and grandeur. To do this he tore in pieces
and trampled under foot the law of nation as we'll
az the rights Of man. He opposed himself to pub
lie opinion, and tainted and defed any censure or
rebuke. He has had bis will of the world, and
sets up that will now over half the globe as the
Law to be passively obeyed by the masses of man.
kind. In this country Wings and Democrats deny
his right, defy his power, scorn his outrages, and
will resort, whenever an opportunity offers, to the
means proper to be used for stopping the infamous
career of despotism wh;h must be overthrown;
for it is bestriding the world and even corrupting
the newspaper press of the United States That
such article should have appeared In the special
organ of the Democrats party a. the seat of Gov
eminent under the eye of the President, and
within sixty days or after the inaugural of
General Pierce, strikes us with amazement. 1t 10
not possible that such sentiments the Union uters
in studied praise Of the infa NOUS despotsm Of Rus
STA have any echo at the White House. This article
does not certainly contain the key that "foreign
policy" of which we have beard 80 much. The
diplomatic appointments are not to respond to
such doctrines; and the party in power is not to be
brought TO the submissive attitude of cravens and
liars after the fouri.hes of the last campaign.
The Secretary Of State cannot have dictated such
a base capitulation to the enemy; nor made his
first new essay, as the representative of the Uni
ted States among nations, by announcing cor
dial alliance with the Emperor Nicholas II was
not for such purposes that an Assistant Secretary
has been brought several thousand miles, (from
PARISH who is known everywhere as the friend of
free institutions, and az the mplacable adversary
of the executoners of Hungary, and the confeder-
ated enemies Of the only other republici in Europe
little Switzerland. 1t IL not by such means that
the Democratic party expects to retain it's over
wheming foreign vote-one-half of its reliable
faithful and ardent friends. But what are the
Germans to say to such blow in the face as the
Russian eulogy? How are the Irish to forgive such
desertion; the French, the Italians and the other
emigrants whom the whip and the handcuff and
the bayonet and the sword have driven from homo
and all its joys?
This move of the Union On the political chess.
board is perfectly incomprehensible, unless it has
got new editor, or received a new impulse from
the quarter which has been suggested. And the
only for that print to take is to back square
out of the responsibility. But that is not enou gh.
What an utter absurdity is it for the Democrat tic
party to give away to such newspaper one hum
dred thousand dollars OF its patronage per an,,um!
While the Union remains in the present hands,
there is not the slightest security that just such
articles will not be inserted all the time. Ii not on
the same subject, or some other just VITAL there
will be continual errors and enormities committed
until its control is entirely altered. Now, am no
great friend to the extreme opinions of Young
America; but say, frankly, give me Young Ame-
RIGA, or any thing approaching the standard of
Democratic repubIicanism, however wild, in pre-
ference to such objectionable treason TO liberty as
this Russian eulogy. Our ears have been shocked;
our hearts have been embittered beyond endu.
rance by this "aid and comfort" given to the worst
enemy of our principles and prosperity. 1t 10 all
delusion to quote Jefferson's and Jackson's opin
lena. When they spoke well of the Russian Empe.
ror there had been no such crimes as the do
struction of European liberty in 1885, l848; on the
contrary, constitutions and royal oaths guaranteed
that liberty. There was such breach Of the law
of nations; such contempt of public opinion; no
! such universal vengeance on patriots, without
spect to or condition; and Wholesale threats
against the general peace and happiness of man.
kind. Jefferson and Jackson and Washington, il
now alive, would lead the van of opposition to the
ferocious tyrant, hypocrite, and destroyer, who
has laid continent in ashes, and who now fills the
Black sea with ships bent on further and intoler-
able aggressions. Jefferson taught constantly
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