The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-18

Friday Last you will have read that Il has run up its
ensign and has commenced hostilities in downright
Earnest =
The second article refers to the political serenade
lately offered to Mr.. Soule by democratic process
sion at New York. Now, dear sir, 1t IS not my
province to enter into any deep discussion touch
ing the relative rights Of the United States, and
those of any European nations over American
soil As for treaties of lsl4 ut Client, or OF
any other date at any other place, shall place them
very carefully beside those which guaranteed the in
dependence of Cracow, which gave bounds to the
Russian empire and formally restored the Bourbons
10 the throne o. France. Treaties are mortal well
as those who made them. The Times this same
week admitted that new and young generation has
now replaced that age OF heroes aud politicians
which accompanied tbe world through It's Conclusive
career from the war of American Independence to
The downfall OF Louis Philippe. Be it so. Let the
Times cor sign itself to the glorious past, and iden
fiy itself with the great things which have been i
it be 80 DESTROYS but let it not struggle with time
and hang to the skirts Of the advancing age, for
this do when il attempts to throw musty treaty
into the balancaof rations, and prescribes for 1853
she remedies applied with good effect in 1914. Let
lis not blink the question. There certain king
doms in Europe which are old, rotten bedridden and
bankrupt; their very nationality Is their impeachment
at home; but this would not concern the world ifthey
were not, when at large clog upon the human race
Spain is first and foremost in this category of impo
tent constitutions Her diss olution is at hand God
help her to o peaceful end. This very year, three
hundred years ago, England trembled from the
Tweed to the Thames at the very name of Spain,
when timely hurricane overcame the terrible
Armada Spain was then the tyrant OF Europe,
Austria was her vi ,eroyaty, and Flanders was her
appanage; Sardinia and Lombardy were her high
roads, Sicily her sinecure, and America her bankers
Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second made q
good many treaties. Where are they nowI Yet, as
the Times observed very truly the other day, that
one Of those heroes who died last week might have
Conversed with a nan who served under Charles the
Second By the brea 18th of the Thunderer's" sheer
] judged that question at heart Of great i'm.
port remained to be discussed but Fridays leader
revealed the mystery. This organ of the existing
government, to use plain Engli b. pooh-pooheS the
President of the United States and launched i,to
bitter and sarcastic d,atribe against your political
bearing and inpudent pretensons. Link these two
articles together, and you will discover what q
she opinion Of the Times s newspaper Spa 'l In
fact, you are q spoiled and wilful child,
desiring to push yoursef into the society Of your
elders in the drawing room Of nations. Get out
with ye-you are only fit for the nursery yet you
don't know hew to behave yourself without shock
Ing the woodland the Times newspaper. The
gravamen Of Fridays aftcle is serious charge
npOn Mr.. Soule, your Spanish Minister, that he was
serenaded BY democratic procession, and that he is
lmbued with the opinion that certain rckety Span
ish dependencies should become Yankee independ-
encies.
UareuroY Tho y,;,n.. ;ntor,,s uor 1f,.+ r,4ho,
Majesty the Queen of SPAIN that if she does not
Immediately send Mr.. Soule home to New York
with flea In his ear, why she will certainly forfeit
abe acquaintance of all the European potentates
worth knowiDg-and the Times newspaper. NV
dear sir, yoa may not be alive to the fact but you
are charged with the meditated violation of the
treaties made by European kings in 1914 Again,
say it is not my province to enter into any discus
sion concerning treaties, and how long they are
binding at all beyond the emergency which
created them history cannot provide me with
q. single instance, in any nation or in any
of the ills it proposed to remedy. The treaties
which confirmed certain possessions to certain ma
Elons OF Europe and were formed to establish what
was called balance Of pc yer, have long since be
come practically void. Some Of the nations have
dwindied into names; others, like Belgium, have
been created. Engl and, who obtained lions share
ut the close OF the last war is anxousto impress the
world with the sacredness of those treaties and to
talk to America of the value Of reciprocating prin-
ciples which secure existing possessions. The ques
hon must not be blinked. These important cons
derations Alas, poor Old SPAIN She was very great
nation But her hour has struck" ct ben sons,se -
and no treaty can arrest her dissolution. Long may
il be before England herself finds that symptom Of
GOODNESS in her extremities which precedes death.
Long may her colonies be comfort to her ; but she
Is equity and Ill tempered with overindulgence and
success.
Each race Of men has its turn at supremacy. The
Asatic, the Roman, and then the Hun and the Nor
man, and then the Gallo Celt rose to eminence but
of late centur the scep,re Of the world has been
seized by the Anglo Saxon. Look where you will,
and how you will, the fact is potent and undenable;
and despite of treaty right or power the great law
OF nature in its progress, has declared that where
the Anglo Saxon sets his foot the red man and the
black, the Gaul and the Celt, must disappear.
A few words on the Russian question: which now
may hastily read and readily forget these few words
let them sink into your mind for the time will shortly
give them proof 1t is universally believed that Rus
rsia has long had but one great oiect-Co 1stantno
pie and the Turkish dominions in Europe. Constan-
tnople has been the bone for which the months of
3he Russian bears of several generations have been
supposed to water. Let us examine this bone, and
we shall lind that there Is suspciousy little upon it
10 engage the voracity Of so hinge an animal
First, then, geogra ohically speaking, Turkey in
Europe would by no means be convenient posses
SION for Russia, who can only approach it by the
Danubian provinces, which are hemmed in between
Ihe Iraasylvan mountains and the coast, scanned
in every direction with treacherons rivers aud
marshes, which bar the passage. Secondly-Wnen
Russia has obtained this outlying kingdom Of Turkey
in Europe, let what she really has got. On the
north she has the hardy, free aud turbulent Greek
whose country is not worth having even if Russia
could get is On the north lie the indepe ndent and
Iold Croat, the infiamed kingdom Of Hungary, and
Che 'reacherous Lombard; bad neighbors these for
contacts with the Russian population, whose abect
subservience is based their organized ignorance.
But, perhaps, you only say that Turkey affords
fine and useful seSboard let as look. We find she
has two coas.s-o6e on The west, in the Adria;ic,
rock bound seawal without single port or city.
On the east she is nearly ia the same condition, ex
repting Constantipople. So in maritime view Tur-
a western direction; she have object, no hope
in Europe, no sympathy with our natioos, our Ia
situations. II would give her more trouble to hold
foot Of Turkey than to rule whole province in Asia
Her iron band Is fitted to pin the treacherous Asiltic
TO his pledge and rule the nomade hordes Of Tar
zary by the very influence of terror. The instincts
Di Russia are, therefore, eastward; and in obedi