The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-16

walk, and you had one of you better lock the door
inside"
.Thank you kindly, SAM" said the President.
"Thank you kindly, SAM" said COL Forney.
| was absent from my room longer than intend
ed, and when returned found that the democratic
twins had sloped. 1t was III p. NJ.
The MAN WoT NOMINATED FRANK PIERCE
Curious Letter from the New York Cores
pOndent OF the London Times, ON tlse state
OF Public Opinion In the United States.
from the London Times, March
New YORK, Feb. 81, 1854.
II is now taken for granted in this country that the
struggle which have long been prepared to be-
tween Russia and the rest of Europe has come. The
sympates OF ninety nine out of one hundred
continent with England and France, and all who will
Join them in coming to the of the Turk. Our best
wishes will be with you in the contest and your victories
will he heralded shores with less enthusiasm
than they will the shores of Britain There deeper
sentiment however stirred up the bosoms of our PEG.
pie than mere sympathy for the Western Powers coming
the aid Of the sultan there Is special sympathy felt
by the Americans for the fortunes of the British nation
that is not felt FOR France bravey and generously she
may be acting. Politicians have sometimes attempt
ed both sides Of the water, to stir up hostility
between the great branches of the Anglo
but they have most sgnally failed 1t all vain work
without some enormous provocation, and might add,
series Of Iroyocaons, to disturb or interrupt that
deep flow OF sympathy which passes from England
to America and from America to England. France
may be convulsed by domestic revolution and ali
Europe may be heaved from its centre but there will be
deep sympathy interest in the struggle until the
flag Of England is unfured in the conflict The first
British cannon that is fred in this struggle will echo
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and every man on
soil whose ancestors sleeping in the soil of Eng
land viii feel though that shot red from
the capital of bis country. There is much mis-
apprehension in England in regard TO the real feeling of
the American people, that it proper to say
thing this subject Angry passions often stirred;
politicians and demagogues both sides grow noisy and
loud, and party newspapers and presidential minister
a organs rant and rave against President and Queen and
Mitchell and Kossuth, and Meagheg and what not are
the order of the day for the hour but beyond ALL and
deeper than ALL there is sentiment of fraternity be-
tween two nations which cannot be changed by
event except Of the deepest injustice the part of
nation towards the other 1t is doubtless true that
in consequence chiefly Of being so far off we have
been Little understood by the English nation. The
best OF your statesmen know too much about the
real feeling of the masses of our people You msjudge
often that we have right to think But every
body in America reads in England this cannot be said.
Americans understand England better than Englshmen
understand America and for the most obvious of
sons Our statesmen rather politicians and edi
tors and sometimes authors, court popularity
from city mob by giving an ovation to some fellow like
Mitchell but they ashamed OF 1t before the month Is
out We look back upon ancestral history for the
records Of people they existed before existed
as q nation; and proud of origin, and we still
sympathse with brethren the In almost
every American home we are reminded in our child
hood that l,oC0 years ago the Roman standard first
foated the shores Of Britain. Then Of bar
barians, clothed in the skins of wild beasts, roamed
the uncultivated island The tread Of the Ro-
man legions then heard on the plains of Africa
and Asa, and the name of Rome was written on
the front of the world. Nearly two thousand years
have gone by, and Julius Cesar and all the Caesars the
senate the people and the empire of Rome have passed
away Her population scarcely exceeds that of the
State Of New York. while that island of barbarians has
emulaed Rome in her conquests and not only planted
and unued her standard in the three quarters of the
globe which owned the Roman sway, but laid her all
grasping and lfe-giving hand two continents.
Possessing the energy valor of her Norman
ancestors she has remained unconquered and
amid the changes which have the history of other
nations Like her island which sits firm and tran
quill in the which rolls around it, she has stood
amid the ages of men and the overthrow of empires
Graded by mothers who make love the souvenirs of
the hcmes of English ancestors these feelings
Inherited. They are the deepest feelings entertain
u.s. and Il is on inst 20 M oSr
peoI to flor the German and the Celt in this
try melt their individuality in single generation like
Kossuth, and Bedin demonstrations and all the rantng
OF our stump orators in Congress and out Of Congress-
and all the harsh language of 600 about
England and against England have nothing to with
the real sentiment of the nation These the feelings
with which this country contemplates England lift
ing her arm to sme the spoer Let the English people
remember this, and let our demagogues have all the
pickering the strife and the nvective to themselves
We specializing upon the influence which the Euro
pean struggle will have upon occidental fortunes.
Our commercial world has hardly been depressed except
is why should be involved in any in
this struggle. Our Yankee enterprise foresees new
roads and channels Of progress and influence if any
parayzed Our merchantmen are looking for large
carrying trade. Our manufacturers are calculating
are feverish with hope, and the prospect Of Euro
pean has driven breadsus up to almost fabulous
prices has given an impulse to our navy and 50 &C.
i've are al our private smPyarus that ~ Is doubtful
whether government get its steam frgates
built by people. Their hands full Of commissions
from Europe The agents of the Russian Emperor are
here in considerable numbers; and is said good
thory that attempts being made to enlist men on
this side of the water in clipper privaeers under the
government flag to mingle in the European war but
will be vain attempt Some few rascals be picked
up in any country any popuous place. but it is far
more likely that, If any small expeditions of this kind
leave shores they will be made up chiefly of Euro
pcan red republicans socialists and renegades who left
their country for their country's good These fellows
for the most part made disturbances at home from
ves that would yield very quickly at the sight Of the
money of the Car but they bad sailors and the
belongs to the AngloSaxons for nobody else has
mastered il.