Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-05
THE NEWS By THE PACIFIC.
FURTHER DETAILS.
Or- Cessman's missien % Washington.
\ 6currility Of tho English presa.

By the arrival of the steamer Pacific at New
f,rk, We have our files Of London and Liver
pol papers to the 23d ult
The London Times copies from the New
fok Herald an article respecting DR.. Colt.
mats mission to Washington, and makes it
theubject Of an editorial, which can only be
desci bed as abominably scurrilous. The Lon
don Daily Nescs has another in the same vein,
ana tie provincial press, taking the cue, as
usual from these two papers, INDUCES in moro
than culinary abuse of America and American
institutions. The commercial advantages &C.
cruing 'ud likely to accrue to America from
the war are q particularly sore subject to the
British lust at present.
We mate room for tho following extracts
from the efusion of the Daily News:
"Dr. Oottman, an American surgeon, has
been resAent for some months at St. Peters
burg, whee he has been fooled to the top of
his bent hy all the Romanoffs, the majestic
sons, and he beautiful daughters Among
them they tave actually made him believe
that they ae not only as republican as him.
self. (whichmay easily be,) but as republican
as the earlbr Presidents, whose portraits, of
course, grace the Doctors walls at home.
They lay the Name of their own despotism on
the slavish nature of the nation they govern,
and thus crafty his national vanity at the ex.
pense Of their own people. ALI this goes down
with the Doctor They have made him believe
somehow or Other that autocraey is better than
free governmental Europe; and chat it il moro
successful as to virtue and peace at home, and
victory abroad. They have made him believe
| that Englishmer are brutal and barbarous
in comparison with tho slaves of despotic rule,
and, moreover, that the slaves make the better
soldiers and sailors. They have made him be-
lieve that the Allies have lost all manner of
battles, and gained none and that at Bomar-
sund especially, where, lie says, there are only
dozen cannon, the Enfiish and French have
done nothing moro thanshoo down the apples
from the trees in the commandments garden
When he hears of the surrender of 2 600 Rus
slams, and the real number of thei: cannon, he
will Of course cry Fieu at the mendacity of
free nations He believes that scarcely any
body in the capital cities of Russia ever heard
OF Uleaborg and Other places In the Baltic
CULTS; and this, which should show him on
which side the enlightenment lies, persuades
him that these places are like Bomarsund, we
| suppose) too small fer observation. He was
made to believe tn the flags which he saw
displa aged in Russia were those of conquered
English ships; whereas, the flag of the strand
ed Tiger (Which the Russians fred on only
| when defenceless, and which was the only lost
ship was burnt, and the Russians exhibited q
forgery instead oft. He was made to believe
that the only things We destroyed at Odessa
were few novels and planks. But this is
enough. DR.. COttman was made to bell eve
just what the Gear makes his own subjects BE-
lieve-those subjects whom he pronounces un-
fit for free government
In order to enlist thesympathies Of tho abo.
litionists Of the United States in behalf of
England, the News continues its remarks in
the following strain, which may be designated
as the
LONDON NEWS TICKLING THE ABoLITIoNIsrs BIZ
ABUSING THE CITIZENS OF 81 AVE STATES.
How ridiculous mus. this silly republican
have appeared, all the while, in the eyes Of
the Imperial family, who were lavishing their
graces upon him. The Gear 8 opinion Of man.
kind is we'll known. He thinks they are all
made for his Q; and truly it is no fault of
these vulgar pseudo. republicans if he ever
grows wiser. He can buy up every one of the
Douglasses and Cottmals as quickly as they
can swap niggsrs. The reason is, that they
are slave owners DR.. Cottman was born in
Maryland, and has been since q citizen of
Hence his insolence towards a nation wholly
free, like our own. Hence his subservience to
the most insufera able tyrant of the age Hence
his poltroonery in being made the medium OF
proposals to steal Cuba in the hour of the dis
fractions of Spain. Hence his bullying and
bis cowardice.his Dragging and his adula-
ton. Hence the smiles with which the I'm.
perial swindler is regarding him. and the blusb
with which every worthy American admits
him to be citizen Of that Republic
The world will be curious to soc how the au.
thoIities at Washington receive the Cars
hints about Cuba and overtures about Sitka
The world will be curious to see how often the
Americans will submit to have the tub thrown
out to them, and turn with docility to spend
! their energies upon il. The world will be
| curious to see whether tho Gear will try his
arts upon any but slaysholding Americans;
and, if not, how long tho IA 0O0, 900 of citizens
in the Free States will allow the GOO. 600 OF
the Slaves States to overrule their affairs, and
make shipwreck Of their national character
and admit the Gar into their Government
and expose their once bonored republic to be
the comic toy of deposits and the ridicule OF
the world The Americans have had warning
| now. They see how the Douglasses and Colt
| mans play treason with their national name
and fame. A cynic, like Nicholas, may find
| amusement in the vulgarity of Democratic
| tuft-hunters and Gar worshippers; but all
better men will desire that our Republican
| cousins may become 30 conscious Of their LA
bility to such ridicule and disgrace as their
Cottmans can subject them to, as to devote
| their best energies to uproot the mischief
When they have no despotio element involved
| in their Democratic Constitution, it will be in
no mans power to pawn their interests to des.
pots or submit their national honor to the ridi.
Guile, the compassion, or the bitter regets Of
| all Europe.
The following extracts from London let.
ter, dated August q, gives birds eye view
| Of tho
STATE OF AFFAIRS AT THE SEAT OF WAR.
The great event of the day is the surrender
| of the Russian fortress on the principal island
| of the SO called Aland Islands in tho Baltic
BOmarsund. 1t capitulated on the 10th inst,
after short resistance Two thousand Rus
slams surrendered prisoners of war, with the
| commander and governor of the fortress The
loss on the side of tho allies is given at l2O in
one account, at only 50 in another. The news
| was known in London on Saturday afternoon
but probably not il time to be teiegraphed to
the mail steamer. 1t was known at Paris
almost simultaneously, and the funds rose a,
both places.
| The attack on B0marsund followed immedi-
ately after the arrival of tho land troops ship
pea from the camp at Boulogne. The fall OF
Sevastopol is now regarded as certain, as no
| lees than 1000 men will be landed on the
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