Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-26
From the London Daily News.
AMERICA AND RUSSIA.

world. There is no use in proving 70 such satir-
lists that, in the deepest and largest sense, the
Americans cannot exaggcrntc the importance of
tlcir country and nation among The powers Of the
nineteenth century. The thing has been proved a
multitude Of times, and all to no purposc,in regard
to that order of minds and to Il higher order OF
minds than those which dcspisc the United States
no proof is needed. To say that there is II federal
democratic republic at work in the world, support
ing all national responsibilities, and not only hold
ing its ground, but rising more rapidly in mate
rial prosperity than any other nation in the world,
is to proclaim, in other words, The lofty style and
title Of the United States. But, for those who cam
not see and feel this, there is other evidence, new
and curious, which is ut once adapted to their ca
pacitv, and worthy Of the deepcst consideration
from a more sagacious order OF men.
This new and curious evidence bctrays the sense
that the greatest Of conscryatiyes-the Gar him
sclf--has of the importance Of the United States
the constant apprehension that he entains of the
liberal cause in Europe being strengthened and
aided by the American. Bit by bit-crisis by
risis-rcyolution after ~cvolutiOn-thc evidence
comes out that the Gar spares no pains to provide
occupation for the Americans at home, precisely III
the coniuncture when their aid is most wanted by
the liberal cause in Europe. The Car has hither-
to always succeeded, because he well knows the
weak point of the American system, and can al
ways throw that nation into a paroXysm of agita-
tion by hurting its ono fearful sore. lie finds and
makes plenty Of agents for this sort Of work. Ills
cmissaries abound in the States, and are always
busy melting the south, and stimulating the repre-
sontatives at Washington to the high-handed
maintenance oltheir one despotic institution, at the
cost Of their liberties of petition, Of speech, and Vi
the press. There are also always in that country.
as in every other, vain and sclf-seeking men, who
become agents and victims of the dcspot, not only
without resistance, but with alacrity and, between
these two classes of a%gitators, the native and the
foreign, agitation has never failed to arise iii the
United States about the peculiar domestic institu.
tion," at the moment that some effort was making
in Europe on behalf of the liberties Of nations. In
this Tiew, u comparison of dates Of the CisNtlantic
and Transatlantic agitations which have taken
place since the peace, yields some very interesting
information.
In 1919 and 1920 the state Of the Continent was
what some Of us remember. kotZelUc was cores
ponding very diligently with the Car AleNardcr
on " the state Of literature and public opinion in
the cities Of Germany. where there were eyes al
ways counting the number Of letters he sent OFT,
and where there was one foolish young man who
iancicd he was doing Il patriotic act in numbering
the lctter-wIitcr. All along the Rhine, for hundreds
Of miles, the people were suddenly appearing in
the old German costume, and the "Great Song Of
German liberty echoed under the palace walls OK
the prince in all their capitals. The princes had
undertaken IL crusade agains. popular liberties,
ana risings were the consequence in all the Con-
tircntal nations. Old Ferdinand Of Naples was
the Nestor of the Council Of dcspots; and he pro-
yokcd the rising in Naples. The French Bourbons
were controlling the press, and the Duo De BcrrI
was murdered. The King Of Sardinia swan pa
per ducks in Il wash-basin while his Ministers CO.
creed Turin and Genoa to the point Of compelling
The iIsurrCctitn Of Alexandria. Ferdinand and
Metternich Of Austria had dealings which none Of
us forget with their Lombard subjects; and Con-
>tantinc of Russia was playing Catibaa at Warsaw,
to the utter evaporation Of the Poles. Ferdinand
of Spain was inyenting tinscl ornaments for the
Virgin, spaling attention to dictate the measures
which brought ON the rising under licgO. Such
vas the state Of the Continent precisely ut that
time when some extraordinary troubles arose in
the United States Which diverted their attention
livery ~uselully to the %despots) from European aft
fairs. Russia has always taken an interest in the
Oregon qucstion-her territories lay so near, and
her ships could k%cepwatch SO easily! In u sudden
and mysterious way, the Americans became so
angry about Oregon that. as Lord CaSticreagh told
SIR. Rush in london, The condition Ct the qucs-
lion was such that war could be produced by hold
ing up Il finger" This was well for Russia, as far
rs it went; but it was yet more important TO en-
broil the Americans among themselves than with
The English 80 lie disruption q tie tnitn was
encouraged t. the very verge Of completion hy that
Inutbrcak * prU-slavery agitation which occnsiuuct
lie lannon's Missouri compromise. Mr.. Clay was
ever after called by ordinary politicians Though
not by statclnan worthy of lLc name tic savior
Of his country, tcc.u { lie invented tlat cumpro-
mise, low repealed by the Nebraska billy the
clever management of tie CZar-luSt when the
Americans are again hiely to lie wanted IN hu'
rope.
The next season Of extreme danger tothe Amer
can Union was when tic" Modification Struggl"
took plnce-when the entire energies OF the state
were occupied in preventing South Carolina and
one or two other States from breaking up the
Union BY their secession My clay was again the
savior by the diminishing tarli! which he de-
y,iscd and got carried; butthe brewing OF ne StG'ni'
the preparation for its oGtbarst, the brc3Ens OF the
waierISpont at the critical moment Gy a SklIilul S9ot,
ana the subsequent settnS, 70 rights occupied a
good deal of time precisely the time thatit took
to put down the Poles after their TlslnY m ISL
ana 10 snoolilG Gowh rrunce 4nIer Il oriGNis
rue aiu u se'Ie DclGiu W anu ~ lioiialu ~ n nmI.a
se e anu y e. ~ w. 5n' HoI, nm n on
Oh pru"sWisA VIC 10 onerF!pt LAY nLo 'uToat,
anu 70 S'up ~ ocrnunT ~ ue T"l y
promised constitutions anu u "p"Sc iu,Ney u 'nc