Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-07

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-N.t.. From The London Daily News.
sid Ylas AMERICA AND RUSSIA.
1t is the custom of most of the Conservatives
of Great Britain and of some Others than Con-
servativos] to sneer and joke about the notion
that Americans have of their own Importance
in the world. There is no use in proving to
such sltrists that, in tho deepest and largest
sense, the Americans cannot exaggeratc the i'm
portancc of their country and nation among the
powers of the nineteenth century. The thing
has been proved multide of times, and all to
no purpose, in regard to that order of minds;
and to a higher order of minds than those which
despse the United States no proof is needed
To say that there is federal democratic repub-
lie at work in the world, supporting all nation
al responsibilities, and not only holding its
ground, but rising more rapidly in material
prosperity than any other nation in the world,
is to proclaim, in other words the lofty style
and title of the United States Bat, for those
who cannot zee and feel this, there is other evi
dence, new and curious, which isat once adapt
ed to their capacity, and worthy of the deepest
consideration from more sagacious order of
men.
This new and curious evidence betrays the
sense that the greatest of Consorvatiycs-thc
Gar himsclf-has of the Importance of the Uni
ted States-the constant apprehension that he
entertains of the liberal cause in Europe being
strengthened and aided by the Americans. Bit
by bit-crsis by crisis--revolution after revolu-
spares no pains to provide occupation for the
Americans at home, precisely in the conjuncture
when their aid is most wanted by the liberal
cause in Europe. The Gar has always succeed
ed, because he well knows the weak point of the
American system, and tan always throw that
nation into paroxsym Sf agitation by hurting
its one fearful sore. He finds and makes plenty
Of agents for this sort of work. His emmissa-
ries abound in the States, and are always busy,
melting the South, and stimulating the repre-
sentatives at Washington to the high-handed
maintenance of their one despotic institution, at
the cost of their liberties of petition, of speech
and Of the press. There are also always in that
country, as in every other, vain and self-seekng
men, who become agents uad victims of the
despot, not only without resistance, but with
alacrity and, between these two classes of agi-
tators, the native and the foreign, agitation has
never failed to arise in the United State about
the " peculiar domestic institution" at the mo-
ment that some effort was making in Europe on
behalf of the liberties of nations In this view,
comparison of dates of the Cisatlantic and
Transatlantic agitations which have taken plaza
since the peace yields some very interesting in
formation.
In 1919 and 1920 the state of the Continent
was what some Of us remember. Kotzebuc was
corresponding very diligently with the Car
Alexander on {" the state of literature and pub
lie OPINION in the cities of Germany, where
there were eyes always counting the number of
letters he sent off, and where there was one fool
ish young man who fancied he was doing pat
riotic net in numbering the letter writer. All
along the Rhine for hundreds of miles, the peo-
pie were suddenly appearing in the old German
costume, and the 60 Great Song" Of German
liberty echoed under the palace walls of the prin
ces in all their capitals. The princes had un
iertaken a crusade against popular Liberties
and rsings were the consequence in all the Con
q tinental nations Old Ferdinand of Naples was
the Nestor of the Council of Despots; and he
t provoked the rising in Naples. The Frcncl
: Bourbons were controlling the press, and the
h Due de Berri was murdered. The King of Sar
dina swan paper ducks inSSs-it t-basin Will
Q his Ministers coerced Turin and Genoa to tn
point of compelling the instruction of Alexan
dria Ferdinand and Metternich of Austri
}, had dealings which nonc of US forget with thei
= Lombard subjects and the Constantine of Rus
v sia was playing Cdhban at Warsaw, to the al
d ter evaporation of the Poles. Ferdinand c
d Spain was nventing tinsel ornaments for tn
d Virgin, sparing attention to dictate tho meal
urcs which brought on the rising under Riego
D, Such was the state of the Continent precisel
10 at that time when some extraordinary trouble
le arose in the United States which diverted thei
st attention livery usofully to the despotsl froi
y. European affairs. Russia has always taken u
is interest in the Oregon question, her territorie
Or lay so near, her ships. could keep watch 80 cd
n, silly In sudden and mysterious way til
in Americans became 50 angry about Oregon thai
III as Lord Castlcreagh told Mr.. Rush in London
I'd g the condition of the question was such thi
or war could be produced by holding upa fnge
m This was we'll for Russia, as far as it went
Oh but it was YET more important to embroil Il
'ir Americans among themselves than with u
'e, English 30 the disruption of the Union W
st encouraged to the very verge of completion
IA that outbreak of pro-slavery agitation whiC
o. occasioned the famous Missouri Compromised
ife Mr.. Clay was ever after called by ordinary pt
", iticians though not by statesmen worthy Of q
m, namel the saviour of his country, because
Ii invented that compromise, now repealed by Il
z Nebraska bill--by the clever management of
eli Czar--iust when the Americans are likely to
'e- wanted in Europe.
be next season Of extreme danger to t