The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-24

our belgian contemporary. In the commence
ment of the difficulty, England, with keen
appreciation of the advantages to be derived
from enlisting the sympathies of the American
people on her side, left no means untried to ac-
complish that object. The English press to
which heaven knows we are under no great
stopped at no fattery, the English nobility at
no condescensons, and English statesmen at no
concessions, to induce us to commit ourselves
by some formal or informal declarations in favor
of their Intervention in Turkey, to the moral
weight of which they candidly admitted, they
attached the highest Importance Although by
well directed attentions they won over to their
views, a few soft-headed American tourists, they
did not succeed in binding the American pso-
pie generally to the real issues involved in the
question, and to the dangers to their own inte-
rests that lay lurking behind them. We take
credit to ourselves for being the first to ex-
pose and point out the objects of the coalition;
and we have since had the satisfaction of find
ing our sentiments endorsed by the great ma
jority of our American contemporaries. The
events that are daily transporting tend to con-
firm and strengthen the opinion that we have
SO frequently expressed, that any declaration
of sympathy on the part of this country in ia
vor of the Western alliance, would render no
real service to the cause Of liberty. What is
now the position of Turkey, since she has placed
herself in the hands of the chivalrous defenders
who were to extricate her from the state Of vas
salage in which she was placed? Instead of one
master she has at present several, and she can
not adopt simple measure of police for the Sc
curity of her own internal tranquility, without
drawing down the imperial veto Of one or other
of her new lords. We have seen how, in the
affair Of the contemplated expulsion of the sect
called the United Greek Christians she was
compelled to yield to the arrogant dictation of
the French ambassador; and before the lapse of
another twelvemonth we are much mistaken if
this unjustifable interference with her rights
will not be followed by others that will deprive
her of the last semblance of sovereignty.
But in addition to this novel and striking
mode of vindicating the oppressed liberties of
the world, we may as well mention another fact
which has just come to our knowledge, and
which will place this Anglo-French crusade
III blli HioIc curious Iput. we learn from
the Independence Beige of the 22d of April.
that since the demolition of the forts on the
Crcassian coast, the slave market at Constan-
tinople, which had long been in a lauguishing
state, has become quite animated, and slaves
who previous to that event could only be pur-
chased for thirty and twenty thousand piastres
can now be had for twenty and ten. What a
commentary upon the rabid abolitionism of the
English people, and upon their Pharisaical de-
nunciations of the debasing influence of Russian
institutions!
We think that even in the limits of this ar
ticle, we have stated sufficient to justify the
position we have taken on this question, and to
vindicate both ourselves and our cotempora-
ries from all suspicion of being swayed by mo-
tives inconsistent with that true love of liberty
and sympathy for the wrongs of oppressed
humanity that must ever actuate the American
heart
THE CENTRAL PARK-New York, the third
city in the civilized world, in point of popula-
tion, and the second in commercial Importance,
is sadly deficient in means and appliances to
refine, educate and humanize its people. We