Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-08

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what the Doctor takes most pains
to promulgaie and show in the most
lively colors are our shortcomings
and mishaps in the war. STANDING
at the Imperial elbow, catching the
very curl of the Imperial lips, and
Jottlng in his notebook the sweet nc.
cents of Imperial scorn, he enumer-
ates the nameless places in the
Gull of Finland we have attacked.
Instead of the granite batteries of
Cronstadt, which, he says, on what
authority is best known TO him. our
navy had proclaimed its intention
to destroy and then on the author
ity of a letter by a supposed officer
in the Leopard, published in The
Dublin Post, he tells of the crews
of twenty British ships having land
ed in some quiet part of Finland.
destroyed all the houses and prop
erty, and finished by violating all
the women aud girls in the district.
feat we can only say most discred-
liable to the Russian commandments
and the Finnish peasantry, who, we
are assured by the Gar and his
journals, are able to beat any num-
Der Of British and French, in the
proportion of one Fin TO twenty of
the invaders. The English public,
the Doctor informs his American
readers, are all this time under the
most egregious mistake as to the
progress of the war They think
they are demolishing fortresses, cap
turing meu-of-war, and taking fleets
of valuable prizes, and the press, Of
course, fosters the deluson. This
is rather hard on the English pub
lie. They are scoded on one side
for grumbling at the small results
and lardy operations of the war, and
then are described to the Yankees
as under the most ridiculous delu-
sion as to its progress.
But now for the business part Of
the affair Two such good fellows
as the Cur aud the Doctor could
no more pat without a transaction
than Haley aud Legree. The Doc
tor made over to the Gar Turkey
and whatever else he could lay hts
hands on in the Old World. In re-
turn for this the Car gave the Yam
KEGS Cuba. which he considered %
be theirs by right Of her geographic
al position, and which accordingly
he advises DR.. Couman and has fol-
Iow-citizeus TO take. whether the
Spanish Government is willing or
not. The TWO poteniateS having
thus accommodated one another
with Two objects rather near to their
hearts, came to money transaction.
The Car commissions the Doctor
to offer Snka, aud we suppose all
the Russian possessions in North A.
merica, for sale to the United States,
and It appears the bargain is likely
to be made. These possessions have
ouly Que possible value, and that
can only he realized m American
hands They may be made the
ground of some imaginary claim,
some hunting or fishery right, or
some boundary question with the
British Government, and we have
no doubt that Dr. Cottman would
Toe only too happy to assist the
Cars views upon Europe by
getting up a liitle difficulty between
the British anG the American Gov
ernmenls IN The new world. That
the American Government would
think it part of their natural and
traditional policy to buy any part of
their continent offered To them ON
rcasonal terms we can easily under
stand but we do hope aud Trust
that d. Cottman is moi the fairest
possible representative OF his country
on the question of Cossack and Re-
publican Government, of appropria-
ton, of " n erig ht Of geographical
position" and the other points dis
cussed with the Car We will not
believe that extremes so nearly meet,
and that Gar aud Yankee are
only the same thing under some
what different circumstances.
'F,..n tL. u.,tv N.u.1
No longer ago than the LIST OF the
present month we had occasion to
exhibit some the evidence (whlch
has hitherto attracted too little al
lion) that the Gar is at work in The
United States, no less busily than
elsewhere, in making mischief for
his own purposes. We showed how
the outbreaks of pro-slavery agita-
ton in America have always, from
the Peace till this day, corresponded
with the revolutionary periods in
Europe and we offered the evil
dence which directs attention 10 the
Gar as the intriguer who has al
ways found work for the Americans
at home when their republican sym
pathies might be inconyenieDt TO
his objects in Europe. Perhaps our
readers may remember the adyen-
lures of Senator Douglas, and the
services which he rendered 10 the
Gar, after being won by the imPe-
rial nnffnrino t,thich a ,,r.,if Ram n L.