The daily union., 1854-12-21

10 all Others The Of the population Of Russia don't
care cent for pr of stocks and are such incurable
barbarans that matters to them whether the bulls
or the bears the ascendant the Paris Bourse or the
London Exchange They think much more OF the virgin
Mary and the saints than bankers brokers' and
bers and governed far greater degree by their pe
than their politics In Short they very dangerous
people to take by the beard.
1t would seem them that Russia cannot be very serious
ly affected by the naval superiority Of the Anglofench
alliance Without single vessel, either OF war or COM
merce or single naval station, she would still remain
consolidated empire compreheuding almost half world
inhabited by sixty seventy millions Of those formidable
people the Greeks and the Romans called barbarans who
from time immemoria have been accustomed to over
throwing very civilized and refined States These are
united under one head directed by mind and animated
by the most powerful impulses of the human heart-a
species of religious fanacsm such enabled Cromwell
and his lronsde battle and tread the necks Of the
pampered arstocracy Of England and Mahomet and his
successors elevate the Crescent the Cross not only
in Asia and Africa but in the heart Of Christian Europe
Probably the most orthodox believer in the nvincibity
Of the AngoFrench alliance does not anticipate any inn
portant acquisition Of Russian territory by their land
forces However potent they may be- or heroic they GER
tauy ae they reasonably expect to succeed where
the greatest captain the head Of the finest army in the
world failed disastrousy 1t may be said with perfect
truth that this was great degree owing to the early
setting in of severe winter. But this would not have
been decisive had not the heroic sacrifice OF the city OF
Moscow compelled the hitherto nvincibe sodieruncon-
querabe but by the elemento retreat which was the
precursor of his ruin people who would thus vounta
ry burn themselves house and home in the extremity
Of winter to their country from subjugaton will be
difficult to conquer and still difficult to hold in sub
lection.
In the impenetrabe fog of protocols joint letters, con-
versaons understandings and other expedents Of
diplomacy through which nothing distinctly
it. indeed there is anything to be seenthe position Of
Austria and Prussia only be satisfactorily eucdaed
by the omniscen and omnpresent correspondents Of the
London Times and other British journals from which the
press the United States takes its tone
Whether one or both these powers will remain neutral
whether pushed from that position, they will side with
the Gar or the Ango-French alliance, time only dis
cover The questions ut issue every day becoming
more various complicated and rreconcilable and there
is too much reason to apprehend that this overbearng
attempt to establish what England and France pleased
to call IA general equilibrium Of power" will end in turn
ing the world topsyturvy and deugng it with blood.
To regulate the affairs of single State is easy task
but to regulate the affairs of two worlds the Old and the
New and TO establish ian equilibrium of power" in boh
is we apprehcnd work somewhat beyond the sphere Of
human action and had better be left to that great Being
who it is sad takes special pleasure humbng the pride
| Of man, from the cobbler to the king.
1t does not however appear possible that either Austria
or Prussia will be coaxed bullied into joining the An
glo-French alliance 1t is only very recently that these
two powers were the of hostes in consequence
Of rival pretensions originating in the complicated system
of the German confederation These pretensons have
been permanently adjusted and there doubt that
spirit of rivalry exists between them which will prevent
their acting concert either for against Russia We
almost venture predict that should they become belg
erents it will be on opposite sides Both aim at becoming
the head of the German confederation But if mis-
taken in our view of the position of these two powers
seems next to impossible, should they join the Anglo
French alliance that any cordial cooperation long
subsist in conederacy composed of members whose inter-
ests arc SO various and discordant. The combination
against Napoleon was cemented together by fear Their
common safety forced them to forget their common jea
ousy in one great effort for sefpreservaton But the
danger to be apprehended from the gradual growth of the
power of Russia contingent well remote and be-
sides this wise foresight cannot fail to point out to the
secondary States what is undoubtedly true that queng
dangerous power hand, they only erecting
one equally dangerous the other If the AngloFrench
alliance quel the potency Of the Gar where in all Eu
rope exists the power to control it afterwards?
The question naturally arises whether the United States
may eventually be sucked into this tremendous whr
pool? Various significant indications to lead to the
possibility of such result Without deciding this
mentous question: think there is quite enough in the
present aspect of things not to frghten, but to
the people of the United States Of the propriety of gather
ing themselves together and giving earnest attention to
the great interests of their country both foreign and do
nestle We beseech them to look to the welfare
and general safety of the Union Happy thrice happy will
be for country il preserve peace in the midst
| of this uproar of the world
THE DELEGATE FROM KANSAS.
| General Whitfield, the delegate to Congress from the
new Territory of Kansas arrived in this city Tuesday
evening last AS studied and systematic attempt has
been made the part of the abolition and ee-so jour
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