The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-18

to observe. II VIII Do nobody any harm, and Il may
Dc some people gress dsal q COED, TO consider thu
cent letter from our special CORES poudtnt at New
York. II there were tbs lsast hope that the Minis
tefs could be beneAciAlly affected by anything that
anybody can say we should earnestly besesca u str
attentien 70 tho American.vew OF our European re-
latio.:. Men who to this m9ment, however, are in
sensible to the scope Of our courtrys ton in the
enistipg struggle; men who unaware Of the real
significance OF the war; men who can supposs taas
Austria can be genuine ally in opposition OF des-
potlsm; men who can ak Of "a secure ssd honora-
be Ieace"las Lord Aberdeen doss), AZ the ore only
aim and achievement Of the war, and ssy(as Lord j.
Russtn did aIcy2 that the Italians had bsttsr be
from Austria men like tbese SO bound together n to
club their political and moral incapacsy, are not
likely TO grow wise, strong and brave By reading or
ancw,ng spythairg whasever SUI, Il may be veil
the honor Of their country, and dimmed tee bright
fame Of their nation In regard both to political and
military conduct. The Americans who, with the
exception Of tho outandout abeolutism OF the dark
est Of the slave Suites were heart y With Us in Gym
patty 80 lately as last winter, now (many of theml
cannot be persuaded that We are in earnest in the
conflict. They point to our ships, rocking idly In
the Baltic and overlooking Russfbn cruisers In the
Black Sea- ard they ssk whether this is the way that
Britannia rues the waves, when to rule Ia her plea
sure. They point to our armies occupying Turkey,
end letting the Turks take care Of the Danube and
drive back the Russians from the Principalities,
They point to our diplomatists opening the gate
FOR Austria TO occupy the Prncipalities, and then
looking another way while her generals insult the
lbcrator CT the Porto, and resent the expectar
ton that they should believe rs in earnest on
behalf Of Turkey against her despodc neighbors.
TIE news of cur action in the Crimea has reached
the United States by this time; and 1t will be
seen whether the general persuasion there Of our
49,. Tat oil hrT fIo tao<
il does not, we must remember what advantage we
have given to tie creatures OF the Gear, who have
made good use Of their time TO enlist all the national
creduty OF America on his side and throw over all
ibe scepticsm and suspicion to ours; and Minis
ers ought to take it deeply to heart in any event,
that they have managed our affairs as to leave ms
only alternative Of disgrace, In the eyes Of
friendly observers The choice Is between the dete-
IorstiOn Of our naval and military forces, or the
hypocrisy Of the national tongue. Happy IL it for
tine Brittons if the worthessness Tin comp arson
with the occasion) Of their administration should be
assigned as possible cause of our strange position:
but that true solution involves deep to
the paton which permits itself to be so governed.
ktit not be thought that we value American
opinion too much, or succumb to 1t too easily. It
will appear presently that we do not, and why The
pale of conflict would be valuable; and thosesof the
Americans are more valuable than most others, be-
cause they have moe reason than most people to
know what political liberty is and bow it is to be
9 nation which has won and preserved democratic
Iepublicsnism for itself; and they show that they
know it by the extension Of their crit ,ism from
the small achievements Of the present cam
of those which are to come. They not only ask
what our fleets and armies have done, but
what the British nation means to do when the
whole Turkish empire is laid naked under the hands
her wounds, or cut her to pieces The Americans
AK what we mean to do when Italy and Hungary
rise up by means OF this very war; against our Virtual
present coaojut0r, Austria Lord John Russell said,
act against Poland, Hungary and Italy, in snch
cases but then, he has since shown that he does not
understand the Of Italy at least by saying that
the Italians might obtain b0ons from Austria If they
would wait and be quiet; as II the Italians wanted
any thing Of Austria but to depart out of their bor
dere. Seeing these things, it lie no wonder If the
Anne ricars ask what our diplomacy and foreign &C
ton rtend and it will do us no harm to echo the
question.
We will undertake, however, to answer the
American questions thus far. Turkey is safe
enough, az far as England Is concern ed. There is
but one mind in England as to the support of the
Turkish empire. We have no desire to NEEDLE in
TIE internal administration OF the Porte; and we
shall be wide awake, when the time comes for the
evacuation o. Turkey to see that nobody else does.
AZ for the dangerous Austrian neighbof--tae Pore
has its own express treaty with Austris, AMI is
arswe,able for its own fortunes, far the TENS
f that treaty 20. Further than that, no harm 70
Ta,key will be permitted. Slow as we are to turn
out o merely incapable Ministry, there can be no
q moment, which should conceive of such q
thing SO releasing Turkey from the Gear merely
to bar d over any part of her to Austria. And,
30 to the French alliance, our American brethren
should rene mber that the alsnce Of the people OF
En- gland is with the people Of France, the being
equally popular in both countries 1t is the French,
81 d rot the English people, who are concerned
with the political tendencies Of the French EN-
II e.
with the people Of France that we have to do, and
there IL reason whatever to doubt their aims and
feelings in regard to this war being as honest and
as elevated as our own. One word more on this
sket h the despotisms of Europe, and TO mark the
movements Of opposing forces, America should re-
member, as nobody In Europe forgets, that she has
cam in her own eye which cannot but impair
great the imperection Of vision is, Is shown
BY her sympathies turning, when alienated from
England, to the Gear II Is through her ne
gro slavery that America has sympathy with
the irresponsible Autocrat who rules over nation
Of slaves. It ia through her negro slavery that
America has degenerated in political civilization, 80
as to become less qualified for political criticism
time goes on. 1t is Ia no spirit Of denomination
for we consider her view Of the to be too reason
able, on the face ofthDgs, to be found serious fault
whit is in spirit of eciiminatoD then, bat in
simple frie ndliIess, that we would indicate to the
American republic that there are more modes of
political despotism than one. One Is autocracy,
or despotic government at home; and against this
ard much else, the Americans have recorded
practical and immortal protest. Another is terri
trisl aggression-encroacbmen on the national
existence Of foreign populations. OF the two kinds
of oppression, this last is perhaps the more bar.
baIous, and the vulgar, If /. be not the more
miscbitvous Of the two; and this Il the beset-
ting sin sId snare Of the Americans. Their gov.
err ment, it must be remembered, is themselves. BY
their government they perpetsate negro slavery;
ard on account Of this institution, its waste and
Illicit needs, they plunge into further and further
aggression GU tire rights Of nations Enough! Let
them ponder their own tendency to sympathy with
the Gar, their own conduct in regard to Cuba,
their own declarations about taking possession, to