The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-04-04


Gus of Great Britain; they have had more than
one tiff with Austria; they are deeply inter.
estcd in the gallant struggle which Turkey is
now making for Ler independence; and above
all, they sympathise warmly and enthusiastic
callv with the IIungarians, and are fully aware
how closely Magyar and Ottoman interests are
bound up together They long for all oppor-
tuuity Of striking a blow against despollsm,
and on behalf of Republican institutions; they
are full of zeal for the spread Of liberty and pop
uar rule throughout Europe; aud, imagining
they have mission to fulfill they believe that
a more just, glorious, and hopeful opportunity
was never presented to them than the present.
The retirement Of England and France from
the scene, to leave Turkey to such fate us her
own unaided resources could command, would
probably be the signal for the immediate inter-
ference Of our Transatlantic brethren, not per-
haps as a nation, but as volunteers. If Hun
gary were to rise, their Intervention would be
certain; and Hungary would rise if American
aid were known to be at hand. We can state
positively that men, money, and arms are all
eady-waitng and anxious for an opening
The whole nation, as is well known, (and the
government of the United States must soon fol-
low the ration,) is longing to obtain footing
in the arena Of European politics; and Turkey
abandoned by her old allies, and left to the
mercy Of the great despot of the world, would
offer too tempting, to" honorable, and too just
an occasion to be neglected. Nor could we say
to them nay; we have pronounced Russia to
be wrong and we could not Interfere to prevent
assistance being offered to the right. And We
may be well assured that ifthe Americans did
come upon the stage, their proceedings would
be conducted in a very different mode, and gui-
did by very different spirit from our scrupu-
lous and tmid pocy-always hampercd by
traditional ideas, always bound down 10 off,-
cial forms, always restrained by the fear oftoo
signal a success, always confused, thwarted,
and enfecbled by uterior considerations. Now
should we be wise to throw open to the Uni
ted States such an honorable opportunity for
becoming European Power, for planting a
Republican flag in the Mediterranean, for doing
a duty from which we have shrunk, for reapng
glory which ought to have been ours! We
are accustomed TO speak of the Americans as
a commercial people, always counting the cost,
governed exclusively by the "almighty dollar"
This is not so. Numbers among them have
IlloIc tiidI oSN, otH 4o''E "'-'J
for distinction.
As a people they are essentially ambitious,
propagandist and vain. glorious; military fame.
it has long been seen, is the road to high office
and to public estimation and the admiral, the
general, aye, or the private individual who
should plant the national flag on the batteries
of Sebastapol, or drive the Russians out of Bu
charest, would, beyond all question, find the
Presidential chair ready cushioned for him when
he returned. Nor could their success be very
world. and among the hardest soldiers; they
could soon get togethera navy powerful enough
to destroy that of Russia they have boundless
wealth, and would not spare it were the nation
al zeal once aroused and, as we once before
remarked, they present the most formidable
combination Of qualities which it is possible to
encounter-the utmost hardhood of savage life
with the most unbounded resources of civiliza-
ton and science. We ought to curb and baf
file Russia, therefore, if only to anticipate Amer
ca in doing so.'