Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-29
RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES.


Russia and the United States have ever been
on good terms. She has taken unusual pains
to cultivate the most friendly relations with us.
We have, in our intercourse with her, no recol-
lections of colonial tyranny, Overwhelming inso
lence, and of settled, methodical system Of
eliminating and slandering our institutions,
manners, and people.
She has ranking in her bosom none, OF that
mslipnity which ever dwells in the bosom OF
whipped bully
There exists no recollection of wrong by
either side to interfere with wholesome, cor
dial, and intimate commercial relation.
Russia has population of one hundred and
fifty millions of people. Great Britain has
some twenty-eight to thirty millions. Russia
has employment for much shipping, and we
have the shipping. Russia wants manuiac-
lures and we can furnish them.
We have too long neglected SO friendly and
SO important nation--a nation which seeks
not necessarily to SOW dissensions among our
States, impertinently and hypocritically inter
fering in our municipal institutions.
Russia will readily comprehend the advan-
tapes Of transferring the manufacture Of our
cotton to herself and she is the poorer and mas
tile ,cill TO dot.
We look forward to an early arrangement
with that great and populous power, by which
we may be relieved from the concentrating in
auence of that queen Of hypocrisy, and cease
less underminer Of our Institutions England.
The advantages Of an unrestricted commerce
with Russia, we're her population less than it
is, are of character to prove more profitable
than that Of England.
Great rejoicings are made at the prospects OF
some kind of limited and restricted intercourse
with Japan, which, at best, can prove but small
in the beginning while the war now existing
abrogates all existing treaties, except those OF
partition between the belligerents, and leaves
Russia at liberty to give us treaty Of prefer
ence for the present and the future.
Should the opportunity not be taken advan-
tage Of, it would look as if the blasting iniu-
ence of England could reach our very heart.
Russia and the United States, in friendly
understanding, could, like pair of nippers,
close upon whatever lies between.
The miserable literary toadies Of our country
have kept, and still keep us, in state OF pu-
pilage to our worst enemy.
The papers in the commercial cities, forget
full Of their duties, and from motives of econo-
my, Incidence, or diseased bias towards Eng
land, Gull from their papers and their works
unwholesome and poisonous seeds, and SOW
them broadcast throughout our land-cultivat
ing the worst prejudices against nations dis
posed to be friendly to us, by giving distorted
and studiedly false accounts Of everything not
consistent with English views Ifsome paper
with adequate. capital and commensurate en-
serprise and ability, would make the necessary
arrangements to give us tau and true informa-
ton Of the resources, interests, intents, and
general characteristics and occurrences Of other
nations, as well as Of England, instead OF
English caricatures of other nations, such is
the growing disgust towards England, that
such paper would very soon have the entire
Union, New England literary toadies excepted,
for It's circulation. EgTRfH
We look with hope, II not with entire conf.
deuce, for an early contamination ofsuch treaty
with Russia as will open to us new and larger
market than is presented by any other nation
whatsoever.