Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-23
LYNCnpVnT IIRGINTiN.
uem 9cratic Sympathy with Russia

her present struggle with the Allies. The Wash.
ington Union. the Richmond Enquirer. ead in
fact. nearly ali the leading Democratic papers OF
the United States warmly cspeuse the cause If
the Gear. exult over his successes and lament hi.
defeats. It seems strange that the partaan, If
ultra Democracy in this country. the progressed
advocates of the largest amount of popular free
dom. should find any thing in the cold, remorse-
less and hidcous despo,ism Of the Muscovite to
attract their partalties or arouse their entbu
siastio admiration. 1t seems strange that the
men wha claim 10 be par creslieaee the friends
ofDemoeratie progress in the old world. should
be sending UP their aspirations for the success
and supremacy Of a power. beneath whose bale
full shadow the plant Of Democracy never vet
took root. power which j. che sworn mud relen
ssfoe Of human liberty and of human progress
throughout the world. The known and declared
policy of Russia has ever beer 10 cut up the prn-
oiples Of freedom 10y the roots wherever she
could as her hands upon them.and what she hns
done for Poland and Hungary,s she wouldo to mr.
row for England France. and the rest of Europe
4 She had the power. Der grand aim is TO bring
all Europe under the influence Of serf1om aud
the knout And yet it is over the anticipated
ascendancy Of this gigantic and semi harbaro6s
despo'ism that the ultra Democracy Of the new
world exult and rejoice The only way in which
we can account for this apparent Inconsistency
is upon the old principle TINT extremes have M
irresistible tendency 20 meet All history at
tests that Democracy when carried 10 AN ex.
irene length runs into monarchy. Ii was the
radical Democracy Of Athens that overthrow the
checks aud balances Of that Republic and made
Penees aptocrat It was the radical Demac
roey Of Rome that tramplcd under foot tho con.
seryatiye authority Of the Senate and mndc Ca
gar the master of The Roman State. 1t was the
radical Democracy of France that raised Nqpo-
Aeon the iirst to Coo imperial dignity on the reins
of the Repubhc, and which has moro recently
placed his nephew on the same elevation. Dc.
moeracy ever worshps the One Man Power, and
as the Auocracy Of The Russian ear pr, -aut,
the most splendid eNemplifeation Of that p,urr
that tbe world affords, We need not wonder HAT
the admiration aud >ymputhies Of the American
Democracy should be enlisted in his favor,
A. for ourselves we do not profess TO have any
very strong feelings or pariioIiGes on the .ab
ject of the Eastern war. We look upon it n.a
matter Of comparative indifference to the Uni
ted States, which party TRUMP hs in the struggle.
The idea which some persons suggest Us n rea.
why the American people should desire the
success of Russia, 10 vii. tina, Frnncc and Eng
land If They rueorcd in their present enterprise
may undertake t. interfere actively j u American
affairs, we hold to be absurd and prepostrous.-
In the first place we believe that the Statesmen
of England and France have too much sense and
prudence to embark in any such chimcrica
scheme sthat of checking the progress of thi,
country or of regulating the balance of over
il the new world But even If they were to at.
tempt any erch impracticable folly. we are per.
fectly convinced that it would end only in disas.
Ter and disgrace to themselves This Republic
Is too powerful and is growing too rapidly in
population, territory and wealth, to entertain the
smallest arprthcnsons from European combna.
tons against its prosperity.
Its therefore purely European aifair TINT
we look at the Eastern War, and when viewed in
that light, we cannot well see how any repub-
can, any man who wishes well 10 ,hr cause of
political liberty in Europe, can prefer the sue
cess, % Russia to that of the Allies For two
hundred years, free principles If government
have been making steady progress in England
Its true that she still fall lar short Of our stand.
ard of political freedom, but the wark of reform
is constantly coming on and no Intelligent Oh.
observer can doubt but that England will be 20,
fee az the United States in the course # half
century, perhaps IN shorter time. if she Is left
T. work out quietly her own delirerpuce. undsuh.
cd ny foreign aggression. IN France also al
though the tide of liberty has ebbed aud flowed.
yet its general direction has been EDWARDS -
Louis Napoleon is despot il is true, but heis
despot of very different order from Louis the
Sixteenth and the people France now enjoy an
amount Of liberty such rs their ancestors a
hundred years ago never dreamed Of But the
progress of free principles has not been confined
t England and France The wide and pervaaine
influence Of these principles was signally Illus.
tratiye inl845, when almost every throne in con-
tinental Europe was overthrow; and although
reaction came and despotism reassamed its as
oendancy; YET the spirit of liberty is still rife
throughout the land, and there is u fair prospect
ofits political regeneration
But woe unto the Democracy of Western
Europe if the Cars supremacy is ever establish.
ed in that querier. The progress of liberal prn-
Giles will then be stopped by an iron barrier, and
every struggle for freedom will be crushed be-
meath an overwhelming military domination
The failure ofthe Allies to check tho aggressive
policy of Russia in the present war must inevita-
bly, lead to the speedy establishment of Russian
ascendancy in Europe. Austria Prussia and
the Germanic Confederation have already been
subsidized by the Gear, and the triumph of
Russia in the present war is all that is now
needed to make them as well as tho smaller