The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-18
The London Times and other LEADING British

pdtn1 toWdFuS huSSld III Tue contest DelWee
that power and the allied forces of France
England and Turkey. Inseeking for the cause
which lead to this presumed sympathy on til
part Of the Americans, the British press as
sumo wrong position. Not one ofthe motive
assigned for our opposition to the allies, exis
in this country. 1t can hardly be said that Their
: is in the .. States any great sympathy in favo
of the czar and against the allies; but there
an Indifference as to the final result of the pre-
sent war, and we donot in the least regret tn
misfortunes which have befalen the allied ar
mics, on account Of well founded principles
that spring from far different sources than
fear Of France and England, as limited by he
majesty's press. Attic commencement of hos
tities between Turkey and Russia, the sym
pathy of our countrymen for the former was We
~ great and was freel y manifested, because
the Americans regarded the course pursued by
Russia to be oppressive and domineering; and
the resident minister of the United States, al
Constantinople, went so far as to publicly in
form the sublime porte that he might rely on
the good wishes and countenance of America
The reports of the advantages gained by Omar
Pacha were received with eager delight, and
numbers of our hot-headed, enthusiastic young
men crossed the Atlantic, and volunteered their
services to fight beneath the crescent. This
ardor was much dampened when France and
Great Britain entered into the contest; for with
the French people we knew there existed Meth
er cause, nor a desire, for the contest; whilst
in Louis Napoleon we found no other motive
than hankering for military conquest, or
method by which he could rid France of its
turbulent and revolutionary subjects. He was
willing to sacrifice his countrymenin a crusade
against Russia, if he could thereby secure mo-
mentary quiet and peace at home. With the
emperor of the French, his intrigues and his
career the Americans can have no sympathy
whatever But for him, France might to-day |
be struggling on in the path to republicanism
and rational freedom. With Great Britain
her arrogance and bigotry-the Americans can
have but little if any real sympathy. Not be-
cause they do not take deep interest in her peo-
pie individually, in her commercial enterprise
and prosperity, and in every thing that could
n the remotest degree rebound to her welfare; ;
out the Americans have no sympathy with the
corrupt aristocracE and their hired sycophants, ,
Who rule, dictate to, and tyrannise over the
'assve millions, who are, too INDECENT to make e
n attempt to govern themselves. We can t
ave nothing in common with an aristocracy
omposed of men who frame laws to perpetuate -
leir own power over the masses, and to up D
old the rotten pillars of puppet throne. To e
alive American feels that the EngIishman
ould be highly capable of self-governmcnt, ~ =,
I'd that Great Britain might at an early day di
'come republic, but for the slavery of her al
habitants to an imbecil titled oligarchy, and al
Owe of corrupting fashionable swaggcr and tn
indling. As European wars generally have ~
en-. the present contest between the allies "a
d the car, is war of the different mon ca
chs, not of the people themselves, and the A
nerlcans find ranged on the one side, three en-
wers using limited laws to cypress inteli- ~,
Mt masses, while, on the otbers they see di
an using absolute power to elevate and i'm be
oye the ignorant mass of his serfs Their te
npathies are, therefore, (the Turks having o e
en- lost sight of and forgotten in the contest, ~
present with the Russans-but at the same
lie entertain as friendly a feeling, as warm op
sard, for the soldiers and people of France tn
Great Britain as at any former period h..
We perceive by an advertisement in the Ba-
Rouge papers, that major A. S. Heron, the 50
sent secretary of state and democratic NOM Ia,
e for reelt ctlon, gives notice that he "will
iress the people, on the politics of the dav, ma
I'd, Of course, expatate on his own personal I'm
lmsro the secretaryship. at the statehouse.'
'Dder if the people of Louisiana pay large NJ
airy to Mr. Heron, for the purpose of neg fro
ting the duties of his office, and making yer ito
'e speeches. in favor of Piercesm. Do the peo- ex
elect man to office for no other purpose wh
n that of devoting his time to electioneering the
himself and bis party? When will office ash
ders learn to be modest, and allow the peo-
to think for themselves? Let office-holders he
upy their time and talents in performing the re
les pertaining to the stations they occupy, VIZ w,
the people will think more of them. lie,
The committee appointed by portion of the MI MI
zens of Kentucky, to decide upon design c 90,
model for the monument to be erected viii
Lexington, to the memory of Henry CLAY,
'cted one by an architect of Cincinnati, Mr.. mo
I. Hamilton. There were over one hun nor
d plans offered for approval by architects for
sculptors in every State of the Union.- stu
Hamllton's design is gothic temple of cir pre-
II form, with thirteen sides, intended to il ocr
rate the thirteen original States of the con- tax
tracy. The statue, designed by Bellew,
1ples the centre of the building, much in 49,
same style as that of sir Walter Scott does ~ -
he Edinburgh monument. The upper por- Wv.
of the building is to be used as record ''a