The Nevada journal., 1855-04-06
The Allied powers of Europe.

States that the scope of the European alliance,
which was predicted by Louis Napoleon as
early as his Bouognc expedition, embraces the
curtalment of the United States, in its further
extensions. The facts as recited seem to give
force to this idea, and the tone of the English
press in the inception Of the alliance give the
Interpretation to facts. A leading English
Review said in the flush of the first news ol
the battle of the Alma, and the fall of Sebas-
topol, that Americans had only to observe
how readily the armament Of the Eu1ine might
be transferred to the Gulf of Mexico.
No one who has watched the tone Of the
leadin. English and French statesmen, and the
arguments of the presses Of those countries in
the confidence Of their governments, can fail
to have been satisfied that there has been n
correspondence or consultation between the
leading governments of Europe, within year
or two to adopt coercive measures towards the
United States, and check any farther exten-
sion of territory or aggression upon Spanish
America or the West India islands. Gen
Cass, in his speech in the Senate of the United
States, gathered the evidence on this subject,
arranged and exhibited it, SO that it is palpa-
ble to every one who reads. He showed, con-
clusively, that France and England had fully
made up their minds to prevent us from acquir.
ing Cuba, and that they have opposed and
thwarted all our negotiations with Central
America, the Sandwich Islands, st. Domhgo,
and in other quarters.
The more we look at the Developments which
have been unfolded, the more we become con-
vlnced that there was q combination between
France and England, in which the other lead
ing powers of Europe wore no doubt consul
ted, to interpose just such a check to the
growth and extension Of the United States, as
has since been directed towards Russia. It is
probable that the knowledge which Russia
possessed of this combination, emboldened her
to strike upon Turkey for extended power and
territory, thinking it good opportunity to ef-
feet this while France and England were en-
gagged in chcckmating the United States.
This movement Of Russia, so alarmed Eng.
land and France, that they abandoned all
thought of remote danger from the United
States for the nearer peril from the predomi-
nance of Russia At the early stages Of the
demonstration against Russia, they anticip.
ted frightening or conqusring the aggressive
spirit of that Russia, ard then with a navy
and army in the full flush of victory, making
demonstration against the United States
which would compel us to yield to their dicta,
ton.
The resistance found in Russia, and the i'm
minens peril in which their armies have beer
placed in that country, has doubtless cooled
their ardor for coming in collision with tht
United States, and it seems probable tina
events which year ago were hardly dreamed
Of have operated to save US from war more
bloody and destructive than that which ha;
been carried on upon the coasts of Russia. II
is undeniable that any attempt at coercion bE
England and France, upon the United States
would have been resisted with more scorn and
Indignation than Russia evnced at dictatcrial
threats, and this being the case, war, and war
of the most destructive character, would have
followed; neither party could have retreated
without disgracing itself in its own eyes and
in the opinion of all the rest Of the civilized
world.
Fortunate, or rather we should say, provi-
dertial, was it for us that Russia diverted from
our shores to her own, the fleets and armies of
France and Great Britain, and fortunate, too,
has it been for US that Russia has been able to
hold the Allies at bay, and teach them lesson
which will not be ,ost upon them, when they
again have a controversy with u.s. This Rus
sian war has saved the United States from
war in all probability for full twenty years.
At present, the system of policy which is
likely to prevail in the United States, will
tend to preserve us from collision with Europe.
The policy of the Native American party
must necessarily check all aggression upon
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territory Its resistance to European emigra-
ton will also we'll please the governments of
Europe, who have just begun to realize that
emigration is draining them Of their life blood,
and is otherwise operating very injuriously to
the safety of their Institutions, which have
been jeopardized more by the light which
American correspondence has distributed
among their population than by all other
things combined.
We believe our country will never know,
and only they who have watched closely the
signs of the times, will ever be able to conjec-
ture, the hairs breadth escape by which the
arms of the Allied powers were turned from
our wide extent of sca-coast to the Baltic and
Black Seas and we have been saved from the
loss of thousands of millions of treasure and
hundreds of thousands of lives.