The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-09-06
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND THE WAR.
To the Editor of the National Era:

| To the Editor of The National Era:
The Muscovite organ has put in an appear.
| ance On June 9th, when "The European I'm
brogio" was published, the Neac York Tribune
was a rancorous Anglophobe on August l l,
| in The War and Freedom" you see it has
become furious Francophobel On June 9Th,
it was all England" England was "the
chief opponent with whom Civilization and
Freedom have to contend" On August 1lth,
its great bugbear is Louis Napoleon, "the as
sassin of the French and Roman Republics, v
the French usurper," the French despot."
| feel no special call to vindicate the French
! against the Russian policy. That noble nation
| need fear no comparison with Muscovy; but
| in what little relates to my own country, you
| may perhaps generously concede me hearing.
Napoleon and Palmerston triumph over Rus
STA, the pervading agitation for Reform in
Great Britain-au agitation directly impelled
| by the Crimean disaster-will be arrested"
Do not wrong us, sir, so far as to suppose
| that the English Reformers would purchase
domestic Reform at the terrible and disgraceful
price of humiliation to Russia abroad. No,
| sir these men do not need to be told. that il
| continental Europe were to become Cossack,
insular =" Reform" would be miserable mock.
cry, delusion, and snare. We do not wish, II
the alternative existed, to purchase Reform for
ourselves at the frightful price of the enslave
ment of Europe; but there is. in fact, no such
alternative. The triumph of Russia, we all
know, is the triumph of Aristocracy and Con
servatism, both abroad and at home. Cursed
be the factious hand who would aggrandize the
Gar in order to pull down a Clarendon. If il
comes to that, as an English Reformer, l say,
give me the British House of Peers forever
rather than the Menchikofs and Woronzofs for
a century. What authority has the New York
| Tribune for leading people to infer that English
Reformers desire Crimean disasters" in order
that an impulse should be given to the Reform
movement at home? Until such authority be
given, / unqualifedly deny the existence of
such fiendish and inhuman wish. The pain
full truth really is, that the progress of reforms
in England is arrested by the Russian war and
that progress will continue to be arrested until
Russia consents to abandon her claims to Con-
| stantinope.
| The Tribune: "The victories of yelling
ton doomed England to an age of unchalenged
| Tory rule; SO every triumph gained by the
French Despot and his Confederates is a new
rivet in the letters of Western Europe"
History does not bear out this assertion.
Tory rule held sway unchalenged from l76O
to 1880, because neither George III nor his
| eldest son would countenance the Wings. The
| American defeat brought on shortlived Rock
| ingham Administration and after Mr.. Pitts
| death, Lord Granville was Minister for few
months. The coalition between Lord North
and Mr.. Fox was not purely Tory but, with
| these trivial exceptions, Tory rule existed in
| full feather from 1860 to 1880. What had
Wellingtons victories, or his reverses to do with
| it? He did not become Peninsuar hero till
| l8l0-'ll, and did not take his seat in the Lords
| till 1914. The same Ministry THAT of Lord
| LiverpooD existed unchanged from 1912 to
1925. Did Wellingtons victories avail to him
der Catholic Emancipation and the Reform
Bill? Did his reverses accomplish them? In
both cases. no.
| For the sake of the argument, admit that
Wellingtons victories doomed England" and
so forth, what use does the editor propose to
make of this fact? Why, that the victories OF
General Simpson would "doom England to
the unchallenged rule"-of whom OF the To-
ries? No. but of the Liberals, of course. Well
we might have worse things than the rule Of
Palmerston, Clarendon, and Wordsworth. do
not believe that the present Cabinet has any
wicked desire to put a new rivet in the letters
of either England or the other nations of West
ern Europe. Can this editor say as much for
the Russian Government? / am, &C.,
| A PLYMOUTH NoNCoNFORMIsT.