Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-03-30
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FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1855.
Points of View.

The manner in which the news of the Emperor
of Russia's death was received, in one or two of
the London theatres, has given rise to good
deal of moral indignation in some quarters The
amour propre of the Boston Courier is very much
offended at the "cowardly brutality thus mani
Tested by the English nation, and it holds it up.
therefore, to the scorn of decent" people. As
a matter of taste we think it would have been
more seemly if the English playgoers had re-
manned silent when they heard that death, the
memorable, had smitten the Russian tyrant on
his despotic throne; but, looking upon it as a
sudden, spontaneous expression of popular SEN
timent, upon the receipt of unexpected and
startling news, in which the English people had
then intense interest, we do not see that it is
any particular cause for the condemnation of the
civilization of England.
The same circumstance or thing does not pre-
sent the same appearance to all who look at it
The impression it produces is regulated consid-
erably by the point of view from which it is con
templated The Car Nicholas who has always
presented himself to the Courier and others, as
wise ruler and great hero, may have presented
himself in a different aspect to the " Commons of
England" Perhaps they saw him, simply
through the medium of his tyranny. Perhaps
they saw him as the oppressor of Poland-as the
cruel and cold-blooded tyrant who drafted off the
maidens of fallen Sarmatia to become the wives
of his brutal soldiery-who sent the best and no.
blest of Poland's sons to the mines and miseries
of Siberia-who separated parents from their
children,-and, in order to extinguish the recol-
lections of home and familyin the Polish orphans
ba had IN diStip uisb
them, ms tead of their fathers names Perhaps
the English playgoers looked at him, also, as the
oppressor of Hungary, and the implacable en-.
envy of national and political liberty everywhere.
Therefore, when they heard that he had been
stricken down, they cheered as heartily as when
they laid their brooms the back of Marshal
Haynau, and rolled him in the dirt of London.
From our point Of view, this English cheering
may appear crude, fierce, brutal" and SO forth,
but we think it had at least, the one respectable
attribute Of earnestness, when compared with
the enforced 'respect' Tor Nicholas which was
observed in Paris Louis Napoleon spit DOM
the honest expression of French sentiment, and
compelled Paris to wear the lying Semblance of
grief The false-hearted tyrant of France was
not willing that the enslaved people of Paris
should exult over the death of amuch grander ty-
rant than himself twas precedent that might
be followed when liberty avenged herself upon him
If ballad singers might sing the Polonase over the
bier of Nicholas; they might also, sing the Mar
sellaise over the grave of Louis Bonaparte-
French sentiment was therefore thrust back down
Frenchmans Threats and subsidized into ''polite
silence;" while English sentiment, which no
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expression at Runnymede or Ballarat,in England
or the Antipodes, gushed out in a spontaneous
roar. The respectable hypocrisy the Parsians,
receives the concentrations of the Courier and
such presses while the rude honesty of the Eng
lish receives their strongest condemnation 1t
seems to us that our censOrs condemn the Eng
fish more from feeling than from a candid view of
the case. What should we think of the man
who would doubt the courage of the American
nation, because an United States ship of war. in
moment of excitement, battered down Grey
town What should we think of the moralist
who would condemn our civilization, because
comparatively few rowdies carried Bill Poole in
apotheosis, through the streets of New York? Or
should we be willing at any time to leave the test OF
our civilization to the accidental huzzas of the ac-
cidental frequenters of the Bowery, National, or
any other theatrein the country? We think not
We believe that it would be very bad taste in
any republican TO throw up his hat ifhe should
hear that Louis Napoleon was hurled to Genus
from the throne of blood he has raised in France;
still, if any one did so, we should respect him
much more than if he exulted in his heart and
carried the signs of grief his brow. We cam
notsee anything in the career of Nicholas to blot
out the recullections of his invasions and cruel
ties-of his political and social crimes. Ifhe
ruled Russia we'll, he did no more than was his
duty. His character as a ruler lay between him
self and his own people. If they were satisfied
with him, no once else had any cause to complain
bit when he stepped beyond his own territory, to
trample down civilization and freedom, every true
republican was called upon to meet him with his
uncompromising condemnation. When he set
the laws of nations, the laws of nature, and the
laws of natures God at defiance with impunity,
it is not to be wondered at if some English peo-
pie, collected in the galleries of theatre, andnot
very well schooled to the propretes of deport-
ment-violated the laws of extreme politeness
when they heard he had died. The fall of one
poor man in the Russian ranks is, in our opinion,a
much more legitimate subject of sorrow, than the
death Of the tyrant who provoked the war.