The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-22
PRO-RUssIAN SENTIMENT.

1t is Independent, bold, direct: an uncompro-
missing champion of Freedom, an infexibe
friend of the Temperance Cause, a Jealous ad
is varied and instructive; as a newspaper, it is
unsurpassed.
1t is more agreeable to praise than to GEN.
sure; but our duties as an editor constrain US
to point out some things in the Tribune, which
we consider not only Objectionable, but mis-
chievous. In ordinary journals, they might be
overlooked; but so large is the sphere of that
paper, end so many claims has it on the respect
and confidence of the friends of Progress and
Freedom, that when it happens to take wrong
position on any subject, its influence is most
injurious
Our readers will recollect an extract copied
into the Era, from the Tribune, last summer, in
which it was stated that some twenty writers
contributed to its editorial columns. This fact
seems to explain some of the inconsistencies
and discords in its editorial columns. On one
page, you shall see glowing appeal for a
union of the People of the Free States against
the Slave Power, as the great evil of the coun-
try; bitter invective against British Free
Trade, evidently intended to get up an issue on
the obsolete question of Protection; generous
denunciation of Know Nothingism, as incon-
sistent with the spirit of human brotherhood !;
and trucuent article, advocating the abase-
| ment of England and the absorption of Turkey.
and Astounding in expressions of sympathy for
Russia, the colossal bulwark of European des-
potism. What medley-reminding one of
Nebuchadnezzars image, whose head was of
fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his
belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron,
his feet part of iron and part of clay; or, rath
er, that incongruous heaping up of materials on
good foundation, described by Paul, as "gold,
silver, precious stones wood, hay, stubble!"
Such paper must lack unity. Its writer's
do not propose common object are not ami
mated by common spirit One cries up, Free
Soil another cries down, Free Trade. One de-
nounces the Slaveholding South, another glori-
fes, Slaveholding Russia. One can think of
nothing but Liberty, another, of nothing but
Beef, Beef!
The Tribune claims that it is an impcrsonal-
ity, and once it rebuked us for looking behind
that abstraction, into its Municipalities. But
what are we to do? How can we ignore the
authorship of one of its editorials, when all over
it we see the footprints of a man, who regards
Protective Tariff as panacea for all the ills
that "hesh is heir to who expects to bring
about the abolition of Slavery, equalize the con-
ditions of Society, cure poverty and crime, and
bring on the millennium, by cunning scheme
of specific end discriminative duties?
This respectable author, who laments the
death of the Wing Party, as the only Freedom
Party that ever existed, who denounces Anti
Slavery men generally as the allies of the Slave
holders, and has never yet taken the trouble to
make himself acquainted with the real nature
and scope of that Republican Party which the
Tribune itself now zealously advocates, is one
of the editorial contributors to that paper, and
indtes the majority of the articles against Brit
ish Free Trade, and in favor of the absorption
of Turkey by Russia.
Aye-at this hour, when the friends of Free
don, Ay-Iiinn thot tho old ennst;nnN NJ
finance and trade have been disposed of, so
that the way is cleared for meeting and settling
the overshadowing Question Of Slavery, this
| respectable gentleman, through the columns of
the Tribune, is eternally crying, Beef Beef"
laboring to get up an excitement about the
Tariff, as if he could persuade the People of
this country to put their industrial interests
again at the mercy of theorists in political econ
omy and demagogues in politics.
Some weeks since, the North american, of
Philadelphia, contained leader, on the Future
of New York State, rashly assuming from frag-
mentary data that it is receding in population
and political power, as compared with Penn
sylvania, and insinuating that this is all owing
to the British Free Trade policy" so much
in vogue among New York politicians. Soon
after, this article was copied at full length into
the Tribune, accompanied by long editorial,
adapted to the latitude of New York, endorsing
its statements, simplifying its argument, and
urgently dwelling upon the destructive tenden-
cies of british Free Trade" The respectable
author to whom we have referred, Ia Philadel.
phian,) indited both articles. They are twins.
regular Dromios. We never inquired into their
authorship, but we k,,ow it from the STYLE lust
as we could testify to handwriting with which
We are familiar. A writer in the Tribune of
the 18th, laughs at the article copied into that
paper from the North american, and proceeds
to expose its sophistries, being amazed at the
serious face put" upon it. If he see this arti.
Gle, his amazement will cease.
Tn ralatiop 70 tho pro- p vo,;t,o-
Tribune, our readers will recollect that when
we charged our cotemporary last summer with
being pro-Russian, it denied the impeachment.
Let us see now where it stands.
The London Daily Ne,os, having traced much
Of American sympathy with Russia to the ex-
istence and workings of Slavery, the Tribune.
in its issue of November 18th, says:
Sympathy with Russia in this war is NOT
bounded by the slave States. Whatever nro.
Russian feeling exists at the South, there is no
monopoly of the article there. In the North.
the people are as much pro-Russian as in the
South, irrespective of their views on Slavery
For example, the million readers of the Ty,b.
une, who hate Slavery, have thorough con.
tempt for Louis Bonaparte, and agree with the
London Daily Ne,os, THAT it is not much IN
be wondered that they found it hard to believe
in the French and English alliance, or in the
reality of French championship of national
rights and European liberties, while France her.
self has no rights or liberties to boast of within
her own borders They believe not in the de-.
cency or value of any such alliance. tbouob
they abhor Slavery. But what they do believe
in is, that the very best thing for Turkey would
be her absorption by Russia, and a protective
policy thereupon, which would call into action
the now idle water-power, the mines. and the
manufacturing and agricultural Capabilities Of
q G. r.,