The Nevada journal., 1855-11-02
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2.
Sympathy with Russia.

Shetner true or not time Will tell, that
Sevastopol has fallen. We hope the in
telligence will prove correct, first, because
it will lessen the waste of human life, by
bringing the contest to more early ter
mination, and second, because it gives an
assurance of the spread Of liberal princi-
pies, and the dominance of the re ces with
which we are bound by the ties of consan-
guinity and brotherhood, commercial in
terests, and more closely allied in the SEM
biance of our religions and laws. Politi-
cally, the policy Of America is to keep
alive the powers of Western Europe, as
an intervening barrier, and intermediate
link between Republcanism and Despot-
ism. With an Autocracy We are not yet
prepared for contact-have not the
strength to grapplc. Blot out the West
ern Powers BY the strong arm of Russian
Dcspotism and flushed with success what
will stay the Autocrat in his career of ag-
grandizement' Two types of govern
ment will alone exist in the civilized world,
each contending for mastery. In Western
Europe Republican sentiment is increas-
ing year by year which is being fostered
under liberalized monarchies Not that
the monarchies themselves are favorable
to the spread of Democratic ideas, but in
the nature of things, and progression of
mankind, the people of nation gradual
ly assimilate their views of governmental
liberty, to those the next degree higher in
the scale Of advancement. A limited
monarchy is more favorable for the ex-
pansion of political ideas than a despot-
ism If the Western nations conquer in
the struggle now going on, they will form
wall of defense to our Republic for time
to come, behind which VIC can stresthen
and become formidable, while by our ex-
ample assisting the growth of latent De-
mocracy in Europe, in time the Saxon
and the Celt in America and Europe
may be able successfully to make common
cause against the despotic rule of the
Czars.
1t is somewhat strange that the Ameri-
can press in majority. of instances has
been strongly adverse to the Allies. Even
the religious journals of the country in
some cases take up the cudgel in behalf of
the Autocrat. The cause of this is prob
ably owing in part to an old animosity to
England, and an unconquerable hatred to
the Roman Catholic Church whose seat is
in the west of Europe. But the enmity to
Great Britain ought to be forgotten. In
the war of independence we conquered,
and in the race for supremacy we have
proved ourselves at least powerful rival,
and it is the part of great nation to be
magnanimous. Had the British Empire
outstripped our own we might afford to be
enyious; as it is there is no cause for 9TH
er than feeling of brotherhood between
the two nations. How hatred to the
Roman Catholic religion can drive Chris
tian journal to the defense of a system
which, Of all the hierarchies fashioned by
the ingenuity of man out of the gospel of
Christ, is ineomparably the worst, we are
ct a loss to tell. The Emperor of Rus
sia ot only vicegerent of God on Earth
bu- as Gear is endowed with unlimited
temporal power to enforce obedience to
his spiritual. commands He is not mere
formula like the Pope of Rome, who full
inmates bulls, depending upon the rever-
ential obedience of his subjects, but his
spiritual commands are enforced by the
most unrelentiRg absolutism. The head
Of the Greek Church is not an imbecility
IA which the yotaries have no faith, but it
IS living power which binds the beliefs
Of men to itself in inconyertible and un-
FIELDING bonds. The Roman Church is
dying beueath the blaze of truth which is
pouring upon it from the progressive hu-
man mind, and will soon be regarded as
one OF the superstitions of mankind; while
the Greek Church fastening itself upon the
ignorance Of the tyrannized masses, and
sustained by temporal agency from which
there is no appeal, is rcsurgent and en-
dowed with youthful vitality and energy.
While the dominion of the Car shall re-
main, and should he be victorious over the
armies OF the West his sway is without
the limit OF time, the Greek Church is Sc
cured from innovation till far in the dim
future The minds of men will be cramped
and confined within the contracted limits
marked out by the Gear in which the con-