Washington sentinel., 1855-02-07
From the London Times.
,he American Press ana Russia.

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separate the two. Every leading newspaper
inAmerica as well as in England, must repre-
| set and reflect certain portion of public
oplion, or else it would cease to maintain its
| poation, and sink into insigni6cance. We do
notpretend exactly to define the precise rank
| which the New York Herald occupies among
tra,satlantic journals. We know that it is
Published in the first city Of the Union, pos
seses a considerable circulation, and is con-
duded with MS much ability as is required for
periodical literature in Amerira. We see, also,
tha, the sentiments Of the New York Herald
will regard to the present war are echoed from
evey quarter of the States, and we, therefore,
make no apology for seriously calling the at
terton of nation united to us by so many
tiesNto the libels on her character and her
hon,r which every steamer brings to us from
AmFica in the shape of comments and hopes
withregard to the present state and future
PROSPECTS Of the war with Russia. The Amer
icarsh have frequently shown themselves acute.
ly AID even morbdy sensitive to European
opnbn, and can hardly view with indifference
the very serious injury which the conductors
of thir press are daily inaicting upon them.
/ Or American contemporary is of opinion
first, Nthat Russia has prevailed in the war
hitherto; secondly, that she will prevail in it !;
and, thirdly for the sake of the American
Union, that it is desirable that she should pre-
vail; and consequently it desires sincerely the
triumph of Russia and our humiliation. We
will mt waste time in arguing whether Russia,
who finds herself compelled to accept condi-
tions greatly more stringent than those to which
q little while ago she would not even deign to
return an answer, agrees with her republican
apologists, and is either satisfied with the past
or confident of the future. These are matters
of opinion, and, as such, however perverse and
distorted, are no objects Of censure. But we
spwould gravely put it to the good sense of the
| American nation whether the success of Russia
in the present struggle would really be to them
that great material advantage which they are
taught to believe. 1t may be quite true that
the Gear, being without friend in this hemis-
4 phere, holds out, as the Herald phrases it, "the
right hand of fellowship" to the other; that
Russia is the enemy of England; and England,
| in an honorable and noble sense O rival as
well as coadiutor to the United States. The
Car may be prepared to tempt America, for
aught we know, with commercial advantages.
| He may represent himself as ready to employ
an American engineer to lay down an electric
telegraph, to buy iron for railroads whenever
| he finds money to make them and cannot get
iron from England, and to use American steam
vessels, if by any means they can reach him
through the blockade of the allies. We may
grant all these, and these are literally all the
consideration which our contemporary can urge
to support the monstrous proposition Of q com
munity of interests between the United States
and Russia. The answer is not difficult.
As to the employment of American citizens
| in Russia, the vast American continent itself
offers so wide field for enterprise and exer-
ton that the wish of a patriot should rather be
that the genius and intelligence Of its inhabi-
tants should be continued to be employed in
! subduing it to the purposes Of man than that
such valuable qualities should be attracted to
| foreign lands. Let Scotland or Switzerland
| send out her sons in search OF foreign gold.
| America has room upon her ample breast for
all her children. AS Sor supplying the Gar
with American built ships of war, as long as
we remain masters Of the sea it will be impos-
sible and when we have lost that mastery it will
be superhuous Railways and telegraphs are
not the works of nation unable to raise money
by loan, possessing double the population and
half the revenue Of the united kingdom, at war
with all the world, and driven to the utmost
extremity to find supplies for every day as it
| passes by. The Herald talks of commerce, but
| commerce ia between countries whose natural
| products are different, and not between those
which, possessing so many natural features in
common, are rather made by nature for COM
| petition than interchange. Russia is to take
| American iron. When2 During war, when
the blockade will keep it out, or after peace,
when the English iron will undersell it? There
remains nothing, then, but the kindly feelings
Of the Gear to his Republican friends, and "the
right hand Of fellowship which he proffers to
their grasp, hot with the life-blood Of Republi-
can Poland and Democratic Hungary.
| But, further, if Russia wins, England loses
in much greater proportion, for il is far cas-
| ier to destroy than TO transfer commercial pros
perity, and London might cease to be the mer-
camille capital Of the world without transferring
| that honor either to st. Petersburg or TO New
| York. The commerce Of Russia would not be
pure gain, but would be obtained at the ex-
pense Of the commerce Of England that is TO
say, America would exchange customers OF
boundless wealth for customers without capital,
obliged TO borrow the very funds required 10
cultivate the GROUND, ,-customers whose laws
\ are equally administered for others with whom
bribery sits barefaccd on the Judgment seat
| a land whose institutions are stabbed and fixed
| for a land which must pass Que day from slavery
to anarchy, and from anarchy TO revolution.
But suppose the predictions Of the Henah full
filled, and its wishes gratifed. Suppose united
Europe tooweak for the barbaric might Of Rus
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Austria mediatized, and France and England,
if spared for q while, occupying towards the
Car position such as Saxony, Wurtemberg,
or Bavaria,-would such state Of things be
beneficial to the United States? Would they
feel confident that they could ride out storm
in which so many gallant ships had been
wrecked? Would they be able singehanded
TO roll back q power flushed with the conquest
of so many valiant hosts, and SO many ancient
nations? Would the right hand Of fellow.
ship" be held out and the same kindly feeling
be extended to them as that which.now works
50 powerfully on republican sensibilitics2 Let
them know themselves better. If ever the
dream of universal monarchy should be real.
lied again in Europe, and seek TO realize itself
in America, the state Of the Union would ire
sistbly suggest TO the fortunate despot the
same game as Macedon employed towards
Greece. What field for his energies could
king, master Of countless armies and boundless
treasures, desire better than 30 republics, con.