The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-28
Translated from Ls Steele" ofraas Of November %
THE UNITED STATES IN THE EASTERN WAR.

One Of friends citizen of Of the free States of
the American Union writes TO from London whittier
he has to hunt up documents necessary for
work which he Is preparing for publication that the Uni
ted States do not 1t true feel any sympathy for Russia
but that they are not without uneasness at the
pect which is presented by the certain of the
ADgo-Freneh alliance. IT. says be u.s. the alliance shall
succeed in regulating by full and sincere agreement the
conditions OF peace II has succeeded in regulating those
OF the maritime aud continental war nothing any
longer be done Ia the world without the OF France
and England and consequently the role which belongs
TO the United Suites Of America may prove be seriously
Affected He concludes by asking if there is not for the
devoted friends Of liberty in this prospect matter for
Fiction.
Nothing ia easier than for us to answer with the Steele
in our hand Why did not the United States come
third party into the alliance when in 1853 and 1854
adured them to enter into ii? Did they indeed not per-
eeve the prospect which the fall of Sebasopo has opened
TO their eyes Was 1t ourselves, then who right
when opposing the orators OF their meetings and legsa
tive halls said that the hour had for America
pay her debt OF gratitude TO Europe by intervening in the
struggle between desposm and civilization, which could
aside everything which may look like recrimnaton The
past should serve to enghten the present rrate il
by.recaling TO mind uniinproved opportunities.
And in the first place the alliance is not closed 10
the United States. Let them present themselves and they
will be cordially received the conditions under which
the alliance was formedyz first that OF not asking at
victory personal advantage Civilization is attacked
and especially in civilization the principle of nation
aes and of universal liberation All the benefits Of the
triumph are to apperain TO this double principle and not
10 such or such one OF the combaants In such
ngement North America has her place marked naturally
With her the State Is neutral in matters of religion and
with her the general absolute principle of seq government
realizes what more compact populations seek in the
principle of nationaiesan authority and laws having
their source and sanction in the will of the
citizens If the Americans should seriously fear that the
alliance might day abuse its power the remedy in
their hands, since the alliance is open TO their coop
Grafton and counses
But frankly, can it be apprehended that victorious
France and England will form plot against the nations
of Europe2 Through the advanced means of commune
cation Great Britain is reaached to the continent and
NOT
sion might say that between Engshmen and French
there is longer strait there is no longer any
Pyreunees between Frencbmen and Spanards But think
you the friendship of the two great rivals which succeeds
to hostility prolonged beyond its natural causes will
blind them to their essential and permanent interests?
Mo- England would be willing for continental Eu
rope receive organization which would place
our discretion. No; France would be willing for
England annhae the secondary nayies of Europe and
still less would she lend her arm TO arrest the upward flight
of the American navy.
Between friends and between confederates there
anee there precautions which prudence docs not per-
nit be suppressed because friendship not suppress
human passions The eye Of England will be always open
on tendencies towards continental supremacy; ours
will be shut the tendencies Of England towards
maritime supremacy As to diplomatic art6ce the de-
sire OF deceyng each other by certain arrangements the
two great nations win be protected from them by the
viction that each Is too powerful 10 suffer injury go
unpunhed Do not forget moreover that the people of
the two countries Of different character and march by
roads which never entirely conounded To commit
abuses OF power at the expense and profit there
must be similarity of national genius aud temper which
there is risk of finding between England and France
i The argument which it is sought to draw from this
that in past which cannot be reproduced Great Britain
although free at home has allied herself TO the desposms
Of continent and that from this coalition come
forth treaties disregardng the rights Of the peoples
loudly reuted by Catholic emancipation electoral reform
and all the reforms which have sprung from the latter.
England governed then by arstocracy which only
opened its ranks 10 talents and to rich pebeans the
dton of their renouncing the democratic sentiment the
gates of Westninster Bat arstocraces form OF free
masonry the members OF which recognise each other and
affiliate with another notwithstanding certain private
practices which they Intentionally There is al
ways strong aristocraey in England but at the side Of
li--ono might say above it-there is people occupying
themselves with its politics and with this difference from
the oden time that is requisite TO go the gates Of
Westminster to make profession OF the democratic senti
ent The English nation viii accept any convention
nor any peace, contrary to the principle Of which the
United States the glorious representatives in the part
OF the world which is the most vast after ASIA the great
| cradle Of humanity.
Our friend acknowledges and earnestly declares that
America does not feel any sympathy for Russia We had
already said this the testimony of other citizens of the
Union. We would have affirmed it, if necessary even as
one might affirm that there is light before the day has
broke We win therefore venture to ask what means
the sending Of ambassador to Athens where be is
ceiyed as reinforcement TO the Russian party; those
preparations at Washington for the reception of new
Mnscove envoy and those exaggerated susceptbites in
regard to enistmens for the army Of the Crea If the
United States wish 10 prove they have the right of speech
and of action among communities they wish prove that
which no one disputes There Ia no question: therefore
about that
II
liberty abd to the present and future grandeur of the
American Union authorizes that the agitation which has
been manifested by two members Of the federal gov
eminent proceeds from what are called sympatbzers with
Cuba Ii is that side that the territorial expansion
Of the United States should be effected The more slave
States the Union shall the less moral power will
have. Washington and Jefferson wished for the emanci-
patton of the blacks Doubtless ct that time the number
Of slaves Infinitely less than now and the problem
presented quite different proportions. But in the moral
point of view the opinion of these fathers Of their
country remains the lees acquired for the free States
and the extension OF slavery but increases the practical
difficulty OF aboonhe principle of which no one ven
lures to dspuieit is strict duty oppose every bill and
every conquest from which this extension result
Ia view OF the Nebraska bill the ugitive-slaye BILL and
the project OF anncxing Cuba with purpose of Creating
there three four slave States what would Washingo
have said What would Jefferson have said2 This il
what must be asked in the States where labor free and
indeed in those where It is not free for it Is precisely the
latter Which have had The good fortune give birth to
these two men, without equal in the American Union. IL
would little become to cry out too loud when the
attempt to justify slavery account of the necessity Of
producing cotton; ingsmueh February il will be
only eight years that the attempt will have longer been
made to justify IL among Of the necessity of
producing sugar-cane. What cannot admit IS that
young people who vigorous in body and mind should
embark into difficulties, internal and external the ex
tension OF institution which by euphemism they them
selves call pirate and whose perpetuiy they declare
neither probable nor possible.
The United States ranging the aide Of Russia to have
more chance Of extending slavery among themselves Is
there not in this moral imposshity And is what
Il said the Of