The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-14

Berlin, Prussia.
By The answer TO the following article may
be found OH the inside
From the n. Y Tribune
THE EUROPEAN IMBROGLIO.
The London Times assures its readers that
there is something shocking and even revolt
ing IN the admission that, though policy may
keep the United States neutral in the present
contest, and interest may plead as loudly in
favor of Russia Of England and France the
feelings and sympathies of America, the con.
science and heart of the nation, which are not
under the control OF interest. nor subject TO
considerations OF State policy, side with the
Powers Of the East in their present deadly
struggle with the Powers Of the West"
That such should be the opinion Of that Jour
nal does not in the least surprise us, for John
Bull has so long been accustomed To proclaim
himself the champion of Freedom, and the her
aid of Civilization. that he has, to ali appear
ances, come to believe the story himself The
almost universal decay in the condition of the
people subject to his rule. rs IN Ireland, India,
and the West lndies-or in close alliance with
hlm, as in Portugal and Turkey--has failed 10
open his eyes to the fact that he is the chief
opponent with whom Civilization and Freedom
have to contend; nor does the rapid improve
ment OF those communities which shut him cut,
as in the case of France, Belgium. Denmark.
and Northern Germany, tend more to produce
that effect. Substituting words for things, he
talks Freedom and acts Slavery, and thenis sur
prlsed to wake to the fact that he has not a real
friend in the world.
The note of the London Times is repeated on
this side the Atlantic, by various journals, no.
torlousiy in the service Of the British traders,
and by the National Era, which last week not
only assures It's readers that England has real,
y been the great civilizer of the world. but also
takes us roundly to task, for expressing tho
opinion that the best thing that would hap.
pen to Turkey, would be for Russia to swallow
her up But We have yet to meet with an
argument to change that opinion.
Nothing, We think, that is at all likely soon
to happen in Europe, would do more for the
emancipation of the people Of Germany, France
Italy, and England, than the extension ever
Turkey Of the same wise system, under which
Russian manufactures have grown so rapidlr.
We're that done, Turkey would offer to EuroDe
an outlet for population similar to that now
presented by the United States, analathe almost
boundless quantity Of lands of the hif51est anal
lty, now unoccupied and uncultivate6. would
be reduced to cultivation. Such a measure
resources of the Empire, while the vast market
thus created for manufactures would cause 81
demand for artisans from Western Eurone
such as would cause competition for the pnr,
chase OF labor to take the place of that CONNIE.
luton for the safe of it which now exists. Then
would be realized to great extent the pros
pect held up by Golden some years since. when
agltatlng for the repeal Of the corn laws-that
OF two men seeking TO buy labor, and fndin.,
only one ready TO sell it. This competition tn
buy labor looks toward Freedom. and vet II il
that competition whose growth England seeks
everywhere to prevent. In Turkey there il
none, and therefore England is her friend. In
Russia 1t grows daily, and therefore England is
her enemy.
Nothing would, in our opinion, do mora
toward the termination Of the "chean labor"
system of England than the establishment Of
Russia in COnstantinople and while holding
10 the belief that cheap labor" is neither
more nor less than slave labor, we must be ex-
cused for not siding with our cotemporsrv IN
any feeling of anxiety for the success of those
Western Powers which have lust purchased
from the King of Sardinia, at so MANY guineaz
per head, $4,000 of his poor subjects. The
policy of the days of our Revolution Is Thus
revived, and Sardinians are now BOUGHT M
Hesslans then were, as food for powder. We
can see but little difference between buvinc,
black slaves from an African prince, and wbita
ones from European one-and we fancy our
will have TO use his finest glasses
to discover where it lies. A further purchase
would gladly be made from Sweden and be-.
cause she is. indisposed to make the trade, she
Is now menaced with war. To guard herself
against these Western Powers, she is reduced
to the necessity of calling her people from their
usual occupations, and substituting the carving
OF muskets for the following of plows-and vet.
torsooth, the cause of those Powers is TO be re-
garded as the cause Of civilization II is time
as we think, that some of our friends should
cease to be beguiled by stereotyped phrases. and
begin to look at things. Such phrases. as we
are told by Goethe, tend greatly to ossifv the
organs Of intelligence That this maxim il
true would seem-to cite another instance-to
be proved by the fact that the great Democrats
party IN this country is the one that believes In
the buying and selling Of negroes, and the
great Free Trade party the one most closely
allied with the men by whom negroes ara
bought and sold.
1t may be that England has been the great
civiliSer OF the world but if so, the facts are
recorded in some book that has not fallen up.
Ter our notice. is a cOmmunity-and II IS a.
such that we must regard her England has
never carried civilization anywhere. Individ-
lals from among her people have fled from her
shores, and have found in the wilderness that
reedom which was denied 10 them at home;
'ut Whenever they have had TO deal with the
community from which they had fed, they have
experienced nothing but oppression. Freedom
vas with difficulty maintained in these West
I'm States, while the Southern ones were filed
With white slaves, as preparation for state Of
ociety in which black ones should be required.
North aud South, whenever they came into
contact with the community of England, they
ound it laboring TO prevent domestic trade, that
foreign trade might be built up-prohibiting
III trade with the world except that carried on
through British ships, British ports, British mer
hants, and British Notwithstanding its own
eople to eat out the substance of the Door pro-
metals, precisely as is now done in Australia
ndia, and other Colonies, and thus finally pr,,.
ucing the Revolution.
From that time to the present, the community
f England has remained precisely the same.
aving never yet stricken blow in behalf of
eedom-never one tending to the advancement
civilization. If we look to the continent of
.uSope, we preceive that she made war upon
he people OF France because they were endeav-
ring TO establish their rights--because they
al abolished the feudal privileges of the no.
les--becauss the clergy and nobility were made