The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-07

land Of the Lesbrygonians,w who were giants ana
ate men S flesh, and from whom the "much-en-
during" Ulysses escaped with some dlfhculty'
The Crimea is also known to tragedy as Iaurs
and the custom of sacrificing all strangers upon
its atlas, which then prevailed, shows that from
the earliest ages it was called Cmmerla, the
land of darkness. To the sun-loylng islanders
of the Egean night and storm and eternal WIN
ter dwelt byond that Euxine sea which only
few adventurous mariners dared to penetrate.
Cimmeria! there is meaning Ill that name. Ii
is only Crimea in its full development TWAS
one of the halts of the Caucasian tribe in their
first western migration. The Tartars (Scythl-
ans they were then called) drove them out, and
ON they went, these wandering Cmmerlans.
They called themselves Cimbri when they ar
rived in Europe. A portion of them IN Wales,
with fantastic legends of the fall OF Troy IN
their early and mythical history, are still known
as the Cymbri, but they are the parents OF all
the race of Celts, and now the invaders, Eng
Isb. French, Scotch and Irish, are only seeking
their ancestral place and making themselves at
home after atolerably long absence. They have
found there the old Scythian tribe who elected
them. To be sure their former conquerors have
| not been in possession the whole tlme nor very
much of it. Little more in fact than half
century is it since they finally took it into their
keeping, for after driving out the Cimmenans,
they (these Scythian Tartars were themselves
expelled! but they have come back and got the
start of the original owners, who now, alter
near two thousand years, have Just returned to
look after the old homestead.
| There is another little association with the
Crimea that to us Americans is interesting.
One John Smith, the John Smith, the adventu-
rous captain of Virginia, was also warrior
against the Turks or Tartars. He cut OF seve-
raj Moslem turbans with heads inside OF themj
but was unluckiy captured and sold as slave.
He was carried up the straits of kertseh and
into the sea of Azof. Somewhere in the Crlmea
or thereabouts, his captivity ceased. tie Killed
his master seized his horse and clothes, ana
/ rode for dear life and the nearest Russian post.
at that time to him nearly synonymous IDEAS.
4 He was kindly received, and passed along from
one Muscovite station to another back to friends
and civilization. With every steps new install
ment of gratitude became due from him, which
he duly discharged through his heirs and as
signs, for he founded Virginia. Virginia, one
dav with her sister colonies, became the United
States of America. England was at war with
France and her own revolted colonies The
house of Bourbon and the house of Guelph
had no leisure to look eastward, In fact there
was not an teastern question at all. Cathe-
rine Russia stepped in with her armies, and the
Crimea was hers. France came to the rescue
only too late English country gentlemen were
too full of the Middlesex election and The Ame-
rican war, the ''no-popery'' riots and the ma
tional debt to think much of the schemes OF
the czarina. Their Indian empire was but just
beginning, and no Napoleon had taught them
the value of the paschalik of Egypt to the
: : overland route to the east. The fall of the
, Crimea was but the annexation of a barren
t khanet, reyolted state of Turkey. The Aus
r trian empire could hardly have taken more in
2 terest in the annexation Of Texas than England
n then did in the Crimean transfer to Russia The
seeds of future calamity are sown in silence.
G eThe tempest is foretold by little cloud no
r bigger than mans hand, which comes out Of
n the sea, but to-day the Crimea is the centre ol
}, the worlds gaze, and what is now passing on
: its soil may be changing the whole visible cur
rent of affairs.
OPINION OF Hon. JAS. BUCHANAN ON FoRErar
;, INFLUENcE.-Th newspapers and politicians.
- \. owned and controlled by ofice-holders, Office
), seekers, their dependents and allies have been
most virulent and clamorous in their denunci-
alton of the American organization, because il
: is hostile to foreign influence, desires modif-
cation of the naturalization law, and contends
: that Americans should rule America" We
wish to show that the opinions of the American
!, party are not new ones, but that they have
been long ago avowed by distinguished leaders
. of the democratic party. In 1926, on the 4tl
= of July, the hon. James Buchanan delivered
) an Grafton in the city of Lancaster. From
= that Grafton we make the following extract. Il
:, is upon the subject of foreign influence, and
upon the policy that the United States ought te
pursue towards foreign nations. Mr.. Buchanan
a said: -.z-
IS "Again we stand neutral towards all the Eu
n ropean powers, What, then shall be the politi
{, cal conduct of our country in future? Precise
q ly to pursue the political maxims adopted by
Washington. We ought to cultivate peace witt
all nations by strict neutrality not only of con
, duct but of sentiments. We ought to make
!. our neutrality respected by placing ourselves il
IS an attitude Of defence. We ought forever te
> abandon the wild project of philosophic Wis
- ionary, of letting commerce protect itself. Fol
n its protection we ought to increase our navy
ST We ought never to think of embargoes and nor
e intercourse laws without adherence. We ough
a to use every honest exertion to turn out of pow
d er those weak and wicked men, who have
N abandoned the political path marked out 70,
% this country by Washington, and whose wilo
81 and visionary theories have been at length tes
e ted by experience and found wanting.
!: "Above all, we ought to drive from oul
s shores foreign influence, and cherish exclusive
= ly American feelings. Foreign influence has
! been in every age the curse'of republics. Hel
g jaundiced eyes see all things in false colors
IN IL. Il I
;, is forever surrounded, excludes from her sigh
q the light of heaven. Whilstshe worshiPs the
{, nation which she favors for this very crime
she curses the enemy Of that nation even 70,
), their virtues. In every age she has marched
q before the enemies of her country procaiming
II peace when there was no peace, and luling its
: defenders into fatal security while the iron hand
= of despotlsm was aiming death blow at their
u liberties Already our infant republic has fell
u her whitening influence. Already has she in
c yolved us in war, which had nearly cost us