New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-12
The call TO action will sound full soon; may it find
us reinvigorsted and prepared
AMERICA AND THE WAR.

ve,rs seo there was q reasonable excuse for a
London journalist writing nonsense on the United
States: but low, with intercourse 60 easy snd
intimate between the two countries, with trade
greater than that of ell the rest of Europe. with
weekly or semi weekly steamboat voyages per-
formed within twelve days time, with some mill
ion or two of quondsm British subjects here keep.
ing ND comma nicaten with the old country, and
shoals of American travellers in England, precise
information regarding public matters IN the United
States ought to be exhibited by the Tendon our
nsls-but the reverse obtains. This fact is bril-
liantly illustrated by leading article in The Lon
don Daily Neus of the 10Th ult- paper whose
liberal tendencies should place it at the head
of English journals in regard to prop
er understanding Of cur domestic affairs.
The subject treated is the pro Russian sympathies
of the United States. In this we have the deli
cious bit of information that 4" Russians swarm in
"all the States, and especially in the most en-.
Heightened, which take The lead in politics, aud in
"the Slave States Of the first rank. whose partcu-
"lar function it is tn keep in check the constitu-
rtional republic anism OF the North, and whs
"amuse themselves in the intervals of business
"vitb planning the separation Of Canada with lis
twenty thousand Of fugitive slaves and their
"progeny) from England, and its annexation to the
Estates To such listeners, Russians some Of
"them the Cars own correspondents) talk con-
"stsntly and effectively of Russian greatness, in
"fuebce, wealth. civilization and go forth.
This farrsgo is no worse than the average En-
plish writing about America, though it contains as
many errors as sentences. Russians do not swarm
the States Of all the States of Christendom it is
the only one almost wholly devoid OF Russian
representation. We question if there be one
hundred in the United tates, California included,
and think fifty would come nearer the mark, not
emitting the attaches of the Russian legation.
Indeed, in tbs metropolis, as we happen to
know, there are at the present time no more
than eight Russian subjects In the year
lS45 the number Of aliens who arrived in this
country from Russian ports was six; in lSi7 they
rose to thirteen and in 1852 they reached one
hundred and twelve. But OF this number how
many were Russian subjects, how many stayed or
simply came for business matters and then returned
home. we have no means of knowing. In the year
1854 these arrivals from Russia at this port were
only fifty five Thus, while our immigration has
counted Irish and Germans by hundreds of thou
sands, it has counted Russians by units; or in
other words, there never has been any imuigra-
ton, any swarm of Russians hther, but simply
isolated examples Of passengers not worth count
ing. So much for the first statement of the Lon
don authority.
Now for the second regarding the desire OF the
South to annex Canada There is no schOOlbOy'
no thoroughly Dliterate immigrant even in this
country, who does not know that the South op.
poses all Northern annexation, and only consents
TO the admissi IN of such territory already ac-
0uired with the condition Of Slavery attached
The idea of the South desiring Canada. with its
millions all opposed to Slavery, and capable being
divided into States, of utterly oyerthrowing South
ern preponderance in Congress, and doughfaced'
ness out of it, is too silly to deserve further exam
nation To affirm that the British Government
desires the annexation Of the United States, and
would agree 20 the destruction Of Queen, Lords and
Church. as the price of the junction, would not be
more preposter0us than this solemn announce.
mept. Further, we learn OF Americans that " their
liability to Il e eternal task Of defending their
"mente of the world, might also generate a
"sensation of relief in intercourse with the
"proprietors of millions of serfs While Slavery
exists in America. and Russians abound in
American society, there will always be more
sympathy for the Gar ahoat in the great republic
than in all the monarchies of Europe Wrong
again sympathy with Russia in this war is not
Uhata DR.
sian feeling exists at the South, there is no monopo
" Of the article there. In the North the people
are as much pro Russian as in the South, ire
spectiye of their views on Slavery. For example,
the million readers of TIE TRIBUNE who hate
Slavery have a thorough contempt for Louis Bona:
parte and agree with The London Daily Ners,
" That it is not much TO be wondered that they
L" found it hard TO believe in the French and En-
glish alliance, or in the reality of French cham
'ponship Irrational rights and European liberties
while France herself has no rights or liberties to
boast of within her own borders" They be-
lieve not in the decency or value of any
such alliance, though they sbhor Slavery.
But what they do believe in * that the very best
thing for Turkey would be her absorption by Rus
STA, and q protective policy thereupon which
would call into action the now idle water-pOwer,
the mines and the manufacturing and agricultural
capabilities of country so favored by nature and
so degraded by man. They see in the example of
Russia what nation can become in few years
by careful culture OF her industrial resources
and thorough rejection Of the bghtng policy
British Free trade and they believe like policy
would produce equal or greater benefits for the