New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-27

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Inns Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tisry TO the Court of st. Petersburg. Now, that
gentleman. without any reference to his ability or
his knowledge of French verbs and Cossack MAN.
pers. is the wrong man to send thither we are
aware that South Carolina is essentially aristocratc
We know that the thin vail Of outward respect Tor
democracy has there been thrown OF. We know
that long, long ago Mr.. McDufiie declared 'hat
4. the laboring element of every population, "he-
Their bleached or black, is always dangerous, ana
that " Slavery is the cornerstone OF freedom
We have marked the cool insOlence OF the fanet
TO barons. ordng it at home, and bringing cluo-law
10 bear in the Senate of the United States, when
fact and argument failed to convince the world Of
the eligible and halowed nature of Slavery. Beng
cognizant of this, the question then occurs, what
earthly reason can there be for Directing to Dir.
Pickens of South Carolina to act as diplomatic en-
yoy TO the most aristocratc and imperial Court OF
Europel
The answer is easy. It is not because Mr. Pick
ems is not arstocratc enough, but because he is too
aristocratic that be will not suit the place. Russia
though enregmented, though represented BY the
crown and the higher nobility, the masses beng
mute and obedient, is not immObile, much less Is
she retroRrading. Unlike South Carolina, she has
ideas; ideas consonant with luminous century,
president of human emancipation and elevation.
Unlike South Carolina, she does not seek to open an
ilmitable slave trade direct with slave market,
but the lvelest efforts Of her sovereign and govern
ment are bent to the utter and unconditional aboi
ton of Slavery time alone being allowed for the
completion of the scheme. Unlike South Carolins,
she does not say that il is the highest function of
nineteen out of twenty of her population to be
ignorant, bOorish brutal, barbarOus tillers Of the
soil, without the light or dignity due the call
ing of the farmer; but she holds to the
new theOry-the evangel of this epOch-that the
strength of nation lies in its advancing Freedom
and in the wise preparation of each and every one
of its members for higher social conditions Un'
ike South Carolina, she does not make it crime,
to be e1piated by the terrors of cruel death to
discuss the question of human emancipation-of
the liberation of the millions Of serfs within her
confines; but her new Emperor with profound
conception and honorable humanity, which will
make his name the grandest in her imperial annals,
has decided to commence at once the work of pre-
pairing to Gberate every human being under his
sway; to blot out every yesge of such ancient and
medieval tyranny, and accommodate his people to
he highest aspirations of the century.
Unlike the aristocratic swell of South Caro-
lima, the Russian Emperor does not consider it the
highest function of his people to offer her raw
and
the best quality and requiring the rpest labors and
skill for their production; but be looks upon civil
ization as a convertible term for evoking the most
varied capabilities of his people in every art and
science. Accordingly he protects, by means OF a
Custom. House, every article whose manufacture,
being in an infant state, demands such protection.
The result is that Russia is overtaking England IN
the fabrication of the strongest and France in the
most delicate productions of all kinds.
Out of acts of folly however, may come apo
thegms for wise conduct So We live in hope, that
prime representative Of gross primitive agrcul-
ture for the humiliation Of the arts of civilization
and the dyersifcation of national employments, for
theeternally hopeless continuance OF human bondage,
may, on going from the stand-shll State of South
Carolina to All the advancing Russias, learn les
son of wisdom. Should he perchance be inspired
by the way-side, when least looking for such re-
suit, with some divine thought in favor of civilian
ton and liberty; should he feel the grandeur of
policy which at once evokes the latent genius and
skill of the sbOrer, while it strikes of the chains
of oppression which for thousands of years have
manacled the sweating and unrequted slaves, his
mission to the Court of ST. Petersburg will not be
in vain. As an exponent of the spirit which he
will have TO encounter on bis arrival at the great
city, We would remind him that the governing mag
mates of that place lately gave grand entertain
ment to the young Emperor, and waited on
him, overwhelming him with words of loyalty and
devotion. Let us, now We are together gentle
"men," said the Emperor, talk business.
wish your active concordance and counsel in re-
"gard to the great object of my reign, the emanci
patton of my people yet defled by bondage. l
wish every Russian to be the free subject Of the
greatest of empires"
Such words from born mOnsrch-a hereditary
Emperor, brought up to look upon himself az the
Lords anointed, and the people as his thralls
Compare, o We of little faith, and less deeds, with
the Pro-slayery stsgnation of South Carolna-of
a body Of men, small in number, almost imbecile
in the contribution of single element to ciyiliza.
ton, and only able to sweat cotton out of negroes
because the genius of a Highlander invented
the cotton gin, and gave value 10 lands otherwise
nspprecable How much lower as nation are
We to sink, when democratic America sends to
Imperial Russia an Envoy who is the antipodes Of
her immediate idea on the subject of human emsu.
cipatiOn