Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-03-25
The Threatened Combination against
England.


England.
The editor Of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
thus refers to the part England took in
the Crimean war, and the results likely
to flow therefrom to her in the future:
If, as our English correspondent sup
poses, a combination is being formed
against England, under tho direction of
Russia and France, it viii present one of
those retrbutions by which God at times
reminds the nations that He has moral
government in the world, to which they
are held responsible; and, as nations are
not immortal their accounts must be
settled heIc.
Seldom, we think, has a war been
waged more purely selfish, with less
honorable cause and more completely
aggressive, than the late one of England
against Russia. The ambition of France
had, at least, this poor excuse-that it
was mingled with religious feeling.
The conflicts of the Greek and Roman
faith, at Jerusalem and Constahtnople,
stirred somewhat tho old luminosity be-
tween the Latins and the Eastern Church:
and this apology, such as it is, France
had for the attack. But with England
it was cold and deliberate selGshness,
without one noble impulse to relieve it,
so far as we can discover.
The plea that it was a war of ciyiliza-
ton against barbarism is Il pretense that
the most simple believe no longer, and
the late transactions in India should make
England blush even to mention cruelty
or barbarism.
England attacked Russia because the
latter power was growing too rapidly to
suit the commercial interests Of Great
Britain, and she expected to make money
by gripping her formidable rival. 1t
was a cool calculation Of probationary
proft-with perhaps a remote approhen-
sion for her possessions in India. IF
Russia could be checked in her growth
If she could be prevented from establish
ing manufactures the development of
her vast resources could be hinderel If
she could be cut off from trade with In
dia-Eng gland would grow richer thereby.
To accomplish these ends she formed
an unnatural alliance. with France, a
more temporary partnership, till Russia
could be humbled, and, perhaps, the af-
fairs of the United States regulated -
Mutual dislike lay at the basis of the
agreement, nor has the national antipa-
thy on either side been diminished bv
the hollow external forms of friendship,
England reaped the first appropriate
fruits of this alliance when she exposed
her military weakness under the walls of
Sebastopol--a weakness of which her
ally took proper and scornfu notice. -
The second result of her attack on Rus
STA was to convince the world that the
English navy was Of no avail against the
Notifications of Russia; and Great Bri-
tain having through her alliance, been
very thoroughly inspected and tested,
ended the contest as a second rate power.
from which position she will never reco-
YER. And now, aided by France, she
proposes to dictate 20 US the terms and
limits of our growth. 1t is fearful
thing for nation to sow all over the
globe, as England has done, the seeds Of
retrlbution, because the time Of the har.
vest must come; and if the combination
spoken Of is indeed reality, she may
prepare herself to reap on bloody field,
and may find sufficient occupation at
home without attempting to regulate the
movements of the Wost.