The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-06-13
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II Ia but a few years sir"' WV o''S"' Nv
Russian war, q war in which the sympa'
,h;.s of the United States were generally
n.n;s.s,ea on the side Of Russia. That
n.nuh,ic should sympathise with desPo-
s,;sm arains, sach disinteres ted champions
Of freedom As England and France, excited
much surprise, real or affected, In those
countries. There was nothing inconsistent
In the thing, however, for the sagaeions
people of the United States saw at once
that the alliance of two such powerful en-
uires al England and France, the one hav-
ing the greatest navy, the other the most
formidable army in the world, was dam
rerous to the interests of mankind, and the
proclamation of Lord Clarendon that II was
the purpose Of that alliance to regulate the
affairs Of both hemispheres did not tend to
allay the national disquietude. That this
was not an empty illumination has been
proved by subsequent indications of the poll
icy of England and France with reference
TO Cuba and Central America. The SQUAD
rons of the two countries have been how
ering together around our Southern
coasts, as If to check the first step towards
American extension in that direction, and
the press Of London and Paris have We'd
with each other in abuse of American ag-
erosion and Southern institutions, the En-
peror Napoleon himself ut,ering in his
contentious style sentiment On slavery
which condensed in about ten words
the whole spirit and purposes of Exeter
Hall. Moreover, Americans had no faith
in the Observation-Disclosures of either Eng
land or France, we refer to the govern
ments of course, and not to the people, who
in all countries are nobler and more gene
rous than their governments, in the war
with Russia, for both had permitted too
many opportunities to escape of saving CT
yilized European nations from the crushing
tread of despotism Hungary &C.,
to be regarded as chivalrc champions of
the weak and the oppressed, when they took
nm the cudgels for Turkey, the most effete,
corrupt and cruel despotism on the face OF
the earth. 1t was a conflict which did not
involve a single principle Of the smallest in
terest or value TO America, and from lla-
tional love Of fair play, vivid recollection
of the fact that Russia had always been
friendly to the United States, and a saga
cious appreciation of the future dangers to
this country of an alliance which could
transport an army of half million of men
AS easily to the United States as TO the Cri-
mea. Americans gave their moral aid and
comfort to the Russians, and were very hap
py that they came out of a war, in which
France. Great Britain, Sardinia and Tur-
with the loss of only one important fortress,
with the acquisition of another from the
allies almost ss important, whilst Cronstadt
laughed to scorn the most powerful squad
ron that any empire ever sent to sea, and a
peace at last was made, in which the enemy
wisely agreed to pay his own expenses, and
was evidently glad to get out of the scrape
upon very costly and humiliating cond.
lions.
Three years have passed since the trea-
sure and blood of France and England were
poured out like water for the ostensibe pur-
pose Of keeping the Gar out of CONSTANT.
nople; and now Europe is agitated by the
evidences Of cordial understanding be-
tween the two principal combatants in the
Crimean war, and a pamphlet, published
in Paris by one of Napoleon's literary staff,
recommending division of Europe between
Russia and France, Constantinople falling
to the share of Russia, is received with sp-
probation, at any rate without a whisper of
dissent, by people who just went to war
with Russia TO keep her out of Constantine
pc, who never cease to denounce American
tilibustering, and are thrown into spasms
of indignant virtue whenever an American
newspaper speaks of Cuba. All this shows
the complete hollowness, sel6shness and nv
pocrisy of the European governments
Russia, the only one among them which |
can afford to approach frankness and con-
sis,ency, will soon consummate her long
cherished designs upon Constantinople, and |
for the sake of Christendogn, humanity and |
civilization, it is to be hoped that the sick |
man may be put out of his pain as quietly |
as possible.
II the people of America were under the |
dominion of self-interest as completely as |
the governments of Europe, they would bid |
God-speed to all the despotiaIns of the old |
wcrld, and rejoice to see them tightening
the chains and increasing the burthsus Of
their subjects. Such course would drive
from their own limits the most industrious,
enterprising and high-sprited of their peo-
pie, and swell TO an enormous flood the tide
of labor and capital which is already run
ming in broad and deep stream from the
Old World to the New. But should the no
bic struggle Of Italy for independence be
crowned with victory, and the other italian
States, like Sardinia, be capable ofsustaining
free constitutions; should the grand Teu-
tonic race assert the dignity OF its manhood,
enabling Germany to throw off the fetters
of despotism; should the vast standing a.
mics aud expensive governments which now
consume the substance of the people, be
abolished, the stream of emigration to the
United States would receive serious check,
and perhaps We should even behold re-
fluent tide from our own shores. The sym
patty Of America with the oppressed peo-
Die Of Europe 10 of the purest and most
disinlerested character. No matter how
much il mar retard our own unexampled
material progress, we would rejoice to see
the time arrive when the world will need no
city of refuge, and when every man may cit
10 peace and quieiness under the vine and
ssg tree of his native land.
vinaieation OF the Fugitive Slave
Law IN Ohio.
The Southern press cannot do better
service to the country than to call especial
attention to the manner in which the Fupi-
tive Slave Law has been INDICATED in Ohio.
We are sufficiently ready to give due promi-
nence to all violations Of the law, aud ought
to be equally willing to place before the
public, facts of moro creditable and cheer
ing character.
Ohio has always been regarded as the
rankest abolition State in the Union, and