The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-10-18

A HIsToRICAL PARALLEL.-In one respect
there is perfect analogy between the advance
OF the Federal army into the reyolted States
aad that Of Bonaparte into Russia--we mean the
terrible serUHe alliance in each case offered
Says HazIItt in his 'sLife of Napoeon;'' One
great fear Of the Russians was that thair slaves
would rise up, throw of their bondage and it
was therefore an object 10 prevent their having
any communication with the French. They
made USE of the most improbable and disgust
ing fables TO excite their terror and hatred sn1
OF their ignorance and degradation TO perpetu
ate that ignorance and degradation" s'Those
serfs,' as Montbolon says, who inhabited The
little towns were well disposed to head al. ln-
surrection against the noblesse. This was the
reason Why the Rassissss resoIvsz1 TO ser NIX 10
On the route oftheSrmy
Such is the perfectly analogous situarion in the
two cases. We believe that our true policy is
precisely that which commended itself to the
greatest practical publcist OF his age. Bona
parte refused to avail himself of the disposition
of the se?is to rise against their masters. And
why? For precisely The ndentical reasons that
force themselves upon US. "The serts, - said
he, care unfit TO be trusted w,th the liberty they
desire. II l encourage the subjects OF the Gear
10 rise against him, cannot hope that he
will ever again become my friend" He sub
sequently made use of :his Language to the SEN
ate OF France: "By Procaiming the emanciPa-
hon Of the slaves, could have armed the
greater portion of the Russian population a.
galns himself In several Villages this en-
franchismen: was demanded Of me. But the
war | made upon Russia was political, and, be-
sides, the brutality OF this numerous class of
the Russian people is such that this measure
would devote many families to the most hosrld
bal 7arities''
We'll, we are engaged in Just such polite
al war, in spite of our own will, against an ad-
veFsary that has been, and who il is of great
consequence should again be. our "flend."-
In neither case was subiugation the purpose,
but SIMPLY the restoration of affairs to the sta
tus quo ante belium. That being the object of
Bouaparte, as he himself declared, he did not
doubt that his true policy was 10 prevent this
. pJltliGdi W al HOdl USIIl2 tue OCCdSIOO OF q
social and servile war. He held TO his to the
last, even up to the time he left Moscow. As
is said by Sir Robert Wilson, an English wri-
ter, who was present during the most OF the
campaign: sThere is no question that a civil
war could have been fomented in Russia; and
by Bonaparte who rejected the offers Of insurrec-
wich were made 10 him dur ing the time be was
IN Moscow"
Now, if BonaParte was impeled by The i'm
pogtance OF not permanently alternating the Car
and also by considerations of humanity, to avoid
all incitement to servile war, The same policy
is most incumbent upon US. The recovered
friendship the Gar was necessary 10 him sim
Fly that al external ally might be won, but the
regained friendship Of ths Southern peoply is
necessary TO US that our internal oneness may be
saved. The humane inducements in hIs case
referred only 10 distant foreigners, of alien blood
strange religion and barharous language; in our
case they refer TO our own kih and kin, speak
ers of the same mother tongue, worshippcrs at
the same altar, and fellow-citizens under the
same free rule. The reasons which pressed so
powerfully upon the great French Emperor
press with far more force upon us.-.New York
World.