Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-05
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Great BritaIsls Rusafs and LfncOEudcln:
The dispetch of Prince GoR4scHAxogFt to the Bus
sian Minister at Washington on the subject of the
American troubles. has attracted much attention
and elected much comment in England The Lon
don Morning Post (Lord PAlMERsroN's organ) is
savage in its remarks on the dispatch. Itpro
s noupces the passage in which Prince GoRTscHAKoFE
g ,alludes to the preservation of the "bssnce q
power,' by the United States and Russia, as a"di-
plomatic falsehood and an aepen INSULT to Great
Britain The following is an extract from the art;
O. Gle in the Morning Post; = 1-.gHst 1890
:. But one Of the most singular episodes which has
marked the American civil war is the gratuitous
advice which the Emperor of Russia has been
pleased to offer to the Cabinet at Washington We
all remember thst, during thc late Russian war the
G Government and citizens of the United States ex
pressed the strongest npahy in favor OF the enc
"a my of this country So high and VlrtuOHs were
their notions of neutrality that they visited the
listmeut of few wretched Germans, totally unau-
= thorzed by this Government, with the penalty of
diminishing the British Minister aRd nterrupting all
diplomatic communications between the two coun-
- tries. 7 his cloud passed away, but Russia, not
"a forgetful of the service now at the very moment
when secession is accomplished act steps H. and
, through tbs agency of Caron Stoeckel the Russian
Minister at Washington, reads homily to MIR. Lin
cola the duty of preserving the Union by means
of compromise and Cancellation i.a
- If the Union should be dissolved, says Prince
Gortschakef, the balance of power will be destroy
ed. The Russian Minister does not state WHISTLER
he means the general balance of power, from which
the United States have hitherto kept aloof or the
balance of power upon the American continent.
We infer that be alludes to the latter for he says
"the countries placed at the extremities OF the
two worlds appear called to a national community
Dc of interest and sympathes of which they have al
~ ready given mutual proof to each other" In other
words Prince Gortschakof wishes the American
public believe that the Russian territories in the
&c
an element Of power on the North American con
tinent The letter of Mr.. Seward shows the graft
tude with which the Cabinet at Washington has in
the hour of Its distress received both the patronage
and the advice Of the Emperor Alexandria Sy
patty may exist between the United States and
Russia but that there be any identity Of interest
"a on the North American continent We utterly deny
Russia by the convention of 1925, was foolshy
permitted to obtain possession of that strip of the
coast which extends almost down to British Colum-
ba. There is, however, no point at which the Rus
sian territory meets that of the United States
Eogland in Labrador, the Hudson's Bay territory
the boundaries of which except on the coast have
never been determined. possesses ard occupies tbs
extremity of the Mort American continent.
1t is, therefore, mere diplomatic Fl urish or
perhaps, we should say something like diplomatic
fasehood, to represent that Russia and the United
States hold "the extremities of the two worlds ;"
Knowing what the Russians are doing at the mouth
of the Amoor and at Stka. we well understand
the policy of the Russian Emperor He would pre-
fer to deal with weak and dsorganlZsd Delghoor,
like the United States rather than with strong
power like gland But British North America
which stretches IRON ocesa to ocesn-the frozen
regions of the North the hunting grounds of the
fur trader-Brirsh Columbia. prosperous, contented
and free Canada, must be bloted from the map and
ingloriously endered before Russia or the Uni>
ted States can. with any excuse affect to hold the
balance of American power in their hands. The
letter of the Emperor Of Russia may convey sound
and friendly advice, and a mark Of gratitude for
benefits received, may deserve respect, but both
politically and geographically tits not only enor
nous blunder. but studied insult to this country
which still possesses dominion over more than
half of the North American continent. and, under
existing circumstances can KICK any balance which
either Russia the United States may assume TO
hold in their uncertain and unsteady hands.