The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-01
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FRIDAY MORNING.........EOv /. 1851

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Is THE CzAR OUR FRIEND OR ENEMY mot
long ago, the Emperor of Russia, through his
prime minister, Prince Gortschakof, ad
dressed letter to Baron Stoeckle at Wasi !
ington, TO be read to the President of the Eu.-
ted States, Astounding in friendly expressions :
but marked throughout by the most careful
non-committalism as to the quarrel raging Oh
this continent between North and South Te,
aplain person uniuitiated in the mysteries OF
diplomacy, it seemed to be a letter intended
while expressing the antocrat's regard and
friendship for all America, to announce his en-
tire neutrality III the war of the seetions TO
assign to his American minister his posision h.
respect to the belligerents, and to announce 20
the Washington Government the policy he
would pursue in respect to either side OtheE
European Governments had taken means To
announce their neutrality Spain by the pre-
ciamatlon OF her Captain-G General in Cuba .
Great Britain by the declarations of her min
listers in Parliament; and France by her of
fetal organ, and her proclaimed concurrence il.
the policy of Great Britain and Spain, The let
ter OF the Czar in its language purported to be
nothing inoret than similar declaration on his
part; in which, while announcing his policy
of strict neutrality, and while carefully de-
clining to express an opinion upon the issues
OF the sectional quarrel, he embraced the oc
casion to remind our country of the long
friendship that had subsisted between the two
rising powers, AMI his unfeigned regret that
the unity and greatness of our own country,
so necessary to the equilibrium of power
among the great nations Of Christendom
should be lost by the separation of the two
sections
Such seemed to be the ran tenor and purport
OF the Autocrats letter. 1t seemed to require no
deep knowledge of or initiation into the mvs.
teries of European diplomacy to interpret it
1t seemed TO carry its meaning in its face. and
was accepted by the South as creditable to
the heart and head of it's Imperial author. But
1t is claimed that the South has been deceived
that the Gar is not the plain-spoken, straight
forward man that we conceived. and his LET
ter indicated, him to be; that beneath all his
benignity of language there was strong I'M
dercurrent Of sympathy with the North, and
Of repulsion towards the South that we m,,st
infer his feelings towards our seeding States
from his hereditary animosity towards rebel
llous Poland; and that his expressions OF
friendship for tn United States were intended
only tor the Northern States that are about
entering upon grand enterprise for the lib
Grafton OF millions Of slaves, such as he him.
self has just accomplished in the liberation of
millions Of serfs
At least such is the gloss which the North
has given to the letter of the Gar. That
potentate, without reference to receut jivis
IONS, spoke of the United States; are not they
the United States He is prcfuse of express
sions OF sympathy and regard for the United
States-that is to say, for the Northern States
is not this singing rebuke of 'sSscessis 7'.
lie is strong in his expressions of regret over
the dlssensions existing between the North
and the South; is not the South the sole. mn
provoked author, without provocation. cause,
or excuse, of these dissensions, and the party
indirectly, but most severely. condemned by
the Gar on account of them! BY this sort Of
seif-complacent logic, they find most favora-
ble Interpretation in their own behalf of the
Emperor's letter; and then they GO to work
10 account Tor this most demonstratiye sympa-
thy for their cause and their section.
The inevitable Edward Everett comes forward
in letter TO Bonner's New York Ledgey to ac
count for this sympathy, and to unravel and
explain the diplomatic mysteries connected
with 1t. Mr.. Everett doubtless has somo other
oh in
ultra abolitionists, of Boston, have shot far
ahead of him of late years in political life. As
violent an abolitionst as either of them. he
long thought it most polite to take the eonser-
vative tack, and cultivate the favor of both
South and North. Secession has left him high
and dry in that path, and he now must '"bout
taco, and endeavor to outstrip Sumner and
Wilson III the announcement of an extreme ia
uatiex Northernisni He fancies himself with
probable truth, the best dipomatist in the
whole North, imagines that his term in the
State Department must come next after Sew
ards, and by way of attracting the attention
of Lincoln administration to himself, and of
reminding the Northern public of his powers,
airs his diplomacy in the widely circulating
columns of the mountebanh Bonner.
1t Is Mr. Everett who suggests that the i'm
puted dislike of the Car for the South arises
from his dislike to slavery. He reminds the
North OF the Gar sdevotion since the Crimean
war, 10 the great work of abohshing serfige
in his vast dominions, and claims his conse-
quent sympathy with ''the United States" in a
struggle "forced upon them for the extension
OF slavery" He also explains with more truth
than iii the other case, the grounds OF the Gar {
solicitude for preserving the power OF the
United States in all its integrity. as necessary
to preserve the equilibrium of power that has
been established by circumstances among the
great nations Of Christendom. Englands in.
empire, give her constantly growing naval
strength, and continually increasing resources
of political energy and of material wealth
which perpetually threaten the prevailing equi.
librium and this growth of Great Britain
was only compensated by the equal growth
in power and wealth of the United States
1t is the loss of this counterpoise to Great
Britain that the Gar deplores; and Mr.. Eve
rett, with the usual modesty of u Northern
man, interprets this natural chagrin of the
Gar, at q great national event, into a sentiment
Of indignation and rebuke towards the section
which Mr. Everett conveniently saddles with
all the blame of the rupture.
Although we are not yet prepared to believe
it, it matters very little TO o'the South whethe,
the Czar be in secret her enemy in fact
The late American Minister to Prussia brought
over with him assurances of the Prussian
Kings sympathy with the North. We suppose
the Austrian Emperor feels also Mmewha
warmed towards Lincoln. since the irnprison