Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-13

sia in his celebrated letter. which exalted him to
be the idol of the North In that letter, be some
what generally and Obscurely pronounces the Fed
eral concern to be "Ga dement, essential to the uni
versal political equilibrium and appeals to % nat
ural community Of interests and sympathies, by
which two young and ascending nations shoald be
brought to cooperate with and help each other.
How this ia understood in the North may be
gathered from the expended commentary given to
it by Mr. EDWARD EVERETT, in that elaborate letter
with which he has recently glorifed in and well
coined the profered alliance Of Russia. The great
principle of universal political equilibrium ex
pounded by Russia, Mr.. EVERETT represents IS the
basis Of the peace Of Europe. In that equilibrium
the military powers of Europe need the naval pow
er Of the United States as an essential element in
order to keep down the naval supremacy Of Eng-
land. He states it thus broadly:
But while this equilibrium is for the most part
easily sustained, by the well-balanced military
strength Of the four great continental powers the
insular position and naval superiority of England
with her almost bOundleas colonial empire, form
disturbing element to which within the limits Of
Europe there is not sufficient eounterpoise. It has
accordingly, from the first dawn of American In
dependence, been a cardinal principle of contineRs
tai politics. and emnently on tie part Of Rassia, to
favor the growth of the United States, as com
mercial and naval power which furnished precisely
what Europe could not afford, w: " this essential
element of the general political equilibrium What
Mr.. Canning valued himself 80 much upon doing,
when "tO redress the balance Of power" disturbed
by the French occupation of Spain, he "ealed into
existence to use nis rather lofty expression,
new World in the West,i by the recognition of
the independence of the Spanish American colonies,
has on much larger scale bee done by the course
OF events for all the continental powers and the
general equilibrium of Europe, in the growth Of
the United States.
This consideration has at all times, had tradl-
ton weight with Russia and France, and no doubt
greatly influenced the last named government, in
the mastery policy of the American alliance of
1779. The Emperor Alexander now is well aware
that if the United States broken up into hostile
fragments, with the necessary exposure to eternal
border wars their influence in the world, great
integral power, will be seriously impaired, and
their weight as counterpoise to England, for some
time at least, lost ito the universal equilibrium"
The policy here recognised as Russian, and ac~
cepted for the LINCOLN Government, is that the
Federal Union is necessity to Russia-as "a cOun-
terpoise to EuglAnd7-a means by which Russia
and the other military Empires may be assisted to
keep down the influence of England on the contl-
nent. ItamOunts to the svOwal of the desire for
coalition with Russia, to employ the Federal powers
Of the Union if that can ever be restored, for the
purpose of maintaining political system in Europe
friendly tc the views of Russia and hostile to those
of England-that is, despotc against representative
Government. 1t is in this sense that the EmperOrs
language is taken by the LineOlnites, and the pro-
posed coalition of the Northern Republic with the
colossal despotis is hailed with exultston by the
voice of the whole Nerth.
1t could net have been expected that England
would be inattentatiYe to these approaches of the
LHCoLyzED Republic and the willy despot into close
alliance with each other, the basis Of a common
resistance to British progress. The first appear
ance of the Cars letter was received with great
deal of recruitment, as the proclamation Of an un-
friendly policy. The greedy acceptance of its over
ture, and the bold avowsl of the unnatural cosli,
ton and its price will not tend to soOthe the natural
resentment Of England, at the combination, and her
disgust at the profigacy of the terms.
Why should there be any surprise, after these
Developments that England armed herself in Can
ada and is gradually preparing herself to meet the
effects of this snimOsity, which has grown iatO
such setted policy that there scarcely effort
to conceal it?