Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-12-06
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/. The London Daily Herald thus foreibly com
Inents on the recent friendly letter addressed
by the Emperor of Russia to.the President o.
the United States d ~ ts7fa r.az
No one can fail to recognize considerable
astuteness in the suggestions Of the Emperor
of Russia. They can give no oaense. The South
is not in position to take any. Aud the
North will certainly not take his adyi, g about
stopping the fighting amiss, in its delight at
his moral support Of the Union, Between st.
Petersburgh aud NVashingtO on, there has always
been sneaking kindness. Extremes meet land
we can conceive plenty of reasons, which NE do
not care to state, why the Gar sboffid prefer
the Union iEtact, to two equal con3edcracies.-
Butwe confess 10 affecting Of envy. Why
has it been left to the Gar TO be the only Eu-
ropean Sovereign to make known his feelings
to the mericans2 What is he to the Presi-
dent, or the President to him? The United
States are not even his rivals Their commerce
and their shipping may sMecpthc worlds ports
aud never Interfere with him. They may tx
pand northward and souihward, eastward and
westward, and it must beyears before they can
raise a boundry question. As to commercial
none. Bombard New Y orll tomorrow, or burn
all the cotton depots 10 the Confederate States;
ST. Petersburgh will not feel the ruin. Raise
the slave and destroy the cotton plant, and
Russia may still say-''IIct the CALLED jade
Vince. my withers are unwrung.R The case IS
rery different with ns- We feel ersry beat of
the AHeIcan pulse. The rum of the trade Of
the States paralyzes our manufacturing indus
try, puts our mills upon half ime and depress-
es every. commercial interest in the United
Kingdom. Let the great cities of the North
gain the upper hand over the aGrighted aulhor-
ities, there will be poverty and distress in tho1-
sands of English homes. Let great Northern
armaments swe p down the Mississippi, every
where proclainIing freedom to the slaves, and
desiroyin! the cotton crop, and we have TO
meet famine ten times more terrible ian
that which swept from Irish soil 100000
souls. And what has been done by our Gey-
ernment to preyeet such catastrppheS? Sir
ply nothing. We are drifting on into the cot
ton famine as we drilled into the Russian war,
and some of the same statesmen at the helm
We stand by, and fold our arms. while the
great game is being played out, without an ef
fort arrest the tide OF war or to avert its ca
lamitous consequences.
1t may be too late to interfere now. The
time had passed even before Mr.. Seward gave
our statesmen such glorious opportunity for
holding their tongues. But surely it is no great
feat for our foreign secretary to boast of, that
in the long interval between the secession of
South Carolina and the first collision in the
field he simply waited on events. csuteniing
himself with the pious but somawhat selfish
prayer that Providence wodld keep US ont of
the quarrel. We are bound to Americans by
the closest of ties. The advice HAT might have
come from US would, perhaps, have been intFu=
sive from any other power. Yet, so far as we
know, there is not on record a single offer on
Earl Russell'S part of friendly Offices. The at
tempt might have failed. Probably it would
have done 80. But, at least, the Government
would have done its duty. 1t would have lift
ed its hand against the folly and crime oil fra
ircidal war. 1t would have shown the Amer
leans, whichever side was destined to triumph.
that we had some fellow feeling with them in
their trials 1t would have saved us from the
charge of apathetic selishness. which is , free
ly urged against Us by the American peOple.
And now Russia has taken the initiative which
ought to have been ours,wt,l not one tithe of our
interest at axe or one half of our incentives
to netian.. When the history of the American
war comes 10 be written, it Will rebound 10
the credit Of the Ministry of the time that the
Gar could assume responsibility which was
not permitted to the English Sovereign, and
that free and enlightened England watched
and made no sign, while despotic and barbar-
GUS Russia spoke words Of Cancellation and
peace. b +. s-...s .-..