Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-17
THE WEST SIDE OF THE POTOMAC.
The Emperor Of Russia SympathIses with
Lincoln.

The Russian Minister presented to the LrSCoLS
Government on the 7th inst ths following dispatch
f.s hiA. ST. PETERsBURG, July 10, 1861.
NJ De Stoecka dse.--Sir: From the beginning of the
conflict which divides the United States of America
you have been desired to make known to the Fad
eral Government the deep interest with which our
august master was observing the development of q
crisis which puts in question the prosperity and
even the existence Of the Union. 1fficl
The Emperor profoundly regrets 10 gee that the
hope of peaceful solution not realized and that
American citizens already in arms are ready to let
loose upon their country the most formidable of the
scourges of political societya civil war. For more
than eighty years that it has existed the American
Union owes its independence, its towering rise and
its progress, to the concord of its members conse-
Grated under the auspices Of its lustrious founder
By Institutions which have been able 10 reconcile
the Union with liberty. This Union has been faith
full It has exhibited to the world the spectacle of
prosperity without example in the annals of history
1t would be deplorabe that after so conclusive an
experience, the United States should be hurried in
to breach Of the solomn compact, which, up to
this time, has made their power. In spite Of the
diversity Of their constitutions and Of their interests
and perhaps even because Of their diversity Provi-
denee seems to urge them to draw closer the tradI-
tonal bond which is the basis Of the very condition
Of their politician existence. In any event the sacri
fee which they might impose upon themselves to
maintain it are beyond comparison with those which
dissolution would bring after it. United, they
perfect LneHlselFes-4sOlGteu, lucy ere pdFAiyZeQ-
The struggle which unhappily has just arisen can
neither be indefinitely prolonged lead to the to-
tai destruction Of one of the parties. Sooner or
later it will be necessary to 10 some settle
ment, whatsoever it may be, which may cause the
divergent interests now actually conflict to COZ
exist. The American nation would then give a
proof Of high political wisdom in seeking in com
mon such settlement before useless effdsion of
blood, barren Equandering Of strength snd Of
public riches andacs Of violence and reciprocal
prisals shall have come to deepen abyss between
the two parties Of the Confederation, to end def
nitely in their mutual exhaustion, and in the ruin,
perhaps irrepsrsble, Of their commercial and po-
htical power. .-.- ~. E
Our august matt,r cannot resign himself to ad-
nit such deplorsble anticpatiOns. His Imperial
Majesty still places his confidence in that practical
good sense of the citizens Of the Union who appre-
ciate judiciOusy their true interests. His Msjes
ty is happy to believe that the members Of the Fed
eral Government, and the influential men Of the
two parties, viii seize al occasions and viii unite
all their efforts to calm the efervescencs Of the pas
sions There are no interests 30 divergent that it
may not be possible to reconcile them BY laboring